802 Documents found at Kingston House. 
put down and not carried before him, An exception was taken 
to the plaintiff’s witnesses that they were Almsmen maintained 
by the Alms of the City. 
Part of the Priory lay within the adjoining Parish of “St. 
James and Stall,” which Colthurst had mortgaged in 1589 to 
Alexander Staples of Yate, Co. Gloucester. 
Then follows another document showing how John Hail, of 
Bradford, wasinvolved in a suit at law with the family of Staples. 
These extracts, we conceive, indicate very plainly, that the 
present property of Lord Manyers round the Abbey Church 
of Bath, must have been derived from the same source and 
through the same channels, as Kingston House, viz., the 
Halls of Bradford. J. EH, J. 
LINES, 
Suggested by the opening made in Silbury Hill, by the Archeological Institute 
of Great Britain and Ireland, August 8rd, 1849. 
Bones of our wild forefathers, O forgive, 
If now we pierce the chambers of your rest, 
And open your dark pillows to the eye 
Of the irreverent day! Hark, as we move, 
Runs no stern whisper down the narrow vault? 
Flickers no shape across our torch-light pale, 
With backward beckoning arm? No, all is still. 
O that it were not! O that sound or sign, 
Vision or legend, or the eagle glance 
Of science, could call back thy history lost, 
Green pyramid of the plains, from far-ebbed time! 
O that the winds, which kiss thy flowery sward 
Could tell of thee! Could say how once they fanned 
The jealous savage, as he paused awhile, 
Drew deep his chest, pushed back his raven hair, 
And scanned the growing hill with reverent eye. 
Or haply, how they gave their fitful pipe 
To join the chaunt prolonged o’er warriors cold— 
Or how the Druids mystic robe they swelled; 
Or from thy blackened brow on wailing wing 
The solemn sacrificial ashes bore, 
To strew them where now smiles the yellow corn, 
Or where the peasant treads the churchward path. 
EMMELINE FISHER. 
