sit in order to catch partridges.' His domestic matters do not seem to have run as smoothly as his other fortunes. His first wife was Alice, daughter of Sir Thomas Leigh, of Stoneleigh; but he divorced this truly excellent lady before he departed for Italy, where he married Elizabeth Southwell, a person of great beauty, who had followed him abroad in the habit of a page. Meantime, Charles I., out of pity to the misfortunes of the lady Alice, created her Duchess of Dudley in her own right; but he did not carry out his consolation in a pecuniary point of view, for he procured an Act of Parliament to enable her to accept a sum of 4,000l. down out of the exchequer, instead of the jointure of 10,000l. due to her out of the estate. She retired to a house of her own in St. Giles, London, where her works of charity and piety endeared her to the neighbourhood; and there she lived with her four daughters, of whom two at least had been born at Kenilworth-Lady Alicia Douglas, the eldest, and Lady Catherine Leveson, the youngest. The Duchess of Dudley's house stood on a triangle formed by the now obscure streets called Denmark Street, Church Street, and Lloyd's Court; and in it she died in March 1669. A monument erected to her memory stands in St. Giles's church; but her remains were conveyed for interment to the church of Stoneleigh, the house of her childhood.

So end the proud, days of Kenilworth, for till Charles I.'s death it was in the hands of a governor

under the crown-the Earl of Monmouth, and afterwards his son, Lord Carey: and after his execution, Oliver Cromwell gave the whole manor to several of his officers, who demolished the castle, drained the great pool, cut down the king's woods, destroyed the park and chase, and most conscientiously divided the lands into farms amongst themselves.

At the Restoration, Charles II. granted the remainder of the lease to the daughters of Lord Carey; and when it expired he made it over to Lawrence, Lord Hyde, created Baron of Kenilworth and Earl of Rochester. The last Earl of Rochester's eldest daughter and heiress, Jane, married William, Earl of Essex; they again having no son, their daughter Charlotte inherited her mother's possessions, and by her marriage with the son of the Earl of Jersey, the Honble. Thomas Villiers, created Earl of Clarendon, she conveyed into the family of the Clarendons, the present possessors, the glorious ruins of the historic Castle of Kenilworth.

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TATTERSHALL TOWER.

As the traveller passes along the railway through the Fen country between Boston and the good city of Lincoln, he suddenly comes upon a magnificent tower of red brick, the sight of which is sure to strike his eye. It is, perhaps, the finest specimen of ancient brickwork in the kingdom, with the exception of Layer Marney Tower, in Essex; and its height and its colour, a dark red, render it a most picturesque addition to the level country over which St. Guthlac and St. Catherine were once thought to preside. The name, too, Tattershall Tower,' is one which somehow or other arrests the attention of a Londoner, whose thoughts instinctively turn, as he hears it, to the 'Tattersall's,' late of Grosvenor Place and now of Knightsbridge Road. No wonder, therefore, that many passengers by the Great Northern Railway stop for an hour or two to look at the old castle, as it stands hard by the line of railway, and at no very

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It may be of interest to our readers to know that the name is spelt by Dugdale, in his Monasticon, in three various ways, Tateshall,' 'Totteshall,' and 'Tattershall.'