2 RELICS LEFT BY PHILIP AND JOAN OF CASTILE. 



both as eminent personages really in distress, and who 

 afterwards continued to be his guests for a prolonged period 

 at the instance of the English Government. Thus it was 

 that King Philip and his Queen Joanna with all their retinue 

 were in residence at Wolfeton House for a considerable time, 

 and would necessarily be accompanied by much baggage 

 and other impedimenta. They were also, evidently, unable 

 to speak English, and a relative of Sir Thomas Trenchard's 

 (Mr. Russell, of Kingston Russell, Dorset), who had lived in 

 Spain and was conversant with the Spanish language, became 

 then a guest also at Wolfeton, and acted as an interpreter. 

 Mr. Russell afterwards accompanied Philip and Joan to the 

 Court of the reigning King of England (Henry VII.), in 

 London, and there laid the foundation of the existing House 

 of Bedford. All this, however, is a matter of English History, 

 and it is not my purpose to go further into it here. We have 

 information on all the above in Hutchins' History of Dorset 

 (3rd Edition, Vol. II., pp. 421, 780, 781, also Vol. III., pp. 329, 

 330). My object in the present paper is simply to bring 

 together in a connected form a short account of the still 

 existing proofs of Sir Thomas Trenchard having been a kind 

 and honoured host to Philip and Joan, by their presentation 

 to him, on their departure to the Court of Henry VII., or 

 shortly after, of their Portraits and two valuable specimens 

 of Oriental Chinese Pottery. In addition to these, their 

 Majesties left behind them various articles of baggage, which 

 had, doubtless, become useless to them and so mere 

 impedimenta, such as some Iron Chests (in which their money 

 and other valuables had been contained) and Wooden Chests 

 containing probably linen and clothes and other articles 

 needed in a voyage such as that in which the King and Queen 

 had been interrupted. Some of these chests were perhaps 

 left by them at Weymouth ; but it is most probable that all, 

 or nearly all, went to, and remained at, Wolfeton House. 

 Hence it is quite possible that some may have found their 

 way into the possession of other persons ; but at any rate 

 some of them, if not all, remained at Wolfeton House and 



