years after the Kembles had given up their cottage Weybridge had
other brilliant visitors. The French Revolution of 1848 drove abroad
thinkers and writers and a royal family, and Weybridge saw most of them.
John Austin, author of _The Province of Jurisprudence Determined_,
settled with his wife at a sober, red brick building near the church,
and there they were visited by Lavergne, and Victor Cousin and de
Remusat and Guizot: Barthelemy St. Hilaire wrote to Mrs. Austin in
1854--"I assure you that Weybridge is the place in England I love best."
There were royal exiles at Claremont near Esher, then, and they came to
mass at the Roman Catholic chapel which fronts the common; Louis
Philippe and Queen Amelie, and the Duchess of Orleans and the Comte de
Paris; there is a monument in the chapel to the Duchess of Nemours, who
died at Claremont in 1857. _Tot luctuosis domus Aurelianensis addita
funeribus_ is the inscription, and the glorious beauty of the white
marble lights the chapel; she was only thirty-four.

Weybridge's church is modern, but the registers and churchwarden's
accounts are old and amusing. The following items, taken at random from
the lengthy and exact copy made by Miss Eleanor Lloyd in the _Surrey
Archaeological Collections_, are pleasant riddles of spelling:--

L _s. d._

1622. Pd for a gally slabs seate for y^e parson 00 01 00

1623. Pd for drinke for the Ringgers upon the Prince came
out of Spain and at other tymes 00 02 08

Pd for 23 Bushells of Lyme and five Bushells of hare 00 11 08

1655. Paid for an hower glass 00 00 06

1658. Rec^d of John Durling for breach of y^e Saboth 00 05 0

Rec^d of several bargemen for breach of y^e Saboth 14 08 6

1659. Rec^d of Adlms Barg for Breach of the Saboth 04 00 0

Rec^d for the Church grass being praised: besides X^s
worth taken away 07 00 0

Edward Ginger Junior
carried away the grass
worth X^s

1667. Item given to the ringers one gunpowder treson day 0 1 0

Item for expenses in going twice to the Justices w^th
the fanattick 0 2 0

Item for Inditing Robert Hone for takinge in an