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Surry, and so bitterly did the king bewail her loss, that 

 he denounced a malediction on the scene of her last ill- 

 ness, and commanded, in the wildness of his grief, that 

 not one stone should be left upon another of the palace 

 where she died. Margaret felt the death of the queen 

 severely ; she loved her cousin with a sister's love, and 

 the circumstance of their having left their native land 

 together, and their being to each other what none else 

 could be in a foreign country, had formed between them 

 a bond of no common interest. 



The queen deceased without children ; but Margaret 

 having married a gentleman of the ducal family of Nor- 

 folk, knight of the garter and standard-bearer of England, 

 their only child and heiress, Alana, became the wife of 

 Sir William Tyndale, who was equally respectable in 

 point of antiquity and alliances. His family possessed 

 the valuable domain and title of Tyndale in Northum- 

 berland, so called from the south Tyne, which, rising 

 in the mountains and moors of Cumberland, waters that 

 dale, and having joined the north Tyne near Hexham, 

 falls into the German ocean at Tynmouth. Their 

 baronial residence rose proudly on an eminence which 

 commanded the southern banks of the river. It consisted 

 of a spacious antique quadrangle ; the roof and walls being 

 of immense strength and thickness, extended in the form 

 of the letter H ; the whole was defended by a fosse, and 

 surmounted with four principal towers, in the position of 

 north and south. 



