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Doggett had embezzled money, and when discovered 

 found this the only way out of his troul^le. 



When the church of Tarrant Gunville, just outside 

 the Park gates, was rebuilt in 1845 the workmen 

 found his body, the legs tied together with a yellow 

 silk ribbon which was as bright and fresh as the 

 day it was tied. 



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Returning to the road at Tarrant Hinton, a steep 

 hill leads up to the wild downs again, with a corre- 

 sponding descent in three miles into the village of 

 Pimperjie whose chief part is situated in the same 

 manner, along a byeway at a right angle to the coach- 

 road. There is a battered cross on an open space 

 near the church, and the church itself has been severely 

 restored. Christopher Pitt was Rector of Pimperne, 

 and it requires no great stretch of imagination to con- 

 jure up a vision of him pacing the road to Eastbury, 

 and composing laudatory verses on Dodington and 

 his ' flowing wit ' ; rendered, perhaps, the more 

 eloquent by anticipations of the flow of Burgundy 

 already quoted. He died in 1748, fourteen long 

 years, alas ! before the wine had ceased to flow at 

 that Pierian spot. 



From this haunt of the Muses it is two miles to 

 the town of Blaudford Forum, whose name it is sad 

 to be obliged to record is nowadays shamefully 

 docked to 'Blandford,' although the market, whence 



