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baths and billiard table, and fine library. Tea was provided for 
the visitors in the Large Hall. The President thanked Alderman 
Every for his kindness and for the valuable and interesting 
remarks he had made in reference to this important branch of 
National Trade Mr. Every, in replying, said it gave him great 
pleasure in seeing the members present, and was sorry that time 
would not permit of those who had come to the works seeing 
more, as some of the departments had not been visited. 

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 4rx, 1906. 
A VISIT TO PRESTON MANOR. 
In response to the kind invitation of Mr. Charles Thomas- 
Stanford, M.A., F.S.A., about five-and-thirty members visited 
the historic Manor House at Preston. They were received in 
the magnificent and spacious hall by Mr. Thomas-Stanford, who 
gave a short history of the Manor, and subsequently conducted 
the party through the fine suite of apartments, comprising the 
Anne of Cleves Room, the gem of a drawing room, and the new 
dining room; and thence to the library, with the Chippendale 
bookease of rare books of the fifteenth century. Had it not 
been known that Mr. Thomas-Stanford is both a scholar and a 
literary man, one glance at his valuable library would have 
decided the question. 
The picture of Anne of Cleves which hangs in the entrance 
hall Mr Thomas-Stanford said was not by Holbein, but was only 
a copy of the original, which he believed was in Windsor 
Castle. In the drawing room is an interesting picture of the 
park and Manor House, painted about 1820. 
Beneath the house and extending far under the grounds are 
cellars of unusual size, which the speaker hinted might have 
been of service when Brighton was not quite innocent of assisting 
in running cargoes under Free Trade principles, and was antici- 
pating legislation by a good century. 
The following is a summary of the history of the Manor :— 
Before the Reformation it was a religious house, and a 
halting place for pilgrims from Chichester to Canterbury. At 
the time of the spoliation of the monasteries the Manor passed 
to the Crown. It was for some time the residence of Anne of 
Cleves; and the walls of one of the rooms are covered with old 
Spanish leather of the sixteenth century which, tradition says, 
she brought with her from the Low Countries. 
