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The Twenty -Mghth General Meeting, 



on "Sir William Waller/' and the second by Canon Jackson, on 

 "The Abbey of Malmesbury before the Dissolution/'' As both 

 papers will appear in the Magazine they need not further be alluded 

 to here, except to say they were listened to with great attention, 

 and received the cordial thanks of the audience, conveyed in grace- 

 ful terms by the President. 



SECOND DAY, THURSDAY, AUGUST 3rd. 



The archseologists, to the number of about sixty, assembled at the 

 Town Hall, at nine o'clock, according to the programme, and left 

 Malmesbury in a sufficient number of breaks, for the first day's 

 excursion. The weather was all that could be desired. The first 

 halt was at Charlton Church, the oldest portion of which is the Nor- 

 man arcade with four arches, which divides the north aisle from 

 the nave. Thence to Charlton House, which had been kindly thrown 

 open for inspection by the Earl of Suffolk, and where the famous 

 collection of pictures was viewed with the keenest interest. Bro- 

 kenborough was the next halting-place, where there is now little to be 

 seen by the archaeologist, though Leland says that the West Saxon 

 kings had a palace here called Caidurburgh, as early as the middle of the 

 seventh century. The royal residence is said to have existed here till 

 the reigD of King John ; and Aubrey reports that the ruins of it were 

 pointed out to him by the inhabitants of the village as the seat of 

 King Athelstan. The Church is a small unpretending building, 

 though Aubrey records its former glories, even in his time long since 

 departed. " Before the warres, they say, were very fine windows, 

 but now utterly defaced." In the chancel arch, are the corbels, 

 which used to support the beams of the rood-loft, the doorway of 

 which, though now walled up, can be distinctly seen. There is also 

 a good piscina here. Leaving Brokenborough on the road to 

 Pinckney, a considerable stream of water was safely forded, and 

 the old Roman road, known as the Foss Road was crossed, and 

 here a short halt was made, while Mr. J ennings pointed out that in 

 a sheltered nook on the old Foss-way, a little to the south, was the 

 site of the old Roman station of Mutuatonis, or " White Walls," 

 which was midway between Bath and Cirencester, situate on rising 



