Note 246 — A BOOK FOR A RAINY DAY (continued 2)
Reading edition
Durance, or Durants, was visited by James I. when it was the home of Sir Henry Wroth, to whom Ben Jonson wrote his lines—
“How blessed art thou, canst love the country, Wroth … And though so near the City and the Court, Art ta’en with neither’s vice or sport.”
Wroth’s executors sold the manor to Sir Thomas Stringer, who married a daughter of Judge Jeffreys.