St. Juliot

Abstract

‘My only sister married the Rev. Caddell Holder, son of a Judge of Barbadoes, where he was bom: he often spoke of his beautiful home there, with oranges growing by his bedroom window. At Trinity College, Oxford, he was a “gentleman-commoner” (this is now abolished), where so far as he could discover his only privilege [from the distinction] was being allowed to walk upon the grass and wear a gold-tasselled cap, he used to say. He was rector of St. Juliot, North Cornwall, where I [first] knew him; and it was there that my husband made my acquaintance, which afterwards proved a romance in full for us.…

The Latter Part of Mrs. (Emma Lavinia) Hardy’s MS., Found After her Death, and Entitled ‘ Some Recollections’

[The words in square brackets are added to make the allusions intelligible]