TAUNtON AND Dt'NSTER. Ixi. 



by the name of Abbot Dovell carved on the face of the inner 

 wall, the abbatial staff impaling the letter " V " and turning it 

 practically into a " W." Over the entrance is carved the distych 



" Porta patens esto 



Xulli claudaris honesto." 



Captain ELWES offered the luminous suggestion that the 

 word "honesto" was not without a subtle and half-humorous 

 reference, in the spirit of the age, to the Abbot's own name 

 " Do- well." Under the shadow of this ever-open door, shutting 

 to no "honest" persons, the ACTING PRESIDENT voiced the 

 hearty thanks of the Club to Mr. Weaver for so kindly and so 

 ably acting as guide, and for the learned address which he had 

 given them. Mr. WEAVER, in a few words of acknowledgment, 

 observed that the chief part of the work which he had done in 

 connection with Cleeve had been not on the masonry of the 

 Abbey, but on the documents relating to it. 



TAUNTON CASTLE AND MUSEUM. 



On regaining Taunton, the party refreshed themselves with tea 

 at the hotel, after which, precisely at six o'clock, they presented 

 themselves at the Castle gates, where Mr. St. George Gray was 

 kindly in attendance by appointment to show them over the 

 Castle and the fine Museum of the Somerset Archaeological and 

 Natural History Society which is now lodged within the ancient 

 walls. After greetings had been exchanged Mr. GRAY warned 

 the visitors that some of the neighbouring buildings were only 

 castellated copies, less than a hundred years old, of the Castle 

 itself. But the two arches of the gateway, upon which the 

 modern superstructure was erected, were the original arches of 

 the outer eastern gateway. He pointed out the Old Grammar 

 School of Taunton, of the date 1544, and the original situation 

 of the Castle moat adjoining the River Tone. The inner 

 gateway of the Castle was built in 1196 by Bishop Langton, of 

 Winchester, for the Bishops of Winchester owned the Castle of 



