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entries for their shroud and grave. There are also accounts of subsidies 

 made to the stone trade in the French War, when it was unsafe to 

 convey stone by sea. The order for the execution of the Monmouth 

 rebels used to lie in the safe in the memory of recent inhabitants. The 

 order directed that the parish should pay the cost of the execution. 

 There are several stained-glass windows in the present church. Two 

 in the south transept are put up in memory of John and Susanna Mowleni, 

 a name which has long had an honourable connection with Swanage. 

 Another in the same transept is raised to the memory of the children 

 and grandchildren of George and Elizabeth Burt. The windows in the 

 north transept are to the memory of Thomas Randell and William 

 Moreton Pitt, the latter of whom built the Victoria Hotel. The east 

 window in the chancel was put in by the Coventry family, formerly in 

 possession of the Grove, SwanagCj and there is a second window to the 

 memory of Kear-Admiial Sir Eaton Travers. The window in the south side 

 of the nave is to the memory of Elizabeth Sophia Sewell, daughter of the 

 late Mr. George Burt. That in the north aisle was placed by Miss Colson 

 to the memory of her father, the Rev. J. M. Colson. For the views ex- 

 pressed in this paper I am indebted to Mr. W. M. Hardy, who has made me 

 his convert as to the age of the church. To remind you all of the contrast 

 between the shortness and frailty of our own lives and the solid endurance 

 and strength of these sacred walls, within which for a few brief minutes 

 we stand, I will quote the curious inscription on the brass which you will 

 see just inside the door of the church, which bears the date 1510 : ' Such 

 as I was, so be you, and as I am so shall you be and of the soule of John 

 Harvey God have mercy, the which deceased the 17 day of March, 1510.' " 



Mrs. Everett, of Peveril Tower, had kindly offered tea to those 

 present, and the party proceeded to her house, in the grounds of which 

 stands the tower, an interesting relic of Old London. 



The train left Swanage at 6.45 p.m. 



NEW MEMBERS. Nine were elected. 



THE FIRST INDOOR WINTER MEETING was held on Friday, November 

 20th, 1896, in the Reading Room of the County Museum, Dorchester, at 

 noon, and was attended by about 40 members, the President occupying 

 the chair. 

 NEW MEMBERS. Four were elected. 



EXHIBITS. 

 By the PRESIDENT : 



(i.) A bottle containing, in spirits, scorpions, locusts, spiders, dragon- 

 flies, lizards, &c., all from the Soudan, collected by Captain Astell. 



