BRTDPORT AND LYME REGIS MEETING. Ixv. 



authority upon the subject of the municipal documents. The 

 company inspected the Mayoral badge and chain and the three 

 maces, a pair of silver Georgian maces of the date 1757, and the 

 small valuable Mayor's mace, with the Tudor arms on the top 

 altered to the Stuart. Mr. St. John Hope, secretary of the 

 Society of Antiquaries, to whom the mace had been sent for 

 examination, had expressed the opinion that it was of the reign 

 of Henry VIII., of about the year 1530, and that the plate with 

 the arms of the Stuarts on top of it replaced one with the arms 

 of the Tudors. The iron grip was a remarkable feature. 



The PRESIDENT then called on Mr. Udal to read his paper on 

 " King Charles II. in Dorset and Jersey," after which the meet- 

 ing closed for the day. 



WEDNESDAY 



opened with heavy rain, but after breakfast the weather 

 gradually improved, and at 9.30 the party left the hotel, under 

 the guidance of the Vicar, to see the Town, the Church, the 

 Forts, and the Cobb. 



THE CHURCH. 



Here the VICAR, entering the pulpit, gave a concise description 

 of the building, taken mainly from the short pamphlet published 

 in November, 1901, by Mr. Zachary Edwards, of which the 

 following are the main points. The church is dedicated to St. 

 Michael, and, as is usual with churches dedicated to the saint, 

 stands on a rock or steep rise of ground, as in the case of Mont 

 St. Michel, Normandy, and St. Michael's Mount, Cornwall. 

 Originally a small cruciform church with a central tower, it has 

 been converted into a much larger church with a west-end 

 tower. Thus the old nave has become the outer porch, the old 

 choir the baptistery, and the enlarged chancel the main body 

 of the church. In 1901 an interesting discovery was made in 

 the porch at the west end of the church. On the north side 

 were found, embedded in the wall, two columns, Norman or at 



