XXI. 



THE BRIDPORT MEETING. A two days' meeting was held at 

 Biidport on Wednesday and Thursday, July 10th and llth, and was 

 largely attended by members and their friends. The Bull Hotel 

 formed the head-quarters of the Field Club during the meeting, 

 of which the landlord is Mr. Knight, who took great pains to carry 

 out his part of the meeting successfully. The printed programme 

 for Wednesday announced a long drive through the villages of 

 Mapperton, Beaminster, and Netherbury, but the morning brought 

 with it torrents of rain, and the expedition seemed quite impossible. 

 However, a resolution was made to face the weather, and the 

 start was made at 12 o'clock, only a little after the printed time, and 

 the result was that before 1 o'clock the weather had cleared up, and a 

 delightful drive was obtained. The Manor House at Mapperton was 

 reached by 12.30; there a kind welcome was given by the Rev. H. Paulet 

 Compton, the uncle of the lord of the manor and incumbent of the living. 

 Mapperton House is of Tudor style ; its front remains unaltered and is 

 very picturesque. Over the entrance doorway appear the arms of the 

 Brodripp family, carved in stone. The party was conducted through the 

 house by the Rev. P. Compton, who pointed out especially the carved 

 Tudor ceilings of geometrical design, and an old silver chalice and an 

 alms dish belonging to the church. In the hall the Rev. P. Compton 

 read a paper descriptive of the house, showing that the manor now 

 consisted of two farms Mapperton and Cotleigh, and about 60 acres of 

 glebe land belonging to the Rector. There was also a mill, now 

 destroyed, and farmhouse and four cottages called Lamytte. Mapperton 

 and Cotleigh were formerly manors, but the tenants dying of the plague 

 in 1666 the tenements fell into the lord's hands and had been pulled 

 down. On Warren Hill, in the parish of Netherbury, human bones 

 were frequently dug up, which were supposed to be the bones of the 

 parishioners of Mapperton who died of the plague, and were buried there 

 in sight of Netherbury Church, to which place it was presumed the 

 distemper did not reach. In Domesday Book Maperton and Malepere- 

 tone were surveyed in two parcels ; the first North Mapperton and manor 

 and farm in Beaminster parish, and the other at Mapperton. The 

 family of the Bretts or Bryttes possessed Mapperton very early. The 

 pedigree of the Brett family showed that the heiress of this family 

 brought this estate to the Morgans, of Morgan Hayes, county Devon 

 an ancient family seated there in the reign of Henry I. The pedigree of 

 the Morgans was then traced, and the writer showed that Robert Morgan, 

 Esq., had the following patent granted by King Henry VI., 1424, who 

 was then a minor : " Henry, by the Grace of God, King of England and 



