The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1826-02-08
No. XXI.

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Mansfield, 3oh Of August, 1895.
We arrived at Nottingham at 6
O'Clock in the afternoon. While at din
ner, in handsome parlor, at the Blacks
Head Hotel, Inquired Of the waiter, the
best way of reaching the tomb of Lord
Byron and Newsted Abbey, incidentally
asking also if he had ever seen his lord
ship. II created not little surprise TO
learn, by way of reply, that the remains
OF The noble poet, enclosed in splendid
coflia, with an urn containing his heart
bad lain in state three days in the very
room, aud near the spot where we were
sizing that multitudes of people throDg-
ed the hotel, to look at the pail and
that from heBce the funeral procession,
consisting ct long array of carriages,
moved to Huckaall Church, at the dis
lance OF six or seven miles.
An intelligent bookseller at Noting
ham related to us an interesting anec-
dote of his lordsbip. Every one knows
thai he was slightly deforned in one of
his feet. AT the age of fourteen he was
put into The hands of surgeon in this
town, with the hope Of removing, or, at
least, OF alternating the Flemish. His
loot was encase0 inlron. and rubbed with
hnlment. While this surgical operation
was going on, that his time might not
be lost, he was placed under the care of
a MI. Rogers, TO read the Latin Classics.
One evening his tutor called on him, 10
go through with his usual routine of in
structions; but finding him rubbing his
foot, in great distress, he proposed Civ
ing up the lesson. oh uo,'' said BY.
ron let us open Virgil, and shall
soon forget my pain"
This same bookseller, who is some
what advanced in years, was personally
acquainted with the celebrated Gilbert
Wakefield and Henry Kirke Wine, both
OF whom were natives of Nottingham.
White was born in part of the town
called the High Pavement, but beneath
iowly root, and Of humble parentage.
de was represented TO have been in
person tall, slender, and delicate
young man, with handsome, pale, and
expressive countenance; retired and
studious In his habits even from boyhood
gentle, modest, and amiable in his man.
ners. He rose from obscurity 10 emf
nence at an early age, by his own eff
forts, soaring alOft like the self-poisec
eagle. His memory is held in the high
t est respect, by those who were best ac
quapted with his genius and worth.
AT three O'Clock, in the afternoon, we
took a post-chaise and set out for Huck
nall, The tomb of the Byrons. We diC
not arrive till about O'Clock. Huck
nall is a humble lonely little village, up
on sandy plain, in the midst of Sher
wood Forest, out of the way of every
body and every thing. The sight of ;
carriage IS so unusual, that all the vii
Layers mustered en- mssse 10 look at oul
post-chaise. There was throng of {
: hundred around it, inn ten minutes after
our arrival. In dress and manners
: they have the appearance of primitive
; simplicity, with some degree Of poverty
) 1 ne houses are mean; the inn small anC
ucu even llS II
J OF the humblest kind, beng low-roofed
I with a little Gothic tower at the end
but without one interesting feature, eth
er externally or internally, except tn,
cemetry of the Byron family.
| After much inquiry ard search, til.
clerk was found, who conducted us {,
: The church. 1t would be difficult I,
, describe precisely my feelings, as h,
: unlocked the only door, and pointing t,
grey stone just on the righ, of the en-
f trance, coolly remarked, " Byron resi-
there" The vault was sealed, an,
! could not Of course be entered. Eigh
or ten persons comprising most of IN,
: family, repose 10 it, Byron's coffin wa
, placed near his mother's.- On plat
: upon its I'D is the following inscription
: - George Gordon Noel Byron, Lor
] Byron of Rocbdale, born 10 Londor
/, January 90, 1888; died at Missolong hi
: in Western Greece, ApdI 18Th. 1924.
0 AT the head of the coffin stands III, urr
E containing his heart and brains, Ga horr
3 BILE idea, with statement Of the fax
e engraven upon it,