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THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY

ASTOR, LENOX AND
TILDEN FOUNDATIONS

THE NEW YORF PUBLIC LIBRAK.

ASTOR, LENOX AND
TILDEN FOUNDATIONA

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of the Parliamentary party, and was entrusted with the guardianship of the King at Hampton Court. At the Restoration he fled with his son-in-law Goffe, first to Vevay, in Switzerland, and then to America, where he died in a cellar at Hadley, in the year 1678. A very full account of his romantic career, and that of another extraordinary man, the Jesuit, Henry Garnet, one of the Gunpowder Plot conspirators, executed 1606, whom tradition asserts to have been a Whalley, was given in the Nottinghamshire Guardian in 1887, in the series which described most of the historic places in the county under the title of "About Notts.: Its Places and its People," by Mr. Cornelius Brown.

We give two views of Kirketon Hall from drawings still preserved in the village, by permission of Mrs. Flinders, to whom they belong. It will be seen from the engravings that the left-hand wing was removed and various alterations effected prior to the demolition of the Hall itself, which took place about the year 1823.

From Screveton the journey was continued to Hawksworth, where the Rev. J. G. Bayles met the members. The Church, dedicated to St. Mary and All Saints, is Early English, and has a nave, with clerestory, massive western tower, and chancel; rebuilt in 1851. There is a dedication stone and the remains of a churchyard cross. Mr. Phillimore described the stone, which is in the south wall, and read a translation to the effect that Gauterus and his wife, Cecilina, caused the Church to be built in honour of St. Mary the Virgin and All Saints. The Church has still the same dedication. There are crosses and figures on the stone, the latter emblematical of Saints, and an Agnus Dei. The following is the inscription—

GA/

TER

VS ET

VXOR EIVS

CECELINA

FECERVNT

FACERE ECMESIAM ISTAM IN HONORE

DNI NRI ET SCE MARIE VIRGINIS.

ET OMNIVM SCORUM DEI SIMVL

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