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BRIDPORT AND LYME REGIS MEETING. 



The closing meeting of the Field Club for the season 1903-4 

 was held at Bridport and Lyme on Tilesday and Wednesday, 

 September i3th and i4th. The meeting was well attended; 

 about sixty tickets were issued for it. 



TUESDAY. 



On the first day the party, under the guidance of the Hon. 

 J. S. Udal, F.S.A., Chief Justice of the Leeward Isles, visited 

 the places in Dorset between Bridport and Lyme in the line of 

 King Charles's flight after the Battle of Worcester, but not in 

 their sequence. 



A valuable paper, entitled " King Charles II. in Dorset," 

 contributed by Mr. Udal to Vol. VIII. of the Society's " Pro- 

 ceedings," might be consulted by members who desire a full 

 account of the events of the King's travels and troubles in 

 Dorset. If any further particulars can be obtained, they will be 

 found in the " Boscobel Tracts," by John Hughes (edition of 

 1857), "The Flight of the King," by Alan Fea, and in a book 

 which has been too little regarded, entitled " Elenchus Motuum 

 nuperorum in Anglia," by Dr. George Bates, principal physician 

 to King Charles I. and King Charles II. The book was 

 originally written in Latin, but there is certainly one early 

 English edition of it, " Made English London, printed for Abel 

 Swalle at the Unicorn St. Pauls Churchyard 1685." At 



BRIDPORT 



the Mayor of the town very hospitably entertained the Club at a 

 light luncheon which he had provided for them at the Bull 

 Hotel, after which they were conducted to the establishment of 

 Messrs. Beach and Barnicott, which is on the site of the old 

 George Inn. Some of the walls and two or three of the rooms 

 of the old building (the shop seems to be one of these) still 



