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John Keble's Parishes: A History of Hursley and Otterbourne

Chapter 7 THE BUILDING AT HURSLEY

Word Count: 903    |    Released on: 01/12/2017

s two surviving daughters for ￡36,000 to Willia

y. His third son, Samuel, spent some years as a merchant at Dantzic, where he made a considerable fortune, and returning to England, married Mary the daughter of William Dawsonne of Hackney. He was an intima

sion on the 9th of November. Both were Whigs, though the Jacobite Lord

mas Parker, Earl of Macclesfield, and had in course of time six sons and three daughters. He

le, and it was decided to pull the house down and erect a new one on a different site. Tradition, and Noble in his Cromwell, declared that th

leading up to it. The house was in the style that is now called Queen Anne, of red brick quoined with stone, with large-framed heavy sash windows and double doors to each of the principal rooms, some of which were tapestrie

tone steps going up at each end, outside, but, as we see from drawings and prints of the time, with n

next year, only the tower being left of the former edifice. In 1808 some few capitals of the old pillars remained in parts of the village, and were adjudged by Mr. Ma

dimensions followed those of the old church, and were ample enough, the north aisle a good deal shorter than the chancel, and all finished with gables crow-stepped in the Dutch fashion. It was substantially paved within, and was a costly and anxiously planned achievement in the taste of the time, carefully preserving all the older monuments. A mausoleum in the same style was

liam, who was born in 1746, and was member for the county in three Parliaments. He was a man of great integrity, humanity, and charity, very affable and amiable, an

n as Sir Thomas Freeman Heathcote. He was member for the county from 1808 till 1820, when he retired. He is reported to have k

in his fifty-sixth year on t

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