ed all, at the accession of King William,
for the sake of that conscience which, in a former reign, sent him a
prisoner to the Tower. He had no home in the world; but he found an
asylum with the generous nobleman who had been his old schoolfellow at
Winchester. Here, it is said, he brought with him his shroud, in which
he was buried at Frome; and here he chiefly composed his four volumes of
poems.]

[Footnote 40: The Rev. Mr Skurray.]

[Footnote 41: The seat of the Earl of Cork and Orrery.]

[Footnote 42: Mrs Heneage, Compton House.]

[Footnote 43: Mrs Methuen, of Corsham House.]

[Footnote 44: For the "Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge," on
which occasion a sermon was preached by the author.]

[Footnote 45: A book, just published, with this title, "The Duke of
Marlborough is rector of Overton, near Marlborough."]

[Footnote 46: Rev. Charles Hoyle, Vicar of Overton, near Marlborough.]

[Footnote 47: "Killarney," a poem.]

[Footnote 48: Sonnets.]

[Footnote 49: "Exodus," a poem.]

[Footnote 50: Large coloured prints, in most cottages.]

[Footnote 51: The letter said to be written by our Saviour to King
Agbarus is seen in many cottages.]

[Footnote 52: Tib, the cat.]

[Footnote 53: The notes of the cuckoo are the only notes, among birds,
exactly according to musical scale. The notes are the fifth, and major
third, of the diatonic scale.]

[Footnote 54: The "whip-poor-will" is a bird so called in America, from
his uttering those distinct sounds, at intervals, among the various wild
harmonies of the forest. See Bertram's Travels in America.]

[Footnote 55: In Cornwall, and in other countries remote from the
metropolis, it is a popular belief, that they who are to die in the
course of the year appear, on the eve of Midsummer, before the church
porch. See an exquisite dramatic sketch on this subject, called "The Eve
of St Mark," in Blackwood.]

[Footnote 56: Madern-stone, a Druidical monument in the village of
Madern, to which the country people often resort, to learn their future
destinies.]

[Footnote 57: Such is the custom in Cornwall.]

[Footnote 58: Polwhele. These are the first four lines of the real song
of the season, which is called "The Furry-song of Helstone." Furry is,
probably, from Feriae.]

[Footnote 59: _Campanula cymbalaria, foliis hederaciis_.]

[Footnote 60: _Erica multiflora_, common in this part of Cornwall.]

[Footnote 61: The rhythm of this song is taken from a ballad