AND BODILY STATKS UPON THE IMAGINATION. 243 



the world which surrounds us passes unheeded^ and we are occupied 

 alone by the pictures of fancy. * Occasionally our Imagination is led 

 into this state of reverie, by occurrences which bring back upon the 

 memory, scenes and objects long since forgotten : the home of our 

 childhood, the hopes of our youth, the objects of an early and 

 blighted affection, by some particular and unlocked for event, are 

 again presented to the mind ; and the Imagination, giving the rein to 

 its workings, plunges us again into these scenes, recals events over 

 which oblivion for years had drawn her veil, and deludes us by 

 hopes long dead, and joys whose very memory is grief. 



HISTORICAL MEMORANDA OF WIGMORE CASTLE, 

 HEREFORDSHIRE. 



By Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick, K. H. 



[Concluded from the last Number]. 



Sir Edmund Mortimer, after the battle of Shrewsbury, fled into 

 Scotland ; but his nephew, being captured, was condemned to per- 

 petual imi)risonment. He was received with great kindness by the 

 king of Scotland, who made him laird of Craigivar, in the high- 

 lands of Aberdeenshire, where his successors cofltinued for two 

 hundred years, some even being said to be still extant.* It is very 

 doubtful whether Sir Edmund married a daughter of Owain Glyn- 

 dwr, as it has been asserted,t and all means of ascertaining the 

 truth are destroyed by the statute of the 4th of Henry IV. passed in 

 1403, which enacted " that no Englishman should marry with any 

 of the family of Owain Glyndwr, nor should any such marriage 

 previously formed be considered valid." Thus it became politic to 

 conceal the fact. 



The Earl of March remained a captive until after the close of 

 Henry's reign, in 1413 ; but his son, being anxious to heal all dis- 

 sensions, admitted, in the next year, a great many to favour ; and 

 thus wisely added to the number of his friends, at the time he 

 claimed the crown of France and prepared for war with that coun- 



• Anderson's Royal Genealogies^ table 492. 

 •j- Anderson and others. 



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