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| "It. | To Flegg for sweepinge anddressinge upp the church the nynth of September beeinge A day of Thanks-givinge for his Maties delivañce from the Newkett Plot | } | 00 | 03 | 00 | |
| "It. | For twoe Bookes for the 9th of September aforesaid | } | 00 | 01 | 00 | |
J. B. COLMAN.
Eye, April 29, 1851.
Carved Ceiling in Dorsetshire (Vol. iii., p. 424.).
—Philip, King of Castile (father to Charles V.), was forced by foul weather into Weymouth Harbour. He was hospitably entertained by Sir Thomas Trenchard, who invited Mr. Russell of Kingston Russell to meet him. King Philip took such delight in his company that at his departure he recommended him to King Henry VII. as a person of spirit "fit to stand before princes, and not before mean men." He died in 1554, and was the ancestor of the Bedford family. Sir Thomas Trenchard probably had the ceiling. See Fuller's Worthies (Dorsetshire), vol. i. p. 313.
A. HOLT WHITE.
The house of which your correspondent has heard his tradition is certainly Woolverton House, in the parish of Charminster, near this town.
It was built by Sir Thomas Trenchard, who died 20 Hen. VIII.; and tradition holds, as history tells us, that Phillip, Archduke of Austria, and King of Castile, with his queen Juana, or Joanna, were driven by weather into the port of Weymouth: and that Sir Thomas Trenchard, then the High Sheriff of the county, invited their majesties to his house, and afforded them entertainment that was no less gratifying than timely.
Woolverton now belongs to James Henning, Esq. There is some fine carving in the house, though it is not the ceiling that is markworthy; and it is thought by some to be the work of a foreign hand. At Woolverton House were founded the high fortunes of the House of Bedford. Sir Thomas Trenchard, feeling the need of an interpreter with their Spanish Majesties, happily bethought himself of a John Russell, Esq., of Berwick, who had lived some years in Spain, and spoke Castilian; and invited him, as a Spanish-English mouth, to his house: and it is said he accompanied the king and queen to London, where he was recommended to the favour of Hen. VII.; and after rising to high office, received from Hen. VIII. a share of the monastic lands.