The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1883-07-17 00:00:00

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THE DORSET COUNTY EXPRESS AND AGRICULTURAL

Mr. POLLY HO ,tio, in seconding the vote of thtnat
said that b• knew fro n expatiates the duties oni
no Mil amount of tine artd trouble. They winning
much Indebted to Mr. Naugle foe what he had done.
and he thanked him for It He woold help him as
much as possible. He hoped that by the tints of the
regatta he would be well eaough to sot with as mu&
energy as hitherto.
Tim MAT a having nods mum. from Kr. Dennis
regretti,g hie Inability to attend, protowni that tho
usual programme be got out.
Mr. PELLT Hoorn sold that In former years whoa
only two yacht' raced, all 1t,.. prises were awarded,
' he should suggest that forth. future where °sly two
noble competed lb .1 the third prise be withheld. Ho
observed on the balanoe.sheet • sues of £l2 10..
unclaimed for pris s woo at the last regatta. He moved
that a ewe be added not al prigs noolaimed
within three mouths would be forfeited.
Both these suggestions were adopted.
The Sailing Gentnittoe were apOnted as oo pre
riot's occasions, sal it was remarked that the a=-
mitten would like lame of the resident ya-ht ownem
on the committee

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Mr. Pitts Hoorst hoped tbay would do s wadi*
wore for the Selling Olub of WaymooUt Tbey were
&drunkard by limr twitches ae ,rly every week lath.
loosl paper., sod he hopwl they would be able to offer
little mows le the way of prises for their keel
club.

—it- was resolved thst the pmgrantnee be an usual,
with additioosi prises for the Bailing Club. Distrist
oolleoton were appointed as Iset year.
The fir.t °mastitis' in.:sting will take plies the second
Monday in August.
BO on the close • gentleman requested the Mayor
to call &meeting with references to the rum.
The toe* log closed with a •.ite of Classics to the
Mayor, ornp wed by Mr. A. GailiAlt, sod seconded
by Mr. F• 111112.

• cheek up-in the mnit I .yal of all southern strong.
hoble, C .rfo C tr. WI., 'beg irisoo at length was
broke i up in nn that la. members committed
bore a 'reit de ii •.1 bar" earrying off abed Dolling the
iron we low bar., the leUlan water pipes and even a
large quanTy of the w demoting of the rooms and
chambers huh, at lemt, b the statement of Sir
Buser I Burke, Dilworth Oaths is described "en
extract cub f e o 80 NU, with • °healer lower at • ice
of its four earners." These au 30 feet Ia diameter,
and elm about 15 feet above the walls, shish
am *mint lid. The walls theineelvoe are very thick—
nowhern lees than six feet; and the iseed awl
'voles I ro iii the baseabook used as °Beek are
about as 01111111VO as the lower chambers of the old
Abbey of Bindoi amid have bees. The house itself.
la fact, in spite of its 6. and cenm.nilng sibtellon
in the ml let of a garden and park, is very monastic in
It. appearobos both without sad within. end singularly
deficient in tiest air of oimfort which is generally
cha-uteristic f our Sheikh country houses. The
rooms are large Anil lofty, sod sciantily furnished, and
the wiodows let in about as much win ias light. At
least this was the owe a few years ago I and the while
hum and d main looks nultempt end enured for.
Yet Luiworth In its time has welcomed many greet
sod distinguished guests within de walls. In 161.5 the
Royal pedant, King Jams, ward here for some day%
while hunting in the Isis of Purbeck, which is not far
off. In the year of the Greet Phagu., WO, Isilworth
wee visited by Charles II awl his brother James, thee
Duke of Turk; end the memory of their visit is kept
up by their names befog still afficcd to the room* in
which they re•pectively slept. More than owe during
his sojourns at his tem:nuke weteringiplace of Wey-
mouth, Geoute lIL unto over to Luiwortk, socom-
penis I by queen Charlotte and Lis then youthful
family. On. such visit paid by the Royal Family, in
1739, is recorded in • Latin inscription upon a tablet
of stone over the front entrance of the castle. In
ttrseo.f his ottani pc -Indices against "Papist.," King
we. vary food of "Squire and emaciated
freely with him in the country, though the appose-
suers of the Roman Catholic gutty at the 0 out of the
Sovereign at B'. Jones' wen few an I far between
before dal reign of Vietoria. We have .1.1 '13.4 the
Welds were staunch R men Catholics. Th et hry "had
the courage oft• size 'evictions" I. prove I bi the feat
Wet, in spite of the silly hatred and the a ill oiore fool.
lab few with which • " Papist " was theu regarded,
Hr. Weld received and housed in farm baddiege on bin
segos all Lniworth • **luny, of Out !odes monk.,
who had been expelled from francs at the drat B. >vole-
doomed had sought.. asylum oo the shone of lingl hod.
Loud was the popular outcry against them on this
account at dot ; but VMS it wee found that the white
robed brethren bad no more sinister design Hun that
of fanning • few of the outlying eutions of the estate
for their own support, sines they lived cbielly on veget-
ables, the pub gredudly 'shear's'; sod after • few
years she brethru and choir abbot found • permsasat
home in Otiarnwood Forest, Leicestershire, where they
remain to the proneet day. A full account of th s curious
D,weetshlr.ooleoy 'Falba found in •sinsti history of the
aistercilan Order la Entered, by one of the "Brethren,"
published la 1859. In the gorden to the sonth.west
of the castle studs • chapel, handsome of its kiud,
but at • style little stilted to Christian worship, being
fee more like a Page& menu/onto It wee built in
1788, as sou as the relaxation of tlai penal laws
rendered it safe to erect such • structure. It is In
plea a circle, with • aces intersecting it, and it is
covered with a dome and lantsra. Its interior arrange-
meats are all of the Italian type. The gardens are
warmly In keepti? with the Ss* and style of the
caste; but the , is line sad studded with noble
ti oaks. On the Gs of Kr. Thomas Weld, of but.
worth, in 1110, the estate devolved on his eldest moo
Thomas, who late in life, on being • widower, took
holy orders, and bonnie • cardinal of the Roman
Catholic Chun*. The setae and the repoosintatioa
of the Wilds pawed, cm his death in 1837, to his
brother, Mr. Humphrey Weld, whose grandson mow
possesses it. It should be added that even in the
present century Lalworth Castle has been the
temp wary home of Royalty, for It wee tenanted during
one season at lust by the late Duke of Gloucester.
Oir Robert Peel also rented it for a few months. The
name of the Welds wee lug preserved in London by
Wild (probably Wald) street and Wilcdeourt, between
Linwin's-inn-fields and Drury•lane, where Mr. Hum-
phrey Weld built himself • lios =swim in the middle
of the sixtundt °salary. The Mallet and coact have
been 'wept away only within the loot tare* or four
years in order to make roam for • large block of how
menus for artisaos and their famillso—Olobs.