canonized. A similar distinction was conferred on those of Edith, whose death preceded that of her mother, after having successively declined the Abbacy of Winchester and the English throne, to which she was invited after the murder of Edward the Martyr. Her remains were interred by St. Dunstan in a church which she had just built, and the dedication of which she survived only six weeks; but were afterwards transferred to the Monastery church, of which she then became the patron saint. Beyond the legendary miracles current in a superstitious age, we meet with little to interest us in the records of the monastery until the commencement of the eleventh century, when rumours are rife within its walls of a general assassination of the Danes, and presently the old traditionary terrors of the rugged Northmen revive in all their former force, the dying words of Gunhilda are bruited abroad from mouth to mouth, and dim presentiments are felt of some impending and terrible revenge. The ominous raven is again seen fluttering above a fleet of Danish pinnaces crowding with press of sail towards the coast of Devonshire. Svein lands and marches with hot haste on Exeter, which he invests, captures and dismantles: his bloody track is traced through Dorsetshire by smouldering embers and by gashed and gory carcases strewn thick upon his path: an army is hastily organised to resist his fierce approach, and the command is foolishly entrusted to Elfrie, a traitor and a criminal, who consummates his treachery and crime by feigning sickness on the eve of battle, and betrays his army to the invader, whose onward march is thus maintained without a single check. Wilton is oner more smitten by the Dane's red hand. Plunder and 140 144 164 18. WILLIAM HERBERT, EARL OF PEMBROKE, from an original picture in the possession of Mr. Barnes, engraved for Lord Spencer's Clarendon 19. INITIAL LETTER P. The Pembroke Arms and Motto, “Ung je serviray." 20. WULFRITH. “For at the lectern sat a maid." 21. Ruins of Wilton OLD CHURCH. Sketched August, 1850. (The Transept Windows have since been removed) 22. INTERIOR OF WILTON NEW CHURCH, 1850 23. WILTON HOUSE AND PALLADIAN BRIDGE, FROM THE PARK, 1850 24. HOSPITAL OF St. John, from a drawing made about 1780, in the King's Library, British Museum Sir R. C. Hoare's Wilton Registers, and in the 173 194 199 212 214 The Ilustrations are engraved by J. W. WHIMPER. WILTON AND ITS ASSOCIATIONS, ISTORY, Poetry, and bined to give celebrity to Wilton. Its records are white with the hoar of antiquity, and its environs are consecrated by associations which connect them with men whose name and fame have overshadowed even those of royal contemporaries. Anciently the residence of Saxon Kings, in later times B |