IX.] OF SELBORNE. 
LETTEIi IX. 
TO THOMAS PENNANT, ESQ. 
By way of supplement, I shall trouble you once more on this 
subject, to inform you that Wolmer, with her sister forest Ayles 
Holt, alias Alice Holt,i 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, liuperta, who was a natural 
daughter of Prince Eupert by Margaret Hughs ; a Mr. Mordaunt, 
of the Peterborough i'amily, who married a dowager Lady [Pem- 
broke ; 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 possession 
of Mr. Elnier^ the celebrated game-painter at Earnham, 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 AVolmer is nothing but a hungry, sandy, Ijarren waste. 
^ "In Hot. liKpiLsit. (J e statu forest, in Scaccar. 36 Ed. 3, it is called 
Aisliolt." In " Tit. Wolmer and Aisliolt Hantisc," we are told " the Loid 
King had one chapel in bis park at Kingesle," Dominus Ilex habd uiiu.ni 
rapellaiii in liaid s^ud de KiiKjrsle.'" Haia^ scpcs, srpinirnfum, parens; a 
Ciall. Jiaif and Af///^."— Spelm an's i^ln.ssanjj p. 27l\ 
