22 Life and Times of " The Druid" 



northern estates and arm their followers 

 against the Scots. The Lord of the beautiful 

 domain of Yanwath was William de Threl- 

 keld. Let us picture him sitting down to 

 dinner surrounded by his vassals and men- 

 at-arms, who might presently be wanted on 

 the Scottish Border. Nor is the Church 

 unrepresented, for the white and black garb 

 of the monk rustles softly amid the clang of 

 the half mailed knights, and the grace is said 

 by the abbot of the neighbouring monastery 

 of Heppe. 



" The hour is half past ten a.m., for our fore- 

 fathers rose at five. On the upper table the 

 white cloth is spread, and the trumpet sounds 

 the call for dinner. The pages bring in 

 ponderous dishes for the banquet, a bountiful 

 and varied fare. Salmon from the pool in 

 the river below, served sodden and with 

 verjuice sauce ; the great grey lake-trout 

 from U lis water ; eels from the Stauke at 

 Pooley baked in crust ; the head of a grisly 

 wild boar speared in Grisdale ; venison 

 from a stag shot by the bowmen in Martin- 

 dale, or from a noble stag run by the sleuth- 

 hounds from the Manor of Oglebird and 



