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Bevtgrvee of Mlonrwpessorn, 
By JouHNn SieicH, J.P. 
ery many of the descendants of Mompesson, our Derby- 
shire Borromeo, but too little is known; and this 
: 4] pedigree is launched with a view to opening up the 
wee and eliciting further information. Few events in history 
move us more forcibly than the harrowing tale of the little 
land-locked village in the Peak voluntarily sacrificing itself to 
the awful ravages of the “ pestilence that stalketh in darkness,” in 
order to save its neighbours from a similar fate ; and nothing more 
touching has ever been written than the letters to his children of 
him who had passed “ through the cloud and whirlwind of Death” 
in announcing to them the doleful news of their dear mother’s 
departure on August 23rd, azo mirabili 1666. 
