WILTSHIRE MAGAZINE. 
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‘‘MULTORUM MANIBUS GRANDE LEVATUR ONUS.”—Ovid. 
THE THIRD GENERAL MEETING 
Wiltshire Archeological and Patural Pistory Society, 
HELD AT CHIPPENHAM, 
Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, September 11th, 12th, and 18th, 
1855. 
PRESIDENT OF THE MEETING, 
Gerorce Pouterr Scropz, Esa., M.P. 
THE proceedings opened with a Meeting at the New Town Hall, 
lent for the occasion by Joseph Neeld, Esq., M.P. 
The attendance was exceedingly large and influential, including 
the Lord Lieutenant of the county, the Marquis of Lansdowne; the 
greater part of the Members of Parliament for the various towns 
in North Wilts; almost all the Clergy and Gentry for many miles 
around, with numbers from a distance. 
Soon after one o’clock, the noble Marquis having entered the 
room, Mr. G. P. Scrope, M.P. addressed the company as follows: —My 
Lord, ladies and gentlemen,—I am really ashamed to appear before 
you in my present position, in the first place because this chair by 
right should belong to our noble Patron, who has been kind enough 
to come amongst us now for the third time,—but he tells me it 
would be inconvenient for him to remain here for any length of 
time, and therefore, though feeling wholly unfitted to assume the 
duties of the chair, I have consented todoso. And I have another 
reason for feeling greater than usual diffidence on this occasion, 
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