3° CHELTENHAM COLLEGE NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. 
Poor Dick, alas ! is dead and gone, 
What signifies to cry ? 
Dickys enough are still behind 
To laugh at bye and bye. 
Buried June 18th, 1728. Aged 63. 
In the Castle grounds near the gate a large bell covered with 
Chinese characters attracts attention. It formerly hung in a Buddhist 
temple near Ningpo. Passing through the Great Hall, a handsome 
room now used as the family dining room, we come to a large stair- 
case of dark oak where a collection of portraits adorn the walls. 
Inside the courtyard there are two enormous ribs of a whale that 
was stranded in the estuary of the Severn. Over the steps into the 
keep, a small room is pointed out as the prison of Edward II. There 
is a deep well where tradition says an enormous toad, nearly 16 inches 
in breadth, lived for some years and was fed on flesh thrown into 
the water for it. 
From the top of Thorpe’s tower a magnificent panorama is to be 
seen ; wooded hills rising here and there, on one side beyond them 
the shining waters of the Severn, while beyond the River, the Forest 
of Dean and Welsh Hills close the view in the far distance. 
The Botanical Section found several flowers and ferns growing on 
the walls, the keep in several parts being covered with Perforated St. 
John’s Wort and Red Valerian. R 
When all had been through the Castle we walked to the Kennels 
and into the Park; then after tea in the town we returned to the 
station. 
Several ladies accompanied the Society on each expedition. 
