WINCHESTER. 



Winchester College." The Rev. BATES HARBIN mentioned that the 

 Rev. Joseph Bingham, author of " Ecclesiastical Antiquities," was in 

 1690 rector of this church. 



Here, as at every place visited, hearty thanks of the club 

 to the conductor were expressed by the ACTING-PRESIDENT. 



HYDE ABBEY. 



On the drive back to Winchester the party, at Captain 

 Elwes's request, stopped and inspected all that remains of 

 Hyde Abbey, an architectural fragment scarcely worthy to 

 be the " mausoleum " of so eminent a king as the Great Alfred, 

 not to mention also his Queen and their son, Edward the 

 Elder. 



The Rev. F. W. WEAVER said a few words about the place. Be- 

 sides being an old and valued member of the Dorset Field Club, Mr. 

 Weaver is hon. secretary of the Somerset Archaeological Society and 

 a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. That Abbey, he remarked, 

 was originally founded (some said by Alfred the Great himself) close 

 to the Cathedral ; but he supposed that it was found undesirable 

 that two such bigwigs as the Bishop and the Abbot should be so close 

 together, and so in the year 1110 the abbey was removed to that new 

 site. The bones of Alfred and his Queen and their eldest son were 

 also moved to that spot, and remained till that day, though it was 

 impossible to tell the exact spot. The Church of St. Bartholomew 

 hard by Hyde Abbey continued the dedication of the Abbey to the 

 Blessed Virgin and St. Bartholomew and it is said to have been built 

 largely out of the ruins of the Abbey. 



ST. CROSS. 



The drive was continued to that reposeful seat of benevol- 

 ence and hospitality, St. Cross Hospital and Church, where, 

 on passing through the Porter's Lodge, the visitors availed 

 themselves of the ancient privilege of claiming the " way- 

 farer's dole " of good British bread and beer, dealt out to them 

 on knocking at the Porter's Hatchway. This, as it has been 

 aptly said, is " one of the last remaining instances of that 

 olden-time charity which could make provision for all comers." 



