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PROCEEDINGS COTTESWOLD CLUB 
1918 
shall be held. He then proposed the re-election of Mr. St. Clair Baddeley 
as President for the year 1918, and in doing so spoke of the benefit and 
delightful experiences which the Club had enjoyed under his guidance. Mr. 
Baddeley’s re-election was carried with acclamation, and in returning thanks 
he expressed his feeling that they were pursuing the right course in steadily 
keeping the interests of the Club before them during the terrible conflict 
which was raging in Europe, and that when the days of Peace returned they 
would have the quiet satisfaction that they had done this for the sake of 
learning and history. 
The election of Vice-Presidents, elected Members of Council, and Officers 
proceeded. Mr. J. W. Gray, F.G.S., was elected a Member of Council in 
place of Mr. Thompson resigned, and the Club learned with much pleasure 
that Mr. L. Richardson, F.G.S., had accepted a seat on the Council. Mr. 
Richardson’s resignation as Secretary was reported at the December (1917) 
meeting (Proceedings, xix., p. 181), when due expression was given as to the 
loss which it meant to the Club. Mr. J. H. Jones was re-elected Hon. Treasurer 
and Mr. Roland Austin, who had carried on the secretarial duties since 
January, 1916, was now formally elected Hon. Secretary. 
Arrangements were made to hold Field Meetings as follows : — 
June 4 — Chedworth, 
July 6 — Longhope and Mitcheldean, 
September 3 — Malvern, 
but in view of the military situation which arose in the Spring, and the urgent 
request which was made to restrict railway travel, the Council considered it 
desirable to postpone all these Meetings. 
THE ENCAUSTIC TILES OF HAYLES ABBEY. 
The President exhibited a series of slides of the fine examples of Encaustic 
Tiles of the I3th-i6th centuries which were found when excavating the site 
of Hayles Abbey in 1898-1907, and in the course of his remarks said : — 
“ The tiles obtained from this royally-founded Cistercian Abbey may 
be classified under four headings, each one of which was once fully (perhaps 
magnificently) represented there. No evidence as yet discovered, how- 
ever, has given rise to the supposition that there was any local Abbey 
kiln, while abundant evidences suggest that certain tiles may have been 
supplied from moulds used in common by the Premonstratensian Abbey 
of Halesowen, in Shropshire, Waverley in Surrey, Stanley (Wilts), and 
perhaps, first, at Chertsey Abbey, near London. Other tiles can be 
identified with their fellows at Bredon, at Gloucester, and elsewhere. 
Kilns are known to have existed at Malvern, St. Mary Wilton, and 
Droitwich, whence, at least, some of the later tiles at Hayles may have 
derived. The building of Hayles followed so closely the rebuilding of 
Westminster, where fine pictorial tiles containing figures in costume were 
laid down in one of the King s Chapels in 1237, that it is not surprising 
to find that its chapels were decorated in a similar manner, albeit the 
