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The Club also inspected the quaint buildings known as 

 ^Ethelstan's Almshouses. Almost adjoining is the Court 

 Hall, where the Trustees and Commoners meet on the second 

 Tuesday after Trinity to carry through the necessary formali- 

 ties in connection with ^Ethelstan's gift of lands. 



Finally, Mr. Doran Webb led the party along the Town 

 Walls on the way to the Railway Station. 



In the evening the members dined together at Chippenham, 

 and afterwards the Rev. F. W. WEAVER, F.S.A., delivered a 

 short address on the life of St. Aldhelm, with a reading from 

 the Saint's poems translated from the Latin by Mr. F. Bligh 

 Bond. 



A business meeting was held, at which three candidates 

 were elected by ballot, Miss Woodhouse was appointed as 

 Corresponding Secretary of the Selborne Society's Plant 

 Protection Scheme, and a contribution was voted for the 

 excavations at Maumbury. 



THE SECOND DAY, FRIDAY. 



At nine o'clock the members started for the village and 

 Augustinian Abbey of Lacock, and were received at the 

 parish church of St. Cyriac by the Vicar, the Rev. W. H. 

 Ramsbottom. 



Mr. DORAN WEBB, in the course of his description of the 

 church, said that it was practically rebuilt in the fifteenth 

 century, when the transepts were added. The beautiful 

 Lady Chapel, the latest of the structural work, had a fan- 

 tracery ceiling and considerable remains of original colouring. 

 A canopied tomb in the chapel commemorated Sir William 

 Sharington, who died in 1566, the first lay owner of the 

 neighbouring Abbey after the Dissolution. A double 

 hagioscope, one aperture giving a view of the high altar, 

 the other of the side altar, was a somewhat unusual feature. 

 Among the monuments was an excellent brass of Robert 

 Baynard and his numerous family, dated 1500. The 

 sacramental plate included a mediaeval silver chalice and 

 cover, which Mr. Webb believed to be the ciborium from the 



