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Here an elegant refection had been provided by Mrs. 
SuyrH PıcoTT, the possessor of the estate. That lady 
was herself present, aud most courteously received the 
visitors in the dining hal. We may here mention that 
the regretted absence of Mr. Pıcorr, from the meetings 
of the Society, was occasioned by serious indisposition. 
At the ancient entrance gateway, a paper ON the Priory 
was read by the Rev. F. WARRE. At the close of the 
reading the party visited in succession the cloisters, the 
tower, and the nuble but dilapidated refectory, now 
oceupied as a wagon-house. Standing near the refectory, 
the Rev. F. Warre read an interesting notice respecting 
an ancient reliquary found at Kewstoke Church, now in 
the Society’s Museum, at Taunton. 
“] cannot” said he, “leave the subject without mention- 
ing the discovery of a very eurious reliquary in Kewstoke 
Church, which is probably connected with the dedication 
of Woodspring Priory to St. Thomas of Canterbury. The 
weight of the clerestory having forced out the north wall, 
which was of 14th century work, a mutilated piece of 
carved work which was built into it, was removed when 
the wall was pulled down, and proved to be a reliquary. 
In the front is carved a figure in an arched niche having 
shafts of early English character. This figure, the face of 
which seems to have been purposely mutilated, holds some- 
thing, probably a heart, in its hands, but it is so defaced 
that it is now quite impossible to decide. At the back 
was discovered an arched recess, within which was a small 
wooden cup, containing what was supposed to be human 
blood. Now this religuary was manifestly of earlier date 
than the wall into which it was built, and appears from 
the capitals of its shafts, nearly to correspond in style with 
that in use about the time of the dedication of Wood- 
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