Torquay.
_Pedigree to the Time of Alfred_ (Vol. viii., p. 586.).--Some ten or twelve
years since I was staying at the King's Head Inn, Egham, Surrey (now
defunct), when a fresh-looking, respectable man was pointed out to one as
Mr. Wapshot, who had held an estate in the neighbourhood from his ancestors
prior to the Conquest. He was not represented as a blacksmith, but as
farming his own estate. I am not connected with Egham or the neighbourhood,
or I would make farther inquiry.