Mepori of Meetings for 188?. By J. Hardy. £? 



petition should be framed to thoso iu charge of the islands to 

 arrest this merciless pillage. This was agreed to, if it could be 

 ascertained, to what parties the islands were rented. 



Under the guidance of Canon Ilderton, the venerable church 

 of Peiton was visited. It is not intended to dwell upon it at 

 present ; but the monumental inscriptions have been copied for 

 future use. As Mr Wilson says : "It has seen many alterations 

 and additions ; and has become in virtue of them almost encased 

 within another church. This is literally the case as far as the 

 porches are concerned. The fourteenth-century builders, who 

 added aisles to the fabric, did not take down the thirteenth- 

 century porch they found on the south side, but enclosed it in 

 their addition ; and from it they threw out a second porch, which 

 now gives access to the first." (Churches of Lindisfarne, p. 144). 



Mr Hindmarsh and I had visited the garden at Felton Park 

 on June 30th 1885. The garden is an old and formal one, with 

 a few surviving herbaceous plants from the days when bedding 

 out was nut in vogue. The greenhouses were fairly well stocked 

 with flowers, and fruit was abundant, as well as on the walls. 

 There was a fine brown beech near the house. Some of the 

 Coniferse were fair specimeus, but the Araucarias and Welliug- 

 tonias were not thriving. The perpendicular scaurs and 

 crumbling shale on the south bank of the Coquet lie opposite, 

 crowned with tall beeches. We crossed to West Thirston to 

 Thirston House. There is a grand Sycamore in a field in front 

 of the house. 



A half -effaced inscription on a sandstone slab above the front 

 of Dr Hedley's house opposite the Northumberland Arms, long 

 regarded as inscrutable, has since the meeting yielded to the tact 

 of Mr George H.Thompson. It was represented as being in Anglo- 

 Saxon characters, and to contain the name of ATHELSTAN! 

 Mr Thompson deciphers it as follows : — 



E S 



peoveebs xxiv 

 VeESe hi 

 THEO' VISD 



OM IS AN HOV 



SE bvildeD 

 wiTH 

 DING vndek STAN 



TIS ESTABLISHED. 



(Only the large Roman capitals remain). 



