a union take place, the
inheritance might revert into the old channel. We have seen the
result: the wilfulness and obduracy of Alice, and the infatuation of
the lover, who had thought to dazzle her with the riches he purposely
spread before her, prevented the success of their schemes. She
peremptorily refused and repulsed him, accusing him of a gross and
wanton outrage. What might have been the end of this contention we
know not, seeing that an unforeseen accident caused the explosion
which led to her escape and the flight of her captors.

What remained of the old house was pulled down. The vaults and
cellars, which were found to extend for a considerable distance even
beyond the moat, were walled up, and every vestige that was left,
together with an immense hoard of counterfeit money, was completely
destroyed.

[11] Her marriage-gift was L500, nineteen cows,
and a bull,--a magnificent portion in those days.

[12] We are sorry that this remark should come
from the historian of Whalley; but our respect for the author
even will not suffer us to let it pass unnoticed. The passage,
indeed, refutes itself, and we need refer to none other than
the very terms of the accusation. The circumstance of Bath
"going out under the Bartholomew Act," that master-movement of
spiritual tyranny, issued by an ill-advised and sensual
monarch, when two thousand and upwards of conscientious
clergymen were driven from their flocks and deprived of their
benefices in one day, is a sufficient denial of what the
learned doctor has insinuated, as it respects complying "with
all changes" from mere self-interest and worldly lucre. For
what could have hindered this conscientious and self-denying
minister from conforming to the terms of the act, and securing
his goodly benefice thereby, if it were not a zealous and
honest regard to the vows he had taken, and the future welfare
of his flock; which the very fact of his subsequent preaching
to crowded auditories at his own house sufficiently
corroborates. We know the persecutions, the malice, and the
poverty, which would assail this unlicensed administration of
ordinances; and nothing but a reverential awe for the sacred
and responsible functions he had undertaken could have
stimulated him to "endure the cross and despise the shame,"
when a very different line of conduct wo