New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-07-11

-sdv Chermside's death. a. Andermatt.
y Switzerland. without leaving any chill
5-e- after having spent the last few years
Of her life as an invalid. will be ascr1bed
z- many 70 the IL fate which seems 70 dog
TIE steps Of the owners Of Newsteac A0-
be~. celebrated as the home Of the poet
Lord Brron. He was devoted TO the place,
s-5 = figures in many Of his poems, nota-
BIZ IN "ChiIde Harold and Don Juan
P-f1r ss monastery by Henry II. in ex-
NATION Of the murder Of ST. Thomas
Ee~ke-. II has. according TO local tradition.
bean doubly b1rdened by e curse MOI
or-v vas i taken from its nonesJlc own
e. bv forc- e. the tine Of the Reforr1a-
Ton. and presented ny Henry VII 10 Sir
John Rv-on. but an additional blot was
brought on il BY an act Of deseratlon
pe-1e1-ated by the fifth and wicked
Lord Byron
This peer happened in the course Of some
hu.Idinz. operations 10 come on the body Of
one q the oldrime abbots OF Newstead-
Re permitted the bones TO be reinterred.
except the skull which he had mounted IN
silver and converted into q drinking cup,
which ne used for carousing. Indeed. II
Ms he principal feature at the meetings
cr he Order Of the Skull. which he formed,
co-rDosed Of men Of the same character as
himself L was during one OF these or
Eies that the fifth Lord Byron killed his
relzhbor. Squire Chaworth, OF Annesley
Ezl wrong which his grandnepheW ana
successor the poet. sought 70 repair by
e,deavorirg 70 marry tire squire's daughter,
Mary Chaworth. Although he addressed a
number Of verses 70 her. IN some of which
she Is described as the bright morning
s-a- Of Arnesley.'' she rejected his ad-
her "a
va killed is preserved in the corridor ad-
to.-5ng the principal drawing room at
Newsread Abbey. along with the sword
and the CAP used by the poet when fight
M so~ -,e frdepeudence Of Greece.
Tn net 5s also on record as having used
tie z-.or.s skull as drinking cup, and
or me silver mount Inscribed poem OF
81 verses. beginning:
star ng4 nor deem M spirit ned-
IN me behold the only Skull
From which unlike Irving neao'
Whatever o1s IS never Gull
During the lifetime OF the poet thls
drinking cup disappeared. and II was me
father u Lady Ciaernside. the late Willan1
Frederick Webb. VINO some time AFTER ms
purchase Of the abbey discovered . oy
mere chance tn z second hand bric-a-brac
shop N Bedford street. Covent Garden he
a. once purchased il and caused it 70 be
reverentlv reinterred within the apney pre-
cucts II was after this that his son was
born But 50 afraid was he Of the curse
resting on the place. and lest any harm
Should befalI his son. that he declined 70
4eaVe him Newstead Abbey. making ouAer
generous provision for him. and beoueathec
re abbey 10 the husband Of his younger
Daughter. (sers ldine-naInely. Lieutenant
Genera Sir Herbert Chernlside
The ffth Lord Byron Is credited WIN
having been threatened BY the ghost of the
Dominican monk that haunts NeWsteao
with misfortune for him, for his descend
ants and for al future owners OF the aD-
Dey And II certainly would seem as Il
soma II dis rnenaces have borne fruit' TOT
le hfth Lord Byron lived 70 see ooth
ms son and grandson die in quick success
Alon by violence II was then that me apoey
Passed into the hands Of hi grandnephe",
ne poet who IS every one knows aieo
e1hout male issue after singuiariy uA-
-<epy lie. having been forced py Iiiai.-
Z Feverses 70 sell the abbey % ms ffle9o-
Nl4onsI v-fdYnsn IRE latter. after spend
= largs sun u restoring ne apDs!'