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The Forty-Fourth Genera/ Meeting. 



daughters of the occupier, Mr. Dansey. The room over this is also 

 good, the date apparently very early in the 17th century. The 

 stables, of early 18th century date, with their oak stalls and rooms 

 over, are quite worth notice too. Altogether the group of buildings 

 at Beanacre is an extremely interesting one, and ought to be 

 adequately described and illustrated. 



Melksliam Church was the next item on the programme. 

 Here the Vicar, Eev. E. Of. Wyld, described the building, and 

 showed the interesting pre-Peformation paten, and the Elizabethan 

 chalices which Canon Warre secured for the use of the parish. 

 After this the party adjourned to the neighbouring barn, converted 

 now into a school, for luncheon — and then entered the carriages 

 again and drove to Seend, passing on the way " Woolmer," or 

 " Bower " House, of red brick with stone dressings, dated 1631, 

 and the old oak tree on which, according to local tradition, Cromwell 

 caused three men of his own army to be hung for pillaging. Time 

 unfortunately did not allow of a stoppage to examine the old house. 



Seend Church was described by Mr. Ponting, but the time 

 available for examining it was somewhat short, and the Secretary's 

 trumpet was soon calling the party together to depart for Keevil. 

 Here the first thing to be seen was Mrs. Kenrick's well-known 

 15th Century wooden mansion, second only in Wiltshire 

 to the Church House at Potterne. Here Mr. Adye, who restored 

 the building for Mrs. Kenrick, described the house ; and after the 

 Members had wandered through the hall, the drawing-room — with 

 its restored " beasts " painted on the wall, and remarkable panelled 

 oak ceiling — and the many rooms upstairs — filled, as the whole 

 house is, with old furniture, china, and curiosities of every kind — 

 they adjourned to the garden for tea, kindly provided there by 

 Mrs. Kenrick. The garden is in itself quite worth seeing, and with 

 the house hung with creepers as a background makes a singularly 

 charming picture. Mr. Adye, while discoursing on the architecture 

 of the building, relied on the arms of the Earl of Arundel painted 

 on the gallery of the hall as giving the date of its erection — a 

 conclusion which Mr. Talbot dissented from — holding that the 

 original arms, of which the present shield is a restoration, were 



