The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1882-04-11 00:00:00

KING'S STATUE.

MOORHEAD r ELLIS.
To ac Editor.

The Sotahern Tina having closed its columns, I I
apply to poi. b•s lug the naht to cud the oboe.
Dr. MA'rhoad Pale me Inane pretty c 'Lupien/4s
tharvio, fir which I w...ratsful. especially tor the .
i 11.4).ot:rimy "of insn.al bun ness. There are noise
bid oil those that " will nut see." Both of tuts
estrac4 from my father'. with ( Eilis's 'Auto y"I
refer to "1700 A. Lt." On these be rides ti suopirt
his assertion that we are sad w,rs ohs tore
villag-rs." 1 have proves this town was • well known"
during the last century, but tia cling. to the tense of
the " wstoopollt,, 'so I meet him there, I am a very
" agar i." Alt alons the ssaboard, wh rever tha" Bog.
lien lansusge is spoksu, it/ern...ow is kit sun. Port.
Isud (be, stud tot die Pori) names • t ,stu iu Maths,
Uulloci Sta.. of America, soother ditto in Uregou.
Triers is • suburb of Bostoo. Unite I t,ta*,s. °swot
a/ ter us. There are str.ets ctl.ed after us all over
the earth; from icy Lab.a tor to the riens4 of the
ILiolf Stream we are known, aud well known. 'the
Chios*. vidsger, the Alric tu (where the Nile rioi.).
the Arab of the desert, the Patagonian, tbe Esquiniaux ;
thee people may n k teyinouth horn 1..00d0n,
or erre 7traa, and yet were thy ask d, the reply
would be 'w. sae also 'c .ernota,utas.'" Dr. 31
heal is but spltt.i g hairs. Ile has appeal_d to
'• public opi-iou "—Moorhead v. Ellis. I ituow Wey•
111uUthillui iii. with we. labs 1 alto have tue county.
I take oue of lette.s received; it I. from • inaguate.
" I had," quotiug from my father's work, " writ en of
Ile leanly "—titscr.ditatily t.,o—and yet Fowl his
letter?

"Lynewood House, Bournemouth, April let, 1882.
"Due Sta,—l beg to thank you for the informa-
tion in your letter, much of which is new to toe. I
wish you could have tomd me the authority from which
it was derived, as I should aka to turn it up. Denis
Bond wets always • esaesuis ivid, so I have no respect
f.r his memory. I wee lately told by a London
solicitor, t • whom I was previously utak .own, this: he
bad bead "there was bad Bond," eo I am
glad he had not read your father's book. (fit records
what is discreditable to the family, it is but fair that
you should Ain" record what is creditable. I hope,
%horrors, you will, to your next edition, Mention that
William Bond was M.P. for Weymouth in, (think,
19 Henry VIII. Th. reit irds of Parliement for the
r• Lin of Henry VIII. are ',At, 1114/ that neiLber
In hie Notatia Parliament ma," nor Hutchins (who
borrowed from him) in hie "History of Doreen "
m-ntion this fact. It ham, howevor, lat.ely been polo.
bldied in one of the Basuto of *hw pap/re, edittd
by order of Uoverorneo.t.. Obvtr (afterwards Sir
Oliver) Lawmen). of Grange, was at the same time
returns! to Parliament for Nlelc untie. A Gila/
Hood, in the time of Queen lisabeth, wee canton of
the Dr eon, of Weym .uth, fitted out under " iwtters
of Merque," and his eou, Caplan John Bond, woe
onnminsions i, under lettere patent, to comm md an
expedition to Madagascar, in order t discover some
territory which might be made a kingd .m for Priam)
li open. who afterwarde en dietinguished himself io the
Ci•il Wars. I write from mom ay, but I will wend
you dates from Tynehani, Wareham, on my return
home. Weymouth wee alwaya a very Imv.riant
port; it is Waver, utter nolleouoo to describe It lie an
" obscure fishing village.' Henry Howiel, ancestor
of the Duke al Bedford, and Walter Frampton,
ancestor of the Moret xi farndy, were deocribed at of
Weymouth. but I cannot quota the &tee out of book.
—Yount faithfully,
THOMAS BONI).
George Frederick Ellie, Esq."
There is a treasure chest, now in our Custom
House, taken by us from toe Sj. wish Arnie a. Ihe
State authorities, evi lently, have always ju led we
were neither "obscure" nor " indosdicant, ' as our
able and zeolous Mayor said ate public meeting about
the "King's Statue." I object to these misi.adiug
statements. This ends the 'war of words for prin-
ciple. "—Moorhead it. Bilis.
GSMOS FRIDIRICK ELLIS.
P.l3,—When George lii. came he found live
shipbuilding yards working in this " issigoificant,
obscure, dshiog village."
G.F.E.
"Where from the neighbouring hills her lineage
Wey doth path,
Whose Immo, not our leant that watch the midday,
bath
The glories that belong unto • :mii'ete pit;
Tho' Wey the least of all the Neiems that reaort
To the Doreetian sande, from off the higher Ph re."
—IIit4TTO•S I'uLTOLDION.

TOLPIIDDLI.

Ur Lords of the Admirelty h .re been visaed to
add per year to Mr. Jllll.ll St.m.tield's pension,
from the lit of Febrile, y, 1882.