WOOL, BlNDON, AND LULWORTH MEETING. xllii. 



The Bindon brass measured 6ft. Sin. in length and was in three pieces, a not 

 unusual arrangement with these large memorials, the indents for jointing pieces 

 being plainly visible in the slab. 



Few finer examples remain to us, either for size or simple dignity of outline ; 

 the lettering, too, is bold and deeply cut a specimen throughout of good work 

 that merits careful preservation. 



WOOL CHURCH. 



On leaving Bindon Abbey the party drove to Wool church, and 

 alighted to make a brief inspection of it. The HON. SEC. 

 expressed regret that the Vicar (the Rev. A. C. B. Dobie) was 

 unable to be with them. He directed the attention of the party, 

 principally, to the triple chancel arch of the i4th century, and the 

 stone cresset lamp with four cavities (see illustration}. The Rev. 

 S. E. V. FILLEUL stated that a similar cresset-stone was 

 unearthed at Wareham some years ago with five receptacles. 



LULWORTH CASTLE. 



A pleasant drive through Coombe Keynes brought the party 

 into the park that surrounds Lulworth Castle. 



On arrival at the Castle, the following further paper from 

 the records in the Estate Office was read : 



Tyrrel, in his " History of England," states that Robert, Earl of Gloucester, 

 took " Lulwarde Castle" for the Empress Maude in the reign of King Stephen, 

 and Hutchins, in his " History of Dorset," speaks of the fact that the present castle 

 stands on or near the site of a much more ancient building. The first possessors 

 of the manor are said to have been the De Lollworths, but the powerful family of 

 the De Newburghs held it as early as the reign of King John. Christian, the 

 sole heiress of Sir Roger Newburgh, carried the estate in 1514 to her husband, 

 Sir John Marney, whose second daughter and eventual heiress, Elizabeth, 

 married Thomas, Lord Howard of Bindon, and conveyed the manor, with 

 several other considerable estates, amongst which was the Manor of Bindon, to 

 the Howard family. Thomas, Viscount Bindon, in the second year of the reign 

 of James I. conveyed the estate to Thomas, Earl of Suffolk, and in the year 1641 

 in the same reign it passed by purchase from James, Earl of Suffolk, to Mr. 

 Humphrey Weld. The present castle was erected between the years 15S8 and 

 1609 by Henry, eldest son of Thomas, first Viscount Howard of Bindon ; the 

 stone from Biudon Abbey and Mount ' Poynings (which stood near Burugate 



