4.0 THE PEPYS OF SOUTH DORSET. 



periwig for Jack." Was Mary Bound a daughter or other near 

 relative of the Rector ? It seems not unlikely, if we recall 

 Macaulay's description of the rural clergy in the lyth century. 

 It is sad to think of a fair girl being shorn of so large a quantity 

 of hair just to make a wig for a schoolboy. NT. E. Fynes- 

 Clinton, the present Headmaster of Wimborne Grammar School, 

 tells me that he thinks it very probable that the pupils there, or 

 at any rate the elder ones, did formerly wear wigs, but that he 

 has not succeeded in finding any mention of the subject. In a 

 memoir of Dr. Busby, * the famous Headmaster of Westminster 

 School in the middle of the lyth century, is a portrait of "Dr. 

 Busby with his favorite pupil." The pupil was Robert South, 

 then about 18 years of age, afterwards the great orator and Dean 

 of St. Paul's ; they are both wearing wigs. 



We have referred to the social amenities of Mr. Richards and 

 his friends. The diarist purchased his wines from a distance in 

 wood and bottled them. Thus he records receiving a cask of 

 port wine from London, a quarter cask of Malaga, bought at 

 Lyme, and " bro* home by Mr. Eyre in my little cart," and the 

 sending of two men " with my cart and 5 horses to Mr. Sergt. 

 Bond's at Grange for my hogsh d of Clarett." I suppose that the 

 large team was necessary in consequence of the roads being very 

 bad. As to his beer, he was careful to brew it in October, and 

 terms it " my Oct. drink." Nor did the 'squire object to cherry 

 brandy. He writes: "This evening," (sist March, 1701), 

 " 8 quarts of Mr. Hill's brandy were put to ye black cherrys in 

 my old wicker bottle." 



Turf and wood formed the principal fuel ; there was then, as 

 now, an inexhaustible supply of turf in the bogs of Warmwell 

 and Moreton Heaths. Mr. Richards writes on one occasion of 

 6,500 turves being " fetched home." Coal from Weymouth is 

 mentioned but once. In fact, Mr. Richards had but little 



* "Memoir of Richard Busby, D.D. (1606-1695), with some account of West- 

 minster School in the 17th century, by G. E. Russell Barker." Lawrence and 

 Bullen, Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, 1895. 



