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THE NORMANS IN DORSET. 



Let us treasure carefully and reverently the remains 

 that link us with the great and stirring drama of the twelfth 

 century, not without some sympathy and thankfulness 

 towards the builders of that strenuous age of one of whom 

 the broken effigy at Sherborne retains the epitaph : 



Clemens clementem sibi sentiat Omnipotentcm, 

 Quo, dum mvebat, domus haec dominante vigebat. 



May Clement, under whoso rule this house in his lifetime flourished. 

 Find (at the last) the Almighty clement to him. 



WIMBORNE MINSTER. 



