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consists of four stories, with four six-angled towers at 

 the ends. These have since been joined to four wings, 

 with a regular stone balustrade at the top, and four 

 towers more that finish the building. The windows 

 and gates are of a yellow stone throughout ; and one 

 of the flat sides towards the garden has the wings of 

 a newer architecture, with beautiful Italian window 



' In short, and indeed, 'tis a most sweet and pleasant 

 place, and scite, as any in the west, perhaps none like it.' 

 And he further says, ' The time of his execution was contrived to 

 be on my Lord Mayor's day, that the pageantes and fine shewes 

 might drawe away the people from beholding the tragedie of one of 

 the gallantest worthies that England ever bred.' Dr. Tounson 

 says, ' He was the most fearless of death that ever was known.' In 

 St. Margaret's, Westminster, is this inscription : ' Within the walls 

 of this church were deposited the body of the great Sir W. Kaleigh, 

 on the day he was beheaded in Old Palace Yard, 18 October, 1618.' 

 When Sir Walter was confined at Winchester, in daily expectation 

 of death, he wrote a letter to his wife, (the daughter of the above- 

 mentioned Sir Nicholas Carew), and the following is part of that 

 letter : ' You shall receive, my dear wife, my last words in these 

 my last lines ; my love I send you, that you may keep when I am 

 dead ; and my counsel, that you may remember it when I am no 

 more. I would not with my will present you sorrows ; dear Bess, 

 let them go to the grave with me, and be buried in the dust. And 

 seeing that it is the will of God, that I should not see you any more, 

 bear my destruction patiently, and with an heart like yourself. 

 First, I send you all the thanks which heart can conceive, or 

 my words express, for your many travels and cares for me, which, 

 though they have not taken effect as you wished, yet my debt to 

 you is not the less ; but pay it I never shall in this world. Secondly, 

 I beseech you, for the love you bear me living, that you do not hide 

 yourself many days, but by your travels seek to help my miserable 



