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Johnson protest that he never had quite as much as he wished of wall-fruit except once in his life, and that was when we were all together at Ombersley. Piozzi's Anec. p. 103. Mrs. Thrale wrote to him in 1778: 'Mr. Scrase gives us fine fruit; I wished you my pear yesterday; but then what would one pear have done for you? Piozzi Letters, ii. 36.
About the year 1705, some officers coming into the neighbourhood to recruit, Kate was so much taken with the fellows in red that she strolled away with them, until they came to a village called Great Ombersley in Warwickshire, where they very ungenerously left her behind them.
Ratcliffe's romances; and bears a strong resemblance to Westwood, near Ombersley, in Worcestershire, the seat of Sir John Packington, which is said to have been once a conventual building.
Life of THOMAS WOOD, a Murderer This malefactor, Thomas Wood, was born at a place called Ombersley, between Ludlow and Worcester, of parents in very indifferent circumstances, who were therefore able to give him but little education. He was bred up to no settled business, but laboured in all such country employments as require only a robust body for their performance.
We came to Lord Sandys's, at Ombersley, where we were treated with great civility. The house is large. The hall is a very noble room. We went to Worcester, a very splendid city. The Cathedral is very noble, with many remarkable monuments. On the table lay the Nuremberg Chronicle, I think, of the first edition. We went to the china warehouse. The Cathedral has a cloister.
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