BUCKINGNAM IN LEGEND. 



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the run ; at any rate he was seized with spasms, and, so 

 runs the story, was first taken to a farmhouse, and then 

 after a time, feeling better, he managed to ride to Kirbymoor- 

 side, where again, being seized with pain, he went to one of 

 a tenant's houses, then one of the best in the interesting 



BUCKINGHAM HOUSE, KIRBYMOORSIDE, WHERE THE DUKE DIED. 



old-world town. The house is still standing, though part 

 of it is now a shop. It was never an inn, but near it is the 

 " Black Swan," over the porch of which is an inscription, 

 " William Wood, 1632," and also the King's Head. Buck- 

 ingham House adjoins the latter- mentioned hotel. In 

 " Ryedale and North Yorkshire Antiquities " we are told 

 by Mr. George Frank — 



" Though modernised, it retains the old style of architecture, with 

 its original beams and wainscoting ; it is now the property of the 

 writer, who has in his possession an old seal with armorial bearings, 

 found on the removal of the skirting-board of the bedroom in which 

 the Duke was embalmed. The seal bearing a lion rampant has long 

 been a puzzle in heraldry ; it has generally been supposed to have 



