GO TAPEKS, ETC. 



Commune to cum yn. The Dere trippe over tliese Dikes 

 & feede al about the Fennes, and resort to the Park 

 agayn. There is a praty Lodge motld yn tlie Park. There 

 cummyth a praty Broke thorough the Park, & half a Mile 

 beneth the Park it goith ynto Ivel. * * * * From 

 the Lodge In Pederton Parke to Northpedcrton a Mile.* 

 But he leaves the home of the SIsters without a word, and 

 no care can now avail to supply its absence. 



The Conventual Church was as usv.al a place of sepul- 

 ture. It Is true that we have but few visible evidences of 

 the fact, though we still possess somc which shall be subse- 

 quently described. I am happy, however, to perpctuate 

 the testimony of an aged gentleman, whom I lately 

 visited at Durston, and who kindly communicated his 

 recoUections of the place. He perfectly remembered the 

 house belonging in his youth to the Loi'ds Boringdon, which 

 had been erected in the seventeenth Century, with a noble hall 

 of oak wainscot, ''large enoughto turn a coach and horses in." 

 This he had himself helped to take dov.n more than seventy 

 years ago. Adjaccnt to it was an ancient chapel with a bell- 

 gable, which was used for Sacred Service and in which he had 

 been baptised, that shared at the same time the fate of the 

 house. He remembered to have seen several monunients, 

 with figures of men, some of tbem bcaring shields on their 

 anns. Thei'e were, so far as he recollectcd, no raonu- 

 ments of women ; nor were there any Ornaments, such as 

 rings and the like, or money found during the alterations. 

 Several hundred loads of stone were carted away, including 

 some pieces of sculpture which were placed in a gentleman's 

 garden at West Monkton. Thus much from my observant 

 narrator. I was subsequently informed that the gentle- 



* Lelaud, Itin., vol. ii , p. 66. 



