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the agent of the Digby Estate, the motors proceeded to Old 

 Sherborne Castle, with its interesting Norman remains, and thence 

 walked through the beautiful grounds of the park to the New 

 Castle, or present mansion, the central portion of which is said to 

 have been built by Sir Walter Raleigh. By the kindness of Mr. 

 Digby the Members were allowed to see over the house and the 

 adjoining small museum, in which many interesting original docu- 

 ments and a collection of Roman objects are preserved, including 

 a mosaic floor found in the neighbourhood, and now laid in the 

 vestibule. In the house itself perhaps the most interesting object 

 is the curious contemporary picture representing a progress of 

 Queen Elizabeth. After luncheon at the Digby Arms Hotel the 

 party assembled at the west end of the Abbey Church, where Mr. 

 W. B. Wildman, the historian of Sherborne, met them, and for the 

 rest of the afternoon placed his stores of knowledge at their 

 disposal in the most genial possible way. The exterior and 

 interior of the splendid Abbey Church, the various buildings of 

 the school which once formed part of the Abbey buildings, such 

 as the chapel, the library, the original school house, and the 

 museum, with its fine Megalosaurus head, and the " Palaeolithic " 

 bone etched with the figure of an animal recently "found" near 

 Sherborne by one of the boys. A visit to the almshouses with 

 their picturesque chapel with its curious Early Flemish altar piece, 

 and its dining hall with much old pewter on the shelves, brought 

 the afternoon to a close, with tea at the Digby Arms. Thence 

 the char-a-bancs made their way back to Shaftesbury, to pick up 

 luggage, and then proceeded by Semley and East Knoyle to War- 

 minster, Westbury, and Trowbridge, depositing the Members from 

 North and Central Wilts at the points most convenient to them. 



So ended a very enjoyable meeting in which much ground in 

 the neighbouring county of Dorset was covered. It is, perhaps, 

 unnecessary to say that the whole of the programme was carried 

 out with that clockwork regularity which everyone expects when 

 Mr. and Mrs. Cunnington make the arrangements, though perhaps 

 few people guess the infinite trouble and attention to details be- 

 forehand which alone can ensure that regularity. Unfortunately 



