IxiV. BRIDPORT AND LYME REGIS MEETING. 



reconcileable with the accounts of the " Merry Monarch " that 

 have been handed down. There is no evidence that such an 

 incident happened, on the contrary the known facts indicate that 

 it did not and could not happen." 



The Club, on leaving Coaxden, entered upon the last stage of 

 the journey to Lyme, and reached the Alexandra Hotel in that 

 town soon after seven o'clock. It was eight o'clock before the 

 company sat down to dinner. After dinner, at which the Mayor 

 of Lyme and the Vicar were present as guests, the toast of " The 

 King " was given and a short 



BUSINESS MEETING 



held, at which seven persons were proposed for membership, 

 and eight candidates, nominated at the last meeting, were 

 elected members. 



After dinner the Club adjourned to the Town Hall to 

 inspect the town charters, muniments, and regalia. They were 

 received by the Mayor, Aldermen, Councillors, and Town 

 Clerk. 



The first charter of the borough of Lyme Regis, of the year 

 1284, was understood to be in the British Museum, although 

 how it got out of the custody of the Corporation the Town Clerk 

 could not say. The second charter was there, and as it appeared 

 to be of the first year of Edward I. it was of about the same 

 date and presumably about as valuable as the first. Then they 

 had charters of the reigns successively of Henry VIII. , 

 Elizabeth, Charles I., and Charles II., many of them simply 

 confirmations of former charters. They had one will of a 

 rather interesting nature, that of Tudbold, who endowed the 

 Tudbold Almshouses. It contained a .curious unintentional 

 confirmation of the original date, 1547, for in one part the will 

 was described as being made in such and such a year of Henry 

 VIII. and in another pare as made in the first year of Edward VI. 

 He regretted the absence of Mr. Zachary Edwards, formerly 

 Mayor of the borough, and an alderman, who was the greatest 





