the First ; they consist of the shirt in which he was beheaded, faintly stained with blood, his white silk drawers, and the sheet in which the body was wrapped
after the execution. Mr. John Ashburnham attended him on the scaffold at Whitehall, when he presented him, as a last token, his watch ; this is also carefully preserved among the relics : the face of it is composed of flowers in mosaic. These articles were bequeathed by Bertram Ashburnham, Esq., in 1743, to the clerk of the parish, and his successors for ever, to be exhibited as great curiosities ; and are to be seen only on Monday.[1]
BODIAM CASTLE
is distant from Hastings sixteen miles, standing in a low situation, surrounded by a moat, seven feet in depth, and extending from the walls to the land, east and west, 116 feet, north and south 106 feet . It was erected in 1386, by Sir Edward Dalyngrudge, who accompanied his father, Sir John, in the army of Edward the Third, to France, where they fought in the battles of Cressy and Poictiers, but afterwards tarnished the glory there gained, by joining Sir Robert Knowles in his tyrannous exactions in the north of France ; having amassed great riches by plunder, and exacting large ransoms from those who fell into his hands, he returned to England, in the early part of the reign of Richard the Second, and built the castle of Bodiam .
Though in ruins, it still presents to the eye in its exterior, an extensive and magnificent pile, the outer walls being almost entire.
- ↑ The dairy, gardens, &c., were in the late earl's lifetime open to the public, and carriages were allowed to pass through the grounds ; but these boons to the visitors are withdrawn by the present earl. (" May I not do what I like with my own ? " -Speech of Duke of Newcastle.)
