Aug. 20. 1853.] 



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multitudes throng to the phice on the faith of a 

 false ti-adition, so long since exposed and exploded 

 by their own authorities. Three hundred and 

 fifty years ago, the Pope, the representative of tlie 

 Bishop of Clogher, and the head of the Franciscans 

 in Donegal, combined their efforts to put down 

 the scandalous fabrication ; but yet it remains to 

 this day an object of cherished religious venera- 

 tion — an object of confidence and faith, on which 

 many a poor soul casts itself to find consolation 

 and repose. And those multitudes of pilgrims, 

 year after year, assemble there, no influence which 

 they look to for guidance forbidding them, to do 

 homage to the vain delusion. 



D. W. S. P. will find farther information on 

 this subject in The Catholic Layman for April 

 last : Curry, Dublin. William Blood. 



Wicklow. 



LORD WILLIAM RUSSELL. 



(Vol. viii., p. 100.) 



In answer to W. L. M.'s inquiry, " where the 

 virtuous and patriotic William Lord Russell was 

 buried ? " I beg to state that I possess a pamphlet 

 entitled : 



" The whole Tryal and Defence of William Lord 

 Russel, who Dyed a Martyr to the Romish Fury in 

 the Year 1683, with the Learned Arguments of the 

 Council on both sides. Togetlier with his Behaviour 

 and Speech upon the Scaffold : His Character and 

 Behaviour. London : printed by J. Bradford, at the 

 Bible in Fetter Lane." 



There is no date to it ; but from the appearance 

 of the paper, type, a rude woodcut of the execu- 

 tion, &c., I doubt not that it was printed soon 

 after the event, or certainly immediately after the 

 Revolution, to meet the popular wishes to have 

 information on the subject. It consists of sixteen 

 octavo pages, very closely pi-inted. The opening 

 paragraph says : 



" Among the many that suffered in a Protestant 

 cause [all the Italics used in this communication are 

 those of the pamphlet], and indeed whose measure 

 seem'd to be the hardest of all, was this honorable per- 

 son William Lord Russel, who was generally lamented 

 for his excellent Temper and good Qualities ; being 

 allowed to be one of the most sober and judicious 

 Noblemen in the Kingdom, which even his Enemies 

 could not deny ; and the Merit and Esteem he bore 

 was more cause of Offence against him than any Mat- 

 ter that was reap'd up at his Tryal ; all which in effect 

 was merely grounded upon Malice (I mean Popish 

 Malice) that could not be forgot, from his Lordship's 

 l)elng one of those earnest sticklers for Protestant 

 Liberty, and even the very foremost that prefer'd the 

 Bill of Exclusion," &c. 



Then follows the trial, headed " July ] 3, 1 683, 

 the Lord Russel came to his Tryal at the Old 



Bailey." The indictment is described ; the names 

 of the jury are given ; judges and counsel named ; 

 the evidence, examinations, and cross-examinations 

 (by Lord Russel) very interestingly narrated : 

 the Report concluding, after a short address from 

 Lord Russel, "Then the Court adjourned till 

 four In the afternoon, and brought him in guilty." 

 These particulars are followed by " The last 

 Speech and Carriage of the Lord Russel upon the 

 Scaffold, Sfc." As to the executioner's work, all 

 other accounts that I have seen state that after 

 " two " strokes the head was severed from the 

 body. The publication says : 



" The Executioner, missing at his first Stroke, 

 though with that he took away his Life, at two more 

 severed the Head from the Body .... Mr. Sheriff 

 [continues the account] ordered his Friends or Ser- 

 vants to take the Body, and dispose of it as they pleased, 

 being given them by His Majesty's Favour and Bounty." 



The narrative proceeds : 



" His Body was conveyed to Cheneys in Buckingham- 

 shire, where 'twas Buried among his Ancestors. There 

 was a great Storm, and many loud Claps of Thunder. 

 the Day of his Martyrdom. An Eleyy was made on 

 him immediately after his Death ; which seems, by 

 what we have of it, to be writ with some Spirit, and a 

 great deal of Truth and Good-will ; only this Frag- 

 ment on't could ba retriev'd, which yet may not be 

 unwelcome to the Reader : 



' ' Tis done — Ae's Crown'd, and one bright Martyr more^ 

 Black Rome, is charg'd on thy too bulky score. 

 All like himself, he mov'd so calm, so free, 

 A general whisper qtiestipn'd — Which is he? 

 Deck'd like a Lover — tho' pale Death's his Bride, 

 He came, and saw, and overcame, and dy'd. 

 Earth weeps, and all the vainly pitying Crowd : 

 But Heaven his Death in Thunder groan'd aloud.* " 



A " sketch of his character " closes the account. 

 Perhaps W. S. M. may deem these particulars not 

 wholly uninteresting, but tolerably conclusive, 

 considering the time of publication, when the fact 

 must have been notorious. 



A Hermit at Hampstead. 



OAKEN TOMBS, ETC. 



(Vol. vii., p. 528.) 



At Banham, Norfolk, in a recess in the wall of 

 the north aisle of the church, is an oaken effigy 

 of a knight in armour in a recumbent position. 

 Blomefield says : 



" It is plain that it was made for Sir Hugh Bardolph, 

 Knight, sometime lord of Gray's Manor, in this town, 

 who died in 1203; for under his left arm there is a 

 large cinquefoil, which is the badge of that family," &c. 



Since he wrote, however (1739), with a view to 

 the better preservation of this interesting relic, 

 some spirited churchwarden has caused it to be 



