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Excerpt from Somersetshire Archeological and Natural History Society, Vol. 12: Proceedings During the Years 1863-4 They saw again their old friends, Mr. Green and Mr. Dawkins, whose acquaintance they had so profitably made last year. And, among older men and greater strangers to the county, they had the pleasure of seeing among them Mr. George Williams, so well versed in the ecclesiastical antiquities of the East, and Mr. Stubbs, who knew every action of every bishop who had ever lived. Mr. Dimock, the learned biographer of St. Hugh, had also fully intended to be present, but had been unavoidably hindered at the last moment. Mr. Parker, having in a manner fixed him self among them, could no longer be looked on as a stranger. It was among these eminent antiquaries that the main and detailed work of the meeting was to be divided; the several antiquities of the city, of the cathe dral, the palace, the vicars' close, &o., were parted out among them what he himself had to do was simply to give a short introduction to the whole subject, sketching out the objects which were to be seen and their relations to each other, while he left the minute details and dates of each object to those who had specially taken that object in hand. He would give a sketch of the antiquities of Wells something like the view of the city itself from Tor hill, -not the Glastonbury Tor, but the Wells Tor - Hill on the Shepton Mallet road, - the point whence the general aspect of the buildings, and their connection with each other, can be better seen than from any other point, though it is too far off to study any particular building in detail. From that point may be seen, all grouping together round the cathedral as the great centre, the palace, the Cloister, the chapter-house, the vicars' close, the detached houses of the canons, the more distant tower of the parish church. Now that view, as far as his experience went. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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