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The Forty-first General Meeting. 



Magazine), the adoption of which was proposed by the Rev. H. R. 

 Whytehead, who praised the recent numbers of the Magazine, and 

 seconded by the Rev. Gk S. Master, who, speaking as a Member 

 both of the Somersetshire and the Gloucestershire Societies, as well 

 as of our own, corrected any feelings of undesirable self-satisfaction 

 which the previous speaker's remarks may have tended to foster by 

 reminding Members that the journals of the two neighbouring 

 Societies had reached a high standard too, and would — as he put it 

 — -" run the Wiltshire Magazine very hard " if every effort was not 

 made to keep up its quality. 



The re-election of the Officers of the Society, with the addition 

 of Mr. N. Story Maskelyne, F.R.S., as a Vice-President, and of 

 Mr. H. Brakspear as Local Secretary for the Oorsham district, 

 having been moved by Mr. Talbot and seconded by the Rev. R. 

 U. Lambert, the business of the Meeting came to an end, and 

 Members adjourned to perambulate the town. 



ST. PETER'S CHURCH was first visited— where The Rector 

 (the Rev. H. R. Whytehead) gave a concise account of the archi- 

 tecture of the building and of the alterations which had taken place 

 under "restoration" years ago. He mentioned that the Church 

 was one of those which was said to have a pigeon loft over the 

 chancel — and doubtless pigeons had lived there, but there was no 

 appearance whatever of the space over the chancel vaulting having 

 ever been intended for such a purpose. 



At the College Grates the Members were received by The Bursar 

 (the Rev. J. S. Thomas), who acted as guide over the buildings of 

 THE COLLEGE. The Quadrangle ; LORD HERTFORD'S HOUSE, 

 which still retains the evidence of its intermediate existence as the 

 Angel Inn in the carefully preserved " bar " ; the ADDERLEY 

 LIBRARY, housed in one of its rooms ; and the singularly magnificent 

 CHAPEL, where a short organ recital was given by Mr. Bambridge ; 

 and the beautiful old garden ; were visited in turn. And then the 

 more active members of the party climbed the " MOUND,'' which 

 Mr. Brooke afterwards claimed as a rival of Silbury Hill in age and 

 character. To those, however, who know the numerous " burhs " 

 of Saxon origin, and those used as the base of the early Norman 



