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GARDENS OLD AND NEW. 



He had married a 

 daughter of John 

 Wadham, squire of Mery- 

 field in Somerset, sister 

 of that Nicholas Wadham 

 whose bountiful house 

 was "like an inn at all 

 times and like a court at 

 Christmas," the founder 

 of Wadham College at 

 Oxford. By this lady 

 Nicholas Martyn, whose 

 three sons died young, 

 left four daughters, well 

 bestowed in marriage with 

 a Brune, a Tichborne, a 

 White and a Floyer. 

 Athelhampton came in 

 the end to be the portion 

 of the Brunes. From 

 them it descended to 

 Bankes of Corfe Castle, 

 and in 1665 Sir Ralph 

 Bankes of Corfe sold the 

 Brunes' estate here to Sir 



Robert Long of Draycot Cerne. The history 

 Athelhampton after this sale is a short one. Catherine, 

 a co-heir of Sir James Tylney Long, brought Athel- 

 hampton with much more to her husband, the Duke 

 of Wellington's spendthrift nephew, who thereupon 

 became William Pole-Tylney-Long-Wellesley. This 



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THE ROSE COURT. 



worthless person succeeded in 1845 as fourth Earl of 

 Mornington, and died in 1857, having wasted his 

 estates, and a London newspaper gave him an obituary 

 notice, saying that his life had been unredeemed by a 

 single virtue and adorned by no single grace. In 

 his last days he was a pensioner of his uncle, the 



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