The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1825-11-30

4 ing to remove the deception. lis spa
cious wings stand round an open court,
and are three stories high, built OF
brick, succeed with white. We went
over every part of it, aud were highly
Igratified with a variety of ingenious
machinery, as we'll as mechanical ope-
Irations, which had meyer before been
examined. Among the rest was pro-
cess of twisting cord or stay-lace, in
which the spools dance cotillion, TO
the sound of music, confusing every
body but the automata revolving in Their
little spheres. All the machinery is
worked by steam-engine. About 800
persons are employed in the mauufacto-
Iry. A speaking-trumpet extends from
the counting-room, TO the apartment of
the foreman in the upper loft, through
which directions may be given in the
ordinary voice. From the baIustrade
upon the top of the building, we had
another fine view of the town and ada
cent country. Among other places ID
the vicinity, the former residence of the
accomplished and unfortunate Lady
Jane Grey was distinctly seen upon a
distant eminence.
Across the Soar at this place. is low,
narrow, and one-arched bridge, over
which Richard Ill. rode on horseback
the day before the battle of Bosworth
field, which was fought at the distance
Of eight miles from Leicester, and iu
which the regal monster fell, fighting
gallantly to the last He was brought
back from Bosworth, his bleeding corse
stripped gifts military and regal habili'
ments, being rudeIy slung across his
seed, and treated with indIgnity by his
conquerors. He was buried in the
Church of Grey Friars but in the
J midst of some popular excuses, few
years afterwards, his body was taken
up, borne by mob to Bow-Bridge, anc
thrown over the railing, upon little
island Just below, which once divided the
Soar, though now united on one side
10 the mainland. There, beneath q
weeping willow, the pendant branches
: Of which overhang and battle themselves
in the stream, repose the ashes of ;
; monarch, al whose name the worlC
grew pale"
, The stone coffin in which he was orig
! inally inurned, after being Invested o
t its contents, was taken to ope of the inn
in Leicester, and used as an oat-trougi
: in the stable. Ii was at length broker
s by the frost, water having been acclden
: tally left in it on cold winter nigh
S As popular Indignation at the crime
and cruelties of Richard had by thi
time in a great measure subsidized, ant
, the muse of Shakespeare had impaired
an interest even to his enormities, thu
fragments of the sarcophagus were care
D fully preserved, and are still in the pos
8 session of virtuoso living in the vicin
ity.
: From an examination of these memo
rails of Richard iii. we went TO the ru
] ms of the Abbey of St Mary de Pra;is
scarcely less celebrated or less interest
, ing, by being the place where Cardina
] Woolsey died. At the gate, Carolina
t Woolsey, in a state of penury and de
crepitude, bereft of bis honors by tn
, sudden reverses of fortune, deprived Q
5 his eight hundred attendants, sick an
: solitary, riding upon mule, made ap
: pIication for admission, and was receive
D by the charitable Father:
= At last, with easy roads, he came to Leice.
ter,
7 Lodg'd in the abbey, where the reveren
: abbot,
r With all his convent, honorably receiv'd him
To whom he gave these words" fathe
K abbot,
An old man, broken with the storms {
state,
Is come to lay his weary bones among ye;
, Give him little earth for charity"
This passage from Shakespeare is a
true TO history, as to nature. Here tn,
Cardinal terminated his misfortune
soon after his arrival, melancholy ex
ample of fallen ambition, and of tn,
wretchedness of that man who hang
on princess favours. No traces of hi
tomb can be found, and it is uncertain
where he was buried.
Several hours were also devoted Il
] an examination Of the manufacture o
hosiery and lace, for which Leicester
is distinguished. The process of weav
ing stockings is so simple, that children
eight or ten years old work at it anc
complete several pair in day. The
machinery for the manufacture Of lac,
is extremely complicated. 1t is fairy
web, which requires the utmost atten
ton and exactness. In this, as il
every other department of manufac
lures, great improvements have beer
introduced within few years. 1t was
formerly woven by females upon q
cushion, who used TO sing merry tune
and keep time with their fingers tc
hasten and beguile the tedious process
1 II is now made alfnoothar in n loom