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The Forty-EigMh General Meeting. 



HOUSE itself has a good many remains of 16th and 17th century 

 work about it, and the study retains the bookcases and fittings of 

 the days of Crabbe, whose mulberry tree still grows in the garden. 

 In a grotto here, and in various parts of the garden, are to be seen 

 a few fragments of 13th century work, and a considerable quantity 

 of later work — mullions and so forth, which came from the Church 

 at the time of the very thorough " restoration." After tea the 

 CHURCH itself was visited, and its history and architecture 

 described by The Hector, Mr. Bkakspear expressing the opinion 

 that the beautiful spire is really of 14th century date, and therefore 

 earlier than the existing casing of the tower beneath it. After 

 this most of the Members drove off to visit SOUTHWICK COURT, 

 an old moated manor-house, now a farm house, with the moat still 

 in evidence, and NORTH BRADLEY CHURCH. 



Attention was also called to the collection of fragments of several 

 figures of 15th century date preserved at the rear of the new Town 

 Hall, with this inscription on a brass plate adjoining : — 



" These fragments of Church Statuary were found in the moat of Trowbridge 

 Castle when the foundation of the Town Hall was prepared. They are thus 

 preserved as the remains of an ancient Parish Church whose foundations were 

 discovered near the Rectory House." 



The ANNIVERSARY DINNER, attended by thirty-eight Mem 1 >e re, 

 was held at the George Hotel, and the Conversazione at the Town 

 Hall followed at 8.30, forty-two members being being present. 

 Mi;. Henry Blake, as Chairman of the Urban Council, welcomed 

 the Society on behalf of the inhabitants of Trowbridge, and read a 

 paper giving an interesting sketch of the history of the town — 

 Mrs. Blake most kindly providing tea (hiring the evening. 



The REV. E. I*. Km t.i.ky next read his paper on " Tin-: Risk and 

 Fall of Steeple Ashton as a Market Town," which will be 

 Found printed in this number of the Mmjuzinr. 



Ee w.is Followed by the Rev. J. Silvester Davies with a paper 

 on "The Tropenell Cartulary." This paper is also printed 

 Later on. It gave an accounl of the very remarkable manuscript 



volume given to Mr. Davies hy a lady descendant of the Hannan 

 family, to whom it had descended from the Tropenells, some years 



