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 aker’s book, and in the foregoing Poem, The Force of Prayer, &c.

Pass, pass who will, yon chantry door.—P. 16.

“At the East end of the North aisle of Bolton Priory Church is a chantry belonging to Bethmesly Hall, and a vault, where, according to tradition, the Claphams” (who inherited this estate, by the female line from the Mauliverers) “were interred upright.” John de Clapham, of whom this ferocious act is recorded, was a name of great note in his time; “he was a vehement partisan of the House of Lancaster, in whom the spirit of his chieftains, the Cliffords, seemed to survive.”

Who loved the Shepherd Lord to meet.—P. 18.

In the second volume of Poems published by the author, will be found one, entitled, “Song at the Feast of Brougham Castle, upon the Restoration of Lord Clifford the Shepherd to the Estates and Honours of his Ancestors.” To that Poem is annexed an account of this personage, chicfly extracted from Burn’s and Nicholson’s History of Cumberland and Westmoreland. It gives me pleasure to add these further particulars concerning him from Dr Whitaker, who says, “he retired to the solitude of Barden, where he seems to have enlarged the tower out of a common keeper’s lodge, and where he found a retreat equally favourable to taste, to instruction, and to devotion. The narrow limits of his resi-