Much of this wealth has, of course, been scattered.  Time, poverty, war, the rise and fall of families, have caused the dispersion of these treasures.  Sometimes you find valuable old prints or china in obscure and unlikely places.  A friend of the writer, overtaken by a storm, sought shelter in a lone Welsh cottage.  She admired and bought a rather curious jug.  It turned out to be a somewhat rare and valuable ware, and a sketch of it has since been reproduced in the Connoisseur.  I have myself discovered three Bartolozzi engravings in cottages in this parish.  We give an illustration of a seventeenth-century powder-horn which was found at Glastonbury by Charles Griffin in 1833 in the wall of an old house which formerly stood where the Wilts and Dorset Bank is now erected.  Mr. Griffin’s account of its discovery is as follows:—­

“When I was a boy about fifteen years of age I took a ladder up into the attic to see if there was anything hid in some holes that were just under the roof....  Pushing my hand in the wall ...  I pulled out this carved horn, which then had a metal rim and cover—­of silver, I think.  A man gave me a shilling for it, and he sold it to Mr. Porch.”

It is stated that a coronet was engraved or stamped on the silver rim which has now disappeared.

[Illustration:  Seventeenth-century Powder-horn, found in the wall of an old house at Glastonbury.  Now in Glastonbury Museum]

Monmouth’s harassed army occupied Glastonbury on the night of June 22, 1685, and it is extremely probable that the powder-horn was deposited in its hiding-place by some wavering follower who had decided to abandon the Duke’s cause.  There is another relic of Monmouth’s rebellion, now in the Taunton Museum, a spy-glass, with the aid of which Mr. Sparke, from the tower of Chedzoy, discovered the King’s troops marching down Sedgemoor on the day previous to the fight, and gave information thereof to the Duke, who was quartered at Bridgwater.  It was preserved by the family for more than a century, and given by Miss Mary Sparke, the great-granddaughter of the above William Sparke, in 1822 to a Mr. Stradling, who placed it in the museum.  The spy-glass, which is of very primitive construction, is in four sections or tubes of bone covered with parchment.  Relics of war and fighting are often stored in country houses.  Thus at Swallowfield Park, the residence of Lady Russell, was found, when an old tree was grubbed up, some gold and silver coins of the reign of Charles I. It is probable that a Cavalier, when hard pressed, threw his purse into a hollow tree, intending, if he escaped, to return and rescue it.  This, for some reason, he was unable to do, and his money remained in the tree until old age necessitated its removal.  The late Sir George Russell, Bart., caused a box to be made of the wood of the tree, and in it he placed the coins, so that they should not be separated after their connexion of two centuries and a half.