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reliques of antiquity calling for their special notice in the borough 
and neighbourhood! Few places in our land ean rival it in 
historical interest, in its late decadence from prosperity and its 
present resuscitation into commercial life. 
The Bath Field Club placed this town on its list of excursions 
for the year and on June 27th ten of its members started via the 
Great Western Railway for Salisbury and Southampton. Three 
more members of the Club were already at the South Western 
Hotel awaiting the party which was received at the station by 
W. Whitaker, esq., F.R.S., F.G.S., H.M.G.S., &., Past-President 
of the Hampshire Field Club. Having made their footing sure at 
the Hotel for 24 hours. This talented gentleman and Mr. H. 
Abraham, a member of the same Club, escorted the party in a 
brake to the ruins of Netley Abbey. Unfortunately a heavy 
downpour of rain commenced at the time of starting and continued 
incessantly during the three miles drive to the Abbey and back. 
Regardless, however, of climatic inconveniences, the party soon 
were transferred by steam ferry over the Itchen to the suburb of 
Woolston, whence a drive of three miles along the shore of 
Southampton Water brought them to the ruins of Netley Abbey. 
Henry III. is reputed the founder of this Abbey dedicated to 
SS. Mary and Edward the Confessor. In the Charter dated 1251 
it is called Edward-stow, and was filled by Cistercian Monks from 
the Abbey of Beaulieu. At the dissolution in Henry VIII. reign 
their number was but 13, and their revenue, according to Dugdale, 
£100 1s. 8d., while their library consisted of but one volume 
“‘Rhetorica Ciceronis.” The King granted the place to Sir 
William Paulet, created in 1551 Marquis of Winchester, from 
whom it passed in 1560 to Edward Seymour, Earl of Hertford, 
and at the close of the 17th century became the property of the 
Marquis of Huntingdon. 
This Marquis destroyed the Church, selling the materials to 
Walter Taylor, a builder of Southampton, who met his death by 
the fall of the keystone of the east window on his skull, while 
