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GIVEN IN HUTCHINS' DORSET, VOL. IV., THE 3RD EDITION 

 CORRECTED, AUGMENTED, AND IMPROVED BY WILLIAM 

 SHIPP AND JAMES WHITWORTH HODSON, WESTMINSTER, 

 1870. 



By W. B. WILDMAN, M.A. 



N the title page of this great work of his John 

 Hutchins placed two Latin quotations, the first 

 of which needs no comment ; the second does 

 not tell the story of its choice so plainly. It 

 runs thus : " Reliquiae Troia ex ardente 

 receptae." Yet not only is the spirit of this 

 quotation true of all that has come down to us 

 from the past in the way of buildings, of coins, 

 and customs, but the letter also is true of the Abbey Church so 

 far as fire goes. What we have got of the past are, after all, only 

 " relics" ; in many places very scanty relics, of what once was, 

 and destruction, whether by fire or restoration, or the modern 

 builder or the local authority, is always possible. Therefore, I 

 rejoice in the existence of societies like the Dorset Field Club, 

 which makes it one of its chief aims to secure for the past fair 

 treatment at the hands of the present. 



