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It now stands in the Capitol Square at Richmond, and is a treasure of which the whole Commonwealth may justly be proud. Through Mr. Hope, my father received a handsome copy of the Bible, and, in acknowledgement of Mr. Hope's letter, he wrote the following: "Lexington, Virginia, April 16, 1866. "Honourable A. W. Beresford Hope, Bedgebury Park, Kent, England
'No, says she, 'to the Peck-o'-Malt by Bedgebury Cross. And, Gregory, should you see aught of the poor man that suffered lately in the pillory, say I would speak with him. And now saddle and begone with my letter. 'To Bedgebury, says Gregory, 'the Peck-o'-Malt to-night, my lady? 'This moment! says she, mighty sharp.
This origin of Bedgebury House is recorded on its foundation-stone: it has been greatly enlarged by successive owners, and is surrounded by ornamental gardens and grounds, with a park of wood, lake, and heather covering two thousand acres. In the neighboring church of Kilndown, Field-marshal Beresford, the former owner of Bedgebury, reposes in a canopied sepulchre.
Goudhurst church-tower, finely located on one of the highest hills of the Wealden region, gives a grand view on all sides, especially to the southward over Mr. Beresford Hope's seat at Bedgebury Park. In this old church of St. Mary are buried the Bedgeburys and the Colepeppers.
The Surrey Side The Chalk Downs Guildford The Hog's Back Albury Down Archbishop Abbot St. Catharine's Chapel St. Martha's Chapel Albury Park John Evelyn Henry Drummond Aldershot Camp Leith Hill Redland's Wood Holmwood Park Dorking Weller and the Marquis of Granby Inn Deepdene Betchworth Castle The River Mole Boxhill The Fox and Hounds The Denbies Ranmore Common Battle of Dorking Wotton Church Epsom Reigate Pierrepoint House Longfield The Weald of Kent Goudhurst Bedgebury Park Kilndown Cranbrook Bloody Baker's Prison Sissinghurst Bayham Abbey Tunbridge Castle Tunbridge Wells Penshurst Sir Philip Sidney Hever Castle Anne Boleyn Knole Leeds Castle Tenterden Steeple and the Goodwin Sands Rochester Gad's Hill Chatham Canterbury Cathedral St. Thomas
"My life, shipmate, and one other thing. What that thing is I will tell you when we have drunk the blood-brotherhood! But now it behoveth me to be a-going, so I'll away. But when you shall seek me, as seek me ye will, shipmate, shalt hear of me at the Peck-o'-Malt tavern, which is a small, quiet place 'twixt here and Bedgebury Cross.
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