ELLIS'S

HISTORY OF WEYMOUTH

AND

MELCOMBE REGIS.

HISTORY

AND

ANTIQUITIES

OF THE

BOROUGH AND TOWN

OF

WEYMOUTH

AND

MELCOMBE REGIS.

BY

GEORGE ALFRED ELLIS, SURGEON;

LICENTIATE OF THE SOCIETY OF APOTHECARIES OF LONDON; MEMBER
OF THE MEDICO-BOTANICAL AND MEDICO-CHIRURGICAL

SOCIETIES, LONDON; ETC., ETC.

"Where, from the neighbouring hills her passage WEY doth path,
Whose haven, not our least that watch the mid-day, hath

The glories that belong unto a complete port;
Tho' WEY the least of all the Naiiads that resort

To the Dorsetian sands, from off the higher shore."

DRAYTON'S POLYOLBION.

TO THE

WORSHIPFUL THE MAYOR,

THE RECORDER,

BAILIFFS, ALDERMEN,

AND

PRINCIPAL BURGESSES,

OF THE BOROUGH AND TOWN OF

WEYMOUTH AND MELCOMBE REGIS,

This Work

IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED

BY

THE AUTHOR.