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inciting his fellow natives to benevolence Bishop Sprat, 

 towards the close of his sermon, said : 



" Charity is the best companion of all publick feasting. And in 

 the name and by the bowels of our Lord Jesus Christ, I exhort you, 

 as fellow-feeling members of the same mystical body ; as members 

 also of the same political body and country, to extend your pious 

 and charitable assistance towards the distressed and indigent natives 

 of the same country, now especially on this your solemn feast day ; 

 that when you shall eat your meat with gladness, they may not be 

 quite empty and disconsolate." 



A BEAUTIFUL SUN PILLAR. The PRESIDENT read a note 

 which he had received from Mr. E. Stanhope Rodd, of 

 Chardstock House, mentioning that on Jan. 14th, when 

 riding home from hunting, he saw between Abbotsbury and 

 Burton Bradstock a beautiful sun pillar, following the lovely 

 sunset that day. 



PROPOSED REVIVAL OF THE ANNUAL SERMON TO DORSET 

 MEN IN LONDON. The HON. SECRETARY brought forward a 

 suggestion that had been made to him on this subject. 



A WEYMOUTH LETTER OF KING GEORGE III. Mr. W. DE 

 C. PRIDEAUX produced and read a holograph letter written at 

 Wey mouth by King George III. to his son Frederick, the 

 Commander-in-Chief, dated from the King's Lodge, Sept. 

 16th, 1804. 



THE EVERSHOT VOLUNTEERS' FLAG AND DRUM. Captain 

 ACLAND said that when the late King presented colours to 

 the Territorial battalions in 1909, he asked in " Notes and 

 Queries " whether Volunteers had ever had colours before. 

 In reply Mr. S. R. Baskett, of Evershot, wrote saying that at 

 Evershot was the flag or colours of the Evershot Volunteers 

 of the Napoleonic era, of which Captain Jennings had command. 

 Mr. Baskett had sent the flag and also the drum of the corps 

 for exhibition and subsequent loan to the County Museum. 



The large flag bore the words " First Battalion, Dorset Volunteers." 

 The well-known map of 1803 showed Evershot as a place of assembly 

 for the 12th Corps of volunteer infantry. The Rev. C. R. BASKETT 

 said that when his family went to Evershot in 1855 two old members 

 of the Volunteer Corps were still alive. Captain Jennings' cocked hat 



