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chapel. The north transept window is of later date, the style 
being Tudor. 
Salmon, in 1728, says: “ The Church stands in a small Yalley 
by a Brook’s Side, surrounded by the Duke of Bedford's Woods, 
called Cheyney Woods. It is hard for a stranger to find. And the 
Curate, for want of Endowment, can’t himself find the Way thither 
more than one Sunday in a Month, and that in an Afternoon.” * 
And Cussans, writing in 1879, adds : “And so it continued within 
the memory of people now living.” And he relates, of the adjoining 
parish of Bovingdon: “On the appointed fourth Sunday, if the 
weather were fine, a man was stationed on the top of the tower of 
Bovingdon church, whence he commanded a view of the road 
leading from Hemel Hempstead. If he saw the parson or his 
curate approaching, he would descend and ring the bell to summon 
the parishioners to church. If it rained or snowed, it was quite 
unnecessary to place a man on the look-out. It sometimes happened 
that for three consecutive months there was no divine service held 
either at Flaunden or Bovingdon.” f 
On leaving the old church, a different route was taken back to 
Cheneys, and after having tea here, the members returned along the 
high road by Charley Wood Common to Hickmans worth station. 
Ordinary Meeting, 15th April, 1885, at Hertford. 
C. E. Shelly, B.A., M.B., Vice-President, in the Chair. 
The following papers were read :— 
1. “Meteorological Observations taken at Throcking, Herts, 
during the year 1884.” By the Rev. C. W. Harvey, M.A., E.R.Met. 
Soc. ( Transactions , Yol. Ill, p. 239.) 
2. “Report on the Rainfall in Hertfordshire during the year 
1884.” By the Rev. C. W. Harvey, M.A. {Transactions, Yol. 
Ill, p. 247.) 
3. “ Report on Insects observed in Hertfordshire during the year 
1884.” By E. W. Silvester, E.R.Met.Soc. ( Transactions , Yol. 
Ill, p. 233.) 
Eield Meeting, 16th May, 1885. 
HEBTFOBD AND WABE. 
Seven years ago, on the 16th of June, 1878, the Society visited 
the neighbourhood of Hertford and Ware for geological investigation. 
Then, as now, the field meeting was held in conjunction with 
the Geologists’ Association of London, and much the same route was 
taken as on the present occasion. At the former visit the geological 
features of the district were explained by Professor Morris. The 
present meeting was under the direction of Mr. Hopkinson. 
The members of the two Societies arrived at Hertford station in 
two detachments, the first at 12 o’clock, the second at 1. The 
* ‘ Hist. Herts,’ p. 118. 
t ‘Hist. Herts.,’ Dacorum Hundred, p. 179. 
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