In that part of the western division of this kingdom which is commonly called
Somersetshire, there lately lived, and perhaps lives still, a gentleman whose name was Allworthy, and who might well be called the favourite of both nature and fortune; for both of these seem to have contended which should bless and enrich him most.
Willoughby had no property of his own in the country; that he resided there only while he was visiting the old lady at Allenham Court, to whom he was related, and whose possessions he was to inherit; adding, "Yes, yes, he is very well worth catching I can tell you, Miss Dashwood; he has a pretty little estate of his own in
Somersetshire besides; and if I were you, I would not give him up to my younger sister, in spite of all this tumbling down hills.
Living up to his income; having no expectations from any living creature; possessing in landed property only some thirty or forty acres in
Somersetshire, with a quaint little dwelling, half farm house, half-cottage, attached-- he was incapable of providing the needful security from his own personal resources.
The house was a country residence in West Somersetshire, called Combe-Raven.
On the far side of a garden and paddock the view overlooked a stream, some farm buildings which lay beyond, and the opening of a wooded, rocky pass (called, in Somersetshire, a Combe), which here cleft its way through the hills that closed the prospect.
Sir Walter Elliot, of Kellynch Hall, in
Somersetshire, was a man who, for his own amusement, never took up any book but the Baronetage; there he found occupation for an idle hour, and consolation in a distressed one; there his faculties were roused into admiration and respect, by contemplating the limited remnant of the earliest patents; there any unwelcome sensations, arising from domestic affairs changed naturally into pity and contempt as he turned over the almost endless creations of the last century; and there, if every other leaf were powerless, he could read his own history with an interest which never failed.
Domingo, and not immediately employed, had come into
Somersetshire, in the summer of 1806" (28).
(39) Maitland, Select Pleas of the Crown, I, 119: part III,
Somersetshire Gaol Delivery A.D.
Proceedings
Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural Society 5 [for 1854], 107-124.
"A Letter Giving an Account of Ookey-hole, and Several Other Subterranean Grottoes and Caverns in Mendip-hills in
Somersetshire" Philosophical Collections (2) 1681.
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