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Built by the Darells it passed to the Pophams, one of whom was a leader of the Parliamentarians. A gruesome and probably true story is told of the last of the Darells "Wild Dayrell." A midwife deposed that she had been fetched blindfold to attend a lady at dead of night. When her offices were over, a wild-looking man seized the infant and hurled it in a blazing fire.
'So here I am, she remarked, with a burst of laughter, 'talking to you. Did you never hear of Dolly Dayrell? Hubert confessed that he had not. 'Why, she said, 'I thought every one had. About eight o'clock in the evening, the table near the stairs was generally occupied by flower-girls, dressed in dingy clothes, and brightly feathered hats.
Good stories are often fixed upon eminent men who had no part in the transactions thereby attributed to them. But Aubrey tells a still stranger story concerning Popham, when he sets forth the means by which the judge made himself lord of Littlecote Hall in Wiltshire. The case must be given in the narrator's own words. "Sir Richard Dayrell of Littlecot in com.
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