Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1871-11-29
Correspondenco.
sightseeing In England.

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DEaR NrwsnEaLER After spending
the Sabbath At Ripon, | lefi for Harrow
gate, the great watering-pluee Of Eng
land. bat after arriving there learned
that there was to be . great review OF
Cavalry regiments in = Few days i con
clusled not TO make a stop then, but went
on 10 Becksiihshaw where | stopped TO
zee a place owned 6y a gentleman by the
name Of Messy. The foreman was u
very obligiug man. aud showed me all he
could. The grain crops were only fair.
The cattle we're most ofthem high bred aud
very nice. but we're sick with the foot and
mouth disease; so we the pigs ofWhich
there were thirty or forty. The fore
man had bought one hundred lambs.
which had Just arrived on the farm, aud
he took me into the field TO see his shep-
herd dog work among them, aud il was
surprising to see the perfection be had
trained his dog in driving. went over
the pleasure grounds, gardens aud hot
houses. aud was presented with some fine
lunches of grapes aud a number of pack
ayes of seeds by the head gardener. l
then took cars for the city Of York,
aud saw the Cathedral aud Castle; then
went upon the walls of the city aud
saw mary curious sights and things.
In place called GoodsmaphAm. ! saw
n very ancient church, that was used for
a fort in the time of Oliver Cromwell,
about the year 1868. / went upon the
camp grounds of the opposing party and
Tiers saw the old earth-works. just as the
army left them iu those days, l went
with two other gentlemen to see a place
called Markeu6eld Hall few miles from
the city of Ripon; it was occupied in the
reign of Queen Elizabeth 1858 by Sir
Thomas Marken6eld, who was a leader
with Sir Richard Norton Of Norton Con.
yers, in an instruction in the reign of
that queen. Their professed objects were
to restore the Roman Catholic religion
and advance Mary Queen Of Scots to ,he
the throne of England, but after many re-
verses Sir Thomas managed to escape into
the low country, where he ended his days
a pensioncr to the king Of Spain. The
hall is now occupied by a gentleman by
the name of PhersOb. The hall and out
buildings are built Of granite stone, sur.
rounded BY moat of water forty feet
wide and fifteen feet deep. The entrance
is by draw bridge; the court yard is
very large and occupied at this present
time for baruyard. 1t has been paw.
ed with very curious pavement which at
this day is two feet below tho surface,
and of which brought specimen home
with me. The inside of tle hall was
shown me by Mrs. Pherson, while the
other two gentlemen who had seen it be-
fore and Mr.. Pherson enjoyed their glass
es. The inside and outside walls are four
feet thick, laid with dressed granite the
rooms are very large, so much so as to be
rather unpleasant; the banquet room is
thirty by forty feet open to the top of the
roof, with large windows twenty by eight ;
chapel room twenty-five by twenty feet, a
spiral staircase leading to the roof, which
is covered with lead and partly grown
over with ivy. The farm lands include
between seven and eight hundred acres
keeps very large stock OF cattle; but |
did not have time to go over his farm ;
| saw one field of turuips that measured
forty acres. sf n... ...
The next place visited vas Aldboro-
ugh, place noted as being very rich in
mosaic pavemcnts, urns, coins and other
relics of the Roman age and at that time
was called Isurium. The pavements
were found some eight feet below the sur
face of the ground and are protected by a
brick building over them; the visitor il
admitted by small entrance fee which
the guide would not take because wa,
from America. The pavement is made ii
all manner Of curious forms, such a:
birds, flowers, animals, female figures AND
several figures that cannot be made ou
in these days; saw human bones, coins
and many other relics. The guide(a lady,
dug up with the point of knife, one O
each color and gold Roman coin anc
gave me and assured me that if had no
been from America | could not get them
There are other curiosities mile and
half from there which | did not 90 anC
see, as | had seen then, when boy, they
are monoliths called Devils Arrows,
most singular monuments of unknown an
tiquity, which have puzzled and perplexec
!" antiquarian brains" for hundreds o
years. They are most probably of Ro
man origin. | returned to Harrowgatt
on the appointed day for the review, anc
found the town filed to OVERLOOKING. Tn,
review was on an open space Of pasture
land containing rs acres adjoining th
town.
WILLIAM S. THORPE.
E,,u,,x Noy 1851