36 AYLES HOLT. 



with the dawn of the morning. Had this lake an 

 arm or two more, and were it planted round with 

 thick covert, (for now it is perfectly naked,) it might 

 make a valuable decoy. 



Yet neither its extent, nor the clearness of its 

 water, nor the resort of various and curious fowls, 

 nor its picturesque groups of cattle, can render this 

 mere so remarkable, as the great quantity of coins 

 that were found in its bed about forty years ago.* 



LETTER IX. 



TO THE SAME. 



By way of supplement, I shall trouble you once 

 more on this subject, to inform you that Wolmer, 

 with her sister forest Ayles Holt, alias Alice Holt,t 

 as it is called in old records, is held by grant from 

 the crown for a term of years. 



The grantees that the author remembers, are, 

 Brigadier- General Emanuel Scroope Howe, and his 

 lady, Ruperta, who was a natural daughter of Prince 

 Rupert, by Margaret Hughs; a Mr. Mordaunt, of 

 the Peterborough family, who married a dowager 

 Lady Pembroke ; Henry Bilson Legge and lady ; and 

 now Lord Stawel, their son. 



* Some of these coins came afterwards into the possession 

 of the author. They were all copper, part were of Marcus 

 Aurelius, and the Empress Faustina, his wife, the father and 

 mother of Comrnodus. W. J. 



f " In Rot. Inquisit. de statu forest, in Scaccar. 36 Ed. III. 

 it is called Aisholt." In the same, " Tit. Woolmer and Aisholt 

 Hantisc. Dominus Rex habet unam capellam in haia sua de 

 Kingesle." " Haia, sepes, sepimentum, parcus: a Gall, haie and 

 haye" SPELMAM'S Glossary. 



