As many days as in one year there be, So many windows in this church you see, As many marble pillars here appear As there are hours throughout the fleeting year, As many gates as moons one here does view, Strange tale to tell, yet not more strange than true. A noble park near Sarum's stately town, In form a mount's clear top call'd Clarendon; There twenty groves, and each a mile in space, With grateful shades, at once protect the place.

Chippenham.—On a Stone

Hither extendeth Maud Heath's Gift, For where I stand is Chippenham Clift.

GLOUCESTERSHIRE

An owl shall build her nest upon the walls of Gloucester, And in her nest shall be brought forth an ass. The Severn sea shall discharge itself through seven mouths, And the river Usk shall burn seven months.

Merlin.

YORKSHIRE

Robin Hood in Barnesdale stood, An arrow to head drew he, "How far I can shoot," quoth he, "by the rood "My merry men shall see."

SURREY.—ON THE MARKET HOUSE, FARNHAM

You who do like me, give money to end me, You who dislike me, give as much to mend me. And Mole that like a nousling mole doth make His way still underground till Thames he over-take.

Spenser.

The chalky Wey that rolls a milky wave.

Pope.

SOMERSETSHIRE

What ear so empty is, that hath not heard the sound Of Tannton's fruitful Deane; not matched by any ground.

Drayton.

"Stanton Drew, One mile from Pensford, and another from Chew."

Bristol Castle

The castle there and noble tower, Of all the towers of England is held the flower.

Redcliffe Church

Stay curious traveller, and pass not bye, Until this fetive (elegant) pile astound thine eye, That shoots aloft into the realms of day, The Record of the Builder's fame for aie— The pride of Bristowe and the Western Lande.

Chatterton.

WALES.—GLAMORGANSHIRE

When the hoarse waves of Severn are screaming aloud, And Penline's lofty castle involv'd in a cloud, If true, the old proverb, a shower of rain, Is brooding above, and will soon drench the plain.

PEMBROKESHIRE

Once to Rome thy steps incline. But visit twice St. David's shrine. When Percelly weareth a hat, All Pembrokeshire shall weet of that.

SCOTLAND.—STIRLINGSHIRE—BANNOCKBURN, 1314

"Maidens of England, sore may ye mourn, For your lemans ye've lost at Bannockburn"

ROXBURGH

"Some of his skill he taught to me, And, warrior, I could say to thee, The words that cleft Eildon Hills in three, And bridled the Tweed with a curb of stone."

Scott.

WESTERN ISLES

Seven years before that awful day, When time shall be no more, A watery deluge will o'ersweep Hibernia's mossy shore. The green clad Isla too shall sink, While with the great and good, Columba's happy isle shall rear Her towers above the flood.

This prophecy is said to be the reason why so many kings of Scotland, Norway, and Ireland have selected Icombkill for the place of their interment.

DUMBARTON

So cold the waters are of Lomond Lake, What once were sticks, they hardened stones will make.

PERTH

"Fear not till Birnam Wood Do come to Dunsinane"

Retrospective Gleanings

GREEK BALLOT.—VOTING AMONG THE ANCIENT GREEKS

The manner of giving their suffrages (says Potter) was by holding up their hands. This was the common method of voting among the citizens in the civil government; but in some cases, particularly when they deprived magistrates of their offices for mal-administration, they gave their votes in private, lest the power and greatness of the persons accused should lay a restraint upon them, and cause them to act contrary to their judgments and inclinations.

The manner of voting privately was by casting pebbles into vessels or urns. Before the use of pebbles, they voted with beans: the beans were of two sorts, black and white. In the Senate of Five Hundred, when all had done speaking, the business designed to be passed into a decree was drawn up in writing by any of the prytanes, or other senators, and repeated openly in the house; after which, leave being given by the epistata, or prytanes, the senators proceeded to vote, which they did privately, by casting beans in a vessel placed there for that purpose. If the number of black beans was found to be the greatest, the proposal was rejected; if white, it was enacted into a decree, then agreed upon in the senate, and afterwards propounded to an assembly of the people, that it might receive from them a farther ratification, without which it could not be passed into a law, nor have any force or obligatory power, after the end of that year, which was the time that the senators, and almost all the other magistrates, laid down their commissions.

In the reign of Cecrops, women were said to have been allowed voices in the popular assembly; where Minerva contending with Neptune which of the two should be declared Protector of Athens, and gaining the women to her party, was reported by their voices, which were more numerous than those of the men, to have obtained the victory.

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WILTSHIRE.—SALISBURY CATHEDRAL,

Chippenham.—On a Stone

GLOUCESTERSHIRE

YORKSHIRE

SURREY.—ON THE MARKET HOUSE, FARNHAM

SOMERSETSHIRE

Bristol Castle

Redcliffe Church

WALES.—GLAMORGANSHIRE

PEMBROKESHIRE

SCOTLAND.—STIRLINGSHIRE—BANNOCKBURN, 1314

ROXBURGH

WESTERN ISLES

DUMBARTON

PERTH

Retrospective Gleanings

GREEK BALLOT.—VOTING AMONG THE ANCIENT GREEKS

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