24 NEWTOWN TO MONTGOMERY. 



And harmlcfs pleafares hi the throng' d 

 Abode of muhrtudes unknown 1 Hail, rural life: 

 Addrels himfclf who will to the purfuit 

 Of honours, or emoluments, or fame ; 

 I fliall not add myf-elf to fuch a Oiare, 

 TEwart his attempts, or envy his fuccefs. 



The Town- of Montgomery 



Was formerly defended by a circumambient wall, 

 firenghtened with towers. Leiand, in the fixteenth 

 century, thus defcribes it : " The foyle of the ground 

 of the towne is on mayne flaty rocke, and efpecially 

 the parte of the towne hillinge toward the caftell, 

 mow a late re-edified, whereby hathe been a parke. 

 Great ruines of the waulle yet apere, and the re- 

 mains of foure gates, thus called, Kedewen Gate, 

 Chirbury Gate, Arthur's Gate, and Kerry Gate. 

 In the waulle yet remayne broken tourets, of the 

 which the white tower is the moil notable *." 



King Henry III. granted to Montgomery the 

 privileges of a free borough. — The town is now 

 governed by two bailiffs, and twelve burgeffes, or 

 common-council men ; and it fends one member to 

 parliament, who is elected by the burgeifes, and re- 

 turned by the baihffs f. 



Cucking-Stool. 



In Blount's Ancient Tenures and Jocular Cuf- 

 toms, I find that this fmgular ihftrument of juflice 



* Leland's Itin. vii. 16. f Camden^ ii. 780. 



waG 



