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THE DOVER ROAD 



By " usvyf " he meant " wife." " Help us, wife," 

 which strikes us as being extremely familiar. 



The Holy Mother, notwithstanding this horrid jargon, 

 was pleased to save him, and this pious " Harpur a 

 Roucestre " landed about a league below the city, 

 making his way forthwith to a church to offer up 

 thanks, and followed by an immense crowd Avho had 

 been watching the proceedings without attempting to 

 save him, which is ever the wav of crowds. 



ROCHESTER CASTLE AND THE MEDWAY. 



Fourteen years later, the Queen of Robert Bruce 

 was a State prisoner in Rochester Castle, with her 

 sister and daughter, and here they remained until 

 Bannockburn altered the complexion of affairs. King 

 John of France, too, appears here, and in a grateful 

 mood, for he was going back to his kingdom, and 

 so, to please the saints, made an offering of forty 

 crowns (valued at £6 136'. 4(/.) at the Cathedral, 



