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with an appetite which might have rendered palatable a much 

 inferior meal than that set before us by our host. After dinner 

 a few strolled out to visit the Langley Castle, and view the 

 handsome cross lately erected by Mr. C. Bates in memory of the 

 ill-fated Derwentwater family. The rain now began to fall 

 again, and we made our way to the station, and taking the train 

 were conveyed to our homes, after one of the most successful 

 and enjoyable excursions I remember to have been at. Our 

 number though small, a baker's dozen, if I remember right, 

 nevertheless formed a very sociable party. 



Our Third Meeting was at Staindrop and Eaby. Leaving 

 Newcastle by the 10.5 train, we reached Winston about 11.30. 

 As our time was limited, and "Winston Bridge was some distance 

 to the south of the line, while the other points in our destination 

 were two miles north, we reluctantly gave up our purpose of 

 going to view, as Scott says, "sweet Winston's woodland scene," 

 and proceeded, some by the fields and some by the road, to where 

 Staindrop, from her sylvan bowers, 



Salutes proud Raby's battled towers. 



Our rendezvous was the Queen's Head Hotel, whence, having 

 refreshed the inner and outward man, we visited the ancient 

 church. This church is on the site of a more ancient church, 

 which existed before the Conquest, but no remains are seen (with 

 the exception of one or two stones built in the wall, which ap- 

 pear to have vestiges of Saxon work) of an earlier date than the 

 twelfth century. We have, owing to successive enlargements 

 and alterations, specimens of Later-Norman, Early-English, and 

 Perpendicular Architecture. Among the objects to which our 

 attention was called, were — the roof of the porch; the vestry, 

 over which is a room, orignally believed to have been the dwell- 

 ing-place of an anchoret ; a small room, opening into the south 

 aisle, probably a vestry or robing room for the chantry priests 

 who performed the ceremonies and masses for the dead. The 

 alabaster monument, in memory of Balph De Neville, first Earl 

 of Westmoreland, and his two wives; the first of whom, Margaret, 



