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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1819. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER HI. From Lymington, throvgh Beauliev, to Hi/the; tutt, Excursions into the adjacent Country, fyc. From Lymington to Beaulieu,-6 miles. Hythe,---5 Dibilen,-.-2 Eling,--.-...-4 Southampton,------5 Quitting Lymington by crossing the causey over the river, we soon see, on the right, Walhampton. The gardens command extensive and pleasing views of the isle of Wight and the water. Through Walhampton, a road conducts to Pilewell House, situated on the coast. The flat, extensive, and quiet lawn forms an agreeable contrast to the busy scene of navigation which the channel presents, stretching from the Needles to Spithead. Adjoining Pilewell is Baddesley Chapel, a small building, belonging to the estate; but remarkable only for its occupying the site of an ancient.preceptory of Knights Templars, founded here about the end of the twelfth century. This order being abolished in 1312, Edward II. granted the preceptory to the Knights Hospitallers of Jerusalem, in whose possession it continued till the Reformation. It was worth, at the dissolution, j£ll8 l6s. Id. per annum. Between fifty and sixty years ago, the phenomenon of the groaning tree of Baddesley was matter of discourse far and wide through the country. In detailing the history of it, we cannot do better than resort to Mr. Gilpin's account. "A cottager, who lived near the centre of the village, heard frequently a strange noise, behind his house, like that of a person in extreme agony. Soon after, it caught the attention of his wife, who was then confined to her bed. She was a timorous woman; and being greatly alarmed, her husband endeavoured to persuade her, that the noise she heard, was only the bellowing of the stags in the forest. By degrees, however, the neighbours on all sides heard it, and the...
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