n Normandy, but was made indigenous by
King Henry II., who gave it to the Abbey of St. Peter, at Westminster.
In after time, King John changed it into a college of a dean and
secular canons. At the suppression, its revenues were 324_l._ a
year.

Seated on the banks of Stour river is a priory of the Benedictine
order, translated thither from the castle, by Richard De Tonebridge,
Earl of Clare, about the year 1315. Edmund Mortimer, Earl of March,
converted it into a collegiate church. Elizabeth, the wife of Lionell,
Duke of Clarence, was buried in the chancel of this priory, 1363; as
was also the duke.

The first duke was the third son of King Edward III. He created his
third son, Lionell of Antwerp, Duke of Clarence, in 1362. His first
wife was Elizabeth of Clare, daughter of William De Burgh, Earl of
Ulster; she died in 1363. His second wife was Violante, daughter of
the Duke of Milan. He died in Italy, 1370.

Clarencieux, the second king-at-arms, so called by Lionell, who first
held it. King Henry IV. created his second son, Thomas of Lancaster,
to the earldom of Albemarle and duchy of Clarence. He was slain in
Anjou, in 1421.

The third duke was the second son of Richard of Plantagenet, Duke of
York, George Duke of Clarence, in Suffolk. He was accused of high
treason, and was secretly suffocated in a butt of Malmsley, or sack
wine, in a place called Bowyer Tower, in the Tower of London, 1478, by
order of his brother, King Edward IV.

The fourth duke. There was an interregnum of 311 years before another
Duke of Clarence. George III. created his third son, William Henry, to
the duchy of Clarence, August 16, 1789. The only Duke of Clarence who
ever was raised to the throne is King William IV. of England.

CARACTACUS.

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SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

SIR WALTER SCOTT.

(_From the first of "Living Literary Characters," in the New Monthly
Magazine._)

It would be superfluous to continue the list of his prose works: they
are numerous; but they are in all people's hands, and censure or
praise would come equally late. He has triumphed over every difficulty
of subject, place, or time--exhibited characters humble and high,
cowardly and brave, selfish and generous, vulgar and polished, and is
at home in them all. I was present one evening, when Coleridge, in a
long and eloquent harangue, accused the author of Waverley of treason
against Nature, in not drawing his c