1. SHERBORNE MEETING. 



even the scantiest justice to the many treasures which the library 

 contains, among them the valuable Indian Bible and Testament, 

 in which the President, as a bibliophile and collector of rare 

 editions of the sacred volume, showed great interest, and of 

 which he expressed his belief that there were only 19 copies in 

 existence. Canon Westcott drew attention to the signature of 

 Sir Walter Raleigh on a document and to the autograph letter 

 from Monro, the editor of Lucretius, written by him when he 

 applied for the head-mastership of Sherborne, and failed to get 

 it. Strange, observed Canon Westcott, that the best Latinist 

 in Europe should so fail. The members next walked through 

 the chapel and descended to the quadrangle to see a vestige of 

 the Abbot's lodging. Then they visited the oldest part of the 

 school, the Norman undercroft under the Abbot's dining hall. 

 Here he pointed out an ancient bay of the groining. 



Before the party left the school buildings the PRESIDENT 

 heartily thanked the Head-Master for his kindness in conducting 

 them and for the most interesting manner in which he had 

 fulfilled the duty. Canon WESTCOTT, responding, assured his 

 sympathetic audience that it added a great charm to life in 

 Sherborne to dwell in and among ancient buildings such as 

 elsewhere one found only in ruins. 



Here Commander Harston, son of a former Vicar of Sher- 

 borne, exhibited a curious document, which was found by a 

 workman in 1855, built into a niche in the wall of the dining 

 room between two flat stones set edgeways, about four feet from 

 the ground. The Secretary of the Archaeological Institute, to 

 whom it was submitted, believed that it related to the sweating 

 sickness which devastated the country in 1485, I. Hen. VII. 



The document was inscribed in black letter as follows : " Be 

 hyt Knowen to alle Crystyn men and wymmen that our holy 

 fadir the pope hath very knowlyche by revelacioun whate 

 medicyne is for the seknys that raynyth nowe a monge the peple 

 yn any wyse when that ye hyrhth of this bull, furste sey in the 

 worschup of God, of oure lady and seynte martyne, III 

 paternoster, III Ave and a crede and the morrow aftir mediately 



