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Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette: Thursday 6th March 1873

The Elder and the Younger Pitt: Their Connection with Bath: …. (long discussion) … Other records of the period inform us of the sincere respect which he retained to the last for his distinguished friend, one of the strongest proofs being that he left him £1,000 in his will. Soon afterwards, Mr. Pitt received a still more substantial token of regard from a Somersetshire baronet, Sir William Pynsent, who, having no children, bequeathed to him his estates at Burton Pynsent worth nearly £3,000 a year in admiration of his conduct. …  (continues) … In 1766, he spent some time in Bath, and he is stated in the newspapers of the day to have taken a house for seven years, but there is not race of renewed intercourse with his constituents. Having made a speech in the House of Commons on the Stamp Act he went to Burton Pynsent where he had formed large pans for the adornment of his estate. …. (long ongoing discussion of the two Pitts and of Burton Pynsent) … It might not be generally known that Burton Pynsent could be seen by travellers on the Bristol and Exeter Railway, close to Langport. The obelisk in the park there was not as people told them erected to Pitt; it was erected by Pitt in gratitude to Sir William Pynsent

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North Devon Journal: Thursday 7th April 1870

Devonian Schools (1869): … (letter listing establishments) … In “Carlisle’s Grammar Schools,” vol. 1, A.S. 1818, these in Devon were described: viz. Ashburton, Chudleigh, Crediton, Exeter, Honiton, Saint Mary, Ottery, Plymouth, Plympton, Tiverton, and Totnes. Chudleigh School, founded by John Pynsent, 1668, is now a boarding school with an endowment of £30 per annum on an estate at Combe, near Croydon. The donor’s executors did not carry his will into effect, as he ordered three Cambridge scholarships to be founded and the endowment was secured by application the Court of Chancery. I am Sir, yours obediently Chris. Cooke: London, 2nd April 1870.

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Portadown News: Saturday 4th November 1896

Concerning Pipes and Such: On an old silver tobacco box, said to have belonged to a Pynsent who left all his estates in Somersetshire to the great Lord Chatham, “from admiration of his talents and patriotism,” was engraved the following lines under a death’s head: – Mens ignis tubulus corpus, mihi vitaque fumus Herba penus, clavus, fata cinis. Which have been rendered: – Of lordly man how humble is the type, a fleeting shadow, a tobacco pipe! His mind the fire, his frame the tube of clay, His breath the smoke so idly puffed away, His food the herb that fills the hollow bowl, Death is the stopper, Ashes ends the whole.

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Bromley and West Kent Telegraph: Saturday 9th November 1895

Old Bromley: A peep into the past: … Sundridge was owned just after the Conquest by the Blunds or Blounds, who were of a powerful family in France, and came over with the Conqueror. Peter le Blund, owner of the place in the time of Henry III, was made by him Constable of the Tower of London in 1254. His descendant, Edward le Blund, contributed ten shillings towards making the Black Prince a knight, in 1345, being assessed at one fourth of a knight’s fee for that purpose, as appears from the book of “Aids” in the reign of Edward III, the king having the right to levy 40s on every knight’s fee on the occasion of the knighting of his eldest son. This family ended in a female heir, who carried the seat in marriage to Willoughby, from whom it passed by purchase to Booth, whose descendant William Booth was found, by inquisition, to die seized of the manor of “Sundrigg,” in the 1st year of Henry VII., held of the Bishop of Rochester by knight’s service, and by the service of making suit at the court of the Palace aforesaid. A descendent, Seth Booth, dying without male issue, one of his daughters carried it in marriage to Thomas Bettenham, whose grandson, Stephen Bettenham, gave it in marriage with his daughter Anne to Robert Pynsent, of Devonshire. He died without issue, and was succeeded by Thomas Washer, a barrister, whose only daughter, and heir Mary carried it in marriage to William Wilson, high sheriff of the county in 1766. His grandson William Wilson sold the manor in 1792 to Edward G Lind in 1796. Claude Scott, of Chislehuret, purchased it, pulled down the old house, and built the handsome mansion which now stands. …

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The Leeds Mercury: Friday 7th September 1888

The Poverty of Public Men:

[A discussion of statesmen with financial problems – includes] ... Amidst all this profusion, the more eminent public men were often embarrassed and poor. Walpole was deeply in debt when he retired from Office. Pitt’s case is full of peculiar pathos. Sir William Pynsent left him an unexpected legacy of £3,000 a year, but it is noticed that “as if to balance this favour of fortune,” his old enemy the gout returned to him immediately afterwards. That was in 1765, and 30 years afterwards he was overhead and ears in debt. In 1797, his debts were estimated at £40,000 and he had heavy mortgages on his Holwood estate.

[see also Pall Mall Gazette: September 5th, 1888]

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Shrewsbury Chronicle: Friday 19th June 1885

The world owes Locke’s famous book to his suggestion, and it will be remembered that the great author of that classical work made the dedication to Mr. Clarke, who represented Taunton in no less than seven Parliaments. 1714 brought a violent contest to the borough, followed by a petition. The mayor returned Sir Francis Warre, Bart. (637) and Henry Portman (635) as duly elected; and the other candidates, William Pynsent (381) and James Smith (381), as unsuccessful. The friends of the latter petitioned against the mayor’s return and much local heart burning and a long hearing in Parliament ensued. The Chief Magistrate seems to have permitted a very large number of unqualified persons to vote for the candidates favoured by himself and refused to allow qualified burgesses to exercise their suffrage on behalf of the defeated gentlemen.  … (continues with discussion of the petition) … The mayor’s return was properly reversed by Parliament, and Messrs. Smith and Pynsent declared duly elected … …

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Wiltshire Times and Trowbridge Advertiser: Saturday 4th April 1885

Reminiscences of Wiltshire Boroughs: … William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, was first returned to Parliament in 1735 for the vacant mounds which went by the name of Old Sarum. Governor Pitt purchased the manor in 1690 for £1,500 and it afterwards passed into the hands of Lords Granville, Caledon and Camelford. The latter, during his proprietorship, sent John Horne Tooke to the House of Commons in 1801. The whole of the West Country was full of the fame of the elder Pitt. Sir William Pynsent, the last of his name, bequeathed Burton Pynsent to the great Minister “in his veneration of a great character of exemplary virtue and unrivalled ability” …

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Trowbridge Chronicle: Saturday 28th March 1885

Disfranchised Boroughs in Wilts: … …  William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, was first returned to Parliament in 1735 for the vacant mounds which went by the name of old Sarum. The whole of the West Country was full of the fame of the elder Pitt. Sir William Pynsent, the last of his name, bequeathed Pynsent to the great Minister “in his veneration of a great character of exemplary virtue and unrivalled ability.” In his days of gout and magnificence he was laid up at Marlborough for several weeks with old enemy. Passing travellers, who were told the great Chatham lay in the Castle in pain, were profoundly impressed, as it was intended that they should be, with the army of footmen and grooms, and valets of all classes and degrees, that swarmed about the borough in the service of the invalid.

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Bristol Times and Mirror: Monday 16th March 1885

Potwallopers of Taunton: Taunton, as far as it can be traced, was a borough town as early as the common people became privileged with a representation … (discussion) … The dissolution of Parliament by the death of Queen Anne, and the accession of George I, produced a very violent contest at Taunton (as it did at many other places). The members returned were Francis Warre and Henry Portman, but the defeated candidates, William Pynsent and James Smith and their friends being greatly dissatisfied petitioned against the return, specially impugning the conduct of the mayor. The House of Commons proceeded to the hearing of the merits of this election on Thursday July 28, 1917. … (continues) …

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Larne Reporter and Northern Counties Advertiser: Saturday 26th September 1874

Fiction (?): In The Tented Field: mam. At the siege of Namur by the Allies, there were in the ranks of the company commanded by Captain Pincent, in Colonel Frederick Hamilton’s regiment, one Unnion, a corporal and one Valentine, a private sentinel. There happened between these two men a dispute about a matter of love, which upon some aggravation grew to an irreconcilable hatred. Unnion, being the officer of Valentine, took all opportunities even to strike his rival, and profess the spite and revenge which moved him to it. The sentinel bore it without resistance but frequently said he would die to be revenged of that tyrant. They had spent whole months thus — one injuring, the other complaining — when, in the midst of this rage towards each other, they were commanded upon the attack of the castle, when the corporal received a shot in the thigh and fell; the French pressing on, and he expecting to he trampled to death, called out to his enemy, “Ah, Valentine! can you leave me here? Valentine immediately ran back, and in the midst of a thick fire of the French took the corporal upon his back and brought through all that danger as far as the Abbey of Salsine, where a cannon ball took off his head: his body fell under his enemy whom he was carrying off. Unnion immediately forgot his wound, rose up, tearing his hair, and then threw himself upon the bleeding carcass crying,” Ah, Valentine! was it for me who have so barbarously used thee that thou hast died? I will not live after thee!” His comrades forced him from the body and brought him to a tent where his wounds were dressed; but the next day, still calling upon Valentine and lamenting his cruelties to him he died in the pangs of remorse and despair.

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