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the grand rebellion did the wife of one of the rebellious party, 

 Major Taylor, make this closet her spinning room for toe and 

 wool! — proh dolor ! " 



The following note at Chesterfield, on the death of Rich. 

 Flentham, shows his sympathy with those who suffer perse- 

 cution : — 



" Richard Flentham, born at Plesley, a faithful servant of 

 Charles II., and of his loving brother James 11., to whom he was 

 gentleman of the Wine Cellar, and so continued until the abdica- 

 tion, as it was called, of King James, who, when he was Duke of 

 York, did attend him at sea, being with him in his flagship in that 

 sea fight when he gave that total defeat to the Dutch, and when 

 he went into Scotland as Lord High Commissioner for the settling 

 of the Episcopal Church Government there with ease and much 

 satisfaction, and content to that kingdom ; he was also one of his 

 Royal Highness's attendants into Flanders that time what the 

 Phanatic humour made the King so uneasy that he was con- 

 strained to send him sometime thither ; he was a faithful man to 

 his friends, and departed this life 'in carcere' the 25th Oct., 1705, 

 which confinement he had undergone from near the beginning of 

 King William's reign — his wines and plate being all seized on 

 (which was very considerable) for the King, and utterly ruined by 

 the Revolution." 



It is curious that we should have only just celebrated the 

 centenary of this great event, which is popularly supposed to have 

 inaugurated a period of liberty and that sort of thing ; it would 

 seem instead, that it was liberty and something more for only one 

 party in the State. 



Brailsford evidently loved to describe heraldic details. In 

 Staveley, he writes — " Here hangs the Pennon and Streamer, 

 spurs, sword, gauntlets, helmet, and crest, with the tassels of 

 silk bossed with gold, with the whole achievements of Sir 

 Peter Freshville, who was knighted at Muslebairow Battle in 

 Scotland. This was fought 3 Sep', Edward VI., by Seyn)Our, 

 Duke of Somerset, with 600 foot and 6,000 horse, besides 

 1,300 pioneers and artificers, and fifteen brass pieces of ordinance, 



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