page: if, in any case, I have unwittingly failed to do so, I entreat the authors whose words I may have taken to pardon the omission.

With these few explanatory remarks, I beg to lay the First Series of my Summer Wanderings before the courteous attention of my kind readers; and if the book is perused by any who have never travelled in the northern counties, I hope it may induce them to give themselves the pleasure of visiting the English Lakes.

ROSA RAINE.

WOODSTOCK, Midsummer, 1858.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.

The journey down.-Rockingham.-Uppingham.-Oak-

ham.-Melton Mowbray.-Nottingham.-Sherwood Forest.

-Newstead Abbey.-Robin Hood.-Mansfield.- Bolsover

Castle. Chesterfield. Sheffield. -Barnsley.—Wakefield.-

The Chantry on the Bridge.-Leeds.-The Parish Church.—

Dr. Hook. Harewood.-Arrival at Harrogate. P. 1.

CHAPTER II.

Harrogate.-The Springs.-A Day at York.-The City.-

York Minster.-Paulinus and Edwin the Exile of Deira.-

Early growth of Christianity in the North of England, and

gradual development of the Minster. The Chapter House.-

View from the Lantern Tower.-S. Mary's Abbey.-His-

torical Annals of the City.-York Castle.-Bishop Wilberforce

at York. 23.

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CHAPTER III.

Knaresborough. Fountains Abbey. - S. Bernard. - The
Cistercian Order.-The Monks beneath the Yews of Skeldale.
-Subsequent grandeur of the Abbey.-Its majestic beauty,
even in decay.-Thoughts about the restoration of Christian
Communities on True Principles.-Departure from Harro-

gate.-Ripon.-The Collegiate Church.-Along the North

Road. Catterick Bridge. The Swale.-Approach to Rich-

mond.-Arrival at the Town.-The Supper-tea.-Early as-

pirations of fair young girls.-Mrs. Hemans' poem on Girls

at Evening Prayer. 41.

CHAPTER IV.

Our domicile at Richmond.-The Churches of S. Mary and

the Holy Trinity.-The Friary Tower.-Richmond Castle.—

Earls of Richmond and Bretagne.-Picturesque walks near

Richmond.-The Rivers of Yorkshire.-Roseberry Topping-

Willance Leap.-The two Richmonds. 55.

CHAPTER V.

Richmond Grammar School. -The Tate Testimonial.-

Easby Abbey.-Our kind friends at Richmond.-Mrs. Esther

Raine. Hartforth School.-The Preceptor and his sons.-

Rev. Dr. Raine, Master of the Charterhouse.-The family

tombs at Gilling.-The Church and Vicarage.-The dove and

the olive-branch. 68.

CHAPTER VI.

Departure from Richmond.-"She is not dead, but sleep-

eth."-Greta Bridge.-Rokeby.-Barnard Castle.-Bowes.—

Stainmoor.-Brough.-Rerecross.-Chevy Chase.-Old cus-

toms of Westmoreland.-Ascension day. 81.

CHAPTER VII.

Westmoreland Schools.-Cross Fell.-The Helm Wind.-

Appleby.-Bishop Bedell.-Appleby Castle.-The Lineage of

the De Morvilles, De Cliffords, and De Veteriponts.-Anne,

Countess of Dorset, Pembroke, and Montgomery.-Arrival

at Penrith.-Kindness to strangers. 101.

CHAPTER VIII.

Penrith.-The Parish Church.-The Giant's Grave.-The
"Queen's Haims."-Richard III. and the Lady Anne.-
The Cumberland Mountains.-King Arthur's Round Table.-
History of King Arthur.-The Knighthood of the Round

Table.-Queen Victoria's "Prince Arthur."-The Spirit of

Chivalry.-True Poetry. 122.

CHAPTER IX.

Ballad Poetry.-Lowther Castle.-The Genealogy of the

Lowther Family.-The River Lowther.-Hawes Water.-

Brougham Castle.-The Beacon Hill at Penrith.-Days of

Feud and Foray. 139.

CHAPTER X.

An afternoon at Carlisle.-The Cathedral.-S. Cuthbert and

the See of Lindisfarne.-Carlisle Castle.-Mary, Queen of

Scots. Fergus M'Ivor.-The Scottish Cheviots.-The Picts'

Wall.-The River Eden.-The American Tourist.-Return to

Penrith. 156.

CHAPTER XI.

The Border-land.-The route from Penrith to Patterdale.-

Eamont Bridge.-Mayborough.-Pooley Bridge.-Ullswater.

-The Beautiful.-Gowbarrow Park.-Lyulph's Tower.-The

solemn Alps around Helvellyn.-Place Fell.-The Head of

Ullswater.-Patterdale.-Non-reception at the Hotel.-Mrs.

Dobson's Cottage.-A Ramble in Patterdale.-The Moun-

tains. 177.

CHAPTER XII.

Brothers' Water.-Pass of Kirkstone.-The Slate Quarry

on the slope of Place Fell.-Evening in Patterdale.-Route

from Patterdale towards Helvellyn.-Swirrel Edge and Striden

Edge. Charles Gough: Elegy from the pen of Sir Walter

Scott. 194.

CHAPTER XIII.

Morning in Patterdale.-Route from Patterdale to Keswick.

-Matterdale; Aira Force.-Adieu to Ullswater.-Saddle-

back. Threlkeld.-Arrival at Keswick.-Pencil-making.—

Self-discipline. 203.

CHAPTER XIV.

Keswick.-The Crosthwaite Church.-Southey's Monu-
ment. Restoration of the Church linked with Southey's
Memory.-S. John's Church, Keswick.-Derwentwater.-

SS. Cuthbert and Herbert.-The Floating Island.-Storms

on Derwentwater.-Lodore.-The Vale of Watenlath.-

"Trust and Wait."-Borrowdale.-The Bowder Stone.-

Castle Crag.-The River Derwent.-Rosthwaite.-The Black

Lead Mine.-The opposite Brink of Derwentwater.-The

River Greta.-View from the windows of Greta Hall. 212.

CHAPTER XV.

Friar's Crag.-Castle Head.-Castle Rigg.-Southey's Fa-

vourite Walks.-Skiddaw.-Lake Bassenthwaite.-Lattrigg.-

View from Skiddaw-side.-Altitudes.-Panorama from the

Summit of Skiddaw.-The Sunday at Keswick.-Afternoon

Service at Crosthwaite Church.-Southey's Marble Likeness.

227.

CHAPTER XVI.

Southey's Birth and Parentage.-Ashton and Bedminster.-

The Restored Church at Bedminster.-Southey's School and

College Days.-Early Poetical Aspirations.-"Joan of Arc."-

Grosvenor Bedford.-Joseph Cottle.-Mrs. Hannah More.-

Southey's Marriage with Edith Fricker.-Journey to Lisbon.-

Sojourn at Westbury and at Kingsdown.-Charles Watkin

Williams Wynn.-Another Journey to Portugal.—Madoc.-

Grand Historical Works.-Thalaba.-Southey, Coleridge, and

Wordsworth.-Death of Southey's Mother.-Loss of his first

Child.-Residence at Keswick.-The Curse of Kehama.-Ro-

derick. Various other Literary Productions.-Counsels to

Young Authors. 240.

CHAPTER XVII.

Southey's admiration of the Lake Scenery.-Herbert;
Southey's doating fondness for this child, and grief at his
early death.-Southey and Wilberforce.-Southey's Habits of
Literary Method. His Library.-His Domestic Habits and
Personal Appearance.-Greta Hall and its Inmates.-The
"Cattery of Cat's Eden."-Affection for his Children.-
Amusing description in a letter to his little girls of his being
"ell-ell-deed" at Oxford.-Marriages of his Daughters.-
His introduction to Her Majesty (then Princess Victoria) at
the house of the Duchess of Kent.-Thoughts about the
Institution of an Order of Poetry.-" Suggestions to Friends
of the Church," resulting in the Oxford Tracts.-Offer of a
Seat in Parliament.-Grant of a Pension.-Offer of a Baronetcy.