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Identifier: wessex00hollrich (find matches)
Title: Wessex
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Holland, Clive, 1866- Tyndale, Walter, 1855-1943
Subjects: Dorset (England) -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : Adam & Charles Black
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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e Minster.The former estate is a very ancient one, and takes itsname from Brian de Insula, its owner under KingJohn. It passed into the possession of the Portmanfamily by purchase, and the Portman who was ownerat the end of the seventeenth century was one of thefirst magnates to rally to the standard of William ofOrange. At a little distance further afield from Blandford isthe now deserted manor house of Eastbury, which wasbuilt by Vanbrugh for George Doddington, once Lordof the Admiralty, out of moneys which, report states,he acquired none too honestly during his term of office.Before the lordly pleasure-house which he had plannedwas completed, Doddington died, leaving it and allhis wealth to George Bubb Doddington, who becameLord Melcombe, and spent an almost inconceivablesum in completing the mansion. Here he resided formany years, entertaining a large number of those whowere celebrated in Literature and Art; and on his 134 MELBURY PARK Kings Hintock Court in A Group of Nobie Dames
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.Aft—il The Phantom Coach death the house and estate passed into the possessionof the Temple family, who, being unable to afford theheavy expenditure necessary to keep up the place,actually offered that anyone who would occupy it andkeep it in repair should live there rent free and alsohave ;^200 a year for doing so. But no one under-took to do this, and the house was allowed to fall intodisrepair, and was gradually dismembered and pulleddown, with the exception of one wing. Eastbury has a similar distinction to that of manywest-country mansions, in that it is reputed to behaunted ; and just as the Turberville phantom coach issaid to pass at certain times over the old Elizabethanbridge at Wool, so does a phantom vehicle driven bya headless coachman issue through the iron gates ofthis old deserted mansion, to the frightening of yokelswho see, or fancy they see, it. Indeed, there are stillthose living whom it is impossible to persuade that thisghostly equipage exists only in disturbed

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