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PROCEEDINGS COTTESWOLD CLUB 
1919 
FIELD MEETINGS, 1919. 
Owing to the War no Field Meetings were held in 1918, and it was with 
feelings of pleasure that the Members of the Club w-ere able to resume them, 
knowing that while the terms of Peace had not been actually settled, the 
grim horrors of the great conflict had ceased. 
CHEDWORTH MEETING. 
June 3rd, 1919. 
The first of the field-days was favoured with ideal spring weather, and 
nearly thirty Members met at Chedw-orth. It is of interest to record that the 
election of Mr. Christopher Bowly (who was present) to the Club was within 
a few days of sixty years previous to this meeting, he having become a 
Member on June 15th, 1859. 
The Earl of Eldon had kindly given permission to Members to visit the 
Roman Villa, and also Casey Compton House, and they were fortunate in 
having with them Mr. H. W. Bruton, who for many years has been Agent for 
the estate. 
Walking from the station, a pause was made w-hen in view of the Church, 
and the President said that though no priest belonging to it was mentioned 
in Domesday Book, nevertheless the advowson of Chedw-orth w-as inherited 
by Roger Fitz Osbem, who gave it to the Norman Abbey of Lire, which 
continued to present the priest down to the time of Henry V. (1413). Henry V. 
gave the Church to the Nuns of Sheen. At the dissolution the Advowson was 
purchased by Hugh Westwood, and presented by him to Queen’s College, 
Oxford, in whose gift the living remains at the present time. Moving on to 
the Church, the President pointed out its principal architectural features : 
the interesting Norman flattened arch of the West Tow-er, the characteristic 
pillars on the north side of the Nave, and the carved (mediaeval) stone pulpit. 
The north window of the Chancel is deeply splayed and is partly filled with 
glass of the time of Edward IV. (c. 1480). The Norman font is made of local 
Cotsw-old stone, unfortunately painted over. A very fine and well-preserved 
copy of the Genevan Bible (1583), known as the “ Breeches ” Bible, presented 
by the Vicar, Rev. G. E. Mackie, is placed in the Chancel. 
Leaving the Church, the Members climbed to the ascent above the village, 
where the President made a few remarks as to the place-name of the great 
Combe upon which they looked — Lister Combe = perhaps representing M.E. 
litestere, otherwise litster, , or dyer — and pointed out the directions of the 
important roads which ran near, viz. the Foss Way, the road by Calmsden to 
Cirencester, and the “ White Way.” The local term “Lains,” w-hich occurs 
