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estates were confiscated, but they were afterwards restored to him. In the
sixth year of James I. that king had Raleigh's title set aside, and gave the
property to his favorite Carr, who afterwards became Earl of Somerset.
The Earl, however, lost all his lands by attainder.
" Then Sir John Digby, now Earl of Bristol, begged Sherborne of the King, and
had it.""
In 1 65 1, the Earl of Bristol having fled to France, Mr. Carew Raleigh,
only son of Sir Walter, made up a case, before a committee of Parliament,
for recovery of the property, but failed of success. In 1652, however,
500/. per annum were settled upon him out of the Earl's estate. After
the Restoration, the property reverted to the See of Salisbury ; but, after-
wards, again passed to the Digby family. "The manor" of Sherborne
" now consists of seven thousand acres, and includes all the other manors
and tithings in the town." 59
The castle of Sherborne "was built by Roger third Bishop of
Salisbury, the powerful minister and favourite of Henry I., as is supposed,
on the site of the ancient palace of the bishops of Sherborne." In 1642
it was besieged by a Parliamentarian force under the Earl of Bedford,
brother to the wife of the first Earl of Bristol's son George. It was at
length taken by Fairfax, in 1645, and fell in to ruin. Sir Walter Raleigh,
in his day, had begun to repair the castle, but changed his mind, and built,
in the adjoining park,
" ' a most fine house, which he beautified with orchards, gardens and groves, of
such variety and delight that, whether you consider the goodness of the soil, the
pleasantness of the seat, and other delicacies belonging to it, it is unparalleled by
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any in these parts ;'
and here he spent his days of leisure. The middle part of this mansion
originally called the Lodge, and now the Castle—was built by Raleigh in
68 Hutchins's Dorset, ut supra, iv. 213-17, and 216, note a.
69 Id., iv. 217-21.
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