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Note 2. Stanza iv.
Eglistone's gray ruins.

When the expedition was completed, the fund of wrought to others.»-Itinerary, Oxford, 1768, Svo. prize-money acquired was thrown together, each party p. 88. taking his oath that he had retained or concealed no part of the common stock. If any one transgressed in this important particular, the punishment was his be ing set ashore on some desert key or island, to shift for himself as he could. The owners of the vessel had then their share assigned for the expenses of the outfit. These were generally old pirates, settled at Tobago, Jamaica, St Domingo, or some other French and English settlement. The surgeon's and carpenter's salaries, with the price of provisions and ammunition, were also defrayed. Then followed the compensation due to the maimed and wounded, rated according to the damage they had sustained; as six hundred pieces of eight, or six slaves, for the loss of an arm or leg, and so in proportion.

The ruins of this abbey, or priory, for Tanner calls it the former and Leland the latter, are beautifully situated upon the angle, formed by a little dell called Thorsgill, at its junction with the Tees. A good part of the religious house is still in some degree habitable,¦ but the church is in ruins. Eglistone was dedicated to St Mary and St John the Baptist, and is supposed to have been founded by Ralph de Multon about the end of Henry the Second's reign. There were formerly the tombs of the families of Rokebys, Bowes, and Fithughs.

Note 3. Stanza v. the mound Raised by that legion long renown'd, Whose votive shrine asserts their claim, Of pious, faithful, conquering fame. Close behind the George Inn at Greta-bridge, there is a well-preserved Roman encampment, surrounded with a triple ditch, lying between the river Greta and a brook called the Tutta. The four entrances are easily to be discerned. Very many Roman altars and monuments have been found in the vicinity, most of which are preserved at Rokeby by my friend Mr Morritt. Among others is a small votive altar, with the inscription LEG. VI. VIC. P. F. F. which has been rendered le

« After this act of justice and humanity, the remainder of the booty was divided into as many shares as there were buccaneers. The commander could only lay claim to a single share, as the rest; but they complimented him with two or three, in proportion as he had acquitted himself to their satisfaction. When the vessel was not the property of the whole company, the person who had fitted it out, and furnished it with necessary arms and ammunition, was entitled to a third of all the prizes. Favour had never any influence in the division of the booty; for every share was determined by lot. Instances of such rigid justice as this are not easily met with, and they extended even to thegio. Sexta. Victrix. Pia. Fortis. Fidelis. dead. Their share was given to the man who was known to be their companion when alive, and therefore their heir. If the person who had been killed had no intimate, his part was sent to his relations, when they were known. If there were no friends nor rela-whom it is said to have been possessed from the Contions, it was distributed in charity to the poor and to churches, which were to pray for the person in whose name these benefactions were given, the fruits of inhuman but necessary piratical plunders.»-RAYNAL'Sumberland, tempore Hen. IV, of which Hollinshed History of European Settlements in the East and West Indies, by Justamond, Lond. 1776, Svo. III, p. 41.

CANTO II.

Note 1. Stanza ii.

the course of Tees.

The view from Barnard Castle commands the rich and magnificent valley of Tees. Immediately adjacent to the river, the banks are very thickly wooded; at a little distance they are more open and cultivated; but being interspersed with hedge-rows, and with isolated trees of great size and age, they still retain the richness of woodland scenery. The river itself flows in a deep trench of solid rock, chiefly limestone and marble. The finest view of its romantic course is from a hand

some modern bridge built over the Tees, by the late Mr Morritt of Rokeby. In Leland's time the marble

« Hard under the cliff by Egleston, is found on eche side of Tese very fair marble, wont to be taken up booth by marbelers of Barnardes Castelle and of Egleston, and partly to have been wrought by them, and partly sold on

quarries seem to have been of some value.

Note 4. Stanza vi.

Rokeby's turrets high.

This ancient manor long gave name to a family by

quest downward, and who are at different times distinguished in history. It was the Baron of Rokeby who finally defeated the insurrection of the Earl of North

gives the following account:

« The king, advertised hereof, caused a great armie
to be assembled, and came forward with the same to
wards his enemies; but yer the king came to Notting
ham, Sir Thomas (or, as other copies haue) Sir Rafe
Rokesbie, shiriff of Yorkeshire, assembled the forces of
the countrie to resist the earle and his power; com
ming to Grimbauthbrigs, beside Knaresborough, there!
got
to stop them the passage; but they returning aside
to Weatherbie, and so to Tadcaster, and finally came
forward unto Bramham Moor, near to Haizelwood,
where they chose their ground meet to fight upon.
The shiriffe was as readie to giue battell as the erle to
receiue it; and so with a standard of St George spread,
set fiercelie vpon the earle, who, vnder a standard of
his owne armes, encountered his aduersaries with great
manhood. There was a sore incounter and cruell com
flict betwixt the parties; but in the end the victorie feil
to the shiriffe. The Lord Bardolfe was taken, bat
sore wounded, so that he shortlie after died of the
hurts. As for the Earle of Northumberland, he was
slain outright; so that now the prophecy was fulfiled,
which gauc an inkling of this his heauy hap long be
fore, namelie,

Stirps Persitina periet confusa ruina.
For this carle was the stocke and maine root of all that

were left aliue, called by the name of Persie; and of manie more by diuers slaughters dispatched. For whose misfortune the people were not a little sorrie, making report of the gentleman's valiantnesse, reowne, and honour, and applieing vnto him certeine lamentable verses out of Lucaine, saieing,

Sed nos nec sanguis, nec tantum vulnera nostri
Affecere senis, quantum gestata per urbem
Ora ducis, quæ transfixo deformia pilo
Vidimus.

Note 6. Stanza xi.

What gales are sold on Lapland's shore.

For his head, full of siluer horie haires, being put uponcise this devilish art, of all the arts of the world, to ada stake, was openlie carried through London, and set ypon the bridge of the same citie: in like manner was the Lord Bardolfe's.»-HOLLINSHED's Chronicles, Lond.

1808, 4to. III, 45.

The Rokeby, or Rokesby, family continued to be distinguished until the great civil war, when, having embraced the cause of Charles I., they suffered severely

by fines and confiscations. The estate then passed from its ancient possessors to the family of the Robinsens, from whom it was purchased by the father of my valued friend, the present proprietor.

Note 5. Stanza vii.

A stern and lone, yet lovely road,

As e'er the foot of minstrel trode!

<< Also I shall show very briefly what force conjurers and witches have in constraining the elements enchanted by them or others, that they may exceed or fall short of their natural order: premising this, that the extream land of North Finland and Lapland was so taught witchcraft formerly in heathenish times, as if they had learned this cursed art from Zoroastres the Persian; though other inhabitants by the sea-coasts are reported to be bewitched with the same madness; for they exermiration; and in this, or other such like mischief, they commonly agree. The Finlanders were wont formerly, amongst their other errors of gentilisme, to sell winds to merchants that were stopt on their coasts by contrary weather; and when they had their price, they knit three magical knots, not, like to the laws of Casup with a thong, and they gave them vuto the merchants; observing that rule, that when they unwhen the second a stronger wind, but when they unloosed the first they should have a good gale of wind, tied the third, they should have such cruel tempests that they should not be able to look out of the forecastle to avoid the rocks, nor move a foot to pull down the sails, nor stand at the helm to govern the ship; and they made an unhappy trial of the truth of it, who denied that there was any such power in those knots,»OLAUS MAGNUS'S istory of the Goths, Swedes, and

sius, bound

What follows is an attempt to describe the romantic
glen, or rather ravine, through which the Greta finds a
passage between Rokeby and Mortham, the former situ-
upon the left bank of Greta, the latter on the Vandals, Lond. 1658. fol. pag. 47.

ated

Note 7.

Stanza xi.

How whistle rash bids tempests roar.

right bank, about half a mile nearer to its junction with the Tees. The river runs with very great rapidity over a bed of solid rock, broken by many shelving de That this is a general superstition is well known to scents, down which the stream dashes with great noise all who have been on ship-board, or who have conand impetuosity, vindicating its etymology, which has versed with seamen. The most formidable whistler been derived from the Gothic, GRIDAN, to clamour. that I remember to have met with was the apparition The banks partake of the same wild and romantic cha- of a certain Mrs Leaky, who, about 1636, resided, we racter, being chiefly lofty cliffs of limestone rock, are told, at Mynehead, in Somerset, where her only son whose gray colour contrasts admirably with the various drove a considerable trade between that port and Watrees and shrubs which find root among their crevices, terford, and was owner of several vessels. This old as well as with the hue of the ivy, which clings around gentlewoman was of a social disposition, and so acceptthem in profusion, and hangs down from their pro- able to her friends, that they used to say to her and to jections in long sweeping tendrils. At other points the each other, it were pity such an excellent good-natured rocks give place to precipitous banks of earth, bearing old lady should die; to which she was wont to reply, large trees intermixed with copse-wood. In one spot that whatever pleasure they might find in her company the dell, which is elsewhere very narrow, widens for a just now, they would not greatly like to see or converse space to leave room for a dark grove of yew-trees, in- with her after death, which nevertheless she was apt to termixed here and there with aged pines of uncommon think might happen. Accordingly, after her death and size. Directly opposite to this sombre thicket, the funeral, she began to appear to various persons by cliffs on the other side of the Greta are tall, white, and night and by noon-day, in her own house, in the town fringed with all kinds of deciduous shrubs. The whole and fields, at sea and upon shore. So far had she descenery of this spot is so much adapted to the ideas of parted from her former urbanity, that she is recorded superstition, that it has acquired the name of Blockula, to have kicked a doctor of medicine for his impolite from the place where the Swedish witches were sup-negligence in omitting to hand her over a stile. It was posed to hold their sabbath. The dell, however, has also her humour to appear upon the quay, and call for superstitions of its own growth, for it is supposed to a boat. But especially so soon as any of her son's ships be haunted by a female spectre, called the Dobie of approached the harbour, « this ghost would appear in Mortham. The cause assigned for her appearance is the same garb and likeness as when she was alive, and, a lady's having been whilom murdered in the wood, in standing at the mainmast, would blow with a whistle, evidence of which her blood is shown upon the stairs and though it were never so great a calm, yet immediof the old tower of Mortham. But whether she was ately there would arise a most dreadful storm, that slain by a jealous husband or by savage banditti, or by would break, wreck, and drown ship and goods.>> When an uncle who coveted her estate, or by a rejected lover, she had thus proceeded until her son had neither credit are points upon which the traditions of Rokeby do not to freight a vessel, nor could have procured men to sail enable us to decide. it, she began to attack the persons of his family, and

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actually strangled their only child in the cradle. The rest of the story, showing how the spectre looked over the shoulder of her daughter-in-law while dressing her hair at a looking glass; and how Mrs Leaky the younger took courage to address her; and how the beldam dispatched her to an Irish prelate, famous for his crimes and misfortunes, to exhort him to repentance, and to apprise him that otherwise he would be hanged; and how the bishop was satisfied with replying, that if he was born to be hanged, he should not be drowned; — all these, with many more particulars, may be found at the end of one of John Dunton's publications, called Athenianism, London, 1710, where the tale is engrossed under the title of The Apparition Evidence.

Note 8. Stanza xi.

Of Erick's cap and Elmo's light.

<«< This Ericus, King of Sweden, in his time was held second to none in the magical art; and he was so familiar with the evil spirits, which he exceedingly adored, that which way soever he turned his cap, the wind would presently blow that way. From this occa sion he was called Windy Cap; and many men believed that Regnerus, King of Denmark, by the conduct of this Ericus, who was his nephew, did happily extend his piracy into the most remote parts of the earth, and conquered many countries and fenced cities by his cunning, and at last was his coadjutor; that by the consent of the nobles, he should be chosen king of Sweden, which continued a long time with him very happily, until he died of old age.»-OLAUS, ut supra, p. 45.

Note 9. Stanza xi.

The demon-frigate.

Green

Faint and despairing on their watery bier,
To every friendly shore the sailors steer;
Repell'd from port to port, they sue in vain,
And track with slow unsteady sail the main.
Where ne'er the bright and buoyant wave is see
To streak with wandering foam the sea-weeds
Towers the tall mast a lone and leafless tree,
Till self-impell'd amid the waveless sea:
Where summer breezes ne'er were heard to sing.
Nor hovering snow-birds spread the downy wing,
Fix'd as a rock amid the boundless plain,
The yellow stream pollutes the stagnant main;
Till far through night the funeral flames aspire,
As the red lightning smites the ghastly pyre.

The

Still doom'd by fate on weltering billows roll'd,
Along the deep their restless course to bold,
Scenting the storm, the shadowy sailors guide
prow with sails opposed to wind and tide;
The spectre ship, in livid glimpsing light,
Glares baleful on the shuddering watch at night
Unblest of God and man!-Till time shall end,
Its view strange horror to the storm shall lend.

Note 10. Stanza xii.

by some desert isle or key. What contributed much to the security o the bac cancers, about the Windward Islands, was the great These are small sandy patches, appearing just above number of little islets, called in that country keys. the surface of the ocean, covered only with a few bushes and weeds, but sometimes affording springs of little uninhabited spots afforded the pirates good r water, and in general much frequented by turtle. Suc bours, either for refitting or for the purpose of a bush; they were occasionally the hiding-place of the f

difficulty prevailed on to remain ashore at night, ou account of the visionary terrors incident to pia. which have been thus contaminated.

treasure, and often afforded a shelter to themselves. As many of the atrocities which they practised on their i prisoners were committed in such spots, there are! This is an allusion to a well-known nautical super-reputation among seamen, and where they are wit some of these keys which even now have an indifferent stition concerning a fantastic vessel, called by sailors the Flying Dutchman, and supposed to be seen about the latitude of the Cape of Good Hope. She is distinguished from earthly vessels by bearing a press of sail when all others are unable, from stress of weather, to show an inch of canvas. The cause of her wandering is not altogether certain; but the general account is, that she was originally a vessel loaded with great wealth, on board of which some horrid act of murder and piracy had been committed; that the plague broke out among the wicked crew who had perpetrated the crime, and that they sailed in vain from port to port,

offering, as the price of shelter, the whole of their ill

Note 11. Stanza xvi.

Before the gate of Mortham stood. Rokesby's place, in ripa citer, scant a quarter of mit The castle of Mortham, which Leland terms « Mr from Greta-bridge, and not a quarter of mile bed by into Tees,» is a picturesque tower, surrounded by buildings of different ages, now converted into a firm house and offices. The battlements of the tower isci

gotten wealth; that they were excluded from every them at regular intervals into different heights, while are singularly elegant, the architect having broken harbour, for fear of the contagion which was devour-those at the corners of the tower project into octanc ing them, and that, as a punishment of their crimes, Jar turrets. They are also from space to space conted the apparition of the ship still continues to haunt those with stones laid across them, as in modern embrasures seas in which the catastrophe took place, and is consi- the whole forming an uncommon and beautiful effect dered by the mariners as the worst of all possible The surrounding buildings are of a less happy form.

omens.

being pointed into high and steep roofs. A wall, with

duced this phenomenon into his Scenes of Infancy, imputing, with poetical ingenuity, the dreadful judg ment to the first ship which commenced the slavetrade:

My late lamented friend, Dr John Leyden, has intro- embrasures, incloses the southern front, where a low)

Stout was the ship, from Benin's palmy shore
That first the freight of barter'd captives bore;
Bedimm'd with blood, the sun with shrinking beams
Bebeld her bounding o'er the ocean streams;
But, ere the moon her silver horns bad rear'd,
Amid the crew the speckled plague appear'd.

court.

b

portal arch affords an entry to what was placed, At some distance is most happily tween the stems of two magnilicent elms, the monu Iment alluded to in the text. It is said to have lon brought from the ruins of Eglistone Priory, and, from the armoury with which it is richly carved, appears to have been a tomb of the Fitz-Hughs.

The situation of Mortham is eminently beautiful, o cupying a high bank, at the bottom of which the Greta

winds out of the dark, narrow, and romantic dell, which the text has attempted to describe, and flows onward through a more open valley to meet the Tees, about a quarter of a mile from the castle. Mortham is surrounded by old trees, happily and widely grouped with Mr Morritt's new plantations.

Note 12. Stanza xviii.

There dig and tomb your precious heap,
And bid the dead your treasure keep.

If time did not permit the buccaneers to lavish away air plunder in their usual debaucheries, they were want to hide it, with many superstitious solemnities, in the desert islands and keys which they frequented, and where much treasure, whose lawless owners perished without reclaiming it, is still supposed to be concealed. The most cruel of mankind are often the

most superstitious, and these pirates are said to have

had recourse to a horrid ritual in order to secure an

earthly guardian to their treasures. They killed a segro or Spaniard, and buried him with the treasure, isheving that his spirit would haunt the spot, and terIrify away all intruders. I cannot produce any other thority on which this custom is ascribed to them than that of maritime tradition, which is, however, imply suficient for the purposes . of poetry.

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All who are conversant with the administration of criminal justice must remember many occasions in | which malefactors appear to have conducted themselves with a species of infatuation, either by making unneressary confidences respecting their guilt, or by sudden and involuntary allusions to circumstances by which it could not fail to be exposed. A remarkable instance occurred in the celebrated case of Eugene Aram. A skeleton being found near Knaresborough, was supposed, by the persons who gathered around the spot, to be the remains of one Clarke, who had disappeared some years before, under circumstances leading to a uspicion of his having been murdered. One Houseman, who had mingled in the crowd, suddenly said, hile looking at the skeleton, and hearing the opinion which was buzzed around, «That is no more Dan Clarke's bone than it is mine!»-a sentiment expressed positively, and with such peculiarity of manner, as to lead all who heard him to infer that he must necessarily know where the real body had been interred. Accordingly, being apprehended, he confessed having assisted Eugene Aram to murder Clarke, and to hide lis body in Saint Robert's Cave. It happened to the auhot himself, while conversing with a person accused of an atrocious crime, for the purpose of rendering hum professional assistance upon his trial, to hear the

prisoner,

after the most solemn and reiterated protest

ations that he was guiltless, suddenly, and, as it were, involuntarily, in the course of his communications, make such an admission as was altogether incompatible with innocence.

Note 14. Stanza xxviii. Brackenbury's dismal tower.

This tower has been already mentioned: it is situated ear the north-eastern extremity of the wall which in

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Right heavy shall his ransom be,

Unless that maid compound with thee!

After the battle of Marston-moor, the Earl of Newcastle retired beyond sea in disgust, and many of his followers laid down their arms, and made the best composition they could with the committees of Parliament. Fines were imposed upon them in proportion to their estates and degrees of delinquency, and these fines were often bestowed upon such persons as had deserved well of the Commons. In some circumstances it happened that the oppressed cavaliers were fain to form family alliances with some powerful person among the triumphant party. The whole of Sir Robert Howard's excellent comedy of the Committee turns upon the plot of Mr and Mrs Day to enrich their family, by compelling Arabella, whose estate was under sequestration, to marry their son Abel, as the price by which she was to compound with Parliament for delinquency; that is, for attachment to the royal cause.

CANTO III.

Note 1. Stanza ii.

The Indian, prowling for his prey,
Who hears the settlers track his way.

The patience, abstinence, and ingenuity exerted by the North American Indians, when in pursuit of plunder or vengeance, is the most distinguished feature in their character; and the activity and address which whose absurd hypothesis and turgid style do not affect they display in their retreat is equally surprising. Adair, the general authenticity of his anecdotes, has recorded an instance which seems incredible.

« When the Chickasah nation was engaged in a former war with the Muskohge, one of their young warriors set off against them to revenge the blood of a near relation.----He went through the most unfrequented and thick parts of the woods as such a dangerous enterprise required, till he arrived opposite to the great and old beloved town of refuge, Koosal, which stands high on the eastern side of a bold river, about 250 yards broad, that runs by the late dangerous Alebalina-Fort, down to the black poisoning Mobille, and so into the gulf of Mexico. There he concealed himself under cover of the top of a fallen pine-tree, in view of the ford of the old trading path, where the enemy now and then All his war pass the river in their light poplar canoes. store of provisions consisted in three stands of barbacued venison, till he had an opportunity to revenge blood,

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actually strangled their only child in the cradle. The rest of the story, showing how the spectre looked over the shoulder of her daughter-in-law while dressing her hair at a looking glass; and how Mrs Leaky the younger took courage to address her; and how the beldam dispatched her to an Irish prelate, famous for his crimes and misfortunes, to exhort him to repentance, and to apprise him that otherwise he would be hanged; and how the bishop was satisfied with replying, that if he was born to be hanged, he should not be drowned; all these, with many more particulars, may be found at the end of one of John Dunton's publications, called Athenianism, London, 1710, where the tale is engrossed under the title of The Apparition Evidence.

Note 8. Stanza xi.

Of Erick's cap and Elmo's light.

the

« This Ericus, King of Sweden, in his time was held second to none in the magical art; and he was so familiar with the evil spirits, which he exceedingly adored, that which way soever he turned his cap, wind would presently blow that way. From this occa sion he was called Windy Cap; and many men believed that Regnerus, King of Denmark, by the conduct of this Ericus, who was his nephew, did happily extend his piracy into the most remote parts of the earth, and conquered many countries and fenced cities by his cunning, and at last was his coadjutor; that by the consent of the nobles, he should be chosen king of Sweden, which continued a long time with him very happily, until he died of old age.»-OLAUS, ut supra, p. 45.

Note 9. Stanza xi.

The demon-frigate.

Faint and despairing on their watery bier,
To every friendly shore the sailors steer;
Repell'd from port to port, they sue in vain,
And track with slow unsteady sail the main.
Where ne'er the bright and buoyant wave is seen
To streak with wandering foam the sea-weeds green
Towers the tall mast a lone and leafless tree,
Till self-impell'd amid the waveless sea:
Where summer breezes ne'er were heard to sing.
Nor hovering snow-birds spread the downy wing,
Fix'd as a rock amid the boundless plain,

The yellow stream pollutes the stagnant main;
Till far through night the funeral flames aspire,
As the red lightning smites the ghastly pyre.

Still doom'd by fate on weltering billows roll'd,
Along the deep their restless course to hold,
Scenting the storm, the shadowy sailors guide
The prow with sails opposed to wind and tide;
The spectre ship, in livid glimpsing light,
Glares baleful on the shuddering watch at night
Unblest of God and man!-Till time shall end,
Its view strange horror to the storm shall lead,
Note 10. Stanza xii.

by some desert isle or key.
What contributed much to the security of the bac
caneers, about the Windward Islands, was the grest
number of little islets, called in that country keys
These are small sandy patches, appearing just abov
the surface of the ocean, covered only with a fer
bushes and weeds, but sometimes affording springs of ;
and in general much frequented by turtle. Sah
little uninhabited spots afforded the pirates good r
bours, either for refitting or for the purpose of att
bush; they were occasionally the hiding place of th

water,

treasure, and often afforded a shelter to themselves. As many of the atrocities which they practised on their prisoners were committed in such spots, there are some of these keys which even now have an indiffereta. difficulty prevailed on to remain ashore at night, o account of the visionary terrors incident to places which have been thus contaminated.

This is an allusion to a well-known nautical super reputation among seamen, and where they are with stition concerning a fantastic vessel, called by sailors the Flying Dutchman, and supposed to be seen about the latitude of the Cape of Good Hope. She is distinguished from earthly vessels by bearing a press of sail when all others are unable, from stress of weather, to show an inch of canvas. The cause of her wandering is not altogether certain; but the general account is,

that she was originally a vessel loaded with great wealth, on board of which some horrid act of murder and piracy had been committed; that the plague broke out among the wicked crew who had perpetrated the crime, and that they sailed in vain from port to port, offering, as the price of shelter, the whole of their ill

Note 11. Stanza xvi.

Before the gate of Mortham stood. The castle of Mortham, which Leland terms Mr Rokesby's place, in ripa citer, scant a quarter of mir from Greta-bridge, and not a quarter of mile bene th into Tees," is a picturesque tower, surrounded b buildings of different ages, now converted into a far house and offices.

The battlements of the tower ise! || gotten wealth; that they were excluded from every them at regular intervals into different heights, whi are singularly elegant, the architect having broke harbour, for fear of the contagion which was devour-those at the corners of the tower project into octang ing them, and that, as a punishment of their crimes, lar turrets. They are also from space to space covers the apparition of the ship still continues to haunt those with stones laid across them, as in modern embrasure seas in which the catastrophe took place, and is consi-the whole forming an uncommon and beautifuleftest dered by the mariners as the worst of all possible The surrounding buildings are of a less happy form

omens.

My late lamented friend, Dr John Leyden, has intro-ibu Pures, incloses the southern front, where a lot being pointed into high and steep roofs. A wall, with duced this phenomenon into his Scenes of Infancy, portal arch affords an entry to what was the case imputing, with poetical ingenuity, the dreadful judg ment to the first ship which commenced the slavetrade:

Stout was the ship, from Benin's palmy shore
That first the freight of barter'd captives bore;
Bedimm'd with blood, the sun with shrinking beams
Bebeld her bounding o'er the ocean streams;
But, ere the moon her silver horns had rear'd,
Amid the crow the speckled plague appear'd,

court.

At some distance is most happily placed, be- | tween the stems of two magnificent elms, the monu ment alluded to in the text. It is said to have lea brought from the ruins of Eglistone Priory, and, from the armoury with which it is richly carved, appears to have been a tomb of the Fitz-Hughs.

The situation of Mortham is eminently beautiful, oc- [ cupying a high bank, at the bottom of which the Greta

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