William Holland was the vicar of a tiny Quantock parish called Overstowey, close to where I grew up and where a lot of my ancestors come from.
I heard of him for the first time in the fall when a mostly off-DW friend was e-mailing me excerpts from his diaries in a kind of irregular newsletter fashion! I enjoyed them very much! I am delighted by your local connection. I assume you saw he was played on the radio by Ronald Pickup?
Monday October 28 A great bustle - Wm Frost and Mr Ament carrying apples to the cart for cyder. They are taken down to Hewlett’s to be made through his hair cloths which is not the fashion of this county. Mr. Amen thinks it is impossible for the cyder to be good as it is not made after the fashion of the county. I tell him he is a blockhead and that he knows nothing of the matter. ‘Why Sir, I have made hundreds of hogsheads of cyder in my time.' ‘Silence you Ass.’”
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I heard of him for the first time in the fall when a mostly off-DW friend was e-mailing me excerpts from his diaries in a kind of irregular newsletter fashion! I enjoyed them very much! I am delighted by your local connection. I assume you saw he was played on the radio by Ronald Pickup?
Monday October 28
A great bustle -
Wm Frost and Mr Ament carrying apples to the cart for cyder. They are taken down to Hewlett’s to be made through his hair cloths which is not the fashion of this county. Mr. Amen thinks it is impossible for the cyder to be good as it is not made after the fashion of the county. I tell him he is a blockhead and that he knows nothing of the matter. ‘Why Sir, I have made hundreds of hogsheads of cyder in my time.' ‘Silence you Ass.’”