The World:—"It is going to be a bit of a job to rebuild this {In 1347 Lyme Regis sent four ships to sist Edward VI in the siege of Calais. During the Civil Wars Lyme Regis, though ts defence might seem impossible, held out waist an overwhelming force' for two months and finally compelled the enemy to satire. It is recorded that on this occasion the women of Lyme put on breeches, to make he enemy think there were more men in the town than there were, and helped serve She guns.
This was particularly gallant of them, as Lyme did not treat its women well, whipping rem without compunction. Such items as "Paid to whipping four women 4 shillings, "for whipping Agnes Abbot twice 2s. 44." were common in the mayor's accounts only a year or two before the siege. One wonders whether the unfortunate Agnes put on breeches and served the guns.
Of the many show places of Dorset there! is neither space nor need to write. Corfe Castle so perfectly old world and unimproved that it scarcely seems real, Studland, where the massive walls of the Norman church must cover as much ground as the whole nave and chancel. Sharburn with its superb abbey, and beautiful old school dating from Edward V1, but having a much older monastic foundation, land various beautiful fishes. We never saw them on a bill of fare, the only sh offered [being plaice, which is rather a dull sh and jereasy, or haddock and kippers. Dorsetshire must "be full of old peculiar recipes—{frumenty for instance, that delicious stew Jot fresh wheat and cream. Why does not some one specialize in them as a Frenth Innkeeper would? It should pay him handsomely. As for fruit, with exquisite plu: apples and pears horally rotting on the trees, why do our country inns stock nothing [but oranges and bananas?
'There was one exception. At Dorsetshire were served with savoury omelettes which Mont St. Michael could not equal, match: ess rolls and butter, blackberry and' apple pie' such as I have never before seen (a lovely' purple mash between two delicate layers of pastry) and a Cheddar cheese which I shall remember to my dying day. The whole cheese was served up like a Stilton, wrapped ju a napkin, and one dug out its fragrance with a big spoon.
For some reason this eating house, a lovely old building, is dedicated to the infamous! Judge Jeffreys. If he had anything to do with founding the traditions of its cookery, it is something to set against the Bloody The porter who showed us round was full lof pride because Sherburne headed all th [schools of England in this year's examinations for the Oxford and Cambridge Higher certifcates, with 106 passes out of 111 entries. But I was sorry for the five who failed, and two of them were among the cleverest'boys in the school, regarded as "dead certs." Tt only shows the beastly unfairness of ex-laminations, What strikes one even more than the guidebook places, however, is the unpremeditated [beauty of the countless little villages that] nestle among the Dorset hills. At one such we had tea with an old friend, a rector there. He has a charming old stone-built rectory and an exquisite little Norman Early English church at the corner of his garden. There are only 300 parishioners, all farmers lof no great wealth, yet, needing £280 to recondition the church bells, he has already raised over £200 in less than nine months. JOne can think of parishes where you would hardly get that in nine years. But that is the local patriotism of a Dorsetshire village, jin which the church register records the: births, deaths and marriages of the same families for hundreds of years.
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