THE HAMPSHIRE ANTIQUARY & NATURALIST. 



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Who will arise to deal with that of our own county 

 of Hants ? It would form an interesting hobby for 

 some member of the Hampshire Field Club. There 

 is a very interesting article on Roman castrametation 

 by the late H. H. Lines, and Mr. R. C. Hope gives 

 the first instalment of a "collection of legends and 

 superstitions connected with the various holy 

 wells, springs, rivers, &c., occurring all over the 

 kingdom, ''arranged in order of the counties. Four 

 are given under Berkshire : St. Mary's Well, Speen ; 

 Miraculous Well, Yattendon ; St. Andrew's Well, 

 Bradfield ; and Sunny Well (the locality of which is 

 not mentioned). It would add to the value of this 

 collection if Mr. Hope would give the authorities 

 from which he derives his information, so achieving 

 the double purpose of a bibliography of his subject 

 and a guide to further information for those interested. 

 Amongst some genealogical extracts from the Plea 

 Rolls is a pedigree which may be of interest to Hamp- 

 shire genealogists : - 



Cora in Rege, Mieh[aelmas], 10 E[dward] II, m. 132, dorso. 

 Southampton. A suit respecting a rent of loos, from 

 the manor of Warblinton gives this pedigree : 

 William Aquillon, temp. Henry III 



Robert 



Isabella = Hugh Bardolf. 



daughter and heiress. 



WEATHER REPORT FOR THE WEEK. 



From the meteorological register, made at the Ordnance 

 Survey Office, Southampton, under the direction of Col. Sir 

 Chas. Wilson, K.C. B. , K.C.M.G., F.R.S., R.E. Lat. 50 

 54' 50" N. ; long. i 24' o" W. ; height above sea, 84 feet. 

 Observers Sergt. T. Chambers, R.E., and Mr. J. T. Cook. 



SIR EDWARD HORSEY'S MONUMENT. 



In St. Thomas's Church, Newport, I.W., there is 

 a handsome altar tomb. On the top of it is a recum- 

 bent effigy of Sir Edward Horsey, Governor of the 

 Island in the reign ef Queen Elizabeth. He died of 

 the plague that was then raging in the town. The 

 inscription is in Latin, of which the following is a 

 translation : 



SIR EDWARD HORSEY, 



A very valiant soldier, Captain of the Isle of Wight. 

 Was courageous both by sea and land ; 

 Brave, yet pacific in disposition, 

 And no less a worshipper of justice than a faithful friend. 



A supporter of the Gospel, and a man of liberal spirit. 

 He lived esteemed by his Sovereign, and much beleved by 



the people, 

 And as he lived holily, so he executed holily his 



particular duties. 

 Dying on the 23rd of March, 1532. 



J. DORE. 



THE HAMPSHIRE INDEPENDENT, January H, 1890. 



*Black bulb in vacuo. 



AN ANCIENT HORSESHOE. 



The Field publishes an engraving of a curious old 

 horseshoe, picked up a short time ago in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Alton, Hants. A most curious feature of 

 the shoe is that it is deeply concave on the upper 

 surface, where it touches the foot, and canvex on the 

 lower surface, where it touches the ground. When 

 placed on the floor with the concave side uppermost, 

 the distance from the top of the shoe to the ground 

 (taken at the first nailhole at the heel) is within an 

 infinitesimal fraction of seven-eighths of an inch ; at 

 the point of the toe it is as nearly as possible half an 

 inch. At the heels the shoe is slightly depressed, 

 and there are very small calkins, with the result that 

 when the shoe is placed on a table the heel is slightly 

 elevated, and no portion of tfte lower surface quite 

 touches the ground till about midway between the 

 third and fourth nail holes, counting from the heels ; 

 and it is at that spot that the greatest pressure on the 

 ground would come. The specimen appears to have 

 had some wear, though not very much. What the 

 object of such a pattern could be it is difficult to 

 divine ; and it is equally hard to understand how a 

 horse could have gone sound in it for a single hour. 

 The apparent object of the shoe is to prevent the frog 

 touching the ground ; but the wider portion of the 

 frog must have been pressed upon by the hinder part 

 of the opening, while tremendous strain must have 

 been thrown on the outside wall of the foot. The 

 Field is unable to fix a probable date for the shoe, and 

 does not know whether it is of the type worn by 

 Roman, Norman, Flemish, or Danish horses. It 

 weighs ilb. 6oz. 



