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There are twelve beds in this tent, and many regiments are represented among the patients; there is an Imperial Light Horse man, who has been in most of the big fights, a mercurial Argyll and Sutherland Highlander, with a witty and voluble tongue; men of the Wilts, Berks, and Yorks regiments, and in the next bed a trooper of the 18th Hussars, who was captured at Talana Hill in the first fight of the war, had spent seven months at Waterval in the barbed-wire cage which we saw, and two since at the front.

Charles was in constant correspondence with my forefather colonel Hunt, who together with Mr. Grove and Mr. Penruddock, were all country gentlemen of large property and considerable influence, residing in the county of Wilts, and avowed royalists firmly attached to the family of Stuart.

Where I served him perhaps was in showing my resolution to protect him: he had been insulted before my arrival. The male relatives of Miss Penrhys did not repeat the insult; they went to Lady Wilts and groaned over their hard luck in not having the option of fighting me. I was, in her phrase, a new piece on the board, and checked them.

1 mo. 8. To-morrow is our Monthly Meeting, when I expect to propose to my Friends a visit to the meetings composing the Quarterly Meetings of Bristol and Somerset, and Gloucester and Wilts. Every time any fresh exercise turns up for me, it always feels as if it was the first time of entering into the holy harness.

London had been pillaged, and was in ruins. Even in Wessex proper, Berkshire and Hampshire, with parts of Wilts and Dorset, had been crossed and recrossed by marauding bands, in whose track only smoking ruins and dead bodies were found. "The land was as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness."

For numerous gratuitous loans of parish money, see the Mere Acc'ts, Wilts Arch. and Nat. Hist. Mag., xxxv , passim. See Wilts Arch. Mag., xxxv. Cf. J.E. Foster, St. In 1564 the parishioners of Chagford, Devon, bought from the lord of the manor for £10 the local markets and fairs, subject to a yearly rent of 16s., which they had always paid as tenants.

FOREIGN. Maestricht beds and Faxoe chalk. BRITISH. Sands of Folkestone, Sandgate, and Hythe. FOREIGN. Neocomian of Neufchatel, and Hils conglomerate of North Germany. BRITISH. Upper Purbeck beds, fresh-water. FOREIGN. Marnes a gryphees virgules of Argonne. BRITISH. Coral rag of Berkshire, Wilts, and Yorkshire. FOREIGN. Nerinaean limestone of the Jura. BRITISH. Cornbrash and forest marble.

This was Laurence Washington of Garsden, Wilts., who married Elianor. second daughter of Wm. Gyse; their only child, a daughter, having married Robert Shirley, Earl Ferrars. Laurence Washington died Jan. 17, 1662, and his widow married Sir William Pargiter. By Henry F. Waters, A.M., Boston.

State Pap., loc. cit. Indictment of Essex jury, Hist. MSS. Rep., loc. cit. supra. Ibid. Information of the Wilts justices against one Dearling, parson of Upton Lowell, loc. cit. supra, 68 . Cf. Chelmsford Acc'ts, Essex Arch. The act-books are full of "detections" for being an "uncharitable person," for "not giving to the poor," etc. See pp. 41 ff., supra.

'Oh! decidedly not, was my advice. 'Well, well, he assented. I empowered him to sell out Bank stock. He wrote word from England of a very successful expedition. The prince, travelling under the title of Count Delzenburg, had been suitably entertained, received by Lady Wilts, Serena Marchioness of Edbury, Lady Denewdney, Lady Sampleman, and others.

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