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Our illustrations show — 

 Plate V. — The brasses of Sir John Bettsthorne, who died in 



1398, and his son-in-law and successor, Sir John 

 Berkeley, who died 1427, now lying in Mere Church, 

 Wilts. The inscriptions below the figures are : — 

 Hie jacet Johes Bettesthorne quonda dfis de 

 Chadenwyche fundator illius cantorie qui obiit vj 

 die Februarii Anno Dm MCCCXCVIII litera dmcal 

 E cui' aie ppictet Deus ame 



Here lieth John Bettsthorne, formerly lord of 

 Chadenwyche, the founder of this Chauntry, who 

 died on the 6th of February, A.D., 1398, the day of 

 the Dominical letter E. On whose soul God have 

 mercy. Amen. 

 The lower inscription is : — 



Tu qui traneris : videas, Sta, plege, plora 

 Es qd eram et eris : qd sn p me pr'cor ora. 

 Thou passer-by look, stop, lament. Thou art what 



Thou shalt be what I am. Pray for me I beseech 



The arms of Bettsthorne of Bisterne — five stars on a 

 saltire cross — is on a shield on the plate. 



Plate VI. — The arms of Bettsthorne, Berkeley, Compton, etc., 



with the date 1652, now on the west front of Bisterne 

 House. 



Plate VII. — The south front of Bisterne House, showing the 



Tudor period and style, and the site of the ancient 

 chauntry of the Berkeleys from 1410. 



Front view of the Bisterne Chauntry in Christchurch 

 Priory Church. 



The Results of Archaeological Research during the 

 past Year (1911 = 12). 



Being the Introductory Address to the Archaeological and Historical Section of the 

 Bournemouth Natural Science Society, delivered by the Sectional Chairman, 



Mr. G. Beownen, F.C.S. 



at the Society's Booms, Granville Chambers, on 21st November, 1912. 



ADIES and Gentlemen. — It is once more my duty and privilege 



at this, the first meeting of our new T year and its winter 

 session, to review some of the results obtained by explorers and 

 antiquarians since the first meeting of our section in November, 

 191 1. I may say at the outset it has not been an epoch-making 



Or 



I was. 



thee. 



