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 Stawel, 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 constructing, who was a distinguished 

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

 the rest, a very complicated clock, lately in posses- 

 sion 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 inclosures, 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 



habet unam capellam in haid sud de Kingesle.." ^^Haia, sepes, sepimentum^ 

 parcusj a Gall, haie and hayeT — Spelman's Glossary, p. 272. 



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