7V//' Xt'tc Fnn-xt : its History and it* Scenery. 



either the power of prophecy lasted much longer than is com- 

 monly supposed, or, as we have said, the monks were accessories 

 to the murder ; we have no other choice. The last of these 

 solutions is fatal to the common belief; and very few persons 

 would, 1 suppose, venture upon the first. Nevertheless, the 

 monk of Gloucester's dream was not yet to be fulfilled. The 

 hour was not yet at band for England's deliverance. As the 

 Parliamentary party said in Charles the First's time " Things 

 must become worse before they can mend." England bud, 

 therefore, to undergo a tyranny for more than a century longer 

 till the evil became its own cure. Good was at length accom- 

 plished. Out of all the woe and wretchedness came the Dill 

 of Piirhts and the Cliarta de Forest a. 





View from Castle LlaVwcod 



lo$ 



