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Coming once more down the hill into the valley of the Coln, we must cross the old Roman road known as the Fossway, follow the course of the stream, and, about a mile beyond the snug little village of Fossbridge, we reach the great woods of Chedworth. These coverts form part of the property of Lord Eldon. His house of Stowell stands well up on the hill.
It swells out into fishable proportions just above Lord Eldon's Stowell property, steals gently past his beautiful woods at Chedworth and the Roman villa discovered a few years ago, then onward through the quaint old-world villages of Fossbridge to Winson and Coln-St-Dennis.
And there are here and there pieces of work which testify to the piety and faith of very early days: fragments of inscriptions chiselled out more than fifteen hundred years ago such as the four stones at Chedworth, discovered some thirty years ago, together with many other interesting relics of the Roman occupation, by a gamekeeper in search of a ferret.
Compton writes: ‘In Yarmouth, where I lived at this time, and where Lord Chedworth was accustomed to pay an annual visit, there was then a society of gentlemen who met once a fortnight for the purpose of amicable discussion. Our members—alas! how few remain—were of all parties and persuasions, and some of them of very distinguished attainments.
The accumulation of rubbish on the sites of great cities independent of the action of worms The burial of a Roman villa at Abinger The floors and walls penetrated by worms Subsidence of a modern pavement The buried pavement at Beaulieu Abbey Roman villas at Chedworth and Brading The remains of the Roman town at Silchester The nature of the debris by which the remains are covered The penetration of the tesselated floors and walls by worms Subsidence of the floors Thickness of the mould The old Roman city of Wroxeter Thickness of the mould Depth of the foundations of some of the Buildings Conclusion.
A glance of the eye westwards, and your thoughts are carried back to the Roman invasion; for scarce five miles off lies the ancient Roman villa of Chedworth.
It is not probable that they can have been undermined by worms, for their foundations would no doubt have been laid at a considerable depth. If they have not subsided, the stones of which the columns were constructed must have been removed from beneath the former level of the floor. Chedworth, Gloucestershire.
Another stone in this collection has the word "PRASIATA" roughly chiselled on it. There was a British king, by name Prasutagus, said to have been a Christian, and possibly it was this man who built the old house in the midst of the Chedworth woods.
She died in fifteen years from that time. Maidstone, Lady, saw a fly of fire as premonitory of the deaths first, of her husband, who died in a sea-fight with the Dutch, May 28th, 1672, and second, of her mother-in-law, Lady Winchilsea. Chedworth, Lord, was visited by a friend and fellow-sceptic, saying he had died that night and had realised the existence of another world.
Henry Bromley, Stephen Fox, and John Howe, three members of the lower house who had signalized themselves in defence of the minister, were now ennobled, and created barons of Montford, Ilchester, and Chedworth. A camp was formed near Colchester; and the king having appointed a regency, set out in May for his German dominions.*
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