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Nobody knew there were no Ierats except Martha Ierat, the widow, of Winterbourne Bishop and her son nobody had ever heard of any other family of the name. I began to doubt that there ever had been such a name until quite recently when, on going over an old downland village church, the rector took me out to show me "a strange name" on a tablet let into the wall of the building outside.
Her manner, too, was very engaging. At the age of twenty-five she married a shepherd named Thomas Ierat a surname I had not heard before and which made me wonder where were the Ierats in Wiltshire that in all my rambles among the downland villages I had never come across them, not even in the churchyards.
But he was healed in time, and ten years later married again and returned to his home, to live there until nigh upon his ninetieth year. Long before this the Ierats had returned to their native village. When I last saw Martha, then in her eighty-second year, she gave me the following account of her Tommy's end. He continued shepherding up to the age of seventy-eight.
Isaac Bawcombe's family The youngest son Caleb goes to seek David at Wilton sheep-fair Martha, the eldest daughter Her beauty She marries Shepherd Ierat The name of Ierat Story of Ellen Ierat The Ierats go to Somerset Martha and the lady of the manor Martha's travels Her mistress dies Return to Winterbourne Bishop Shepherd Ierat's end
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