6 Third General Meeting. 
labours can only be properly continued, and its objects successfully 
attained, by the intelligent co-operation of your minds. 
Whilst, therefore, the objects which the Society has in view, 
would be greatly facilitated by a stricter attention to the rule 
which relates to the regular payment of annual subscriptions, the 
publications themselves would be rendered more valuable and 
interesting. 
It is to be regretted that several works of interest which were 
alluded to at our former general meetings, as desirable to be pub- 
lished, have not been undertaken in consequence of the non-payment 
of arrears.” 
At the conclusion of the Report, the President called upon the 
Rev. J. E. Jackson to read his Paper ‘On the History of Chip- 
penham,” printed in a subsequent page. The town being one of 
those in the northern part of the county, which had not hitherto 
been made the subject of close topographical research, the greater 
part of the information contained in this paper was new, and ap- 
peared to be received by the audience with much satisfaction. At 
its conclusion 
The Marquis of Lanspowne said he had heard with very great 
interest the ample account of Chippenham which had just been read, 
and he wished to detain them for one moment in reference to it. 
They must be aware of the vast amount of research, labor, and 
diligence, which Mr. Jackson had bestowed on the subject; and 
certainly the history of any district was never more fully opened 
and distinctly traced, than that of Chippenham had been to-day; 
and they were indebted to him for the interest it attached to that 
meeting. The neighbourhood of Chippenhain having never been 
explored before, this essay would remain as a permanent record, 
both as to the families and localities of the place. He was sure 
they would allow him to propose that the thanks of the meeting be 
presented to Mr. Jackson. 
The Present said that for his part he did not anticipate such 
an account as they had now heard of Chippenham and its locality, 
—not one word of which he had ever heard before, and which he 
believed must have been new to every one present. 
