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The Sixth General Meeting. 



sent by the Marquis of Ailesbury. F. A. Carrington, Esq. of Og- 

 bourne St. George, Recorder of Wokingham, and one of the most 

 constant supporters of the Society, rendered further assistance upon 

 this occasion by discharging most ably the duties of Chairman. 



In giving, after other introductory healths, that of the Bishop and 

 Clergy of the Diocese, Mr. Carrington said: "I must in this in- 

 stance depart from the usual form, and adopt that of the Bishops 

 and Clergy: for perhaps all who are here are not aware that the 

 town of Marlborough has, at the present time, the advantage of 

 being presided over by tivo Bishops — viz., the Bishop of Salisbury, 

 in whose diocese it is situated, and another Bishop, who is more im- 

 mediately connected with it. 1 We are under great obligations to 

 the clergy in their public capacity, and there can be no doubt that 

 the County Antiquarian Society depends in a main degree upon 

 them for its support. The resident clergyman in each parish is 

 able to look after its antiquities, to present them, or cause them to 

 be presented, and give some account of their existence which we 

 should often not know of, but for him." The compliment to the 

 clergy was acknowledged by the Rev. E. B. Warren, vicar of St. 

 Mary's, Marlborough. 



The healths of the Marquis of Lansdowne, President of the 

 Society, and of the Magistrates, were then given; with special al- 

 lusion to George Matcham, Esq. of New House, near Salisburj 7- , 

 who was present: one of the Authors of the History of South 

 Wiltshire, printed under the name and at the expense of Sir R. C. 

 Hoare. 



Mr. Matcham, in the course of returning thanks said, he believed 

 he was almost the Nestor, not only of the magistrates, but of the 

 antiquaries of Wiltshire. It was now between thirty and forty 

 years ago that he first had the pleasure of seeing the town of 

 Marlborough, as one of the magistrates of the county attending 

 the Quarter Sessions. 



The Chairman next ventured to propose the healths of two emi- 



1 The Rev. Edward Wyndham Tuffnell, D.D., Prebendary of Salisbury and 

 Rector of St. Peter's, Marlborough, consecrated June 14th, 1859, to the newly- 

 erected Bishopric of Brisbane, Australia. 



