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on the site of the Primitive Methodist minister's house, were the 

 Quakers' Chapel and burying-ground. In Bridge Street is our 

 Public Library and Institute, with its modest museum. In Win- 

 chester Street is the Wesleyon Chapel, and at the south end of it 

 an unused burial-ground for Quakers. London Street contains a 

 somewhat antique hostel, named the Red Lion. At the top 

 of London Street, where the road runs into Woolvers Dean, were 

 found, a few years ago, five Roman coins, third brass. In Soper's 

 Lane was the first meeting-room of the Nonconformists. Calamy 

 gives an interesting account of his visit there. In Barlow's Lane, 

 now South Street, were found, on the evidently scarped hill, several 

 skeletons. On the roof of a shed behind the Wellington Inn, in 

 Winchester Street, was found a part of a fine tesselated pavement. 

 This came into the possession of Mr. Shaw. New Street contains 

 many very old thatched cottages and a mission-room. At the north 

 end of it was S. John's House. 



And now my story is told, but briefly and hastily. There is 

 matter enough for two or three other papers ; but to me there is no 

 time to write it down. One duty, however, I have to perform, and 

 it is a pleasant though a sad one. Not long ago was taken from us 

 one who would have enjoyed these meetings, and added very much to 

 their interest. I never knew a more accurate and a more reasonably 

 enthusiastic archieologist — a more liberally disposed man with his 

 vast store of mediaeval lore — than Mr. S. Shaw. His kind son, and 

 equally kind widow, have placed at my disposal his MS. collections, 

 and they have been of service to me. Andover lost a real antiquarian 

 when good Mr. Shaw was taken away. He was a thoroughly good 

 man, of playful wit and of ready knowledge. He was a good 

 numismatist — had an excellent knowledge of old literature — and 

 had collected an immense number of curious books. I enjoyed his 

 society greatly. He was a friend whom I deeply respected. How 

 I miss him now ! May he rest in peace. 



