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On leaving the Church the Members passed into the grounds attached 
to the Manor House, and then on to the Schoolroom, where arrangements 
for tea had kindly been made by Mrs Swynnerton. 
REFERENCES. 
Stanley St. Leonards. The College of Canons and Collegiate Church. 
By J. Henry Middleton. Trans. Bristol 6^ Gloucs. Arch. Soc. (1881), v., 
1 19-132, with plates and plans. 
The Church of St. Swithin, Leonard Stanley. By L. W. Barnard. 
Gloucester Diocesan Magazine (1909), iv., 151-153, with views and plan. 
Stanley S. Leonard, Gloucestershire. By Rev. Charles Swynnerton, 
F.S.A., Vicar. Church Builder, July, 1915, pp. 84-91, with views, plate, and 
plan. 
The President’s paper, printed pp. 103-114 following. 
EXCURSION TO MONMOUTH AND TRELLECH 
Tuesday, June 6th, 1916. 
{Directors : Mr Thomas Martin Skinner and Rev. T. Davies) 
The programme for the second Field Meeting included ground already 
familiar to the Club — Monmouth having been visited in 1893 and 1910. 
Trellech proved a district new to most, and by general consent the day was 
one of full interest. Owing to a long-standing engagement in London, the 
President was unable to accompany the Members, who met at Gloucester 
Station and travelled to Monmouth (May Hill), where they arrived at 11.7. 
Those present were Charles Upton (Vice-President), Roland Austin (Acting 
Hon. Secretary), F. H. Bretherton, J. M. Collett, Rev. J. J. D. Cooke, F. J. 
Cullis, Lieut. Col. J. C. Duke, T. S. Ellis, E. W. Fyffe, J. W. Haines, F. Han- 
nam-Clark, E. P. Little, A. S. Montgomrey, J. W. Skinner, T. M. Skinner 
(guest), and W. Thompson. The party were met at May Hill Station by 
Mr T. M. Skinner, who has been so long resident in Monmouth, and possesses 
such intimate acquaintance with its history and antiquities that he proved a 
delightful guide in every way. 
Monmouth has been (without sufficient grounds)identified with the Roman 
Blestium. The original Welsh name is Aberfynwy (modernised as Trefynwy), 
meaning “the Monnow mouth.’’ That part of the town bounded by the 
river Monnow on one side, and Clawdd-dhu (the Black Dyke), a wide ditch, 
on the other, was, and is now, known as “ Over Monnow.’’ 
On leaving the station Mr Skinner drew attention to the Bridge over 
the Wye, built in 1643, and mentioned the trade borne by the river between 
Chepstow and Monmouth in earlier days. The Grammar School, on the 
town side of the Bridge, was founded in 1614 by William Jones, a wealthy 
Hamburgh merchant, who is said to have been born at Newland — to which 
place he was also a benefactor — or Monmouth. 
As the Members made their way to the Church the sites of the fosse and 
the several gates of the fortified town were pointed out. The chief point of 
interest in the remains of the Benedictine Priory, founded in the eleventh 
century by Wihenoc de Monmouth, Lord of the iNIanor, is the Oriel Window, 
known as “Geoffrey’s Window,’’ a reminder of Geoffrey of Monmouth, a 
reputed native of the town, who became Archdeacon of Monmouth, and 
whose History of the Britons — a work consisting largely of myth, legend and 
