admiration which his accomplishments had raised in the breast of the fascinating Anne Boleyn. He died in his thirty-eighth year, at Sherborne, in Dorsetshire, of a violent fever. His son Sir Thomas Wyatt, the younger, being deprived of his estates and life, for treason against Queen Mary, this castle and manor became vested in the crown, and were granted, on lease by Elizabeth, to John Astley Esq., master of her jewels, in her eleventh year. His son, Sir John Astley, afterwards had the whole granted to him by the queen's letters patent, dated in her twenty-sixth year, and from his family it was transferred to that of Lord Romney, and is now the property of the present earl. The remains of the castle are particularly curious and interesting, but give the idea rather of a fortified dwelling, than of a place of strength. The moat still exists, as does the entrance gateway, which was erected by the Cobhams. Besides the castle and parsonage, (a mere cottage,) there is only one house in this parish; though Sir Stephen de Penchester is recorded to have procured a grant of a market weekly, and a three days annual fair for his manor of Allington. [Sidenote: The castle.] [Sidenote: Mansion given to Bishop Odo.] [Sidenote: Sir Henry Wyatt deprived of seventeen manors and his liberty, for treason.] [Sidenote: Sir Thomas Wyatt, was an accomplished scholar, soldier and statesman.] [Sidenote: Parish consists of one house, a church, and a cottage.] Map| Names of Places. | County. | Number of Miles From | +--+-----------------------+----------+------------------------------+ 41|Allington pa|Wilts |Amesbury 4|Salisbury 6| 41|Allington to|Wilts |Chippenham 2|Malmsbury 9| 41|Allington to|Wilts |Devizes 4|Calne 7| 11|Allington, East pa|Devon |Kingsbridge 4|Dartmouth 6| 11|Allington, West pa|Devon | ... 1|Modbury 7| 24|Allington, West pa|Lincoln |Grantham 5|Newark 10| 22|Allithwaite, Upper to|Lancaster |Cartmel 3|Hawkeshead 11| 22|Allithwaite, Lower to|Lancaster | ... 1| ... 13| 9|Allonby to|Cumberland|Wigton 11|Cockermouth 9| 7|Allostock to|Chester |Knutsford 5|Middlewich 5| 36|All Saints, St. Elm pa|Suffolk |Halesworth 5|Bungay 5| 17|Almeley pa|Hereford |Weobly 5|Kington 4| 12|Almer, West pa|Dorset |Blandford 6|Bere Regis 6| 35|Almington to|Stafford |Drayton 1|Newcastle 12| 39|Almington & Delph to|Warwick |Tamworth 2|Atherstone 7| 38|Almodington pa|Sussex |Chichester 6|Bognor 10| 45|Almondbury[A] pa & to|W.R. York |Huddersfield 2|Barnsley 10| 15|Almondsbury pa & ti|Gloucester|Thornbury 4|Old Pas. Hou. 5|