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SELBORNE SOCIETY NOTICES. 
[Note.— All Announcements with regard to Future Meetings of 
THE Central Society or Branches will he found together at the 
END OF these NOTICES.] 
Central Society. — The following candidates stand for election : Arthur Andrews, 
Esq.; Mrs. A. Andrews; Henry M. Baker, Esq. ; John Bennett, L.D.S.Eng. ; 
Herbert E. Bouch, Esq. ; Alfred W. Carter, Esq. ; Mrs. A. W. Carter; J. S. 
Clementson, Esq. ; Arthur N. Cohen, Esq. ; Mrs. A. N. Cohen ; W. S. Davies, 
Esq. ; Mrs. W. S. Davies; W. H. Dodgson, Esq. ; G. H. Everett, Esq. ; R. VV. 
Harre, Esq.; Ronald E. Jacobs, Esq.; Wilfrid Hawkings, Esq.; Mrs. W. 
Hawkings ; Samuel L. Hudson, Esq. ; Frank Hughes, Esq. ; Charles Moore 
Kennedy, Esq. ; A. E. Lee, Esq. ; J. B. Lock, Esq. ; A. D. Luppinger, Esq. ; 
Miss L. Masterinan ; R. O. Mills, Esq. ; W. Milne, Esq. ; Miss Annie Morris; 
the Rev. E. Peake; T. Slingsby Nightingale, Esq. ; W. T. Price, Esq. ; G. 
Bentham Rae, Esq. ; John Reid, Esq. ; Henry Rodick, Esq. ; Paul Schloesser, 
Esq. ; J. O. Scott, Esq. ; W. D. Stevenson, Esq. ; Miss Elinor Stuart-Jones ; 
Frederick G. Taylor, Esq.; Mrs. Torrens; M. L. Trender, Esq.; Henry 
Wellcome, Esq ; John T. Williams, Esq. 
Brent Valley and Richmond Branch. — T. W. Adams, Esq. ; Cyril W. 
Barnard, Esq. ; Newton Braby, Esq. ; Thomas Hodgins, Esq. ; the Rev. J. R. 
Pridie ; Mrs. Stevenson ; William Henry Williams, Esq. 
In the previous list G. Binyon, Esq., should read Miss G. Binyon, and J. G. 
Penny, Esq., should be J. G. Perry, Esq. 
Siibscriptions. — Subscriptions of greater value than 5s. have been received 
from the following members; Mrs. Giberne, £\ los. ; Charles Moore Kennedy, 
Esq., £\ IS. ; John Reid, Esq., los. 6d. ; Miss A. E. F. Barlow, los. ; J. 
Oldrid Scott, Esq., los. ; A. L. H. Townsend, Esq., los. The Committee of 
the Brent Valley and Richmond Branch has pleasure in acknowledging a dona- 
tion of 5s. from Newton Braby, Esq. 
Library. — The Honorary Librarian will attend at 20, Hanover Square, 
from 6 p.m. to 6.30 p.m., on the evenings of September 21 and October 19, to 
issue library books to members. 
EXCURSIONS. 
Saturday., July 4. — A party of twenty Selbornians visited Pyrford, under the 
guidance of Rev. R. Ashington Bullen. The afternoon was rather thundery, but 
the fine weather did not break up till 7.30 p.m., and there was ample time to 
carry out the programme as intended. The conductor pointed out Thorley Farm, 
a good old Saxon name ; indeed, most of the names about Pyrford are of Saxon 
origin. Woking, now the best known, was in the time of Edward VI. known 
as Oaking, or rather Okeing. The old Manor House, now called the Old 
House, was, according to a date discovered by Mr. Pinnock in 1905 in un- 
covering an old chimney-place, found to be built by N.B., 1619. Nothing is 
known about him, but as he gave the Jacobean pulpit to Pyrford Church in 1627, 
he must have been of some importance in the life of that little-inhabited parish on 
the borders of old Windsor Forest (“ My demesne in the Forest of Windlesore,” 
as William the Conqueror’s grant runs). The luxuriant wild hop clothed the 
hedges with grace and beauty, and the party was shown the lane where flourishes 
in its time the perforate St. John’s-wort, and where the night-jar may be often 
seen. A grand oak next claimed attention, and on the same property the party 
visited Pyrford Place (by the kindness of Mr. Howell Williams, the owner) and 
saw the summer-house which was part of the wall of the square garden which 
is haunted by memories of Queen Elizabeth, whose Latin Secretary, Sir John 
Wolley, was owner of the place towards the end of the sixteenth century. The 
house, mainly built of wood, formerly stood in (what is now) the garden to the 
south of the present house. It was built probably in the reign of Henry VI II., as 
carvings of the Tudor rose have been discovered. The existing house is partly 
the old gate-house, and the arches may still be seen through which many a 
hawking party passed to their favourite pastime. This was a famous fowling 
district in those days. 
