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CAKVED STONES 109 



long enough for the Giant at WeyhilL* We are much 

 pleased to find that your moving household went on so 

 smoothly, and that you had such fine weather. You must 

 not expect to feel yourselves quite at home at your new 

 house at first : some matters will not be perhaps so convenient 

 as in your old place. You know I love to see fine houses, 

 and furniture: therefore I took a walk yesterday to Mr. 

 Gauler's,f where I was much entertained. The Lady shewed 

 us the whole house. The offices are all under ground, and 

 the kitchen is two feet lower than the cellars ! Last night 

 we had grand fire-works. Koman candles, serpents, and sky 

 rockets. 



Suppose you get me two pairs of woven stockings of the 

 size and colour desired. I should wish to have them thick 

 and shapely. Your loving uncle, 



Gil. White. 



If you can find at last any knit ones fit also, please to get 

 me two pairs. 



October 19th, 1783. The Naturalist's Journal 

 contains a note of the discovery of two large (carved) 

 stones by the tenant of the Priory Farm "in the 

 space which I have always supposed to contain the 

 South transept of the priory-church," and of the 

 discovery two years before of a vase.;]: 



* Weyhill Fair was one of the most important fairs in the South of 

 England. Piers Plowman mentions it, "At Wy and at Winchester I went 

 to the fair." It was largely attended by buyers and sellers of hops, cheese, 

 etc. On October 11th, 1783, Henry White of Fyfield records in his Journal, 

 " Hops, none from Selborne and very few from that district, few from 

 Farnham, and a very thin shew on y* Hill tho' some Kentish and some old 

 Hops were brt. Best price £11 per cwt. Bought none. Weyhill being y® 

 worst market when they are dear tho' the best when they are cheap." 



t Ramridge manor-house, in the parish of Weyhill, Hants, an interest- 

 ing and beautiful mansion, was built by Mr. Gauler, in or about 1779, from 

 designs by Adams. 



:}: These discoveries were recorded in 'The Antiquities of Selborne,' 

 Letter XXVI. 



