pleby did send two representatives, but was disfranchised by the Reform Bill.

The Earl of Thanet is Hereditary High Sheriff of this County; The grant is dated 31st March 1202, and the confirmation 28th Oct. 1203.

The Assizes are held at Appleby, the Judges being lodged at the Castle, and at the expense of its noble owner. The sessions are also held there, and by adjournment at Kendal.

The New County Court is held once a month at the Principal Places. The Revising Barrister also holds a Court once a year in all the Principal Towns.

Kendal and neighbourhood excepted, there is no place in the County where any manufactories of note exist. Camden and Fuller say of Kendal,— lanificii gloriâ et industriâ præcellens. This Town, nearly as late as the beginning of the present Century, exported largely of coarse woollens to America, but the machinery in Yorkshire and Lancashire (inter alia) have nearly destroyed it. The Kendal Green, superseded by the Saxon Green, was produced from a plant with a small yellow flower, and producing, when boiled, a beautiful yellow extract, provincially known as woodas or sarrat (the genista tinctoria of Linnæus), and from a blue liquor extracted from woad. These Cottons (as such coarse woollens were called) have yielded to coarser things: floor cloths, horse cloths, linseys, and the like. The manufacture of carpets

has recently become popular and flourishing. Hosiery, wool-card making, and horn comb making as trades still exist to some extent.

More rain is said to fall at Kendal and in the neighbourhood than in any other part of England. In ten years preceding and ending with 1831, the annual average quantity was in Kendal 56:971 inches. In 1825, at Epping in Essex there fell 26 662 inches; in the same year at Kendal 59'973 inches. The average height of the Barometer at Kendal is 29 60. The average height of the Thermometer 46·91*.

Opposite to Wasdale foot in the Parish of CrosbyRavensworth on the Birbeck is a Sulphuric Spa, called Shap Wells. An hotel of the first class was erected there by the late Earl of Lonsdale, and is much resorted to in the summer and autumn. There is also a Chalybeate Spring near the village of Marton-the Author's native place.

The natives of Westmorland have great privileges in our two Universities-Oxford and Cambridge: The Fellowships and valuable livings of the old Foundation in Queen's College, Oxford, are exclusively appropriated to natives of Westmorland and Cumberland. In the same College there are valuable exhibitions (by Lady Betty Hastings) to youths from Appleby and Heversham Schools. Cambridge also there are valuable exhibitions, scho*See Nicolson's Annals of Kendal, whence these Statistics are taken.

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larships, &c., which will be more particularly and more conveniently noticed as we advance in the work.

"Hæc scripsi non otii abundantiâ, sed amoris erga vos."-I have written this not out of abundance of leisure, but of my affection for you. †

Kateryn Parr.

QUEEN-CONSORT OF HENRY VIII., REGENT OF ENGLAND AND

IRELAND.

A.D. 1513-1548.

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"Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.-The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil. She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life.She seeketh wool, and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands. She is like the merchants' ships; she bringeth her food from afar.-She riseth also while it is yet night, and giveth meat to her houshold, and a portion to her maidens. She considereth a field, and buyeth it: with the fruit of her hands she planteth a vineyard.—She girdeth her loins with strength, and strengtheneth her arms.-She perceiveth that her merchandise is good: her candle goeth not out by night. She layeth her hands to the spindle, and her hands hold the distaff.-She stretcheth out her hand to the poor; yea, she reacheth forth her hands to the needy.-She is not afraid of the snow for her household: for all her houshold are clothed with scarlet. She maketh herself coverings of tapestry; her clothing is silk and purple.-Her husband is known in the gates, when he sitteth among the elders of the land.-She maketh fine linen, and selleth it: and delivereth girdles unto the merchant. Strength and honour are her clothing; and she shall rejoice in time to come.She openeth her mouth with wisdom; and her tongue is the law of kindness. -She looketh well to the ways of her houshold, and eateth not the bread of idleness. Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her.-Many daughters have done virtuously, but thou excellest them all.--Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the LORD, she shall be praised.-Give her of the fruit of her hands; and let her own works praise her in the gates.”—Prov. xxxi. v. 10–31.

HE time-worn, the neglected, and mouldering ruins of Kendal Castle mark the birth-place of Kateryn Parr.

There is something in the history of every wife of Harry the viiith. which has a power over the heart, even when unaided by esteem; Catherine

Howard even, profligate as she was and owned herself to be, does not wholly lose her hold upon our sympathies. In the name of humanity how could it be otherwise! Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard were beheaded; Catherine of Arragon and Ann of Cleves were divorced; Jane Seymour died a sudden death; and Kateryn Parr survived the fell embraces of that jungle-tiger, only by her consummate prudence and address, when he was again in the very act of fleshing himself for another victim! Remember-it is not quality but innocence that exempts man from rebuke! And that monster in nature a deliberate and reasoning Tyrant," above all, deserves no quarter. "Had fate (as Edmund Burke says) reserved him to our times, three technical terms would have done his business, and saved him all this trouble; he needed. nothing more than one short form of incantationLiberty, Fraternity, Equality."

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But let us take up the thread of a more pleasing subject; the life of one in part interwoven with his, but as wide as the poles asunder. He-the slave of passion; she-the child of innocence, pure, and like Cæsar's wife beyond suspicion. He-in turns a knave or a fool, a saint or a sinner; she-a being "whose mind moved in charity rested in Providence and turned on the poles of truth*." "An air of prudence and truth thrown over all the actions. of her life marked the purity of her intentions; the modesty of her demeanour answered for the sin

* Lord Bacon.