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THE HAMPSHIRE ANTIQUARY & NATURALIST. 



A SUCCESSFUL POOLE PRIVATEER. 



A letter of July 2, 1781, states that " the Union 

 privateer, of Poole, arrived in Cape Coast Road the 

 i7th of March, and carried in the Elizabeth, John- 

 son, of Amsterdam, loaded with ivory, trade goods, 

 and 29 slaves ; the House of Brandenburgh, Clark, of 

 Flushing, loaded with ivory and 230 slaves ; and the 

 John, William, and Jacob, Havenza (frigate built), of 

 20 guns, belonging to Amsterdam, loaded with gold 

 dust, ivory, and trade goods. The Elizabeth, being 

 old, was returned to the prisoners alter taking out her 

 cargo. Capt. Broom took out of his prizes 1,000 

 ounces ot gold dust and ballasted his cutter with ivory, 

 and intended proceeding to the West Indies in com- 

 pany with his two prizes, which were both well 

 equipped and manned." 



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" VV. ; height above sea, 84 feet. 

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



which is interesting reading, as showing the 

 condition of the ruin nearly a century ago, and for the 

 relation of one or two traditions connected with it. 

 " The rooms and walls now standing demonstrate 

 what a handsome edifice it once was. . . . The 

 moat still remains, and water in it. Very large ivies 

 grow out of the abbey and church. It seems to 

 have been built on the same model with Romsey 

 Church." Some part of the church or chapel ("for 

 by this last distinction it was known in 

 those parts") "was desecrated, as tradition says, 

 by the Marquis of Huntingdon, who, living 

 in the abbey, converted the west end of the 

 chapel, below the cross isle, into a kitchen and other 

 offices, keeping the east end fora chapel. In which 

 state it continued till about fifteen years (1719) ago 

 [the Guide is here quoting from Willis's account 

 of " Mitred Abbies "], when Sir Bartlet Lucy, who 

 had the property of the abbey, sold the whole fabric 

 of the chapel to one Taylor, a carpenter 

 of Southampton, who took off the roof, which 

 till then was entire, and pulled down 

 great part of the walls. The entire ruin of this noble 

 fabric, which the principal undertaker did not live to 

 finish, having been since completed, and the chapel 

 and abbey being now quite destroyed, it may not be 

 improper to give some account ot it, and add here- 



