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THE HAMPSHIRE ANTIQUARY & NATURALIST. 



life ; a quiet and secluded spot indeed, and yet from 

 it he was moulding " many a mind, that in its turn 

 would influence the world." 



A true man's memory makes holy his dwelling-place, and 

 lew men in life and work were truer than he whose home 

 we left lingering over, to pass into the churchyard, down 

 between the lines of conical yews, and instinctively across 

 the grass to the left amidst other tombs to the white passion 

 flower entwined cross that marks his tomb. " God is love," 

 runs round the circle that embraces the cross. The Latin 

 inscription at the foot is nearly hid by the grass ; and well 

 it is so, for Kingsley ever spoke in Saxon and to all men , 

 reserving his scholarship sometimes for enforcement of 

 his words to those whom he knew would comprehend him 

 Just beneath the wall of the garden where he lived 

 and worked he lies, and as we stood in reverence at his 

 grave, the hot sun was shielded from it by an outstretch- 

 ing bough of the great Scotch fir, that seemed lovingly to 

 have reached forth from above the garden seat-and spread its 

 shade over the grave where he now lay. But the rising 

 morning sun would shine full on the grave and light up the 

 words : " Charles Kingsley, January 23, 1875." .... 

 Eversley had been the culminating point of interest in that 

 walk, and as we looked .back upon the scenes of ruined 

 church and baronial hall, village green and open 

 moorland, the home of England's greatest warrior, and the 

 house and tomb of one of her truest men and noblest 

 authors, we felt that our little walk had embraced a very 

 epitome of such that ;s great and good in "this sceptred 

 isle, this blessed spot, this earth, this realm, this 

 England." 



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 

 5l'so" N. ; long. i 24' o" W. ; height above sea, 84 feet. 

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



THE HAMPSHIRE INDEPENDENT, November 15, 1890. 



"KING JOHN'S PALACE," SOUTHAMPTON. 



The interesting and unique Norman building at the 

 bottom ot Blue Anchor-lane, Southampton, which 

 has been restored by Mr. W. F. G. Spranger, under 

 the careful supervision of Mr. T. K. Dymond, is now 

 open for the inspection of visitors. This house is pro- 

 bably the most perfect of the tew Norman dwelling 

 houses remaining in this country. The house on the 

 opposite side of the passage is quite as old and 

 almost as interesting ; there is a vault in the 

 basement which contains Norman windows and 

 two very perfect Norman cupboards. It may 

 be setn by applying to the occupant, Mrs. Penny. 

 In the upper part of the house is a well carved oak 

 chimney-iront, and a carved and paneled room, pro- 

 bably of the time of Queen Elizabeth or James I. The 

 roof is also ancient, and access can be had from it to 

 the more perfect part of the walls. 



Black bulb in vacuo. 



ST. BONIFACE AT NURSLING. 



C.S. writes : " In the report of the re-opening 

 of Nursling Church, appearing in the Hampshire 

 Independent, I read that the Dean of Winchester said 

 in his sermon that it was there in Nursling that one 

 of the greatest English missionaries who ever lived 

 was educated and prepared for the life which after- 

 wards opened out. He referred to Winfrid, better 

 known as St. Boniface, the great corner-stone of the 

 missionary church in Germany, and one of the most 

 remarkable and noble workers for Christianity 

 throughout the world. There are, probably, few, if 

 any, better authorities on the subject than Dr. Kitchin, 

 and the words reported are quite reconcilable with 

 those of Dr. Freeman which I quote below, if we take 

 it that Winfrid's education began at Exeter and was 

 completed at Nursling or Nutshalling. Can \\edo 

 so ? Professor Freeman, in his work on Exeter, in 

 the ' Historic Towns ' series, says : ' Our great mis- 

 sionary to our Teutonic brethren beyond sea, Winfrith, 

 afterwards Boniface, was a native of the West, 

 though there is no evidence older than the fourteenth 

 century for fixing his birth-place at Crediton. His life 

 by Willibald records his education as a boy in the 

 monastery Adescancastre. We can hardly help reading 

 this eel Exanceastre, or Exeter.' As a Devonshire man 

 I should be glad if any among your readers could clear 

 up the doubtful point respecting one ivhom Devonians 

 would like to consider especially their own. Then, 

 again, has any further light been recently thrown upon 

 Boniface's place of birth ? Professor Freeman sug- 

 gests a doubt. I have few books of reference at hand, 

 but I find Professor Henry Morley saying in his 

 ' English Writers ' ' Boniface, " the Apostle of 

 Germany," was a Devonshire man, named Winifred, 



