lis 



Wulf hall and the Seymours. 



But where did lie get them from? Why, either by himself, or 

 others for him, raking into venerable rubbish, digging into re- 

 positories of old family papers, and the like ; using, as Lord Chan- 

 cellor Bacon bade us, antiquities and archaeology as one branch of 

 history. 



A few extracts from these account books (see more in Appendix, 

 No. v.) bring the Earl of Hertford before us in his Wiltshire life. 

 His journies, for instance, about the neighbourhood, were attended 

 with an expense to which a " Special train " would be a trifle : — 



4 'Paid for 36 horses of my Lord's Train standing in divers places when my 

 Lord lay one night at my Lord Hungerford's at Farley Castle. 

 For the same one night at Sir Henry Long's. 

 For the same one night in the Abbey of Malmesbury. 

 For 37 horses one night when my Lord lay at Bradstoke Abbey. 

 For 40 horses one night at The Devizes when my Lord lay at Mr. Ernley's. 

 For shoeing horses bringing up my Lord's revenues. 



His very rents were brought up in coin on horseback, there being 

 no cheques and penny stamps in those days. 



Then his little boy, Lord Beauchamp, has to be sent on a visit, 

 and to be brought home again : — 



" Paid to ,Mr. Seymour for his own and 2 carters' and 4 horses' expenses, 

 bringing a wagon from Wulf hall to Twickenham to carry my Lord Beauchamp, 

 and returning to Wulf hall again." * 



Sometimes I find him hunting wild boars in Savernake Forest, 

 and paying 4d. for hempen halters to bind their legs with ; sometimes 

 hawking in Collingbourne Woods. 



In 1541 are entries of little amusements in very respectable 

 company — Losing Is. 4td. " unto the Bishop of Rochester at Guildford, 



* The drivers being called " carters, 1 ' it might at first sight be supposed that the " wagon " was 

 the same kind of broad-wheeled heavy conveyance with lumbering cart-horses, as that which is 

 now so called. But before coaches were introduced, a lighter vehicle of that name was commonly 

 used by the highest classes. " In 1583 t the day after Lady Mary Sidney entered Shrewsbury in her 

 wagon, that valiant Knight Sir Henry Sidney, her husband, made his appearance in his wagon t 

 ■with his Trumpeters blowing, very joyfully to behold." (Nichols's Progresses, 11, 309). There is a 

 very old Wiltshire tradition that Sir Thomas Hungerford, of Farley Castle, when he went up to 

 London to take his seat in Parliament, as First Speaker of the House of Commons, travelled in a 

 wagon. Collins, in his Peerage, also mentions that the body of Sir John Thynne, the Builder of 

 Longleat, was carried in a wagon to Longbridge Deverill Church. In both these cases, the lighter 

 kind of carriage is most probably meant. But both before and after this period tho woids cart and 

 carter were used for a chariot and charioteer. "The carter over-ridden with his cart" (Chaucer, 

 The Knight's Tale). "Full thirty times hath Phoebus' cart gone round Neptune's salt wash " 

 (Hamlet), 



