fome degree bears the fame teftimony. For 

 hiftory informs us, the diverfion of the day 

 was now over, the fun was declining, and 

 William, difmounting his horfe, was enjoying 

 a moment's reft after the fatigue of the 

 chace*, when a flag darted fuddenly acrofs 

 the heath. The king turned towards it, 

 and lifting his hand to fkreen his eyes 

 from the fun-f-, at that moment received the 

 arrow. The fcene is a fweet fequeftercd bottom, 

 open to the weft, where the corner of a heath 

 finks gently into it ; but fheltered on the eaft 

 by a beechen grove, and on every other fide 

 by trees, forming an irregular fkreen around it; 

 among which are feveral winding avenues of 



greenfward. It is the very place, where a 



perfon heated with toil, might be allured to 

 flop for a moment's repofe. But the chief 

 circumftance of evidence is, that as the place 

 is open only to the weft, where the heath 

 was never probably covered with wood, the 

 king could there only have been incommoded 

 by an evening-fun. 



* See William of Malmfb. and Henry of Huntingdon, 

 f- See an account, which Rapin gives in a note from Sir 

 John Haywood. 



Having 



