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By the Rev. Canon J. E. Jackson, P.S.A. 53 
mother had a wealthy brother in the West Indies, Mr. Zachary 
Bailey, who took the family under his protection and educated 
young Edwards. The education was entirely in the English 
language: for it was rather later in life that he began the usual 
Latin, in which he says he made no great progress for he found it 
“‘inexpressibly disgusting.” He was fond of writing, and, strange 
to say, ventured upon turning Horace into English verse: but it 
was only after he had got somebody else to translate the “ inex- 
pressibly disgusting ” into English for him. Ultimately he became 
rich by succeeding to some property, came home, sat in Parliament 
for Grampound, and died in 1800. He purchased Chalcote, but 
shortly before his death sold it to a younger brother. He was the 
means of ejecting from the West Indies Dr. Wolcott, the famous 
Peter Pindar, who was in that country doing mischief by some 
furious poetry.’ 
Waite Horse. 
I cannot bring to a close the few notes of Westbury history now 
strung together without saying a few words upon that which is, in 
one sense, the most conspicuous object in the parish; to get a hasty 
sight of which the heads of young and old press towards the carriage 
window as the train approaches Westbury railway station. In the 
old coaching days we used to have more time for seeing whatever 
was worth looking at along the line of the turnpike roads. In these 
days of flying locomotion we can see nothing but our book or 
newspaper; the journey is almost a dead blank, for no sooner does 
a Church or other object come in sight than it is out of sight again 
directly : something like the flash described in Midsummer Night’s 
Dream :— 
“ Brief as the lightning in the collied night 
That in a spleen unfolds both heaven and earth, 
And ’ere a man hath power to say, Behold! 
The jaws of darkness have devour’d it up. 
But at Wantage and at Westbury we are disappointed if the 
weather is too foggy to let us see the White Horse. There is, 
1 Gent. Mag., 1800, Part 2, pp. 702, 793. 
