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Thomas Hollis in His Dorsetshire Retirement Thomas Hollis in his Dorsetshire retirement The Harvard community has made this article openly available. Please share how this access benefits you. Your story matters Citation Robbins, Caroline. 1975. Thomas Hollis in his Dorsetshire retirement. Harvard Library Bulletin XXIII (4), October 1975: 411-428. Citable link https://nrs.harvard.edu/URN-3:HUL.INSTREPOS:37364384 Terms of Use This article was downloaded from Harvard University’s DASH repository, and is made available under the terms and conditions applicable to Other Posted Material, as set forth at http:// nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:dash.current.terms-of- use#LAA Tl10111as Hollis i11 His Dorsetsl1ire Retire111e11t Caroline Robbil1s XE OF TM F: J JRA~-r "POPtJr.ous of Eng}jsh cou n tics, Dorsctsl1 ire enjoys delicious seener)\ dcscrlJcd by \YriIJja111 l1 jrr~ first Earl of Ch~thn.n1 ( 1708-177 8),. as ' 1l~iJI, dale~,vood and ,vatcr~ happjly n1ing1ed." 1 Its southern coast is fringed ,vith flo,1;rery cliffs. Lirg-cr to\vns :.:\ref e\·v, and sn1all corn pared ,vith those of n1Rny nth er areas. \I illages, of ten h~vjng .channing churches like the Norn1a11 edifice at Sutton Dinghnn11 and hospitable inns like the Fox nt Corscon1bc and the l(ing,s Arnis nt Pudd}cto,vn, serve scattered habir::itioJlS+An ancient ridgc,vay spans the shire fron1 the Do\vns above Ilcaniinsrcr ,vesnvard across the Devon ]inc to the n1outh of the J\xe, 2-nd in a north-e::istcrly direction to,vards Shaftcsbt1 ry 1"hc Lyrnc, Brit 1 nnd Stou r flo,v into the Eng li.sh Channe]; the Parrett, \r eo, and Brue find their ,vay to ,vcstcrn ,vatcJs through Son1crsct. Ruins and carth\vorks :=ifford fTequcnl rc1nindcrs of a rc111otc pasL The o]d sen- going trad c in local serge and 1i nen ,T:=tnishedab our 1760, but the ports of Lyn1c~ ,,, cyn1outh, ~nd Poole have long been kncnvn as resorts~ Chathan1 praised the pure air and dclightf ul situation of [...,yrne.. Thoinas 1-:Iollis( 1720-1 774) extolled the to,vn ::1sthe finest 1 \vinter station" for invalids, and declared th~it its n1ild c]i111ateand superiority of prospect ,vas ''111ntchlcss'~ in England .s Chatharn in r 77 1 ]cft the disrrac.:tions of \\ 7estn1instcr to seek peace and hca 1th at ], is house j n Son1crsct ::tt Burton-P\'nsent 1 2.4 niile~ f ron1 Lyn1c~ l~oni~1 a ,ve::11thyecccntric 1 one of the be~t kno\vn benefactors of eighteenth-century I-:iarvard, the d isscnting acadcn 1y·in ,v hich his farnily had long n1aint~ined a generous interest, returned in 1754 fron1 1 ,. Correspo11dence of lVni. Pitt 1 ~nrl of Ckt1thMN,4 v~, ed. , {rn. S, To.y1or ~nd John T-l. .Pringle (London; John !\·1urray., 184"0), JV, 82-r 83 ( i 2 Sept. 17711 Ch~iha1n to John Calera ft, Esqr.). Hci:-cll.ftcrcited tLS-CC. ::CC, ]\T., -;..67(8 J unc 1 773t Chathan1 to Lndy Chatham). Londun., Puhlic Rcc::01·dOffice, Chathi1m Paprrst 40 G. D+ 8/40,. here cited by date {l". 1-1. to Chatha1n, 9 Sept. I 7 i I and J; Sept. r 7 73). 41 I Harvard University - Houghton Library / Harvard University. Harvard Library bulletin. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Library. Volume XXIII, Number 4 (October 1975) 412 H nrvard L.ib'l·aryBulletin. travc1s abroad! completing an excellent and varied education+ l)is- gustcd ,,=-ithcontcnlporary political life and corruption, instead of running for parlian1ent'.Ior officer he <levotcdthe fifteen be!-jt years of his lif c to a master-p]an, the dissen1inatiun of ,vorks on governn1ent designed to inspire and preserve libert)T· From the exertion of dis~ patching thousands of books overseas as ,ve.ll a~ in his native land, he retired in A.ugust 1770, \Vork for the plan concluded, to his extensive est::1tesin rhe parishes of Corscon1be and I-Iulstock. To the pleasure he expected and found in Dorset, ,vas addcdl after son1c n1onths, re- ne,ved f ricn<lshipand con1panionship ,vith the Chathan1 famtly. The stresses l .-ondon Jifc had brought din1inished~ .l\. very different man can he dJsc.:ovcrcdsho,ving Ch::1than1the Cobb at l... yrnc and, the Earl ,vrote his ,vif c, 1 1 Junc r 7 7 3., ''rnorc beauties in the course of yesterday than I could have discovered \Vithout hin1 in 2 t,velvcmonch. Amidst the beau Lies of cJcation, his O\Vn 1nind holds, by far, the n1ost pron1incnt phlce. I-Ie is the happiest of beings, by dispensing continually happi- ness to others.'' 4 'T,o those ,v ho have studied the 1 'strenuous \~Thig/' as Jan1cs Bos\\•·e]ld11bbed hin1, only by the diary, letters, and n1cmoirs of the cro\vded years f ron1 175 5 to I i7o, this presents rt character sharply contrasred \Vith the over,vorkc<l~ anxious HoHts? fearful of those spies and popish p1ottcrs \vhurn he in1agincd to Le intent on har1n- ing hi11111nd frustrating 1111activities on behalf of civil and religious liberty. Yet neither statcs1nan nor f ricnd for got f orn1er interests. Talk and - ,vhcn they \Vere separated - letters often d,\rtlt upon the political scene, the plight .of the colonies, and the neglected }essons of the past 1 as ,vell as upon the joys aff ordcd by Dorscrshire surronnd1ngs~ Fortuitously reunited by rctircn1cnt., both 111cn,in spite of so1ne recurrent sickncssJ enjoyed a brief but happy episode in their lives+ Chatham, bedevilled by financial problen1s and politic~l pressures, re- . turned to I-Iayes in l\1iddlesc:x in April 1774, a dozen ,vceks after I-Iollis fell suddenly dead on the first day of that year. Dorset did not forget then1. The Earl's recourse to the restorative qualities of Ly111e ,vas long cited: I-Iollis' singu]arit)· of character ,vas ,videly discussed. r~Iis1ne1noria]ist, Archdeacon Francis Blackburne ( 1705-1787), con- cluded a sketch of his subject by dcscrjption of a fan1ous and unusu~l occupation. H l\1r. I-l0Bis1 in order to preserve the rncn1ory of those heroes and patriots for ,vhun1 ht had a veneration/' and ,vhose books he had distributed, "called n1any of the farms und fields in his estate at Harvard University - Houghton Library / Harvard University. Harvard Library bulletin. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Library. Volume XXIII, Number 4 (October 1975) Tbo111asH ol/is iu bis Do~·setrbireR. etire,neut 4 r 3 Corseom be by their n3n1es; und by these nan1cs they arc sti11d istin- gnisheda'" An1ong thcn1 1-Iarvard },"'arn1 stands today\ son1c of its lots retaining rhe dcsign:=ttionshcsro,vcd on then1 by the College's friend .. The modern Ordnance Survey n1ap records a ntnnber of others. "In the middk of one of these fields, not far f ron1 his house,'' BJackburne condnned 1 '~he ordered his corp~e to he deposited in a gr~vc ten feet deep, and that the field should he i1nmediately plo,ved o,rer, that no trace of his burial-p]ace might rcn1nin/~ Locn11cgcnd even no,v n1ain- tains that his f a\Toritehorse lies beside I-Iollis.ri Both the bizarre grave, and the \Vork for liberty ,vcre celebrated in 1788, in ~'Le,vsdon Flil1l '' n pocn1 by ·y\'illian1 C:ro,ve ( 1745-182 9), the then incu1nbcnt of Stoke Abbott 1 cast of Bca111instcr,and hin1self kno,vn as an ul lr2-Y\Thig:ind republican. Fain "~ou1d I vic,v thee, Corscon1bc, fatn ,vou}d hail The ground ,vhcrc I-iollis lies:; his choice retreat1 ':\'here fron1 the busv ,vorld ,vithdra,vn, he ]hTed r " To generous yirtne 1 clnd the holy Jove Of liberty, a dedicated spirit; And left his ashes there; stiJl honouring Thy fields ,vfrh tit]e given of patrjot nnn1es, But more ·w·jth his 11ntjtled scpukhrc.ri· The Dorset )7 ears 1 less fan1iliar than chose of absorption in his self- appointed task, and the rcnc,Yed f ricndshi p ,vith Chathan1 thcy- bJoughtl add a brief paragraph to the story of I-Io11isand hjs devotion to that ~'Good old Cause"~of Eherty against tyTanny, in \vhich so n1any of his be]ovcd authors ,vere engaged. IJocun1cntation is interesting. There -arc, of course, ]erters ren1aining of those ,\'ritten to Ne,v England pen-f ricntls.7 Though the Chathnn1 correspondence ,vas published io the ear1y nineteenth ccntury 1 and con- tains .son1eco1nments by lJitt on his Hma.te/l as he called J~JoHis,only one of his later conununi~a.tions to his f ricnd js incl udedl and on] v one of the t,vo dozen odd 1nissives,vritten by the latter to the Earl. B Hollis, .r; [Archdeacon Francis B]nckburnc]t Afenioirs of Tboutas l-lollis, Er-q.1-i v. (Lon- don: prIYatcly printed, 1 780)! I, 4S-1. 111Joh rt Hutchins, Tbe History and AntiquitiE"r of t/Je Count}' of Dorset, 3rd. ed. corrected by Shipp ~nd James \J;/, Hodson, 4 v. ('~Ve&t•njnstcr: John B. Nichols-, l S6 l-I 870 ),. 1T ( r 863 }, 98- quoted from 1 t?o,1 ed. of poern, p. 3 3. 7 l\1;issachusctts I-Iistorical Society, Hollis letters] p.urhn; Bosron Vublic Library, Ch A 161, r 63. 6 CC, J\Tj 167,. 173-( to L,uly Chatham); 286-.2B7 ( 19 July 1773 to T.I-1.) j CC, 111- 200--103 (December r 762,. c-xchangc of letters); Chatharn p~ptrs] pauiu1. Harvard University - Houghton Library / Harvard University. Harvard Library bulletin. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Library. Volume XXIII, Number 4 (October 1975) Harvard J..,)brnryBulletin notes can1e fron1 Urles Farn1 or L.y111c,offering con1plin1cnts, thanks for entcrtai,unent 1 direction~ about iti ncrary, a<lvice and c.:un1rnentary on litcn1ry -and political n1atterst as ,\·ell as helpful suggestions 41bout the 1na119.gcn1entof the Burton Pynsent estate.
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