28 CHARLES II. IN DORSET. 



So true is it that when an old place goes its old associations 

 soon follow it. Yet let but the old building remain, though only 

 in ruins, the old traditions that have clustered round it, (may be 

 for centuries), will haunt it still ; and, though sometimes too 

 impenetrably shrouded in an atmosphere of myth and super- 

 stition, yet not infrequently will afford to a painstaking and 

 intelligent search those few grains of historical truth that well 

 repay the annalist or the antiquary for his labour of love. 



J. S. UDAL. 



The Manor House, Symondsbury, Bridport, 

 September, 1885. 



