18 Life and Times of " The Druid" 



at Stirling, at Carlisle, the castle alike crowns 

 and ends the city. It is at once an acropolis 

 and an advanced bulwark. All three strong- 

 holds are emphatically watch towers, homes 

 of sentinels, standing and looking forth to 

 guard the land of their friends, and to over- 

 awe the land of their enemies. . . . That 

 duty was at least as well discharged by Stir- 

 ling in the hands of an English-speaking 

 king of Scots as it was by Carlisle in the 

 hands of a French-speaking king of England. 

 What distinguished Carlisle from its two 

 northern fellows is that while it has shared 

 with them the championship of Teutonic 

 Britain against the Celt, it alone of the three 

 had already held an analogous place in days 

 before any part of Britain was Teutonic." 



I have come across one other passage 

 which it would have given " The Druid " 

 unfeigned delight to transcribe. It is from 

 " The Old Manorial Halls of Westmoreland 

 and Cumberland," by Dr. M. W. Taylor, 

 F.S.A., Vice-President of the Cumberland 

 and Westmoreland Antiquarian and Archaeo- 

 logical Society. The work was published 

 in 1892, and is the best and fullest record of 



