CHAPTER IX. 



Removes to Swymbridge — His Kindness to the Gipsies 

 — St. Hubert's Hall — The Vine Draft — The 

 Chulmleigh Club — The Bishop of Exeter and the 

 Charges against Russell — Bishop revokes the 

 Curate's License — Mr. Trelavvny on the Chulmleigh 

 Meetings. 



His house was known to all the vagrant train, 



He chid their wanderings, but relieved their pain ; 



Careless their merits or their faults to scan, 



His pity gave ere charity began. 



Goldsmith. 



Mr. Russell had resided just six years at 

 Iddesleigh, when, in 1832, the prospect of pre- 

 ferment being held out to him, he was induced 

 to remove to Tordown, in the parish of Swym- 

 bridge ; a lone country-house overhanging a 

 picturesque combe, and approached by a steep 

 by-road leading from that village to Exmoor. 

 To Mrs. Russell, especially, the change proved 

 a most welcome one, inasmuch as it now brought 

 her back to the scenes of her early youth, again 

 to dwell among her own people ; Dennington 

 House, the seat of Admiral and Mrs. Bury, 

 being situated on the opposite side of the 

 valley in the same parish. 



In 1833, soon after he had planted his 

 garden and taken full possession of Tordown, 



