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Came, 155, 281

—— Church, Recumbent Figures in, 59

—— Down, 24

Canford, 9

Cast-lead Font, St. Mary’s, Wareham, 55

Castle, Bow and Arrow (or Rufus), 180

—— Corfe, 10, 193, 195

—— Sherborne Old, 10, 90, 92

—— Royal visitors at Lulworth, 190

—— Pennsylvania, 180

Catherine of Alexandria, Chapels dedicated to St., 61, 103, 104, 108

Celtic Earthworks, 4

Celts, Civilisation of, 4

Centwine, 6

Cenwealh, first Christian King of West Saxons, 5

Cerne Abbas, 287

—— Round Barrows at, 22

—— Abbey, 8, 9, 96

—— Abbot of, 237

Characteristics of Shaftesbury, 252

Charborough, 288

Chard, Abbot, 133, 134, 139

Charles I., 92, 207, 267

—— II., 169, 224, 239, 245; at Lulworth Castle, 190; Defeat of, 11; Flight of, 12

Charlotte, Queen, at Lulworth Castle, 190

Charminster, 264

—— Canopied Tombs at, 59

Chesil Beach, 2, 4, 165

Chesilborne, 107

Chideock, 271

—— Chapel, Knight in plate armour in, 59

China-clay, Important deposit of, 198

Christ Church, Dorchester, 153

Christmas Pie Legend, Corfe Castle, 219

Churches of Bridport, 234

—— of Shaftesbury, 246

Church, Piddletown, 258

—— St. Ealdhelm’s, 79

—— St. James’, Milton, 115

—— Spires— Iwerne Minster, 46 Trent, 46, 54 Winterborne Steepleton, 46, 53

—— Towers— Beaminster, 53 Bradford Abbas, 53 Cerne, 53 Charminster, 53 Dorchester, St. Peter’s, 53 Fordington St. George, 53 Marnhull, 53 Milton Abbey, 53 Piddletrenthide, 53 Steepleton, 53 Trent, 54

Civil War, 10, 165, 207

Civil War Days at Bridport, 238

Civil War, Sharp fight in Poole during, 223

—— —— Sherborne Castle besieged during, 92

Clandon Barrow, 24

Clavinio (or Jordan Hill), 35, 40

“Clubmen,” 10

Cnut, 8, 244

Coal Money, Kimmeridge, 191

Coke, Lord Chief Justice, 206

Company of Marblers, 195

Conig’s Castle, 30

Conjurer or Witch-Doctor, 294

Cooper, Sir Anthony Ashley, 213

Corfe, 9

—— Castle, 165, 187, 193, 195, 200-21, 224; Ruins of, 50

—— Church, 211-213

Corton Chapel, Stone Altar at, 56

Court Leet House, Piddletown, 261

Cranborne, 9

—— Long Barrow near, 20

Credence in Witchcraft, 293

Creech, Ancient Manor of, 189

Cromwell, 92

—— at Portland, 183

—— Letter from, 11

—— Colonel, 214, 215

Cross-legged Effigies in— Bridport, 57 Dorchester, St. Peter’s, 58, 59 Frampton, 58 Horton, 57 Mappowder, 58 Piddletown, 57 Stock Gaylard, 57 Trent, 57, 58 Wareham, 57 Wimborne Minster, 57 —— St. Giles, 57

Crowe, William, 276

Culliford Tree, 24

Cunnington, Edward, 40

Curious Inscription, St. Mary’s, Melcombe Regis, 174

Cuthberga, Sister of Ine, 117, 118

Cwenberga, St., 118

Cynewearde (Kynewardus), 94

Damer, Anne Seymour, 110

“Damsel of Bretagne,” 203

Danes, Destruction of Shaftesbury by, 243

Danes in Wessex, 6, 7

Decorated Architecture— Dorchester, St. Peter’s, 51 Gussage, St. Michael’s, 51 Milton Abbey Church, 51 Tarrant Rushton, 51 Wimborne Minster, 51 Wooton Glanville, 51

Denzil, Lord Holles, Monument in St. Peter’s, Dorchester, of, 59

Destruction of Shaftesbury by Danes, 243

Deverel Barrow, 24

Dialect of Dorset, 17

Digby, John, first Earl of Bristol, 78

Dissolution of Monasteries, 10, 44, 245

Dodington, Bubb, first Lord Melcombe, 173, 176, 275

_Domesday Survey_, 233

Dorchester, 9, 34, 145-56, 170, 208, 213, 233, 243, 281, 283, 284, 290

—— Amphitheatre at, 42

—— Beaker at, 23

—— Discovery of MSS. in Auction Room at, 15

—— Execution of Catholic Priest at, 272

—— Persons presented at, 16

—— Round Barrows near, 22

—— Walls demolished, 8

Dorset County Museum, 154

—— —— —— Specimens in, 23-25 39, 40, 43

—— Superstitions, 292

Duke of Monmouth’s Rebellion, 14

Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury, 94, 159

Durlston Bay, 194; Head, 193

Durnovaria, Station at, 35, 36

Durotriges, 4-6, 29, 31, 37

Durweston Church, Carving in, 60

Eadward, Murder of, 7

—— the Unconquered, 118

Ealdgyth, or Elgefu, 241

Ealdhelm, St., Abbot of Malmesbury, 7; first Bishop of Western Wessex, 75-87

Ealdhelm’s Head, St., 192, 193

_Ealdhelm, Life of St._, Wildman’s, 5

Ealhstan, Bishop, 77

Earl of Richmond, 9

Early English Architecture— Corfe Mullen, 51 Cranborne, 51 Knighton, 51 Portesham, 51 Wimborne Minster, 51 Worth, 51

Eastbury, 275

East Lulworth, 278

East Stower, 276

Ecgberht, King, 77

Edgar, King, 94, 200, 201

Edward I., 245

Edward II., 254

—— III., 9

—— IV. at Tewkesbury, 9

—— VI., 87

—— the Confessor, 146, 159, 181, 233, 243

—— the Martyr, 201, 202, 207, 240, 249

Egdon Heath, 2, 290, 294

Eggardun, 30, 34

Elfrida, or Ælfthryth, Queen, 7, 200-202

Elizabeth, Queen, 91, 170, 205, 271

Emma, Queen, 159

Encombe, Glen of, 288

Erle, Sir Walter, 208, 210-212

Æthelbald, King, 76, 77

Æthelberht, King, 76, 77

Æthelgede, or Æthelgeofu, 241

Æthelhelm, Duke, 181

Æthelred I., 117

—— II., 7, 158

Æthelwold, the Ætheling, 117, 118

Æthelwulf, King, 77

Etricke of Holt, Anthony, 15, 225

—— Anthony, Sarcophagus of, 127

Evans, Miss, 143

Farnham, Stone over Altar in, 59

Fielding, Henry, 275, 276

FitzHerbert, Mrs., at Lulworth Castle, 190

Flowers, or Florus, Bury Camp, 30

Font, Cast-lead, at St. Mary’s, Wareham, 55

Fonts, Saxon, at Toller Fratrum, 48; Martinstown, 48

Ford Abbey, 131

—— —— Chapel, 132

—— —— Seal, 140

—— —— Tapestries of, 144

—— —— The Cloister, 134

—— —— The Dissolution of, 139

—— —— The Guest Chamber, 137

—— —— “The Monks’ Walk,” 133

—— —— The Surrender of, 138

Fordington, 151

—— Church, St. George’s, 154

—— Field, 25

Frampton, Stone Pulpit at, 56

Fraunceis, John, 143

Fuller, Thomas, 277

Funeral, Portland Island, 186

Garrison at Wareham, 9

Gasquet, Abbot, 230

Gaunt, John of, 124

Gay, John, 150

Geology of Dorset, 1

George III., 157, 170, 271, 288

—— —— at Lulworth Castle, 190

Gillingham, 9, 281, 284

—— Manor of, 252, 253

Gipsies, Headstone of Peter Standley, King of the, 261

Glen of Encombe, 288

Godwin, Earl, 181

Godlingstone, Manor of, 196

Goidelic Celts, 3, 19

Grammar School, Milton, 113

—— —— Shaftesbury, 255

Gravestone of Benjamin Jesty, 192

Great Tyneham, Ancient Manor House at, 189

Guest, Lady Theodora, 252

Gussage Down, 36

—— Long Barrow near, 20

Gwyn, Francis, 143

—— John Francis, 143

Hambledon, Celtic Camp of, 10

—— Roman Occupation of, 31

Hambro, Baron, 97, 100

—— Everard, 106

Hamworthy, Old Manor House at, 226

Handfast Point, 197

Handley Down, 34

Harbour, Bridport, 237

Hardy, Thomas, 2, 17, 18, 47, 70, 109, 114, 156, 190, 240, 256, 257, 260, 273, 282, 294

—— Thomas Masterman, 113

—— Wm., 194

Harold, Death of, 8

Harper, Hugo Daniel, 78

Hatton, Sir Christopher, 205, 217

Hawtrey, Mrs., 219

Henry III., 9, 235

—— V., 9

—— VI., 9, 92

—— VII., 144

—— VIII., 85, 96, 166, 178, 234, 245

Henry VIII., Inscription at Portland Castle to, 182

—— —— Letter from, 162

Herman, last Bishop of Sherborne, 7

Higher Bockhampton, birthplace of Thos. Hardy, 283

Hilton Church, Mediæval Panel Paintings in, 57

Hinton Parva, Carving in, 60

Hod Hill, 31

Holt, 120

Holworth, Burning Cliff at, 108, 190

—— Chapel to St. Catherine of Alexandria at, 104, 108

Homer, G. Wood, 262, 263

Horsey, Sir John, 85

Horton, Finding Monmouth at, 15

Hour-glass in Bloxworth Church, 56

Howard, Catherine, 182

Hundred Years’ War, 230

Hutchins, John, the Dorset historian, 114, 227, 257, 262, 265, 267, 274, 276

Hut Circles, 20

Iberians, 3

Ibernium, Station at, 36

Ilchester, Lord, 261

Ilsington House, 261

Imprisonment of Margery and Isabel, daughters of William, King of Scotland, 204

Ine, King of West Saxons, 7, 117, 118

Jacobean Screen at West Stafford, 57

James I., 245, 273

—— at Lulworth Castle, 190

Jeffreys, Judge, 16, 148, 170, 239

Jesty, Gravestone of Benjamin, 192

John, King, 92, 146, 203, 233

—— Houses in Dorset of King, 9

Jones, Inigo, 142

Joliffe, Monumental Inscription to Captain Peter, 228

Jordan Hill (Clavinio), 35, 40

Jurdain Family, 264

Kimmeridge Clay, 2

—— Coal Money, 191

—— Ledge, 190

—— Shale, 43

—— Shell Objects, 25

King of the Gipsies, Headstone of Peter Standley, 261

Kingston Down, Discovery on, 36

—— Lacy, 208, 219

—— Russell, Long Barrow near, 20

—— —— Round Barrows, 22

Knut the Dane, 8, 244

Lady Margaret, Son of, 9

de Lafontaine, A. C., 262

Langton Church, 194

Laurence, Captain, 209, 212, 215

—— M.P., Law-book of Richard, 236

Legend of the Christmas Pie, Corfe Castle, 219

Leland, Record of _Bridport Dagger_, by, 234

—— Visit to Poole of, 230

_Life of St. Ealdhelm_, Wildman’s, 5

Limbrey, Stephen, 12

Liscombe Chapel, 107

Lulworth, 30, 187

—— Castle, 190, 215

—— Cove, 2, 189

—— Royal Visitors at, 190

—— Village of East, 190

Lyme Regis, 1, 10, 12, 14, 15, 30, 35, 143, 164, 166, 208, 239

—— Duke of Monmouth’s landing at, 169, 182

Lynchets, Series of Terraces known as, 193

Lytchett, 266

Macaulay, 275

Mai-dun (Maiden Castle), 30, 32, 34, 155

Malmesbury, William of, 91

Manor House at Trent, 11

Marblers, Company of, 195

March, Dr. Colley, 193

Margaret, Lady, foundress of Christ’s and St. John’s Colleges, 123, 124

—— Wife of Henry VI., 9

Marnhull, 287

—— Church, Monument in, 59

Martinstown, 23, 25

Martyn Family, 258

Maud, Wars of Stephen and, 8

Maumbury Ring, 148, 285

Maurice, Prince, 10

Mayo’s Barrow, 24

Melbury Sampford, 12

—— —— Effigy of William Brounyng, 59

Melcombe Regis, 208

—— —— Priory, 173

Melplash, 232

Memorial Brasses, Description of— Beaminster, Bere Regis, Bryanston, Bridport, 64 Caundle Purse, Compton Valence, Chesilborne, Corfe Mullen, Crichel Moor, Crichel Long, Cranborne, Dorchester St. Peter, Evershot, Fleet Old Church, 65 Holme Priory, Knowle, Litton Cheney, Lytchett Matravers, Langton, Melbury Sampford, 66 Milton Abbey, Milborne St. Andrew, Moreton, Owermoigne, Piddlehinton, Piddletown, Pimperne, Puncknowle, 67 Rampisham, Shaftesbury St. Peter, Shapwick, Sturminster Marshall, Swanage, _als._ Swanwich, 68 Swyre, Tincleton, Tarrant Crawford, Thorncombe, Upwey, West Stafford, Wimborne Minster, 69 Woolland, Yetminster, 70 Bere Regis, 70 Caundle Purse, 70 Edward the Martyr, King, 68 Evershot, 71 Fleet, 71 Joan de St. Omar, 63 Litton Cheney, retroscript brass, 63 Milton Abbey, Sir John Tregonwell, 67, 71 Moreton, unusual inscription, 72 Oke Brass at Shapwick, 63 Piddletown, 72 St. Peter’s Church, Dorchester, 63 Strangwayes, Sir Gyles, 66 Stratton, 63 Thorncombe, 73 Wimborne Minster, King Ethelred effigy, 69, 73 Wraxall, 74 Yetminster, 74

Middleton, Abbot William de, 96, 98, 101, 102

Miles, G.F. W., 143

Milton Abbey, 44, 57, 94, 158

—— Grammar School, 113

—— Market Cross, 111

—— Old Town of, 109, 110

—— Town of, in America, 116

—— John, 100

—— Lord, 100, 109, 112-115

Mohun Family, 264

Monasteries, Dissolution of the, 10

Monastic Barns— Liscombe, 45 Tarrant Crawford, 45

Monastic Ruins at— Abbotsbury, 44 Bindon, 44 Cerne, 44 Shaftesbury, 44

Money, Kimmeridge Coal, 191

Monkton-up-Wimborne, 117

Monmouth, Duke of, 143, 148, 224, 225

—— —— at Lulworth Castle, 190

—— —— Landing at Lyme Regis of, 169

—— —— Rebellion, 239

Monmouth’s Close, field near Horton called, 15

—— Declaration, 14

Monumental Effigies, 57-60

Monuments in Piddletown Church, 258

Mons Badonicus, 5

Morton, Cardinal, 60

Motcombe, Village of, 276

Moule, Henry, 26, 37, 63

Napoleon’s Invasion, 17

Neolithic Age, 3, 19

Netherbury, 232

—— Mutilated Figure in, 59

Newland, Borough of, 75

Newfoundland, Intimate connection between Poole and, 226

Norman Architecture at— Abbotsbury, 50 Bere Regis, 51 Corfe Castle, 50 Studland, 49 Worth Matravers, 49

Norman Conquest, 233

Oaken Pulpits at— Abbotsbury, 56 Beaminster, 56 Charminster, 56 Iwerne Minster, 56 Netherbury, 56

“Old Harry and his wife,” 187, 197

Owermoigne Church, 109

Owners of Athelhampton, First, 262

Palæolithic Man, Traces of, 3

Parnham, 232

Parr, Catherine, 182

Paulinus Suetonius, 29, 30

Paye, Henry, 230

Peacock, Thomas Love, 175

Pennie, John Fitzgerald, 278

Pennsylvania Castle, 180, 289

Perpendicular Architecture, 52

Peveril Point, 194, 197

Philip and Joanna, King and Queen of Castile, 268, 269

Piddle, or Trent, river with two names, 117

Piddletown, 257, 287

—— Church, 55

Pimperne, Long Barrow near, 20

Pitman, Treachery of Lieut.-Col., 215, 216

Pitt, Christopher, 275

Pitt-Rivers, General, 21, 22, 26, 29

Place-names of Bridport, 238

Pole, Cardinal, 120

Pollard, Richard, 139, 141

Poole, 12, 14, 15, 35, 110, 164, 170, 208, 222-231, 290

—— Harbour, 2, 4, 7, 29, 50, 187

—— Quay, 222

Pope, Alfred, 113

Portesham Church, Window in, 56

Portland, 4, 30, 160, 165, 168, 177

—— Island, Funeral, description of, 186

—— “The Isle of Slingers,” 289

—— Beds, 2

—— Bill, 179

—— Castle, 178

—— Roads, 109

—— Superstitions, 186

—— Wedding, Description of, 185

Pottery, 20, 21, 23, 26

—— Bronze Age, 24

—— Sepulchral, 22

Poulett, Sir Amias, 141

Poundbury Camp, 31, 32, 286

Poxwell Hall, 288

Preston, Remains of Roman Villa at, 158

—— Roman Arch at, 40

Prideaux, Edmund, 141, 142

Prior, Matthew, the poet, 129, 273

Priory, Melcombe Regis, 173

Purbeck, Isle of, 187-199, 208, 290

—— Beds, 2

Punfield Beds, 2

Pylsdun, 30

Racedown, Wordsworth at, 278

Radipole, Roman Remains at, 158

Ralegh, Sir Walter, 78, 91, 273

Rebellion, Duke of Monmouth’s, 14

Recorder of Poole, Anthony Etricke, of Holt, 15

Relics of the Armada at Weymouth, 164

Richmond, Earl of, 9

Ridgeway, Round Barrows on the, 21, 25, 30

Robert the Bruce, 253

Robinson, Sir Charles, 193, 195, 196, 198

Rock, Agglestone, 198

Rocks, Old Harry, 187

Roman Camps, 30

Romans established, 4, 29, 242

Roman Occupation, 28-43

—— Road, 5, 34

—— Villas, Sites of, 37

Roper, Mrs. Freeman, 143

Roses, Wars of the, 9

Rosewall, William, 141

—— Sir Henry, 141

Rupert, Prince, 92

St. Mary’s Church, Melcombe Regis, 174

St. Nicholas’ Chapel, Weymouth, 172

St. Peter’s, Dorchester, 146, 153

Sampson of Dol, St., 102, 111

Sandford Orcas Church, Curious Monument in, 58

Sandsfoot Castle, 166, 178

Saxon Architecture— Ealdhelm, Chapels of St., 48-50 Corfe Castle, 48 Martinstown, 48 Tarrant Rushton, 48, 49 Toller Fratrum, 48 Wareham, 47, 48 Worth Matravers, 48

Saxon Fonts at— Martinstown, 48 Toller Fratrum, 48

Saxon Invaders, 5

Scott, Sir Gilbert, 96

Screen at West Stafford, Jacobean, 57

Sepulchral Pottery, 22

Seymour, Jane, 182

Shaftesbury, 2, 10, 11, 240, 286

Sherborne, 7, 287

Sherborne Abbey, 44, 79, 94, 102

—— Abbots of— Barnstaple, John, last Abbot, 85 Bradford, William, 77, 81, 83 Brunyng, John, 81 Mere, 77 Ramsam, Peter, 77, 81 Roger of Caen, 79

Sherborne Almshouse, 81, 92

Sherborne, Bishops of— Alfwold, St., 77 Asser, the Biographer, 77 Ealdhelm, St., first Bishop of Western Wessex, 75, 87 Ealhstan, Bishop, 77 Heahmund, St., 77 Werstan, 77 Wulfsy, St., 77

—— Castle, 40, 90, 92

—— Parish Church, All Hallows, 79, 81, 82, 84, 85

—— School, 86, 87

Smuggling at Purbeck Isle, 194

Solomon, King, 241

Somerset, Protector, 78

Southey’s _Naval History of England_, 231

Stalbridge, 85

—— Church, Monument in, 59

Standley, Headstone of Peter, 261

Steepleton Down, 25

Stephen and Maud, Wars of, 8

Stinsford, 155, 287

de Stokes, Abbot William, 99

Stone Altar at Corton Chapel, 56

Stone Circles, 20

Stone Pulpit at Frampton, 56

Stone, Rev. William, 128

Stour Valley, 3

Stower, East and West, 276

Strangways, Sir John, 12

Stratton, 35

Studland, Old-world Village of, 197

Sturminster Newton, 246, 281, 283

Superstitions, Dorset, 292

—— Portland, 186

Sutton Poyntz, 288

Swanage Bay, 2, 7, 29, 30, 289

—— —— Round Barrows at, 22

—— Description of, 195

—— Path known as Priestway to, 192, 193

Swegen, or Sweyn, King, 8, 76, 146

Sydenham, Captain, 210, 212, 213, 223

Sydenham’s _History of Poole_, 228

de Sydelinge, Abbot Walter, 99

Sydling, Round Barrows at, 22

Tarrant Rushton Church, Restoration of, 57

Tesselated Floors— Creech, 38 Dorchester, 38, 39, 42 Fifehead Neville, 38, 41, 42 Frampton, 38, 40 Halstock, 38 Hemsworth, 38 Lenthay Green, 38, 40 Maiden Castle, 38, 40 Preston, 38, 39 Rampisham, 38 Thornford, 38

—— Pavements, Description of, 38

Teutonic Invaders, 5

Thompson, Sir Peter, 226

Thorncombe, 131, 144

Thornhill, Sir James, 174

Timber Roof, Bere Regis, 60

Tokens, Weymouth Tradesmen’s, 169

Town Cellars at Poole, 229

Tradesmen’s Tokens, Weymouth, 169

Tregonwell, Sir John, 96, 100

Trenchard Family, 264, 265, 267, 269

—— Sir Thomas, 208, 271

Trent Manor House, 11, 14

Treves, Sir Frederick, 109

Trinity Church, Dorchester, 147

Turberville, George, 273

Turnworth House, 289

Vale of Blackmore, 2, 250, 282, 286

Var, or Frome, river bearing two names, 117

Vespasian, 29, 30

Via Principalis, 34

Village of East Lulworth, 190

Vindogladia, Station at, 35, 36

Walburga, or Walpurgis, St., 119

Walpole, Horace, 277

Wareham, 7-10, 188, 202, 203, 208, 213, 214, 232, 233, 243, 286, 287

—— Castle, 200

—— Cast-lead Font at St. Mary’s, 55

—— Lady St. Mary’s Church, 188

Warne, Charles, 20, 24, 25, 27, 29, 30-32, 35, 36, 108

Wars of the Roses, 9

—— of Stephen and Maud, 8

Waterson, 260, 288

Warwick, King-maker, 9

Wedding, Description of old-time Portland, 185

Weld Family, 271

Wesley, Bartholomew, 13

West Bay, 232, 289

West Chelborough, Curious Monument at, 58

—— Stafford, Jacobean Screen at, 57

—— Stower, 276

Weymouth, 2, 12, 30, 110, 157, 208, 213, 215, 232, 270, 271, 289

—— Bay, 2, 109

—— Margaret, wife of Henry VI., at, 9

Whitchurch Canonicorum, Tombstone at, 168

Whitcombe, 108, 281

White, Rev. John, 147

Whitecliff, Manor House of, 196

Wildman, W. B., 5

William III., 92

Wim, or Allen, river with two names, 117

Wimborne, 7, 274

—— Minster, 36, 44, 94, 117, 120

—— —— Effigy in, 57

—— Round Barrows near, 22

—— St. Giles, 117

Winfrith, 290

Winterborne Whitchurch, 273

Witchcraft, Credence in, 293

Witch-doctor, Conjurer or, 294

Wolfeton House, 155, 264

Wolsey, Cardinal, 81

Woodbury, Roman Occupation of, 31

—— Hill, 287

Woodyates, 5, 34

Woolland, 108

Wool Manor House, 288

Wor Barrow, 21

Worth “Club walking day,” 51

Worth Matravers Church, 192, 193

Wordsworth at Racedown, 278, 291

Wren, Sir Christopher, 176

Wyke Regis, 160, 181, 232

Wyndham, Colonel Francis, 11

Young, Edward, 275

Zouche, Elizabeth, last Abbess of Shaftesbury, 245

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Edited by THOMAS PERKINS, M.A., and HERBERT PENTIN, M.A. Dedicated by kind permission to the Right Hon. Lord Eustace Cecil, F.R.G.S., Past President of the Dorset Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club. The contributors to the volume are: Rev. THOMAS PERKINS, M.A., C. S. PRIDEAUX, Captain J. E. ACLAND, W. DE C. PRIDEAUX, W. B. WILDMAN, M.A., Rev. HERBERT PENTIN, M.A., SIDNEY HEATH, The LORD BISHOP OF DURHAM, D.D., Mrs. KING WARRY, A. D. MOULLIN, ALBERT BANKES, W. K. GILL, Rev. R. GROSVENOR BARTELOT, M.A., Miss WOOD HOMER, Miss JOURDAIN, HERMANN LEA.

MEMORIALS OF OLD WARWICKSHIRE.

Edited by ALICE DRYDEN. The contributors to the volume are: M. DORMER HARRIS, LADY LEIGH, M. JOURDAIN, JETHRO A. COSSINS, R.O. D., ALBERT HARTSHORNE, F.S.A., S. S. STANLEY, M.B.N.S., F. A. NEWDEGATE, ALICE DRYDEN, HOWARD S. PEARSON, W. F. S. DUGDALE, OLIVER BAKER, R.E., W. SALT BRASSINGTON, F.S.A., DOM GILBERT DOLAN, O.S.B., A. E. TREEN, F. B. ANDREWS, F.R.I.B.A.

MEMORIALS OF OLD NORFOLK.