xliv. THE FIRST WINTER MEETING. 



Exhibits. 



By Mr. Henry Symonds, (1) an original letter of marque 

 issued in 1803 to the East Indiaman United Kingdom ; (2) a 

 cast from a half-crown of the Civil War period, showing 

 " S A " on the obverse, which letters had caused the coin to 

 be attributed to a mint at Sarum. As the general type was 

 very similar to that of the Weymouth half-crowns of 1643-4 

 the exhibitor believed that it was struck at Sandsfoot Castle 

 during the siege. 



By Mr. E. A. Rawlence, a stone corn pounder and a stone 

 fire-kindling pot (?) recently found near Sherborne Castle. 



By the Hon. Secretary, an original copy of a " Sermon 

 preached at the Anniversary Meeting of the Dorchester 

 Gentlemen in the Church of St. Mary-le-Bow, Dec. 1, 

 1691, by Tho: Lindesay a.m." .(The author was a native 

 of Blandford, and became Archbishop of Armagh.) See 

 Proceedings, Vol. XXXII., pp. xxix., xxxii. 



By Mr. C. G. H. Dicker, two " greybeard " jugs dug up in 

 his garden at Upwey in October, 1912. The President had 

 prepared the following note in connection with these vessels. 



The two very similar jugs found by Mr. Dicker buried a very short 

 distance below the surface, probably date from the 17th century 

 They are generally known as Bellarmines or greybeards, from the fact 

 that the face below the spout was taken to represeht Cardinal Bellar- 

 mine, who in the latter half of the 16th century was unpopular as one 

 of the strongest opponents to the Reformation, but the decoration of 

 a face under the spout of a jug dates from a much earlier period. The 

 material of the jugs is a stoneware, glazed with salt at a very high 

 temperature, and is very hard and impervious. The manufacture 

 of this ware in its more finished and refined forms was carried on at 

 many places in Germany and the Low Countries from the early part 

 of the 16th century, but coarser stoneware articles had been made 

 there for a long i^eriod. In the 16th and 17th centuries, and later, 

 articles of many different shapes were made, often decorated with 

 raised coats of arms, lettering, and various ornaments. The jugs like 

 the Upwey examples were made at more than one factory, but that at 

 Frechen near Cologne seems to have been their chief source. Immense 

 numbers of them were used in the inns of Germany and Flanders 

 as beer bottles, and they were also very largely imported into England 



