Thomas Holland, who was for half a century
Minister of this Parish, a small living yet he never solicited for a
greater
nor improved to his own advantage his marvellous talents in applying the
powers of nature to the useful purposes of life, the most curious and
complete
engine which the world now enjoys _for raising water_ being invented by
him.
He departed the 11th day of May in the year of our Lord 1730,
Aged 84 years.
During his term of office the register was kept in a very careful
manner
and excellent handwriting, a contrast to later efforts by his
successors.
[Illustration: OLD SARUM: THE MAIN GATE OF THE CASTLE FROM WITHIN.]
The evening was now coming on, and we had yet to walk eight miles into
Salisbury by what was called the "Upper Road," which crossed a tract of
bleak and rather uninteresting downs; but the road was well defined and
the daylight, such as it was, remained with us longer than if we had
gone by the more picturesque road along the tree-lined banks of the
River Avon. Amesbury was but a small place, and the only industry that
we could hear of that ever existed there was the manufacture of tobacco
pipes branded with a gauntlet, the name of the maker.
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