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filled their places were not actuated by the same 

 necessity, and hence the passer-by no longer beheld a 

 humble cloister, with its garden and low fence, but 

 instead of this a stately building, the Abbey of the 

 Fountain, as it was called in reference to the stream that 

 flowed beside it, fresh and untroubled as when the 

 monks of St. Mary's first sought the precincts of the 

 dale. There were many in after years who desired that 

 their mortal remains might be deposited beneath the abbey 

 walls, and for this purpose they devised large sums of 

 money : some who had been in the deathful career of 

 storm and siege, and those, the flowers of chivalry, who 

 had won the prize at tilts and tournaments ; when armed 

 knight met knight, and high-born ladies gazed on and 

 awarded the victor's meed. Rest they had not found on 

 earth, amid the stunning tide of crime and human care, and 

 they wished that bells might toll for them, and prayers 

 be said for them, beside the rushing waters of the Skill. 

 The mental eye, back glancing, through the vista of long 

 ages, sees at intervals successive funerals slowly pro- 

 ceeding through the abbey gates. Warriors of the noble 



house of Percy borne there. Lord Rieland, one of the 



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 twenty guardians of the Magna Charta, he' who sustained 



the shock of arms and cheered on his vassals in the 

 Barons' wars. He too, Lord Henry de Percy, another 

 member of that ancient race, who followed in after years 

 the banner of King Edward into Scotland, was borne by 

 his tall yeomen to that still and narrow bed which 



