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part of the Members to inspect the roof of the building or to visit 

 the adjoining " Glack Mount," an earthwork which like most others 

 has been ascribed to the Komans, but is probably in reality the 

 site of the original dwelling and stronghold of the Norman owner 

 of the Manor. ME. H. BRAKSPEAR, F.S.A., than whom there are 

 few better authorities on monastic sites, showed Members over the 

 building and gave some account both of its history and its 

 architecture. The hospitable occupiers, MR. & MRS. W. HALL, 

 would willingly have detained the party to see more of their most 

 interesting house, but the Secretary's whistle called them to their 

 motors at 4.15, and at 4.45 precisely the party arrived at TOCKEN- 

 HAM MANOR, where MR. AND MRS. BUXTON had provided a 

 sumptuous tea. The programme allowed of an hour's stay here 

 which was all too short for the study of tea, of the many objects of 

 interest in the house, and of the beautiful and very extensive 

 gardens quite recently laid out on this charming site. The old 

 house, built about 1600 by Kichard Danvers, passed cir. 1650 to 

 the Smith family, and from them by marriage to John Jacob, of 

 Wootton Bassett. It passed again by marriage of the heiress to 

 John Buxton, of Tybenham and Bushford in Norfolk, whose 

 descendant the present owner, MRS. BUXTON, has within the last 

 few years entirely remodelled it, adding largely to it, but retaining 

 the old north front of the house, with the picturesque entrance 

 gate pillars. The house contains many fine portraits, and much 

 good furniture, a Caxton, and a very curious heraldic achievement 

 painted on linen or canvas, of the Buxton who was Constable of 

 Bordeaux temp. Bic. II. This remarkable painting is said to have 

 been preserved in the Nunnery of Bungay (Suff.) until the dis- 

 solution, since when it has descended in the family of Buxton, of 

 Tybenham. There is also a shell mounted on a stand of the 

 curious and scarce English enamel work on brass which was made 

 about the time of Charles I. Leaving Tockenham at 5.45 the 

 motors journeyed through Hilmarton to Calne where they arrived 

 precisely as the clock on the Town Hall struck half-past six. 



At the Evening Meeting, which began at 8.30, in the absence of 

 the President, MR. CHARLES PENRUDDOCKE occupied the 



