haie and haye.'--Spelman's Glossary.)
The grantees that the author remembers are Brigadier-General
Emanuel Scroope Howe, and his lady, Ruperta, who was a natural
daughter of Prince Rupert by Margaret Hughs; a Mr. Mordaunt, of
the Peterborough family, who married a dowager Lady Pembroke;
Henry Bilson Legge and lady; and now Lord Stawel, their son.
The lady of General Howe lived to an advanced age, long surviving
her husband; and, at her death, left behind her many curious pieces
of mechanism of her father's constructing, who was a distinguished
mechanic and artist,** as well as warrior; and, among the rest, a
very complicated clock, lately in possession of Mr. Elmer, the
celebrated game-painter at Farnham, in the county of Surrey.
(** This prince was the inventor of mezzotinto.)
Though these two forests are only parted by a narrow range of
enclosures, yet no two soils can be more different: for the Holt
consists of a strong loam, of a miry nature, carrying a good turf,
and abounding with oaks that grow to be large timber; while
Wolmer is nothing but a hungry, sandy, barren waste.
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