NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE. 25 



all particulars for the present, till I enter professedly on my 

 series of letters respecting the more remote history of this 

 villacje and district. 



LETTER IX. 



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,* 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 Scroops Howe, and his lady, Buperta, 

 who was a natural daughter of Prince Rupert by Margaret 

 Hughes ; a Mr. Mordaunt, of the Peterborough family, who 

 married a dowager Lady Pembroke ; Henry Bilson Legge 

 and lady ; and now Lord Stawell, their son. 



The lady of General Howe lived on 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,! 

 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. 



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

 called Aisliolt." 



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

 habet unam capellam in haia suS, de Kingesle." " Haia, sepes, sepimen- 

 tum, parens ; a Gall, haie and haye." — Spelman's Glossary. 



t This prince was the inventor of mezzotinto. 



