Tag: Burton Pynsent (location)

Votes for Women: Anti-Suffrage Meetings at Taunton: On Tuesday afternoon and evening meetings were held at the Parade Assembly rooms under the auspices of the National Union for Opposing Women’s Suffrage, at which addresses were given by Miss Gladys Pott, a well-known opponent of votes for women, and Mr. J. L. Maxse, of London … (description of event …. “Some women even went so far as to marry men who drank, and they deserved all the misery that followed” etc.) … A number of questions having been asked and satisfactorily answered, a vote of tanks to the Chairman and speakers was passed, on the motion of the Hon. Mrs. Corfield, seconded by Mrs. Crossley, of Burton Pynsent.

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Parlourmaid: Will Lady Recommend experienced Parlourmaid? Single place, help given, wages up to £35. Excellent long character indispensible: Address, Mrs. Crossley, Burton Pynsent, Curry Rivel, Taunton.

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Mothers’ Union: About fifty members of the Mothers’ Union met at the Vicarage on the afternoon of Aug. 31^st. Tea was provided at four o’clock, an excellent address being subsequently delivered by Mrs. Crossley, Burton Pynsent: Seven new members were admitted by Mrs. Cely Trevilian.

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Taunton Vale Foxhounds: Today (Friday), Burton Pynsent

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Taunton Vale Foxhounds: Monday Stokewood; Tuesday, Broadway Pound; Thursday, Burton Pynsent; Friday, Sept. 2, Cross Keys, Ilton, at 7.

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Local Author’s Mistake: — I have recently been reading “Men and Mansions,” by Mr. Harold Spender, the famous author and journalist, and as he is a Somerset man (born at Bath 1864) was not a little surprised to find him stating that Burton Pynsent was in Wiltshire. Writing about the elder Pitt he says: — “He inhabited, indeed, many mansions in the course of his long and magnificent career — “Burton Pynsent,” in Wiltshire; “Hayes,” in Surrey; and often as a brother-in-law to Lord Temple, the great house at Stowe.” “Burton Pynsent” is the parish Curry Rivel, near Langport. In Kelly’s “Directory of Somersetshire” the following particulars arc given under the heading of Curry Rivel: — “On the summit of a hill, about one mile west, the Taunton-road, is Burton Pynsent, formerly the residence of Sir William Pvnsent, Bart., widower of Mary, daughter and co-heiress of Thomas Jennings, Esq. to whom the ancient Manor of Byrton Pynsent belonged. Sir William, who died 15th June, 1754, bequeathed it to William Pitt, the first Earl of Chatham, and the property, on the death of Lady Chatham, 3rd April, 1803, passed by sale to the Pinney family. . . . On the estate is a monument erected in 1768 to Sir William Pynsent by Lord Chatham.” — F.C.

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Notes and Queries: …. …. St. Michael’s Hill, Montacute: A correspondent signing himself “M.M.” writes: “The most interesting extract from Professor Freeman’s speech on this subject, which appeared in your last week’s issue, reminds me that in the long ago, I read an excellent poetical description of St. Michael’s Hill, at Montacute. It was written, I believe, by Thomas Shoel, a native of the village. Some of your readers may have a copy, and it would be well worth re-publishing, if it has not already appeared in your columns.” We wonder if the following are the lines to which our reader refers. If so, we believe they were written by the Rev. – Middleton and not by Thos. Shoel: – “Enchanting hill, whose sylvan cone, Delights the bard and wand’rer lone; Still thy retreat, and blest they shade. For sober musing, kindly made …. (etc) … (includes) … “Dwelling awhile on Pynsent’s grove, Where Chatham’s spirit yet may rove, My ken veers westward and descries, Where Cambria’s distant mountains rise…”

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