THE HAMPSHIRE ANTIQUARY & NATURALIST. 



Mediae separately as Parts I and II. In every case I have 

 endeavoured to secure accurate reproductions of the sub- 

 ject illustrated, and in the letterpress every care has been 

 taken to put before the reader substantiated fact sand reliable 

 information. A special feature of the work will be found 

 in an exhaustive account of the Abbey of Quarr and the 

 Castle oi Carisbrooke, and no trouble has been spared to 

 probe to the bottom that quagmire of hearsay and popular 

 tradition which must always exist where ancient institu- 

 tions are to be found. 



The production of this admirable work is with Mr. 

 Stone a labour of love, and he is evidently sparing 

 no pains or expense in rendering it a valuable addi- 

 tion to local publications. It will be seen from an 

 advertisement in our columns that only 300 copies 

 will be published, after which the type will be broken 

 up, and the drawings wiped off the lithographic 

 stone. 



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 59" 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. tMelted snow. 



THE HAMPSHIRE INDEPENDENT, December 27, 1890. 



FOURTEENTH AND FIFTEENTH CENTURY 



PULPITS. 



In the concluding articles of a series on "The 

 ambo or pulpit," in The Penny Post, it is remarked 

 that although there may well have been wooden 

 pulpits in England in the fourteenth century, only 

 one is known as remaining which has been ascribed 

 to that date, namely, Fulborne, in Cambridgeshire. 

 Those of stone at this date are very rare. Among a 



list of pulpits are given those at Frampton, Dorset 

 (stone 1450) and Winchester (made by order of Prior 

 Silkstede, 1498-1524). The example of the pulpit 

 from Beaulieu (illustration given) may well be 

 ascribed to the middle of the i3th century. This 

 Priory, a cell to the Abbey of St. Alban's, had been 

 founded early in the twelfth century, but though in 

 the fourteenth century it met with misfortune, it 

 seems to have been prosperous in the thirteenth, and 

 they had, no doubt, the advantage of the skilled work- 

 men who had been at work upon the great St. 

 Alban's Church, and hence the beauty of the work- 

 manship in this religious house in Hampshire. 



WHOLESALE MIGRATION OF BIRDS. 



" T.," under date of Dec. 20, \vrites to the Southern 

 Echo as follows : From n to 12 this morn- 

 ing a constant stream of birds passed over 

 Southampton Docks, numbering many thousands. 

 They were in flocks of twenty to a 

 hundred, in numbers connected by many stragglers. 

 Their course was a uniform one from 

 S.E. to N.W. They flew about 100 to 200 feet above 

 the ground. They were all of one species, about the 

 s-ize f a thrush. Presumably they must have come 

 from Brittany and Normandy, where the snow lies 

 very deep just now. It is singular that at this period 

 of the year such an extensive migration should take 

 place from south to north. Can anyone explain what 

 it means ? A few stragglers fell off the main stream 

 and hovered over the town, making apparently for the 

 shore line above the town. 



" Observer " deals with the same subject as follows : 

 " The flights of birds passing over Southampton 

 on Saturday last from S.E. and N.W. were composed 

 chiefly of larks, with a few flocks of finches and 

 starlings, and occasionally a few thrushes and field- 

 fares. These birds were observed passing in an 

 incessant stream from 9 o'clock in the morning till 12 

 o'clock, and later in smaller numbers. This sudden 

 migration is no doubt due to the severe weather, the 

 birds being evidently in search of food, but it is 

 singular that their flight should have been from the 

 south ; an explanation of which would be of great 

 interest." 



Mr. J. S. Morley, of Llanfairfechan, North Wales, 

 writes : Referring to letters as to the flight of birds 

 at Southampton and Bournemouth, last Friday for 

 several hours, large numbers of various kind of birds 

 arrived here from the north, travelling in a southerly 

 direction. They came in a continuous stream, and 

 consisted of thrushes, redwings, fieldfares, starlings, 

 larks, finches, &c. There must have been hundreds 

 of thousands. They flew low, numbers resting for a 

 time in the fields and gardens, and then resuming 

 their flight. Numbers of wild geese also flew south. 

 The weather was mild at the time and snowing, but 

 was soon followed by cold winds from the north. 



