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which had included a succession of enjoyments as miscel- 

 laneous as the subjects of this chapter. 



And Cheneys still remained. The Sleepy Hollow of 

 Sarratt was left to its seclusion, and the high-road once more 

 gained. Cheneys, about a mile and a half farther on, is a 

 placid, eminently respectable village, commanding the 

 loveliest woodland walks. Attached to the church is the 

 mausoleum, where lie many members of the Russell family, 

 among them Lord William, who was beheaded in Lincoln's 

 Inn Fields. No one goes to Cheneys without seeing the 

 remarkable monuments and faded banners of the mau- 

 soleum ; the fine old Elizabethan Manor House, with its 

 cool quadrangle and dark-leaved ivy ; and the veteran oak, 

 planted, it is said, by the fair hand of good Queen Bess 

 herself. Pursuing the valley upwards Latimers and Chesham 

 are reached, the Chess rising near the latter place. The 

 lower part of the river has been spoiled by mill-poisoning, 

 but between Sarratt and its source it maintains its high 

 reputation as a trout stream. 



