shall suppress all particulars for the present, till I enter professedly
on my series of letters respecting the more remote history of this
village and district.



Letter IX
To Thomas Pennant, Esquire

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,* as it is called in old records, is held by
grant from the crown for a term of years.
(*In 'Rot. Inquisit. de statu forest. in Scaccar.,' 36, Ed. 3, it is called
Aisholt. In the same, 'Tit. Woolmer and Aisholt Hantisc. Dominus
Rex habet unam capellam in haia sua de Kingesle.' 'Haia, sepes,
sepimentum, parcus: a Gall. haie and haye.'--Spelman's Glossary.)

The grantees that the author remembers are Brigadier-General
Emanuel Scroope Howe, and his lady, Ruperta, who was a natural
daughter of Prince Rupert by Margaret Hughs; a Mr. Mordaunt, of
the Peterborough family, who married a dowager Lady Pembroke;
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. Elmer, the
celebrated game-painter at Farnham, in the county of Surrey.