The Strife of the Roses and Days of the Tudors in the West. W. H. Hamilton Rogers

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The Message of the Cross	24
Tamar's Flow	36
The Meadow Ranunculus	38
Autumnal Hours	84
A Mother's Song	86
Salisbury Spire	117
Distant Chimes	135
Bosworth Field	136
"The Transept of the Martyrdom"	154
The Five Wounds	167
"Sicut pullus hirundinis sic clamabo"	182
The Weltering Shore	189
Paleologus	196
"Ex hoc momento pendet æternitas"	206

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A Glade in Old Shute Park	William Newbery	Frontispiece
Effigy of Lord Willoughby de Broke, Callington	Roscoe Gibbs	To face p. 1
The Cheney Monument, Edington	——	—8
Effigies of Sir Fulke and Lady Greville, Alcester	——	—29
Tomb of the Second Lord Willoughby de Broke, Beer-Ferrers	——	—32
Bench-ends, Beer-Ferrers	——	—33
Presumed Effigy of Cicely Bonville, Astley	——	—37
Effigy of the Earl of Shrewsbury, Whitchurch	——	—47
Effigies of Lord and Lady Harington, Porlock	——	—48
Old Shute Gateway	Photograph	—66
Effigy of the Duchess of Suffolk, Westminster Abbey	Roscoe Gibbs	—77
Bench-end, Limington	——	—80
Bench-ends, Barwick	——	—81
Dorset Chapel, Ottery St. Mary	Photograph	—84
Monument to the Duke of Buckingham, Britford	Roscoe Gibbs	—87
Discovery at the Saracen's Head Inn, Salisbury	Saturday Magazine	—109
Effigy of Cardinal Morton, Canterbury Cathedral	Roscoe Gibbs	—116
Effigy of Lord Cheney, Salisbury Cathedral	——	—118
Indent of Brass of Archbishop Stafford, Canterbury Cathedral	——	—137
Effigy of Sir John Dinham, Kings-Carswell	——	—140
Gravestone of Emma, Mother of Archbishop Stafford, North-Bradley	——	—143
Effigies of Lord and Lady Bottreaux, North Cadbury	——	—147
Brass of Sir John Arundell, St. Columb-Major	——	—155
Regal Heraldy, temp. Henry VIII. Cowic, Exeter	——	—168
Bench-ends, Landulph	——	—183
Part of the Lower Seats, Landulph	——	—199
Panel from the Gorges Monument, St. Budeaux	——	—204
Imperial Arms of Greece (Paleologus Monument)		—206
Portrait		—206

EFFIGY OF ROBERT, LORD WILLOUGHBY DE BROKE, K.G.

Callington Church, Cornwall—A.D. 1502.

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"OUR STEWARD OF HOUSEHOLD."

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At somewhat more than halfway distance between Weymouth on the skirt of the Atlantic, and the good old city of Bristow by the Severn sea, on the thin iron line that crosses the wide end of the western peninsula between those places—and which in the early days of railway enterprise was cleverly, but of course futilely, stretched as a boom, designed to 'block' all further extension westward—and just inside the county of Wilts, lies the quiet little town of Westbury.

The station itself is somewhat "larger and more commodious" than common. A two-fold reason accounts for this, one, that of its being the junction of another line that departs hence for Salisbury, and secondly the nature of the industry that meets the eye from the platform, and is in its way unique in these parts. This is the appearance of three towering iron furnaces, with attendant rows of coke ovens, placed on an eminence just outside the station yard; busily smelting the iron-stone that is quarried from a large excavation on the opposite side of the line, and which passes under the railway proper in mimic trains, pulled by a tiny locomotive up to the great glowing bastions, there to be speedily devoured and purified into 'pigs' of the best quality.

A very English sight indeed you will say. Yes, certainly if we were in some of the northern localities of this mineral-saturated island of ours, but strange in its isolated appearance among the bucolic characteristics of the southern portion of it, and moreover here, at least, a development in its way peculiarly modern. The antient 'staple' of the district is the very primeval one of the manufacture of woolen cloth, which has existed for centuries, is still considerably followed, and enjoys all its olden reputation as being 'West of England,' a pass-word for excellence and purity of fabric, untainted by the admixture of 'shoddy,' characteristic of north-country production. Westbury in company with her sister towns is largely interested in the industry.

Our wandering to-day is not in quest of manufactured products iron or woolen, but of a nature that lends a clue to our thoughts which takes us back to the far past strife of the Red and White Roses, and era of Bosworth, and of the heart-burning that inspired the distich,

"The Rat, the Cat, and Lovell our Dog,

Rule all England under the Hog,"

for the writing of which and presumed sympathy with the Red Rose, be it remembered, a Wiltshire knight, Sir William Collingbourn of Lydiard by name, was by the vindictive Richard "caused to be abbreviated shorter by the head, and to be divided into four quarters,"—and to search

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