The English Home of MR. Timothy Dalton, B. A. : The Old
Parsonage  Of the ancient parsonage at Woolverstone in Timothy
Dalton's day our genial correspondent, the present rector, says:
"It has long since vanished from mortalsight; even the place
where it stood in now doubtful, although tradition locates it in
the middle of an existing covert, the same being a part of my
glebe."  If the elder Ruth and Deborah, the minister's wife and
sister, who probably helped to maker up the family in the
parsonage, were also East Anglians by birth, we are justified in
assuming that they were "well-favoured woman." Such is the
general testimony as to the sweet faces and fair complexions of
the sex in that locality. Charles Kingley speaks caressingly of
"the rich and delicate beauty in which the women of the Eastern
Counties still surpass all other races in these isles."1 When
King Henry VI proposed to visit Norwich in 1473, it was ordered
that the best-looking women were to be assembled for his
inspection; "for my Lorde hath