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ley, the founder of the Bodleian li- 
brary at Oxford: the Duke of Marlbo- 
rough, Archbishop Wake, and Dr. Sy- 
denham. 
. The latter part of the volume before 
us is occupied by an account of Dor- 
getshire; which, if not so interesting as 
that.of Devonshire, is rather to be attri- 
buted to the deficiency of important or 
curious objects of research, than to any 
want of industry and attention’ in the 
editors. Dorchester, the capital of the 
county, furnishes an entertaining article; 
it is singular, however, that no notice 
is taken of the breweries in this place, 
the ale of Dorchester being its staple 
manufacture. We have also. observed 
an inconsistency that calls for explana- 
tion or correction. ‘lm-the general ac- 
count of Dorsetshire, it is mentioned, 
that the number of sheep and lambs 
kept within eight miles of Dorchester, 
amounts to one hundred and seventy 
thousand ; but in the description of Dor- 
chester, it is said, that the number of 
sheep within six miles of the town ex- 
ceeds six hundred thousand. The an- 
tiquarian remains in its neighbourhood, 
especially the Roman amphitheatre call- 
ed Maumbury, Poundbury camp, and 
Maiden castle, are extremely well de- 
scribed. A similar praise may be ex- 
tended to Corfe castle, the residence of 
Queen Elfrida, rendered still more illus- 
trious by its gallant defence in the civil 
wars, under the direction of Lady 
Bankes, wife of the lord chief justice, 
against the parliamentarians. A_mo- 
nument: to the memory of Mr. Henry 
‘Hastings, at Horton, oot an oppor- 
“tunity to the authors of introducing an 
account of this singular character, sup- 
posed to have been written by Lord 
Shaftsbury, which we shall extract for 
the entertainment of our readers. 
*€ Inthe year 1638 lived Mr. Tastings, by 
his quality, son, brother, and uncle, to the 
“Earls of Huntinsdon. He was, peradven- 
‘ture, an original in our age, or rather the 
evpy of our ancient nobility, in hunting, not 
-in warlike times. He was low, very strong, 
and very active, of a reddish flaxen hair; his 
clothes always green cloth, and never worth, 
when new, five pounds. His house was 
erfectly of the old fashion, in the midst of a 
ieee park, well stocked with deer ; and near 
“the house, rabbits for his kitchen; many 
fish-ponds , great store of wood and timber ; 
a bowling-green In it, long but narrow, full 
of high ridges, it being never levelled since it 
was ploughed: they nse round sand bowles ; 
and it had a banquettiog hoase like a stand, 
BRITISH TOPOGRAPHY AND ANTIQUITIES. 
a large one built in atree. He kept all man- 
ner of sport hounds, that ran buck, fox, hare, 
otter, and badger; and hawks, long and short 
winged. He had all sorts of nets for fish. He 
had a walk in the New Forest, and the manor 
of Christ Church ; this last supplied him with 
red deer, sea and river fish ; and, indeed, all 
his neighbour’s grounds and royalties were 
free to him, who bestowed all his time on 
these sports, but what he borrowed to caress 
his neighbours’ wives and daughters, there be- 
ing not a woman in all his walks, of the de- 
gree ofa yeoman’s wife, or under, and under 
the age of forty, but it was her own fault if 
he was not intimately acquainted with her. 
This made him very popular ; always speak- 
ing kindly to the husband, brother, or fa- 
ther, who was to boot very welcome. to his 
house. Whenever he came there he found 
beef, pudding, and small beer, in great plenty; 
the house not so neatly kept as to shame 
him or his dirty shoes; the great hall strew- 
ed with marrow-bones, full of hawks, perches, 
hounds, spaniels and terriers ; the wpper side 
of the hall hung with fox-skins, of this or 
the last year’s killing ; here and there a pole- 
eat intermixed ; game-keeper’s and hanter’s 
poles in great abundance. The parlour was 
a large green room, as properly furnished. 
Ona great hearth, paved with brick, lay some 
terriers, and the choicest hounds and spaniels. 
Seldom but two of the great chairs had litters 
of cats m them, which were not to be dis- 
turbed, he having always three or four at- 
tending him at dinner; and a little white 
stick, of fourteen inches long, lying by his 
trencher, that he might defend such meat 
as he had no mind to part with to them. 
The windows, which were very large, served 
for places to lay his arrows, cross-bows, and 
stone-bows, and such like accoutrements ; 
the corners of the. room full of the best chosen 
hunting or hawking-poles ; his oyster table at 
the lower end, which was of constant use, 
for he never failed to eat oysters all seasons, 
both dinner and supper: the neighbouring 
town of Pool supplied him with them. The 
upper part of the room had two tables and a 
desk, on the one side of which was a church 
Bible, and on the other side the Book of Mar- 
tyrs: on the table were hawke’s hoods, bells, 
and such like ; two or three old hats, with their 
crowns thrust in, so as to hold ten or adozen 
eggs, which were of the pheasant kind of 
oultry: these he took much care of and fed 
himself. Tables, dice, cards, and boxes, 
were not wanting. In the hole of the desk 
were store of tobacco-pipes that had beer 
used. Qn one side of this end of the roor 
was the door of a closet wherein stood the 
strong beer and the wine, which never came 
from thence but in single glasses, that being 
the rule of the house exactly observed, fo: 
he never exceeded in drink, orpermitted it it 
others. On the other side was the door of ar 
old chapel, not used for devotion ; the pulpit 
-as the safest place, was never wanting of: 
‘cold chine of beef, venis@@ pasty, gammon 0 
Sa eee 
