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THE HAMPSHIRE ANTIQUARY & NATURALIST. 



THE HORSEY ARMS. 



The following is a description of the Horsey arms 

 upon the monument referred to by Mr. J. Dore (ante 

 January 4) : 



Quarterly : The First and Fourth Grandquarters 

 quarter!}' quartered. 



I and IV. Quarterly, i and 4, Azure 3 horses' heads 

 couped, or, reined gules. 2, Azure, a chevron 

 between 3 cross-crosslets fitchee within a bordure or. 



3, Barry wavy of 8 azure and gules over a saltier or. 



4, same as first. 



II and III. Gules, a chevron engrailed between 

 three lions' faces or. 



The whole charged with a mullet gules for a 

 difference. 



Crest. A horse's head couped or, reined gules, a 

 mullet of the 2nd. 



Arms and Crest of Sir Edward Horsey, who died 

 23 March. 1582. 



Newport. J. H. P. MEW. 



WEATHER IN "DECEMBER AND IX 1889. 



This has been a fine month for December, and the 

 rain that was wanted to make up the average of the 

 year did not fall ; indeed it was nearly an inch less 

 than usual. The total for the month was 2-40, and 

 the average of the ten preceding years 3-36 inches. 

 Since January i we have had 27-07, the average for 

 the same time for ten years being 31 '85 inches. Rain 

 fell on fourteen days. 



The barometer has again been high, registering 

 30 inches and upwards on twenty-four days. The 

 highest was 30-66, and lowest 29-36 inches. During 

 the year it has been on 189 da3 r s 30 inches and above, 

 and on 176 days below. There have been frosts on 

 20 nights during the month, but not of great severity ; 

 the lowest was 18 degrees on the nth. The maxi- 

 mum has been high for December, twice registering 

 53 degrees, and on five other days 50 degrees and 

 upwards. 



The rain for the past 12 months has been : 



Jan. 0-94 April 2-65 July 2-75 Oct. 5-18 



Feb. 1-69 May 2-16 Aug. 2-26 Nov. 1-41 



Mar. 2-73 June i'8o Sept. i'io Dec. 2-40 



27-07 



The average of fifteen years for each month is as 

 follows, placed in the order cf least rain : 



Mar. 1-91 May 2-21 July 2-64 Dec. 3-30 



June 2'oi Sept. 2-50 Feb. 2-69 Oct. 3-44 



April 2-14 Aug. 2-60 Jan. 2-75 Nov. 3-80 



The rainfall for the 15 years is as under : 



1875 3'94 1879 35'37 



1876 34-18 1880 30-51 



1877 40-36 1881 31-29 



1878 29-24 1882 39-03 



Fordingbridge. 



1883 30-26 1887 23-09 



1884 27-86 1888 29-13 



1885 34-26 1889 27-07 



1886 37-83 



Average 32-03 



T. WESTLAKE. 



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.RS., R.E. Lat. 50 

 Sl'so" N. ; long, i* 24' o" W. ; m-ight above sea, 84 leet. 

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



*Black bulb in vacuo. 



THE HAMPSHIRE IXDEPEXDEXT, January iS, 1890. 



DECAYED HAMPSHIRE MANUFACTURES. 



In these days of progress in the manufacturing arts, 

 when a new invention or a new application of an old 

 process may alter a whole trade, it will not be without 

 its use to review briefly some of the old manufactur- 

 ing industries which formerly existed in this county, 

 and afforded employment to many of its inhabitants. 

 In common with other southern counties, Hampshire 

 was in olden time much more of a manufacturing 

 county that is the case at present, but some of our 

 old manufacturers have become much decayed, and 

 others have been entirely crushed out of existence by 

 the competition of the present century. The mid- 

 land and northern counties have beaten those of the 

 south, and have taken from them most of their old 

 local manufacturing trade, owing, no doubt, to a large 

 extent to the greater natural facilities these counties 

 have as regards their coal supply, for we find the de- 

 cayed manufactures of such a southern county as 

 Hampshire suffered most when steam power became 

 a necessity in the fiercer trade competition of the pre- 

 sent century. Whether any share of these manu- 

 factures of the present day could have been kept in 

 Hampshire, under the altered condition of trade, if 



