rayer-book was forbidden.]

[Footnote 203: Seth Ward, Bishop of Salisbury, built and endowed at
Salisbury, Collegium Matronarum, the college of matrons, widows of
clergymen. They are entertained by each canon during his residence.
These lines were written when they were the guests of the author.]

[Footnote 204: He returned to Walton's cottage from the scene of
execution of his brave friend, Lord Capel.]

[Footnote 205: Anne, born 1677, and mother of William Hawkins.]

[Footnote 206: Walton died 1683, aged ninety; Morley, the year after,
1684, aged eighty-seven. They are buried in the same Cathedral.]

[Footnote 207: In allusion to Bishop Ken's well-known morning and
evening hymns.]

[Footnote 208: Supposed to have been addressed to Bishop Ken, by
Princess Mary of Orange, before her marriage with William III., who, but
for the interposition of the Bishop, would have broken his engagement to
marry her.]

[Footnote 209: See Moore's Life of Sheridan.]

[Footnote 210: The legend on which this ballad is founded, is related in
Latin, in the Book of Lacock.]

[Footnote 211: Mount St Michael, _in periculo maris_, and answering to
St Michael's Mount in Cornwall.]

[Footnote 212: This magnificent ruin of the favourite castle of Richard
I. is on the banks of the Seine, near Les Andelys, the birth-place of
Poussin, and the retreat of Thomas Corneille. A single year sufficed to
form its immense fosses, and to raise those walls which might seem to be
the structure of a lifetime. When Coeur de Lion saw it finished, he is
said to have exclaimed with exultation, "How beautiful she is, this
daughter of a year!" It was the last hold of the English in Normandy;
and, under the command of Roger de Lacy, long mocked the efforts of
Philip Augustus, who came in person to invest it in August 1203. The
siege was memorable for its length, the incredible exertions of De Lacy,
and the sufferings endured by the besieged until its capture in the
following March.--_Wiffen's_ "Memoirs of the House of Russell," vol. i.
p. 548.]

[Footnote 213: It is a remarkable coincidence, that the present
possessor of Lacock Abbey should be a Talbot.]

[Footnote 214: The Bishop of Gloucester.]

THE END.

BALLANTYNE AND COMPANY, PRINTERS, EDINBURGH.

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