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considerable length, entitled " The recantation of an ill life, or the 

 discovery of the highway law, with vehement disuasion to all (in that 

 kind offenders)." In the flysheet of the copy of this poem in the 

 President's possession, his relative, the late Bev. C. D. Bingham, wrote 

 the following epigrammatic lines : 



" Thy famous ancestor, John Clavell, 

 Made the highways unsafe to travel, 

 But I in this more bright and moral day 

 Reform young thieves beside the Queen's highway * 

 And thus his evil deeds I try to cancel 

 With all my might, John Clavell Hansel." 



Coker, writing in 1732 of Sir William Clavell and Smedmore, speaks of the 

 little new house Avhich he built and beautified with pleasant gardens, and 

 especially of "the allom works which he put on tryall, and which, when 

 he brought them to a reasonable perfection were seized to the King's use. 

 In place of which he then set up a glasse house and salt house for the 

 manufacture of white salt from sea water by boiling, and further, at his 

 own charge, piled up and built a little key for small barks to ride in. 

 The fire in the glasse house was maintained by a kind of blueish stone, 

 which, on burning, yielded such an offensive savour and extraordinairie 

 blackness that the people labouring about these fires were more like 

 furies than men." The paper subsequently traced the descent from 

 Sir William Clavell to George, the last in the male line, who died in 

 1774, thence through his sister, who married William Richard, of 

 Warmwell, to their daughter, Elizabeth Margaretta, married to Edmund 

 Morton Pleydell, whose daughter, Louisa, married John Mansel, son of 

 Sir William Mansel, of Iscoed, co. Camarthen, whose son, Colonel George 

 Mansel, was noAV in possession of the estate. " 



At the close of the paper Lord Eustace Cecil returned thanks on behalf 

 of the members to Colonel and Mrs. and the Misses Mansel for the kind 

 hospitality they had received. The afternoon was now passing, and a 

 section of the party were anxious to catch the 5.13 train at Corfe Castle. 

 Much of the programme still remained to be carried out, and an immediate 

 move was made to Clavell's Tower, situated on a prominent point on the 

 cliff, overlooking Kimmeridge Bay, from which the series of clays, shales, 

 and limestone bands, composing the formation of that name, lies spread 

 out before the eye. Here a section of the party left, returning to Corfe 

 Castle station, where they took the train. After their departure the 

 President read a paper on the subject of the Kimmeridge clay, which 

 will probably appear in full in a future volume of the Proceedings of the 



* Referring to the President's Reformatory School, near the main road between 

 Winterborne Whitchurch and Milborne St. Andrew. 



