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Edingdon Monastery. 



Other, third Earl of Plymouth, who died 1732, married Elizabeth, 

 daughter and heiress of Thomas Lewis, the ultimate heiress of 

 Lewis of the Yan. She died 9th November, 1733. 



In 1689 the then owner of Edingdon, Charles Paulet, sixth 

 Marquis of Winchester, having been instrumental in settling the 

 Crown on the Prince and Princess of Orange, was created Duke of 

 Bolton. Edingdon passed through the hands of six dukes suc- 

 cessively. 



Charles, the third Duke, earned a bad eminence by barbarous 

 treatment of his wife, Anne Vaughan, daughter of John, Earl of 

 Carbery, on whose death, in 1751, impatiently waited for, he married 

 Lavinia Fenton, sometimes called Lavinia Beswick, an actress often 

 painted as Polly Peachum of " The Beggars' Opera. 99 1 



During the third Duke's life, his younger brother, Lord Harry 

 Paulet, was residing here. He afterwards became fourth Duke. 

 Charles, the sixth Duke, brought to an end the connexion of his 

 family with this property, which had now lasted two hundred and 



Beauchamp (at Edington in this county) has a peculiar way of making excellent 

 mault, which gives a very good rellish to the Beer : scil : She hath a Kilne, to 

 dry Mault with Pittcoale : There is a large iron Plate over the fire, wh. being red 

 hott, drieth the mault wh. lieth three or four foot above it." When Edingdon 

 House was dismantled, the fixtures found their way into neighbouring houses. 

 A fire-back with Lady Ann's arms {i.e., Sackville) on it is (or lately was) to be 

 seen in the house formerly the Monastery, near the Church : another at East-town 

 farm house, and at Tinhead. The Sackville arms, almost obliterated, are also 

 over a doorway in the garden at Edingdon. 



1 A writer in the Quarterly Keview, 1857, p. 466, speaking of Joseph Warton, 

 thus alludes to this subject : — " The low level to which public feeling had fallen 

 at the middle of the last century, and the little which was expected from the 

 guardians of public morals, may be seen in acts like that of Joseph Warton, who 

 travelled with the Duke of Bolton and his mistress upon the continent in 1751 

 that he might be at hand to marry them the moment they got intelligence of the 

 death of the Duchess, then sinking under a mortal disease. For some reason he 

 (J. W.) returned to -England before the poor deserted lady had breathed her last, 

 and the impatience of her husband and her successor not permitting them to wait 

 till Warton could rejoin them, he lost both the opportunity of performing the 

 ofiice, and the preferment which he expected would reward the service. . . . 

 Yet four years afterwards he was elected second master of Winchester School, 

 and nobody appeared to consider him less fitted to train up lads in the way they 

 should go because he had countenanced the Duke of Bolton's roving abroad with 

 a mistress while his wife was dying at home." 



