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tradition says this figure is of some boy who accompanied his 

 father to the Holy Land and died in the Crusade. The 3rd edition of 

 Hutchins states that these little monuments were erected over the hearts 

 of persons whose bodies were buried elsewhere. William de Albini, 3rd 

 Lord of Belvoir and Uffington, near Stamford, who founded Newstead 

 Priory, lias his body buried at Newstead and his heart uader the high 

 altar at Belvoir, with this inscription :— 



" Hie jacet cor D'ni Willielmi Albiniaci, 

 Cujus corpus sepelitur apud novum 

 Locum juxta Stanfordam." 



Canon Ravenhill mentioned that his attention had been drawn to the 

 fact that the lion couchant at Mappowder betokened that the Crusader 

 was with Coeur de Lion. With regard to the curfew he said the local 

 tradition was that a lady once lost her way in the neighbourhood and 

 was helped to find it by the curfew bell. Out of gratitude she left 

 a small endowment to enable the ancient custom to be continued. 

 Mr. H. J. Moule regretted the effigy of the Crusader had been so 

 lamentably scraped at the restoration, so much so that all the old surface 

 was gone. Rev. W. M. Barnes inferred from the armour that the date 

 was about 1210 A.D.— very early in the 13th century. 



The next stopping place was Hazelbury Bryan Church, where the Club 

 was received by Rev. Canon Wheeler, who explained the architecture, 

 &c., of the church and read some notes upon it, which will be found 

 embodied in a paper read by Canon Ravenhill in the previous winter 

 before the membeis of the Club, and published in Vol. XIV. of the 

 " Proceedings " at page 95. 



A drive of about five miles brought the Club to their last destination, 

 Bingham's Melcombe, where they had been kindly invited to tea by 

 Colonel and Mrs. Bingham. After tea, which was served on the old 

 bowling green, Colonel Bingham read the following paper in the Court- 

 yard :— 



" This ancient mansion was formerly in the possession of the Turber- 

 villes, but came into the Bingham family by the marriage of Robert, 

 second son of Sir William de Bingham, of Sutton Bingham, Somersetshire, 

 with the daughter and heiress of Robert Tuiberville, about the time of 

 Henry III. or Edward I. The present house is supposed to have been built 

 in the reign of Mary, daughter ot Henry VIII., although some part of it 

 must have been of an earlier date. The main entrance is through an 

 ancient gatehouse, the windows of which, as well as those of the east 

 portion, have been modernised. The courtyard consists of three sides ; the 

 kitchen and offices on the west side, the gatehouse on the south side, and 



