Excerpt: ...whose signature appears upon the death-warrant of Charles the First, finished his days here in prison. Marten lived to the advanced age of seventy-eight, and died by a stroke of apoplexy, which seized him while he was at dinner, in the twentieth year of his confinement. He was buried in the chancel of the parish church at Chepstow. Over his ashes was placed a stone with an inscription, which remained there until one of the succeeding vicars declaring his abhorrence that the monument of a rebel should stand so ...
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Excerpt: ...whose signature appears upon the death-warrant of Charles the First, finished his days here in prison. Marten lived to the advanced age of seventy-eight, and died by a stroke of apoplexy, which seized him while he was at dinner, in the twentieth year of his confinement. He was buried in the chancel of the parish church at Chepstow. Over his ashes was placed a stone with an inscription, which remained there until one of the succeeding vicars declaring his abhorrence that the monument of a rebel should stand so near the altar, removed the stone into the body of the church! Illustration: Marten's Tower, Chepstow Castle. Bright silver'd by the moon.-Then rose The wild notes sacred to repose; Then the lone owl awoke from rest, Stretch'd his keen talons, plum'd his crest, And from his high embattl'd station, Hooted a trembling salutation. Rocks caught the "halloo" from his tongue, And PERSFIELD back the echoes flung Triumphant o'er th' illustrious dead, Their history lost, their glories fled. END OF THE SECOND BOOK. BOOK III. CONTENTS OF BOOK III. Departure for Ragland.-Ragland Castle.-Abergavenny.-Expedition up the "Pen-y-Vale," or Sugar-Loaf Hill.-Invocation to the Spirit of Burns.- View from the Mountain.-Castle of Abergaveuny.-Departure for Brecon.- Pembrokes of Crickbowel-Tre-Tower Castle.-Jane Edwards. THE BANKS OF WYE. BOOK III. PEACE to your white-wall'd cots, ye vales, Untainted fly your summer gales; Health, thou from cities lov'st to roam, O make the Monmouth hills your home! Great spirits of her bards of yore, While harvests triumph, torrents roar, Train her young shepherds, train them high To sing of mountain liberty: Give them the harp and modest maid; Give them the sacred village shade. Long be Llandenny, and Llansoy, Names that import a rural joy; Known to our fathers, when May-day Brush'd a whole twelvemonth's cares away. Oft on the lisping infant's tongue Reluctant information hung, Till, from a belt of woods full...
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