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to inspect the collection of flint implements lent by 

 the Earl of Northesk. It had been arranged that 

 Lord Northesk should meet the club and explain the 

 collection, but owing to some misunderstanding his 

 Lordship missed the party. Mr. Whitaker explained 

 that the collection was formed by Lord Northesk and 

 consisted of weapons of all ages brought from all 

 parts of the world. It included a good collection of 

 Paleolithic flints from the river gravels, but none from 

 Hampshire. Mr. Shore also made some remarks on 

 the collection, and Mr. Dale drew attention to the 

 very interesting prehistoric carvings on bones from 

 caves, including a cast of a very early representation 

 of a mammoth on a piece of ivory, 



On leaving here a large number of the party was 

 entertained at tea at the City Restaurant by the 

 Mayor, at the conclusion of which the Rev. G. W. 

 Minns expressed thanks to the Mayor, and referred 

 to the success which had attended the holding: of this 

 annual meeting in Winchester. The attendance, as 

 already mentioned, was large, and we understand 

 that as many as 90 were counted in the Palace 

 grounds. 



THE HAMPSHIRE INDEPENDENT, May 3, 1890. 



SEARCHING FOR COAL IN HAMPSHIRE. 



Amongst the various speculations with which the 

 Rump Parliament was concerning itself shortly before 

 its sudden dissolution by Cromwell's coup d'etat was 

 " the finding of coal," not in Kent, but in another 

 county on the southern coast in Hampshire. The 

 discoverers were Peter Priaulx and others, of South- 

 ampton, and they urgently pressed upon the Rump 

 Parliament, which had hard work to find money for 

 its magnificent naval fight against the Dutch, to 

 appoint a Committee to look into the matter. Colonel 

 Fielder, Colonel Thompson, Colonel Morley, and two 

 civilian members of that very military Parliament, 

 Mr. Wallop and Mr. Love, were accordingly made a 

 Committee in P'ebruary, 1653, and ordered to draw 

 up a report on the Hampshire coal-fields. Has any 

 one followed up in later times this dropped specula- 

 tion ? Pall Mall Gazette, April, 1890. 



THE FRENCH INVASION OF SOUTH- 

 AMPTON. 



In the reign of Edward III, when that Prince and 

 Philip of Valois contended for the kingdom of France, 

 the town of Southampton was plundered, and the 

 greatest part of it destroyed by the French, who, with 

 their allies, the Spaniards and Genoese, landed in 

 October, 1338, from a fleet of fifty gallies, putting all 

 that opposed them to the sword. 



Stow gives the following description of the de- 

 struction of this place : " The fourth of October fifty 

 gallies, well manned and furnished, came to South- 



ampton, about nine of the clock, and sacked the town, 

 the townsmen running away for feare. By the break 

 of the next day, they which fled, by the help of the 

 country thereabout, came against the pyrates, and 

 fought with them, in the which skyrmish were slain 

 to the number of three hundred pyrates, together 

 with their Captain, the King of Sicilies sonne ; to this 

 young man the French King had given whatsoever he 

 got in the kingdom of England ; but he being beaten 

 down by a certain man of the country, cried out 

 ' Ranfon, ranfon,' notwithstanding which the husband- 

 man laid him on with his clubbe till he had slain him, 

 speaking these words : ' Yea (quoth he), I know thee 

 well enough, thou art a Francon, and therefore thou 

 shall die ' ; for he understood not his speech, neither 

 had he any skill to take gentlemen prisoners, and to 

 keep them for their ransome ; wherefore the residue 

 of these Genoways, after they had set the town on 

 fire and burned it up quite, fledde to their gallies, and 

 in their flying certain of them were drowned, and 

 after this the inhabitants of the town encompassed it 

 about with a great and strong wall." 



J. DORE. 



A DISTINGUISHED PRISONER OF WAR. 



The Rev. G. N. Godwin, B.D., has compiled from 

 Bryan's " Dictionary ot Painters and Engravers " and 

 other sources the following notes on Ambrose Louis 

 Garneray, a French artist who was taken prisoner 

 during our war with France in the early years of this 

 century and unwillingly spent eight years of his life 

 at Portsmouth. 



His father, Francois Garneray, born in Paris in 

 I 755> was a pupil of David. He painted portraits, 

 architectural views, and fancy (not to say historical) 

 pictures. The latter are interesting, and his early 

 portraits are in the Flemish style. He was living in 

 1831. 



His son, Ambrose Louis Garneray, was a dis- 

 tinguished marine painter, and was born at Paris in 

 1783. He, having received his first lessons from his 

 father, went to sea at an early age, and between the 

 years 1796 and 1806, served in a dozen different 

 ships, was in several engagements, suffered ship- 

 wreck, and at length was taken prisoner near the 

 Azores by a British squadron, under the command of 

 Sir J. B. Warren, on March 16, 1806, and brought" to 

 Portsmouth, where, after several desperate but un- 

 successful efforts to escape, he remained until the 

 peace in 1814. During these eight years he worked 

 hard, and some of his pictures, especially of the 

 hulks in Porchester Creek, on board one of %vhich, 

 the Prothee, 64, he was confined, are still to 

 be found in and near Portsmouth. On his return 

 to France, he left the navy, and devoted himselt 

 to painting under the patronage of Louis XVIII. His 

 first exhibited picture was painted in 1816, " A View 

 of the Port of London." In 1817 he was appointed 

 painter to the Due d'Angouleme ; in 1833 he was 



