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of the south chapel, and its great resemblance to similar work at 

 Bromham and St. John's, Devizes. 



They next proceeded with all speed to Etchilhampton Church, 

 where, with Mr. Pouting again for their guide, the fine altar-tomb 

 with recumbent effigies in the chancel, the nave roofs, west window, 

 and curious south-west buttress with battlemented niches, were all 

 noticed. 



This was the last item on the programme, and Devizes was reached 

 in very fair time. 



The proceedings at the Conversazione in the Town Hall, at which 

 seventy-two persons were present, began by Mr. Penruddocke 

 being called upon to read a paper on Mrs. Jane Lane, in which he 

 described the adventures of Charles II. after the Battle of Worcester, 

 and his eventful escape, assisted by the heroine of the paper; after 

 which refreshments of a novel character, kindly provided by Me. 

 Penruddocke in illustration of his paper, were handed round, con- 

 sisting of glasses of old Canary wine, and biscuits with a preserve 

 made from a recipe of Mrs. Jane Lane, amongst the ingredients of 

 which were rose-water and musk. 



The President then read portions of a valuable and learned paper 

 he had received from Dr. Garson, the eminent authority on the 

 subject, on the skulls and skeletons found during his excavations at 

 Rotherley and Woodcuts. After which Mr. Plenderleath gave a 

 short account of the finding by flint-diggers of an urn and three 

 pierced chalk stones, supposed to have been loom-weights, in a pit 

 some 6ft. below the surface, close to the ramparts of Oldbury Camp, 

 and about 100 yds. south of the monument, a short time before. 



As time pressed, the valuable paper by Mr. J. Jukes Brown, on 

 the Geology of Devizes, which was next on the programme, was not 

 read, but the substance of it was given in a short but interesting 

 address by Mr. W. Heward Bell, who lucidly explained the ex- 

 cellent diagrams of sections of the cretaceous strata of the neigh- 

 bourhood, which had been prepared for the illustration of the paper. 



At the request of The President, Mr. James Waylen, the 

 historian of Devizes, gave a short account of the picture painted by 

 himself representing Devizes Castle as it may have been in its 



