108 DAYLESPORD.

value of the living is £iSO. The principal residence in this parish is Froxmer Court, the mansion of Colonel Clowes, late master of the Worcestershire foxhounds; but the Colonel is now dead, and tin's beautiful estate is for sale. The landowners in Crowie are the trustees of the late Lieutenant-Colonel Clowes, trustees of the late Mr. R. Smith, Rev. W. H. Woolrych, Mr. Wilson, Mr. Hunt, Captain Douglas Galton, C.B., Captain Castle, and the trustees of the late Mr. Martin. Agriculture for the men and gloving for some of the women are the chief pursuits. Crops grown, wheat, beans, barley, oats, &c.

Daylesford.

ONE of the minute fragments chipped off from the S.E. angle of Worcestershire, and surrounded by the counties of Oxford and Gloucester, consists of but one estate, of 654 acres, and a population of 108. Of the 651 acres 350 are ornamental plantation and the remainder arable. The little river Evenlode running through it, "Dagles-ford" in the said river was probably the origin of the name. Belonged to the Church of Worcester in early times, but about the period of the Conquest the Abbot of Evesham—always aggressive on the Prior of Worcester— managed to get possession of the estate, and for a long time refused to surrender; eventually, however, it was restored. The little place is famous for two or three things: 1st, it was so favoured by the Pope in the time of King John that during the interdict on the kingdom this church enjoyed the full exercise of religious worship; 2nd, for many centuries it was the property and the residence of the Hastings family, including the celebrated Warren Hastings, who recovered it by purchase after it had been alienated for seventy years. Here