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terred here, having, it is supposed, been 

 foully murdered, at the instigation of his 

 Uncle, the Cardinal Bishop of Winchester. 

 Two battles were fought here in the wars of 

 the roses, in the first of which a great num- 

 ber of nobles indeed the chiefs of the 

 Lancastrian party were slaughtered. In 

 the second the Yorkists were defeated, and 

 the great Earl of Warwick obliged to fly 

 for his life. New England hills, as some 

 artificial mounds are called, apparently a 

 Roman camp is the site of one, and Ber- 

 nard's heath of the other. The latter is 

 now often the scene of a far less bloody and 

 more rational character the war or game 

 of cricket. 



This old town is also renowned for 

 its political or electoral contests ; and 

 before, and more particularly since, the 

 Reform Bill, has always been open to 

 the highest bidder. A pot-walloping bo- 

 rough so near the metropolis, there was 



