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perta, who was a natural daughter of Prince Rupert by 

 Margaret Hughs; a Mr. Mordaunt, of the Peterbo- 

 rough family, who married a dowager Lady Pembroke ; 

 Henry Bilson Legge and lady ; and now Lord Stawel, 

 their son 2 . 



The lady of General Howe lived to an advanced 

 age, long surviving her husband ; and, at her death, 

 left behind her many curious pieces of mechanism of 

 her father's constructing, who was a "distinguished 

 mechanic and artist 3 , as well as warrior; and among 

 the rest, a very complicated clock, lately in possession 

 of Mr. Elmer, the celebrated game-painter at Farnham, 

 in the county of Surrey. 



Though these two forests are only parted by a nar- 

 row range of enclosures, yet no two soils can be more 

 different : for The Holt consists of a strong loam, of a 

 miry nature, carrying a good turf, and abounding with 

 oaks that grow to be large timber; while Wolmer is 

 nothing but a hungry, sandy, barren waste. 



The former, being all in the parish of Binsted, is 

 about two miles in extent from north to south, and 

 near as much from east to west ; and contains within 

 it many woodlands and lawns, and the great lodge 

 where the grantees reside ; and a smaller lodge called 

 Goose Green; and is abutted on by the parishes of 

 Kingsley, Frinsham, Farnham, and Bentley; all of 

 which have right of common. 



One thing is remarkable ; that, though The Holt has 

 been of old well stocked with fallow-deer, unrestrained 

 by any pales or fences more than a common hedge, yet 

 they were never seen within the limits of Wolmer ; nor 



2 On the expiration of the grant to Lord Stawel, the Commissioners of 

 Woods and Forests resumed possession of The Holt. All the lands held 

 by him, and two-thirds of the formerly open Forest, have been subse- 

 quently enclosed and planted, and now contain as fine young oaks as any 

 plantations in the kingdom. E. T. B. 



3 This prince was the inventor of mezzotinto. 



