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Nor slavery of state, 

 Nor changes in our fate. 

 From plots this place is free, 

 There we'll ever be ; 

 We'll sit and bless our stars 

 That from the noise of wars, 

 Did this glorious place give, 

 That thus we happy live.' 



" In the margin is the following substitution (with the word 

 • or' prefixed) for the line before the last : 



' Did us Todington give.' 



" In Macaulay's History we find the following affecting men- 

 tion of Lady Henrietta Wentworth. He has just described 

 Monmouth's execution and burial : — ' Yet a few months, and 

 the quiet village of Toddington in Bedfordshire witnessed a 

 yet sadder funeral. Near that village stood an ancient and 

 stately hall, the seat of the Wentworths. The transept of 

 the parish church had long been their burial-place. To that 

 burial-place, in the spring which followed the death of Mon- 

 mouth, was borne the coffin of the young Baroness Went- 

 worth of Nettlestead. Her family reared a sumptuous mau- 

 soleum over her remains; but a less costly memorial of her 

 was long contemplated with far deeper interest. Her name, 

 carved by the hand of him she loved too well, was a few years 

 ago still discernible on a tree in the adjoining park.' " Dr. 

 Anster then pointed to the state of the book, which he pro- 

 duced. There were the remains of silver clasps which had 

 been torn off, and a part of the leather of the covers at each 

 side was torn away, seemingly for the purpose of removing 

 some name or some coat of arms with which it had been once 

 marked. " On this account," said Dr. Anster, "and in con- 

 nexion with the book being found in Paris, I was anxious to 

 cite such passages from the old narratives of the Duke's cap- 

 ture and execution as trace the Duke's papers to the possession 



