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, 1 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 Stawcl, their son. 



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 con- 

 structing, who was a distinguished mechanic and artist, 2 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 narrow 

 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 



1 " In Rot. Inquisit. de statu forest, in Scaccar. 36 Edw. III., it is called 

 Aisholt." [G. W.] 



In the same, " Tit. Woolmer and Aisholt Hantisc. Dominus Rex habet 

 unam capellam in haia sua de Kingesle." " Haia, sepes, sepimtntum, parcus ; a 

 Gall, hate and kaye." SPELMAN'S Glossary. [G. W.] 



2 This prince was the inventor of mezzotinto. [G. W.] 



