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mansion and domain of Mr., now Lord 

 Portman of Charborough, then the seat 

 of Mr. Drax Grosvenor, remarkable 

 chiefly, in an historical view, for its 

 being the spot where the plan of that 

 glorious revolution which drove James 

 from the throne of these realms was 

 concocted : this is duly recorded over 

 the door of a small building in the 

 grounds * of Woodbury Hill, from whence 

 the view over the surrounding country 

 is most extensive and of the small town 

 of Swanage, with its long, narrow, single 

 street, terminating in a parapet or battery, 

 mounting about nine guns, commanding 



* The following is the inscription : u Under this roof, 

 in the year 1686, a set of patriotic gentlemen of this place 

 concocted the plan of the glorious revolution, with the im- 

 mortal King William, to whom we owe our deliverance 

 from popery and slavery the expulsion of the tyrant race 

 of the Stuarts the restitution of our liberties security of 

 our property, and the establishment of our national honour 

 and wealth. Englishmen, remember this era, and consider 

 that your liberty, obtained by the virtue of your ancestors, 

 must be maintained by yourselves ! " 



