bart. who married Frances, daughter and co-heiress of the late E. Sulyard, esq.; but the public papers state, that in October, 1811, this manor, extending over 2442 acres, 22 dwelling-houses, and 28 messuages, with the spacious mansion-house and offices, and a park and land containing about 396 acres, were sold for 27,840l. exclusive of timber. Here is the seat of Charles Tyrell, esq. who married Mr. Ray's heir. William Crawford, esq. is now possessor. Newton was one of the estates belonging to Margaret, Countess of Salisbury, at her death, 33 Henry VIII. This lady was the daughter of George, Duke of Clarence, brother to Edward IV. by Isabel, the daughter of Richard Neville, the celebrated Earl of Warwick and Salisbury. She married Richard Pole, Lord Montague, whom she survived, and upon her petition to Henry VII. obtained the possessions of her grandfather, and the title of Countess of Salisbury. It was probably her proximity in blood to the royal house of York that gave umbrage to the jealous tyranny of Henry VIII., who caused her to be accused of a traitorous correspondence with the Marquis of Exeter, her son Cardinal Pole, and others. She was accordingly attainted of high treason, and in the 70th year of her age beheaded in the Tower of London, with circumstances of great cruelty. She had been condemned, as was not unusual in that reign, without trial, and when she was brought to the scaffold, refused to lay her head on the block, in obedience to a sentence, the justice of which she would never recognize. She told the executioner, therefore, that, if he would have her head, he must win it the best way he could, and ran about the scaffold, while he pursued her, aiming many fruitless blows at her neck before he was able to put an end to her life. Newton Hall, with her other estates, passed, however, to her son Henry Pole, Lord Montague. Turning to the left at Haughley New-street, we pass Harleston, and about a mile farther observe SHELLAND. This was the lordship of the Bourchiers, Earls of Essex, from whom it descended to the family of Devereux, and was sold in 1591 by that great and unhappy favourite of Queen Elizabeth, Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex. The manor of Rockylls in Shelland formerly belonged to the Drurys, a family of great note in this county. ONEHOUSE, about a mile south of Shelland, is supposed to have formerly belonged to the Weylands, and was certainly the estate of Bartholomew Burghersh, who died seised of it in the 43d year of Edward III. He was one of the twelve noblemen to whose care the Prince of Wales was committed at the battle of Cressy. On the site of his old hall encompassed with a moat, a farm-house has been built. The grandeur and solitary situation of the ancient fabric probably gave name to the parish, the greater part of which, two centuries ago, was a wood, except a narrow slip declining to the south-east, near that distinguished mansion, situated on a rising ground that gently sloped into a valley, with a rivulet winding through it. About two hundred yards to the north of the moat stands the church, which is small, and has a font of unhewn stone. It appears to have been a Saxon building; but a part of the north wall only, extending about ten yards from the tower, which is circular, is all that remains of the original structure. Not less than one-fifth of the lands belonging to this parish, at present, consists of woods and groves, finely planted with timber; and even part of the rectorial glebe, adjoining to the parsonage-house, is a wood of ten or twelve acres. In the chancel of the church of Onehouse lies buried, but without any inscription, the Rev. Charles Davy, author of Letters upon the Subjects of Litera ture, in two volumes, octavo, &c. In the preface to this work, he says, "Most of these little essays were written many years ago: they have been collected from detached papers, and revised for publication as a relief to the author's mind during a confinement of more than eighteen months continuance. It seemed good to the Supreme Disposer of all things to reduce him in a moment, by an apoplectic stroke, from the most perfect state of health and cheerfulness, to a paralytic permanent debility; a debility which has not only fixed him to his chair, but brought on spasms, so exquisitely painful, and frequently so unremitted, as scarcely to allow a single hour's repose to him for many days and nights together. Under the pressure of these afflictions, God hath graciously been pleased to continue to him his accustomed flow of spirits, and to preserve his memory and his understanding in some degree of vigour. These alleviating blessings have enabled him to borrow pleasure from past times in support of the present, and to call back the delightful and instructing conversations he enjoyed in a society of worthy and ingenious friends, and to resume those studies and amusements which rendered the former part of his life happy." 1 The following lines are extracted from a translation of a Latin poem, by the Rev. Charles Davy, written in the reign of James I. entitled Ædes Solitaria. “I shall," says he, "apply them to the spot where it has pleased the Divine Providence to place me, in which I hope to close the evening of my life." "No gilded roofs here strain the gazer's eye, Sleep, balmy sleep, here rests his downy wings, No gems here dazzie th' offended sight, No trilling airs inspire unchaste delight; No servile bands with crouching necks appear, |