26 NATURAL: HISTORY OF SELBORNE. 
LELTE Re 
TO THE SAME. 
By way of supplement, I sball trouble you once more on this 
subject, to inform you that Wolmer, with her sister forest Ayles 
Holt, alias Alice Holt,* as it is called in old Bec ands) 1 is held by 
grant from the crown for a term of years. 
The grantees that the author remembers are Brigadier-General 
Emanuel Scroope Howe, and his lady, Ruperta, who was a natural 
daughter of Prince Rupert by Margaret Hughes; a Mr. Mordaunt, 
of the Peterborough family, who married a tee Lady Pem- 
broke; Henry Bilson Legge and lady; and now Lord Stawell, 
their son. 
The lady of General Howe lived to an advanced age, long sur- 
viving her husband; and, at her death, left behind her many 
curious pieces of mechanism of her father’s constructing, who was 
a distinguished mechanic and artist,f as well as warrior; and 
among the rest, a very complicated clock, lately in possession of 
Mr. Elmer, the celebrated game painter at Farnham, in the county 
of Surrey. 
Though these two forests are only parted by a narrow range of 
enclosures, yet no two soils can be more different ; for the Holt 
consists of a strong loam, of a miry nature, carrying a good turf, 
and abounding with oaks that grow to be large timber; while 
Wolmer is nothing but a hungry, sandy, barren waste. 
The former being all in the parish of Binsted, is about two miles 
in extent from north to south, and near as much from east to west ; 
and contains within it many woodlands and lawns, and the great 
lodge where the grantees reside, and a smaller lodge called Goose 
Green ; and is abutted on by the parishes of Kingsley, Frinsham, 
Farnham, and Bentley ; all of which have right of common. 
One thing is remarkable, that though the Holt has been of old 
soNGG TheWi SWol ee Inquisit. de statu forest. in Scaccar. 36 Edw. III., it is called Aisholt.” 
In the same, FI ie Woolmer and Aisholt Hantisc. Dominus Rex habet unam capellam 
in haia sua de Kingesle.” “ Haia, sepes, sepimentum, parcus; a Gall. haie and haye.”— 
SPELMAN’S Glossary. 
+ This prince was the inventor of mezzotinto. 
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