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further on we come to the pretty little village of 

 Ibbesley. 



Before entering the fine avenue of Elms through 

 which we have lately passed a road had crossed 

 the one we were following, making turnings to 

 our left and to our right. The left, or westerly, 

 turning leads to the little village of Ellingham 

 that to the right as we passed it to Moyles 

 Court where Alice Lisle, after Sedgemoor, hid the 

 fugitives Hickes and Nelthorpe. To these fugi- 

 tives from the law the friendly coverts of the 

 New Forest had no doubt suggested safety; but 

 though now, from the house where Alice Lisle 

 lived, as well as from other points of view ad- 

 joining, the forest can still be seen away to the 

 eastward, the woodlands have receded since her 

 time, and farmstead and other enclosures lie 

 between the Avon and the forestal boundaries. 

 In the churchyard at Ellingham Alice Lisle lies 

 buried with her daughter Anne Hartell the 

 words inscribed on the tomb being ( Alice Lisle 

 dyed the second of September 1685.' 



Some seven or eight miles from Ellingham, on 

 the Dorsetshire side of the Avon, Monmouth, 



