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and introduced them to England, did not know 

 too much about their likings when he planted 

 them here. He made Plumpton celebrated, too, 

 by introducing pippins, of which the golden pippin 

 is a great Sussex favourite now. Another owner 

 of Plumpton was a Nicholas Carew, the family 

 some of us recollect as holding Beddington and 

 miles of land right away from that village up to 

 Banstead and farther. A Carew it was who first 

 imported an orange tree to England. The last 

 we racing men know of the Carews was poor 

 ** Stunner," who, in Delight, owned the best three- 

 year-old of Lord Lyon's year. Mr Sutton would 

 not have won that Derby if Delight had kept all 

 right instead of breaking down — in the Chester 

 Cup, was it not? Next door to Plumpton, at 

 Street, were another family bearing a name rac- 

 ing folk knew well. This was only a matter of 

 three or four hundred years ago, and the name 

 is Dobell. One of that ilk was a persecuted 

 Royalist, and escaped Cromwellian pursuers by 

 riding his charger up a chimney into a secret 

 chamber, where, of course, he would be safe. 

 My old friend recollects "hearing tell of it," but 

 does not commit himself to facts or dates ; as 

 also he is guarded about another temporarily 

 local celebrity, Simon de Montfort, whose camp 

 was up aloft on Plumpton Plain when he set 

 forth to meet — and, as it turned out, beat and 

 take — King Henry in the battle of Lewes. 

 Guarded he is, but has seen relics of the fight 

 discovered. 



