THE REV. FRANCIS ORPEN MORRIS,

VICAR OF NAFFERTON, CO. YORK,

THE EDITOR'S KIND AND EVER VALUED FRIEND,

THIS VOLUME OF

The Patrician

IS INSCRIBED,

WITH FEELINGS OF THE SINCEREST REGARD AND ESTEEM.

BY THE AUTHOR OF "IMPRESSIONS AT HOME AND ABROA

DURHAM PLACE has long ceased to cast its broad shadow over the of the Thames, and its existence is but remembered by the lover c quity, yet the memory of him who dwelt therein is green in our for this was the abode of Sir Walter Raleigh. The palace was no specimen of the dwellings of the nobility at the period to which w when Queen Elizabeth encouraged hospitality amongst her lords ing them during her Progresses. Harrison, after enumerating her I says, "but what shall I need to take upon me to repeat all, and tel houses Her Majesty hath? sith all is hers; and when it pleaseth the summer season to recreate herself abroad, and view the estate country, and hear the complaints of her poor commons, injured unjust officers, every noble's house is her palace, where she con during pleasure." This residence of Raleigh's had been a palace of VIII., and was given by Mary to the see of Durham, whence Durham Place, or Palace. For, as Pennant observes, "be it known whom it may concern, that the word is applicable only to the habi of princes, and that it is with all the impropriety of vanity besto the houses of those, who have luckily acquired money enough on one another a greater quantity of stones or bricks than their neigh How many Parks have been formed within precincts where deer never seen? How many houses misnamed Halls, which had never at to them the privilege of a manor?" This edifice was properly desig however, having been the abode of princes. On the occasion of jousting in 1546, a superb feast was given here by the challeng England, to the king, Henry VIII., and Anne of Cleves. they not only feasted the king, queen, ladies, and all the court, but al cheered all the knights and burgesses of the House of Parlement; a tertained the maior of London with the aldermen and wives at a di On the death of Mary it became the property of Queen Elizabeth gave the use of it to Raleigh, and now, though in the hands of as lacked but little of the splendour of royalty.

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The evening of the 12th September, 1603, succeeded one of th tense warm days which linger on the verge of winter, recalling the the summer time. Many a gay bark and pleasure-boat glided VOL. VI., NO. XXVII.

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