XXX11. SECOND WINTER MEETING. 



DORSET BOOKS FOR THE USE OF JUDGES ON CIRCUIT. 

 Captain ACLAND said that he had been assured that Judges on 

 circuit and members of their retinue took much interest in the 

 county and wished to have the opportunity of studying some 

 books on Dorset. He had been asked if the Club would lend 

 a set of their volumes, to be kept at the Judge's lodgings at 

 the County House. The request was granted on the motion 

 of Captain ELWES. 



EXHIBITS. 



BY THE REV. C. H. B. WOODD (whose second Christian 

 name is Hampden, and who traces his descent from Ruth 

 Hampden, the patriot's fourth daughter) : 



John Hampden relics, including a piece of needlework 

 done by Ruth Trevor, Hampden' s grand- daughter ; an 

 engraved portrait with the appellation " Vindex Liberta- 

 tis ; " a silver tankard commemorating jointly Oliver 

 Cromwell and John Hampden his cousin, the cover of which 

 was inscribed with the date 1653 and the words Paxqueritur 

 bello ; a beautiful miniature of Hampden ; and a lock of 

 his hair, cut off in 1828 when the body was exhumed 

 by Lord Nugent in order that the reputed cause of his 

 death might be verified. (No wound was found in his 

 shoulder, but his right hand had been shattered by the 

 bursting of his pistol.) 



BY MR. H. SYMONDS : 



A volume of the Sherborne Mercury for 1744, containing 

 particulars of the then " battle of Ypres," from which the 

 British were driven out by the French. When a castle 

 held by the French surrendered to the English, the French 

 commandant made his offer in Latin ; but the English 

 commander, who accepted the surrender, evidently felt 

 unequal to give his answer in the Classical tongue so 

 replied in English. 



