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Wild Darell of Littlecote. 



even Solicitor General; while, in the interval, Camden, the historian 

 of the county, even if he heard the rumour was no believer in the 

 truth of it, and while Walsingham continued on terms of intimacy 

 with the criminal, whom we further find acting as a county 

 magistrate, and taking a prominent part in bringing other mur- 

 derers to justice. Is it conceivable that a person, with his own 

 hands so imbrued, would have ventured to appear as the punisher 

 of others at all, that he would have been in the Commission of the 

 Peace at all, still less have been selected by Walsingham to take a 

 leading part in bringing Brind's murderers to justice ? And to 

 crown the value of this village scandal, I may observe, that Great 

 Bedwyn, quite in the contrary direction, has, hitherto, been re- 

 garded as the home of the midwife. 



C. E. L. 



I avail myself of this opportunity to correct two errors in the pre- 

 vious article (No. 2) viz. 1. Wilts Mag. Yol. v. p. 203, 1. 9. For "long 

 since a seat of the Darells" read " not long since, &c." 2. do. page 

 212, 1. 31, after "Mr. Harry" the name Bromley should be inserted 

 although in the original the name appears as if erased, but why, 

 one cannot tell, as the individual was really Henry Bromley son 

 and heir of Sir Thomas Bromley, who became Lord Chancellor in 

 1579, being succeeded, as Solicitor General, by Popham. This 

 Henry Bromley married a Pelham, who, as well as Darell, derived 

 her descent from William Lord Sandes, K.G. 



