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against any that should hold it, that for half a year I made 

 not enough to pay charges." It also appears that he cropped 

 some of the land to wheat, sowing three pecks to the acre, 

 and sellmg thirteen busheis and a half of the produce at 

 5s. per bushel. Sir Henry and Sir Edmund were under 

 bond to Alderman Hooke, of Bristol, for £2000, advanced 

 by him for the King's use. He was to have had the 

 security of 22 knights and squires who were nominated, 

 but only five knights and five squires sealed the bond. 



The Chairman said, that in his researches he had met 

 with frequent complaints as to the conduct of the Abbots 

 of Bruton. In one instance the Abbot was suspended for 

 bad conduct by the Bishop. 



Lord Talbot then read a paper on the " Charters of 

 Bruton Priory," and the Bev. F. Warre on the "Earth- 

 works in the Neighbourhood of Bruton," both of which 

 will be found in Part IL 



At the close of Mr. Warre's paper, Dr. Güest, Master 

 of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, remarked, in 

 reference to the death of Geraint ab Erbin, as related 

 by Llywarch Hen, that the expressions employed by the 

 poet did not necessarily prove that Arthur was present as 

 "imperator" at the battle of Llongborth. In the con- 

 versation which ensued, it was maintained by the Bev. F. 

 Warre and the Rev. TV". A. Jones that, though not dis- 

 tinctly affirmed, it seemed clearly implied, and might fairly 

 be inferred. Dr. Guest maintained that great caution 

 was necessary in the use made of the poetical and his- 

 torical allusions of those early periods. 



Mr. Dickinson, then gave the following notice of 

 indications of the original plan of the Church of St. 

 John the Baptist, Glastonbury : 



On looking at the church the other day Meyrick, who 



