The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-11-14 00:00:00

THE DORSET' COTJNTYEXPI

-ptialL—Tbis ;nen never begs, bat some dwellers in the
streets that he haunts occasionally throw him a crust or
• bone, or give him an old rag to help in covering 1114
nakedness. Cabbage-stalks, mouldy °rusts, hums, and
thr off.l, I have seen him pick up in the streets tad
knew like the dogs, with whnte lm often disputes roe-
ses•ion of a bone. Yet this man, in spite of hia filth
and squalor, has the carriage of a gentleman and a line
intellectual onantenance. I have been told that he name
I to Irm‘fon to ire the exhilitim of TB3l, and Ittring run
throo7h at I,ast a competence in diaaipati,n, has since
live 1 Tterally in an I upon the streets. A more torrible
W truing seal noarcely be found of the mental and social
deg Ad ttion amend by "drink."

with a character of peculiar sanctity, which
made lawful and even commendable means that
Otherwise in his case, would have been elearly
indefonsible.l3-4t is not alone the Cavalier
her *hotel Mr. Kinglake in the course of his
cuticula researohes has studied to commensurate,
as witness the following notice of
A LaDT Or =it °WAX TOM
"Here &hard, after having given an aooonnt of the
fatal battle of Hamby, in N trthaoiptonshire, resum ie
his narrative of the affairs of . the West, an tee Punting
the particulars of the 4464 of the King's force.s us ler
Lard Goring, near Langport, in Somer,etshire, prouieds
to the elation of the siege of the neighb !tiring fortress
of Bridgwater by the Perliement arians of the reonodolled
school, under the command of both Faifx end Crom-
well in permit,. This tutees., though not vety favour.
ably situated for defen ie. was by come thought to be
' impregnable.' and its governor, Edmund Wyndham,
who had learnt the art of War in the Low Countries,
...eared the King. 'it was not to he taken.' Suneniin.
of surrender was in due curse of war made and re
p•ated, eith, at the r•ante t n, an offer of honourable
awl even favoorshle tone !if oiiiitulation, inch es
neighbouring gerri.mieof stall greater importanee shortly
after gladly acoeivol. but was again en.l again rejected
with the tamed disdain ; and it is some*here stated
that Wyndham's wife, Who had great power ortr her
husband, was the tense of the unacoounteble and un-
reasoning obstinacy in this ease evinced. She was a
very beautiful womrn, said ti be the most beautiful in
Fmgland, the daughter if Hugh Ppm, E-q., of Lincoln's
Inn, sad on the arrival of the firat summons of sur-
render is said to have been perfectly fran,io, and tat
hive torn her dishevelled hair, and beat thoos breasts
Thigh she truly said had given suck to the her of
England'e ore-en, having in feet been wet-nurso to
Charles It , a oireurostanee from whence her husband
with his ennteriporaries obtained the sobrgnet of
'Nivea Wyndham. But men Ile Fairfax and Crom-
well were not to be diverted from their purpose by
arts such as these, arid sines all fair and honourable
terms had been disdainfully related, as their last
resource they resolved on storming the fortress.
Time was given for the departure of the women and
children, permission of which it appears our heroine
availed hetaielf equally with those of her sex leas boast-
ful ; and Hugh Peters encoeraging the men to the aesanit
in his usual animated strain, one pot of the town was
cepiured whilst the other remained in the hands of its
defenders, who no way daunted by the disaster, set lire
to the portion that hitA surrendered, called
and consisting of 'goodly buildings ;) but the fire being
extinguished, the leet moiety was reduced to the same
extremly as the first, and oompelled likewise to cur-
model, The victors now would no longer give the
terms they Sad before,, freely offered, and would grant
nothing beyond "bare quarter." an-I for the garrison
and notPoombatauta to be at the mercy and disposal of
the Parliament. This was a conquest said to ooinprise
'three great victories,' and is peifectly gloated over by
the writer of a Parliamentary pamphlet atilt extant,
w o sums up the spoils taken at what he calls this
great capture' In the following brief manner : -
•9f)() °Mears ; 2,000 Pi isoners ; 200 Malignant
Priests! (that is, Minister., of the Church of England];
800 [lO-sea; Money and Jewels valued at £1.00,000,
with env number of Alords, Knights, and Colonels
captured,'
"Another pamphlet, probably by the name writer,
gives' a fuller relation, with the terriele storming of
the town;' and Oldmixon, binuelf a native of Bridg-
water, arty; 'The resistance the Royislista made bad
more of frensy In It than coinage.'
"Concerning the demi here congregate I to the ex-
treordinery number of two hundred, a word must be
said. They were assembled from the country around
Brelgwatee for • very oonsiderale distance for safety,
and the Ike may be said of the money and jewels above-
mentioned: it was *effected here for the sante parpoNt
and wan intended for the future support of themselves: !
their wives and children ; so that thus cot off from
their resourees, and marched up, or conveyed in some
cases by water, to the metropolis, their sufferings, no 1
lees than those of the combatants were intone°, and
under which It was not long before most of them ex-
pired, and hardly any survived to the Restoration.
Some of these eases I myself have inquired into and
traced, but all I shall here add is, that they were truly
pitiable and heartrending."
With regard to Henry Byam himaelf, his
almost tragic stifferinge are best recounted in the
concluding summary of Bishop Kennett. who
seems to have intended to include some account
of this Western Worthy in that "True History
of England" which he meditated producing,
and for which he made notes, amongst which
were then, almost the very words used by
Anthony Wood, and Dr. It amnet Ward. Vicar
of Sturmituder, (the latter embodied in that re.
warkable Laten inscription on De. Byam's tomb
in Luckhom Church) :—" Of his having rained
men and horse for his Majesty—of having en-
gaged his five sons in the King's service—of his
having exposed all his estates to rapine, plunder,
and sequestration—his children to distress and
danger—and himself to many grievous shift 4
exigencies, and hardships—his wife and daughter
being both drowned in flying from the rebels,
&c., &c., and be concludes by stating what his
adherence to matter' of fact, and his writing "a
True History of England" required from him,
that this Dr. Byam might have obtained what
he avonld have asked, as well as that amongst
the loyal clergy the greatest sufferers were the
least considered; and that chiefly owing to their
own modesty, "as in the cum of an excellent
Man, Dr. Henry Brun," where he is made the
type of a els= and that of the greatest sufferers
by their loyalty without commensurate reward."
As another interesting ()contribution to local.
history which Mr. Kinglate has in so many pre- .
vious instances strived to enrich, the author has
and deism' our thanks for this publication
.airctilated at his own expense.
trortroplatuce.