THE 



WILTSHIRE MAGAZINE. 



"multoeum manibus geande levatue onus." — Ovid. 

 JUNK, 18Q7. 



THE FORTY-THIRD GENERAL MEETING 



OF THE 



IHtltsfjtre Penological antr Natural PHstorg Soctetg, 



HELD AT SALISBURY, 

 July Itth, 15th, and 16th, 1896. 



Sir H. Bruce Meux, Bart., President of the Society. 



TUESDAY, JULY 14th. 



HE GENERAL ANNUAL MEETING of the Society, at which 

 some twenty-five Members were present, was held at the 

 County Hotel at 2.30, p.m. Mr. C. Penruddocke took the 

 chair in the absence of the President, and called upon Mr. H. E. 

 Medlicott to read THE REPORT. 1 In connection with a paragraph 

 in the Report, a letter addressed to the Society, from the Society for 

 the Protection of Ancient Buildings, urging a protest against the pro- 

 posed removal of the tower and nave of the old CHURCH OF LEIGH, 

 in the north of the county, to a new site, was read by The Rev. 

 E. H. Goddard, who explained the circumstances under which 

 this was proposed to be done. In the discussion which followed 

 Messrs. Talbot, Schomberg, Bell, Medlicott, Goddard, 

 Colbourne, Archdeacon Lear, and others, took part, some 

 defending the proposal to remove the Church as being a lesser evil 

 than allowing it to remain on its present site and go to ruin — as in 



1 Printed in the last number of the Magazine, December, 1896. 

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