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THE GARDEN SEAT ON THE BOWLING GREEN. 



the great hall, the long gallery, and the other chambers of 

 Heshngton were well fitted to receive a royal guest. 



We have anticipated a little the history of the home. 

 Lying within a couple of miles of the famous city of York, 

 Heslington was necessarily a place of some importance. Tlnse 

 who have gone far hack into its history bring it into relation 

 with the operations of the Angles against Imperial Rome. 

 They say that it was " the residence of the folk at the water 

 hall," since in its name the ro >t words of Old English are 

 found ea, water; sa-l, a hall or guard-house of justice; ing, 

 a tribal indication ; and ton, an enclosed residence. Such is 



THE SUNDIAL. 



the ingenious and fanciful verbal patchwork out of which they 

 would have us believe Heslington sprang. We are on much 

 surer ground when we re.ich one Thomas Eymes, a member 

 of the fain KIS Council of the North, who was the builder, and 

 evidently the owner of Heslington Ha'l in Elizabeth's days. 

 He was succeeded in possession by the Heskeths, belonging to 

 a great Lancashire family, and they by the Yarburghs of 

 Yarburgh, an old Lincolnshire family. 



Sir I'homas Yarburgh had married one Mary Blague, a laJy 

 of the Court of Charles II. The fair dame, according to Gram- 

 mont, had fallen in love with a French gallant of the Court, but 



as she had not inspired the 

 like passion in him, she 

 married Sir Thomas Yarburgh 

 instead. Grammont, who 

 does not give a very attractive 

 picture of the lady, describes 

 her as the wife of " a great 

 country bumpkin," who, the 

 very week after their mar- 

 riage, had bidden her take 

 farewell of the town for ever, 

 in consequence of the five or 

 six thousand a year which he 

 wished to enjoy in the country. 

 " Alas ! poor Miss Blague. I 

 saw her go away about this 

 time twelve months in a coach 

 with four such lean horses 

 that 1 cannot believe she is 

 yet halfway to her miserable 

 little castle." The castle in 

 question was Snaith Hall, in 

 t.ie West Riding of Yorkshire, 

 and the lady's son, James 

 Yarburgh a godson of 

 James II., a page of honour, 

 and an officer of the Foot 



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Guards married the daughter 



