Mab. 3. 1855.] 



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tlie two great politicians D \i and St. J — ns, the 



learned civilian Dr. D — nt, the chaste divine Dr. Sw — ft, 



the great statesman A M — re, and the worthy 



Mr. P— r." 



There are other references which I have noted 

 down, but which I shall not forward, as they 

 are too vague to help your correspondent to in- 

 formation. Moore, howevei', was not forgotten, 

 even by the Balladmakers, when the Tory triuinph 

 was over, which I take to be good evidence that 

 he once possessed power. Here is the first verse 

 of a song written upon the Queen's death, and to 

 be sung, we are told, to the tune of " Oh Simkin, 

 ihou hadst better been starved at nurse, Than he 

 hang'd at Tyburn for taking a purse :" 



"All honest brave Britons attend and give ear, 

 To a ditty most dismal and doleful God wot, 

 The dire effects of it daily appear, 



By Prior and Moore 'twill ne'er be forgot ; 

 We've lost our Queen Ann, with Robin her man. 



Lewd Harry and Brinsden, Avith Lady M m. 



Oh Per kin, we bid thee for ever adieu, 



For in loosing of them we have also lost you." 



Affairs, however, now assumed a more serious 

 aspect, and next week I shall proceed from verse 

 to prose. The Writer of the 



Articles in the Athen^cm. 



(To be continued.^ 



CASTLE DAIRY, KENDAL, WESTMORELAND. 



This quaint old house, situated in Wildman 

 Street, and close to the railway station, is passed 

 daily by many a lake tourist without even a glance 

 bestowed upon it ; whereas it is worth while, for 

 those who have leisure and a taste for such things, 

 just to look inside this relic of the olden time. I 

 will endeavour to give a slight sketch of its ap- 

 pearance. 



On a stone outside, within a sunk panel, are 

 incised the letters " a. g.," of an ancient fashion, 

 a cord with sundry knots being intertwined, and 

 the date, 1564 : — for Anthony Garnett, then pro- 

 prietor. 



On the upper bevelled stonework of a window to 

 the extreme left are incised "qvi vadit plane — 

 VADiT SANE " and " a. g." in cypher. This same 

 idea is rendered into English on coeval glass in 

 Worlingworth Church, Suffolk, "^C U' ioalfte 

 jlatnlg — b)al&0ti^ ^auctg." 



Entering what is now the kitchen, but which is 

 only a portion of the original apartment parti- 

 tioned off, the clavey, or mantelshelf, extends the 

 whole breadth of the house, and is formed of oak 

 in curved panels, the moulding battlemented, with 

 which the opposite 'end, now forming part of the 

 entrance passage, corresponds. In the south win- 

 dow of the same is a quarrel (No. 1.) with, 

 "1567 — OMNIA VANiTAs — A. G.," with inter- 

 laced cord, " viENDRA LE lovR," a skull. Ano- 



ther (No. 2.) with a fleur-de-lis within a tasteful 

 border in cinque cento style, surmounted by a 

 crown ; both executed in yellow stain. 



In a bed-room upstairs is a massive carved-oak 

 bedstead, the head-board of which has upon ;it, 

 carved in bold relief on the top triangular panel, 

 the centre-piece gone, first row below — dexter, 

 a mask with horns, after the Roman antique ; 

 middle, a scroll, with " omnta uanita;^," a shield, 

 having "a. g." conjoined by a fanciful knotted 

 cord, a scroll with " ?FtCnlfra le t'ottr," and skull; 

 sinister, mask in cinque cento style : lower row, 

 three lions' masks in as many panels. 



On a buffet or ambry ; upper part, " oiA : vani- 

 TAs : HONOR [a central piece missing] divicie : 

 potestas;" lower part, "anno dn^i 1562." On 

 each side " a. g.," as before. The bedstead above 

 named is of the same date, as the carving on both 

 in certain parts coincides. 



In the window, on a quarrel (No. 1.), "a. g.," 

 and the date " 1565." (No. 2.) An oak tree 

 erased argent, fructed or ; on its branches an 

 eagle and child of the second. No. 3. as No. 1. 

 in the room below (No. 4.), an oak tree erased ; 

 on its branches an eagle and child or, the face 

 proper. 



On oak bosses on the ceiling ; that next the 

 window has a shield of four quarterings : 1st, two 

 fesses engrailed, on the upper one a mullet pierced. 

 Parr ; 2nd, three chevronels in fess braced, Fitz- 

 hugh ; 3rd, three water bougets, two and one, 

 Roos ; 4th, apparently three rabbits, two and one, 

 .... On another, fiirther from the window, a 

 second shield of four quarterings ; first and fourth 

 a fess dancette between ten billets, four and 

 six, Deincourt; second and third three cockle- 

 shells, Strickland of Sizergh Hall. 



This house was an appendage to the adjoining 

 Kendal Castle, which belonged to the noble family 

 of Parr, of whom was Katherine, last queen of 

 Henry VIII. 



The house under notice now belongs to Mrs. 

 Garnett Braithwaite. Some years ago a chest was 

 found in it, which contained among other things 

 a Missal, and a neatly-turned beechen box, just 

 holding to a nicety a dozen beechen roundles, 

 which I shall proceed to describe. The Missal, 

 the calendar of which has a catalogue of English 

 saints, may be described hereafter, if thought de- 

 sirable. Both are in the possession of the said lady. 



The roundles are extremely thin ; say as thin 

 as a delicate well-made pancake, five inches and a 

 quarter in diameter, gilded and painted, six of one 

 pattern and six of another. In the centre of each 

 an animal, and beneath a quatrain, as follows : 



1. 



[The representation of a skull, and below it the following 

 quatrain.] 

 " A wyfe y' maryethe husbandes thre 

 Was neuer wyshed therto by me ; 



