THE PEPYS OF SOUTH DORSET. 39 



We have mentioned Parson Bound (as he is usually called by 

 the Diarist). This was the Revd. Cuthbert Bound, who had 

 already held the living of Warm well for 30 years, when Mr. 

 Richards came to reside there. Mr. Bound naturally occupies 

 a rather prominent place in the diary. He supplemented his 

 slender income by taking a few pupils. He was the authority 

 for the very curious prophecy of Mr. John Sadler, named above, 

 (quoted i Hutching Hist. Dorset, Ed. 3, 435, note f.). This 

 prophecy, made shortly after the Restoration, dealing with 

 matters of national interest, attracted considerable attention at 

 the time, and Mr. Bound was summoned to appear before the 

 Deputy-Lieutenants of the County to make an affidavit in 

 verification ; but, as Mr. Sadler was, we are told, " much 

 disordered in his senses " long before his death, they might, 

 doubtless, have saved themselves the trouble. Mr. Richards and 

 the Rector were, for long, on good terms, and used to go out 

 together "to look for a hare." As time went on, however, their 

 friendship waned, in consequence, it seems, of some piece of 

 scandal at Owermoigne fair. The Squire complainingly writes : 

 " Sunday, the 23rd July, 1699. Mr. Bound has not been to see 

 me since this day three weeks." Then follows an incident which 

 occurred soon afterwards, near Warmwell Church : " Thursday, 

 10 Aug., 1699 : This morning passing by Flower's house Mr. 

 Bound peept over the hedg by the Tower and sneeringly ask* 

 me how I did. I looking up upon him reply d ' Oh, be y u there : 

 never the better for y u , and so left him." Our Pepys had been 

 confined to his house by an attack of gout ; that was, probably, 

 the reason of the Rector's sneering manner. Less than two 

 years afterwards, Mr. Bound was carried off by the small -pox; 

 nevertheless, he was buried in the chancel of Warmwell Church, 

 so little regard was had in those days to sanitary precautions : 

 " Sunday, the 21 of December, 1701. This morning about . . 

 of the clock, Cuthbert Bound, Minister of Warmwell, dyed of the 

 small-pox and was buryd in chancell Tuesday the 23rd ditto." 



There is a curious entry under date of 5th March, ^Q '- 

 " Mary Bound's hair was cutt off, weig. 4^ ounces, to make a 



