THE HAMPSHIRE ANTIQUARY NATURALIST. 



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JONAS HANWAY. 



" Evans's Temperance Annual " for 1890 contains a 

 biographical sketch of "Jonas Han way, the humani- 

 tarian citizen of the world," with some extracts from 

 his works, showing his "views regarding temperance, 

 diet, bread, tea-drinking, extravagant charity dinners, 

 city feasts, the rights of labour and the great land 

 question." Hanway was a Hampshire man, being 

 born at Portsmouth, where his father was Agent 

 Victualler to the Fleet, on August 12, 1712. As with 

 his distinguished fellow-townsman, Charles Dickens 

 (whose father also held a naval appointment there), 

 his residence in Portsmouth was limited to the first 

 two years of his life, for on the death of his father, 

 his mother removed with her little family of four 

 children to London. Hanway will perhaps be 

 best remembered as the man who first introduced 

 umbrellas into this country, but he was an ardent 

 philanthrophist, who took a deep interest in those 

 questions that concerned the welfare of the people. 

 His denunciation of the harmfulness of drinking in- 

 toxicating liquors entitles him to a prominent place 

 amongst temperance pioneers. He was equally 

 strong in his condemnation of tea-drinking, which 

 led to a passage of arms between him and the great 

 Dr. Johnson. This cheap little book is issued 

 from the National Temperance Publication Depot, 

 London. 



NETHERTON AND THE DYMOCK 

 MONUMENTS. 



In a letter to The Times of January 8, " A Hamp- 

 shire Man " directs attention to some relics of the 

 Tudor period which, until recently, existed in the 

 out-of-the-way village church of Netherton, between 

 Andover and Newbury viz., a helmet and sword 

 said to have been those of Sir Edward Dymock, 

 champion at the coronations of Edward VI, Mary, 

 and Elizabeth. 



" The church was (he writes) pulled down some 

 20 years ago, and rebuilt in a mongrel Gothic style at 

 Faccombe, leaving the chancel, which contained 

 memorials to the Dymock and Lucy families, the 

 former a curious brass with inscription ; but on visit- 

 ing the spot a few days ago I found that even that 

 had disappeared. 



"There being no good county history, and the 

 registers having been lost in the Commonwealth, I 

 cannot say what connexion the Dymocks had with 

 Hampshire, but perhaps some of your readers may, 

 and likewise be able to trace the lost armour. 



" I daresay Mr. Barnum would be glad to make an 

 offer for the ' old iron ' that would make the local 

 authorities open their eyes.'' 



A Thomas Dymock, Dymmok, or Demok was 

 Sheriff of Southampton in 1486, and Mayor of that 

 town in 1491, 1492 and 1502. [See Davies's " His- 

 tory of Southampton," pp. 175, 240, 244 ; Hist. 



MSS. Commission Report, p. 90.] There are some 

 casual references to the family of Dymoke, king's 

 champions, in Prof. Montagu Burrows's " Family of 

 Brocas of Beaurepaire and Roche Court," but they do 

 not throw any light on the above question. 



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

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



Black bulb in vacuo. 



THE HOLMES MONUMENT AT YARMOUTH. 



It is not generally known, even in the Isle of 

 Wight, that in Yarmouth Church is to be seen the 

 most splendid specimen of sculpture in the Island, 

 which was erected to the memory of one of our local 

 celebrities, Sir Robert Holmes, Knight, who died 

 November 18, 1692. His effigy is standing erect, 

 holding in one hand a scroll, the other is placed on a 

 cannon. The inscription is in Latin, of which the 

 following is a translation : 



Here lies interred Sir Robert Holmes, Warrior, the 

 third son of Henry Holmes, of Mallow, in the county of 

 Cork, Ireland. From his youth he was given to military 

 glory, and therefore entered the army. On his first setting 

 out he fought under the banners of His Most Serene 

 Majesty King Charles I valiantly and successfully against 

 the common enemy. Afterwards, with equal courage and 

 renown, he engaged in actions at sea, and greatly dis- 

 tinguished himself under the command of the most valiant 

 Prince Rupert ; but when he found the Royal cause could 

 no longer be defended by his services he withdrew, and 

 went to aid foreign princes in France, Germany, and 



