. More famous homes of Great Britain and their stories . the private roads. But the public roadfrom Horningsham to Warminster provides a very fair equivalent, 232 Xonglcat passing as it does for a considerable distance through the samewoods. Ponticon rhododendrons, azaleas, and patches of there are in abundance ; and anywhere the wayfaringman, if tired or hot, can recline sub tegmine, without let fromhedge or fence, seeing around him Nordmanns coning only at thetop, and comely silvers, and other conifers, and deciduous trees,but never a Weymouth pine ; for though the Weymouth pin
. More famous homes of Great Britain and their stories . the private roads. But the public roadfrom Horningsham to Warminster provides a very fair equivalent, 232 Xonglcat passing as it does for a considerable distance through the samewoods. Ponticon rhododendrons, azaleas, and patches of there are in abundance ; and anywhere the wayfaringman, if tired or hot, can recline sub tegmine, without let fromhedge or fence, seeing around him Nordmanns coning only at thetop, and comely silvers, and other conifers, and deciduous trees,but never a Weymouth pine ; for though the Weymouth pinewas introduced by the first Lord Weymouth from North America,the tree has the bad grace not to thrive here. And thus the road goes on, gradually trending downwards,till at last it emerges from the woods. And then, when stiffthorn-hedges and open fields and bare flinty Wiltshire downssuddenly present themselves, with a sort of rude shock it isquickly realised that you have passed beyond even the outskirtsof Longleat the Magnificent. IRufforb Hbbe^ 233. RUFFORD ABBEY RUFFORD ABBEY BY LORD SAVILE THE Manor of Rufford was at the commencement of thetwelfth century the fee of Gilbert de Gaunt. This Gil-bert was a grandson of Gislebert de Gaunt, a nephew ofWilliam the Conqueror, and his name appears on the roll of Bat-tle Abbey. Gilbert married Roesia, Countess of Lincoln, andwas himself created Earl of Lincoln. On his deathbed, in theyear 1148, he bequeathed Rufford to a colony of Cistercianmonks from Rievaulx. The deed of gift, which is in Latin, is ina perfect state of preservation. It bears the seal of Gilbert, andruns as follows: I, Gilbert de Gaunt, Earle of Lincoln, to allmen and to all his children of the Holy Church, greeting. Knowye me to have given and granted, in perpetual alms, to the monks of Rievaulx, for the souls of my father and mother, and 235 236 TRuffort) Hbbep for the remission of my sins, my manor of Rufford, and whatso-ever I have there in domains, to make an
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