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By W. BOWLES BARRETT. 



(Read March 5lh, 1910.) 



flOY Paper deals with the part which Wey mouth 

 and Melcombe Regis, the twin-towns by 

 the Wey, played in the Great Civil War, 

 and with some local incidents of the 

 interregnum. No connected and detailed 

 account of these stirring events has ever 

 appeared. I shall, therefore, endeavour to 

 fill up this gap in the town records. It 

 is true that we have been promised for 



some time past a work on the Civil War in Dorset, but it 



has not yet been published.* 



The feelings of bitter antagonism which sprang up between 



Charles I., on the one hand, and the House of Commons 



* Since this Paper was read, " The Great Civil War in Dorset, 1642 1660 " 

 by A. B. Bayley, B.A., Oxon., F.R.H.S., has appeared a truly admirable 

 work (Barnicott and Pearce, The Wessex Press, Taunton). 



