Now the
groves of Newby Park re-appear with their "sylvan majesty," creating
unutterable sympathies; for the wind that bows the surrounding branches
moves me to weep for that romantic spirit whose ashes moulder on the
shores of India, where
"When the sun's noon-glory crests the wave,
He shines, without a shadow on his grave."
* * H.
[2] Here Henry Percy, the fourth Earl of Northumberland, was
murdered by an infuriated mob, in the fourth year of Henry
VII.; he having, as lord lieutenant of the county, levied a
tax on the people by order of his sovereign, for carrying on
the war in Bretague. Skelton, poet-laureat to Henry VIII.
lamented his death in some elegiac lines.
[3] Aldburgh, or Aldborough, so called by the Normans, was the
Iseur of the Ancient Britons, and the Isurium of the Romans.
Perhaps there is not another Roman city, not even excepting
York, where so many antiquities have been discovered. The
opening of ancient baths, burial vaults, &c. has led to
the finding of tesselated pavements, coins, urns, rings,
lachrymatories, seals, monumental inscriptions, medals,
statues, chains, sacrificing vessels, &c. It is to be lamented
that modern ignorance and barbarity are fast obliterating all
traces of the Roman walls of Isurium; their foundations having
been dug up for the mercenary purpose of obtaining their
materials.
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