6 EELICS LEFT BY PHILIP AND JOAN OF CASTILE. 



my father's brother, John Trenchard Trenchard, of Greenhill 

 House, Wey mouth). This second chest was afterwards sold 

 by auction by my late brother (Colonel Jocelyn Pickard- 

 Cambridge) at Weymouth, without my knowledge, and was 

 subsequently presented by the Weymouth Town Council to 

 the late Sir Richard Howard, by whom it was bequeathed at 

 his decease to that same body, and is now in the Municipal 

 Offices at Weymouth. 



To pass on now to the Wooden chest, of which a photograph 

 is exhibited ; this is made of massive cedar wood ; it 

 measures 5ft. 9in. in length, 2ft. lin. in width, and Ift. Sin. 

 in depth ; and has its front side ornamented, as is well 

 shown in the photograph, by bold Moorish engraved 

 scroll-work. This chest came to my late father (the 

 Rev. George Pickard-Cambridge), along with the second 

 iron one above mentioned, from John Trenchard, of 

 Newton House, and from my father it came to me, and in 

 my possession it still remains. The tradition handed 

 down with it is that it was one in which Philip and Joan 

 brought their linen and such like effects to Wolfeton House, 

 and was left there when they departed to the Court of 

 Henry VII. My father being, I must confess, more moved by 

 utilitarian than antiquarian ideas, simply made use of it as 

 a corn bin. Since it came into my hands, however, it has 

 been promoted to a higher sphere, and occupies an honoured 

 position on a musical platform in my house, and contains 

 much orchestral and other music, and such like. 



Having now described those relics, whose descent from 

 Philip and Joan are undoubted, I will only add a few words 

 as to some other chests (both iron and wooden) which may 

 possibly have the same source, but in respect to which there 

 is not any clue or record, or history, that I have been able to 

 ascertain. The first I will notice is an iron chest of a distinctly 

 similar family character in the Guildhall at Weymouth, and 

 which, so far as I have understood, has been there from time 

 immemorial ; but I have not succeeded in finding out whether 

 or no the archives of the Guildhall contain any record relating 



