338 The Fifty-Eighth General Meeting. 



fine original door, its brass candelabra, and fragments of a Saxon 

 cross shaft, was the last Church on the programme, on leaving 

 which the busses made for CHARLTON PARK, where MR. BATES 

 received the party on behalf of THE EARL AND COUNTESS 

 OF SUFFOLK, with every attention, the house being freely 

 thrown open for their inspection, after tea — which was par- 

 ticularly welcome at the end of a very hot day — had been 

 enjoyed under the portico. Since the Society last visited Charlton 

 in 1900, considerable alterations have taken place in the way of 

 decoration, particularly in the long gallery, which has recently been 

 furnished throughout with new panelling of an elaborate character. 

 The great attraction of the house, however, remains — as always — 

 the pictures, second only in this county to the still more remarkable 

 series at Longford. Ample time was spent in the enjoyment of 

 these before the busses started on the final stage to Malmesbury 

 Station, which they reached with more than half-an-hour to spare 

 before the 6.55 train. The weather had been cloudless throughout 

 the Meeting, and for the most part very hot ; the numbers attending 

 had not been so large as at either of the preceding meetings at 

 Calne and Bradford, but everyone who took part in it agreed that 

 the Malmesbury Meeting and Excursions had been a great success, 

 a success chiefly due to the excellence of the arrangements made 

 by the two Local Secretaries, THE REV. F. H. MANLEY and 

 MR. C. MOIR, and so far as the Gloucestershire day was concerned, 

 ■ to the arrangements and guidance of THE REV. W. SYJVTONDS, 

 who had made himself entirely responsible for that Excursion. 

 From the point of view of finance the result of the Meeting was 

 highly satisfactory, a balance of £14 Os. ^d. having been handed 

 over to the Society's General Fund. 



