THE 
WILTSHIRE MAGAZINE. 
*‘ MULTORUM MANIBUS GRANDE LEVATUR ONUS.”—Ovid. 
THE FOURTH GENERAL MEETING 
Wiltshire Archeological and Natural Pistory Society, 
HELD AT WARMINSTER, 
Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, 5th, 6th, and 7th of August, 
1856. 
PRESIDENT OF THE MEETING, 
Tue Most HonovrasLe tHE Marauis or Batu. 
Tue Fourth Anniversary Meeting of the Society commenced at 
one o’clock on Tuesday, 5th August, with a public assembly in the 
Town Hall, Warminster; the chair being taken, in the temporary 
absence of the President, the Marquis of Bath, by the vicar, the 
Rey. Presenpary Fane, who opened the proceedings with the 
following address :—Ladies and gentlemen: I feel considerable 
difficulty in assuming the chair upon this occasion ; but my apology 
is that it is the wish of the Council, and particularly of the noble 
President, that I should do so in his absence. The occupations 
which almost ceaselessly devolve upon me, render me, however, 
unfit for such a post; but, if an earnest and hearty desire to promote 
the objects of the Society, and the satisfaction which I feel in 
seeing the members of it assembled in my parish—if this be any 
claim to my occupying the chair, as deputy, all I can say is, that 
it gives me sincere pleasure to do so. The custom has hitherto 
‘been—and it is a custom which I am now desired to continue—for 
the President or Vice-President, for the time being, to explain to 
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