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spring back and make cuts in the skin doubtless very 

 effective ones when the knives are set to the full depth. The 

 bowl was held with the scooped -out part against the arm 

 so as to catch the blood. Dr. MAC!)ONALD observed that 

 not so very long a time had elapsed since blood letting 

 machines had been in use, and that he knew an elderly medical 

 man who formerly used one. In many cases they did good. 

 The HON. SECRETARY remarked that a bleeding bowl of 

 pewter, with the handle missing, is used as the alms dish at 

 Halwell Church, Devon, and that a seventeenth century 

 bleeding bowl with pierced handle of silver is used at Shebbear 

 Church in the same county ; but he knew of none so used 

 in Dorset. 



The PRESIDENT also exhibited two straw-ornamented boxes 

 the smaller one bearing inside the date 1793. These boxes, 

 with various other things, are said to have been made by 

 French prisoners in England about a hundred years ago ; but 

 probably this applies only to some of the specimens. Several 

 are very elaborate, being decorated with patterns and 

 pictures. 



Miss DICKER produced a number of children's books, with 

 quaint a^nd interesting woodcuts, printed about a hundred 

 years ago, and also a horn book. 



Canon FLETCHER exhibited the earliest of the parchment 

 rolls of Churchwardens' Accounts, dated 1403, which he had 

 discovered amongst the old documents at Wimborne Minster. 

 He read the following notes upon it : 



While engaged in collecting materials for the account of Anthony 

 Ettrick which was read at the meeting of our club on December 7th, 

 1915 (Proceedings, Vol. XXXVII., pages 2439), I noticed in the 

 pages of our local historian that a namesake of his, another Anthony 

 Ettrick, had been " presented " before the Ecclesiastical Court at 

 Wimborne, in 1611, for absenting himself from the Holy Communion. 

 Knowing that there was a bundle of papers labelled " Presentments " 

 in one of the chests full of documents which are in the Library at the 

 Minster, I had the curiosity to open the bundle to look for the Ettrick 

 presentment. To my surprise and delight, I found that, instead of 

 containing 17th century presentments, the bundle consisted of a 



