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Pope, in his rage at the discovery, issued a Bull cursing Chaloner 
in the most violent and minute terms. The Bull has been often 
quoted, and in one well-known book, “The Life and Opinions of 
Tristram Shandy,” where Dr. Slop reads much of it with a running 
comment, at the end of which, “TI declare,” quoth my uncle Toby, 
“my heart would not let me curse the devil himself with so 
much bitterness.” ‘‘ He is the father of curses,” replied Dr. Slop. 
“So am not I,” replied my uncle. ‘But he is cursed to all 
eternity,” replied Dr. Slop. ‘I am sorry for it,” quoth my uncle 
Toby. I am bound to say there are two different accounts whence 
the workmen were obtained; another stating that they were 
brought from Rochelle, which, considering that it resembles Rocca 
in sound and spelling, I should certainly have concluded was 
erroneous, but for the dispatch of Don Guerran, which I have 
already quoted, wherein it is stated that supplies of alum were 
obtained from France. Be that as it may, the manufacture was 
established, and great profit accrued to Sir Thomas Chaloner for 
some years ; but the envious eye and the grasping hand of James 
could not be charmed away, and under the pretence that it was a 
mine royal it was seized for the Crown, much as Elizabeth had 
seized the Goldscope mines at Keswick, and with similar results ; 
for as the one seizure partly led to the Earl of Northumberland 
taking part in “The Rising of the North,” so this engendered a 
bitter feeling on the part of two of Chaloner’s sons, which was not 
without influence in causing them to take the Puritan side; but 
nothing of this occurred till years after the time of which I am 
speaking. 
On the 30th of November and 1st of December, 1599, Sir 
Thomas Chaloner, William Fleetwood, and Henry Fleetwood, his 
brothers-in-law, and probably representing the trustees under 
entail, joined in a conveyance of the Saint Bees estate to Thomas 
Wybergh, and thus terminated the connection of the Chaloners 
with this district, in which probably they were never personally 
much known; yet the fame of them must have been felt in these 
parts. 
In the year 1603, Sir Thomas, who had had previous oppor- 
