Highways and byways in Surrey . cJ^f 4M Pierrepont House and Bridge. Ills day a seat of Evelyn Duke of Kingston, who named itafter his family. He was the Duke who married the beautifulCountess of Bristol when her lawful husband was still alive:perhaps she used to stare into the Wey at Pierrepont andwonder whether it was worth doing. Frensham stands a little distant from the river, just a cottageor two and a church. But the church holds a famous relic 32 FRENSIIAMS CALDRON —an enormous caldron of beaten copper. Nobody knowsits age ; everybody has a story about it. It was brought byhe fairies, i
Highways and byways in Surrey . cJ^f 4M Pierrepont House and Bridge. Ills day a seat of Evelyn Duke of Kingston, who named itafter his family. He was the Duke who married the beautifulCountess of Bristol when her lawful husband was still alive:perhaps she used to stare into the Wey at Pierrepont andwonder whether it was worth doing. Frensham stands a little distant from the river, just a cottageor two and a church. But the church holds a famous relic 32 FRENSIIAMS CALDRON —an enormous caldron of beaten copper. Nobody knowsits age ; everybody has a story about it. It was brought byhe fairies, is one tradition ; it was nothing of the kind, isanother. Mother Ludlam, the witch of Moor Park, four milesaway, used it for boilings and philtremakings, according to onestory ; yet another connects it with a great stone which used tolie in the neighbourhood. John Aubrey, the antiquary, whoperambulated Surrey in 1673 and 1674, gives the legendin full :—. Beside Fycnshain Pond. In the vestry of the church, on the north side of the cliancel, is anextraordinary great kettle or caldron, which the inhaijitants say, bytradition, was brought hither by the fairies, time out of mind, fromBorough hill, about a mile fromhence. To this place, if any one wentto borrow a yoke of oxen, money, etc., he might have it for a year orlonger so he kept his word to return it. There is a cave where some havefancied to hear music. On this Borough hill (in the Tithing of Cherte, inthe parish of Frensham) is a great stone lying along, of the length of aboutsix feet: they went to this Stone, and knocked at it, and declared that theywould borrow, and when they would repay, and a Voice would answerwhen they should come, and that they should find what they desired toborrow at that Stone. This caldron, with the trivet, was borrowed here POOR MAIDS WEDDINGS 33 after the manner aforesaid, but not returned according to promise ; andthough the caldron was afterwards car
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