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Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science. Geological Society of London, London. Hampshire Field Club, Southampton, Royal Society of Antiquaries, Dublin, Ireland. Society of Antiquaries, London. Somerset Archæological and Natural History Society, University Library, Cambridge. Wiltshire Archæological and Natural History Society. The Proceedings OF THE Dorset Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club. (FROM MAY, 1912, TO MAY, 1913.) FIRST SUMMER MEETING. BEAULIEU ABBEY. Tuesday, 18th June. In the unavoidable absence of the President, his place was filled by Captain G. R. Elwes, who was accompanied by the Hon. Secretary, the Hon. Treasurer, the Hon. Editor, and about seventy members and visitors. The party assembled at Brockenhurst Station, after an interval of sixteen years since the last visit of the Field Club to that neighbourhood. The first objective was St. Leonard's Abbey, where the Rev. H. Pentin read a letter from Mr. Fisher-Rowe, in which the writer regretted his absence at Bath. Captain ELWES observed that St. Leonard's was one of the series of granges which belonged to Beaulieu, and although locally known as St. Leonard's Abbey," was never really an Abbey. The Abbey grant extended a mile and a quarter, and conveyed a right of sanctuary, which benefited not only those who took sanctuary, but also those who gave it, since those taking sanctuary became labour tenants of the Abbey. At the Dissolution there were in the Abbey domain 32 men, with their wives and families, and it was a matter of regret that these men had to be turned out. They were there under sentence for various crimes, and it seemed curious that any communal body like the monks of Beaulieu should have had the power to retain these criminals, and to screen them from justice. The Rev. C. W. H. DICKER added a few observations upon the architectural features of the chapel, the details of which were much admired. The date was about 1350, and the geometrical tracery of the west window was entirely characteristic of the 14th century, especially in the great development of those chapelries belonging to the monastic houses. BUCKLER'S HARD. A note of the days of Nelson was struck in the appearance of Buckler's Hard, on the Beaulieu River, whither the party next drove. Here they saw the launching slips from which were launched the wooden men o' war, among them four vessels that fought at Trafalgar. Captain ELWES invited the Members to realise the time when Buckler's Hard was one of the busiest places along the south-coast, particularly convenient for ship-building, since the oak timber grown in the Forest was close at hand, and the place, up that winding creek, was well out of the way of hostile privateers. BEAULIEU ABBEY. According to a manuscript in the Cotton Library, “in the sixth year of King John, the king built a certain monastery of the Cistercian Order in England and called it Bellus Locus." Captain ELWES gave a short account of the rise and history of the Cistercian Order, observing that Stephen Harding, formerly a monk of Sherborne, might be correctly described rather as the lawgiver of the order than as its actual founder at Citeaux. Beaulieu was a perfect example of a Cistercian Abbey; and they might imagine what wealth and power the abbey enjoyed by the enormous area eovercd by the church, which was originally larger than any of the cathedrals of the kingdom, but of which, alas! not a single stone was left. The flagged way outside the penthouse of the cloister gave admission to the various shops that occupied the cloister at the time when the abbey was in full activity-one that of the wood carver, another that of the painter, yet another the school, marked by that series of steps similar to those they might remember to have seen in Winchester College. In fine weather the various occupations necessary to the abbey were carried on in these cloisters. The monks had their own port for seaborne goods-on the other side of the river, and their market for inland goods-up in a field still called Cheapside. The party were here joined by Mr. J. W. Nash-Brown (in charge of Lord Montagu's estate office), who acted as guide, and conducted them over the buildings. After traversing the whole length of the bare site of the great abbey, the party entered the parish church, where the guide indicated the changes which had been made to adapt the refectory |