The wanderings of a pen and pencil . * We suppress something here, of severe application, for the master who presided whenwe visited the grammar school has recently been gathered to his ancestor-. RUSHALL CASTLE. LIME CAVERNS. 301. IUishall Castle. form natural buttresses to the eastern range. Upon the centre of the lawn,within the quadrangle, is a pile of cannon-shot taken from the ruins. Thecourt-yard is converted into orchard and gai-den. It was formerly the ma-norial residence of the Harpers, whose arms — a lion rampant within aborder engrailed—adorn the gateway in sculpture of the Tudor p
The wanderings of a pen and pencil . * We suppress something here, of severe application, for the master who presided whenwe visited the grammar school has recently been gathered to his ancestor-. RUSHALL CASTLE. LIME CAVERNS. 301. IUishall Castle. form natural buttresses to the eastern range. Upon the centre of the lawn,within the quadrangle, is a pile of cannon-shot taken from the ruins. Thecourt-yard is converted into orchard and gai-den. It was formerly the ma-norial residence of the Harpers, whose arms — a lion rampant within aborder engrailed—adorn the gateway in sculpture of the Tudor period. Cap-tain Tuthill garrisoned this fortress during the civil wars with a considerableforce, and strengthened the defences materially. Colonel Leveson was thengovernor of Dudley Castle for the Kings party. Leveson made the attemptto tamper with the governor of Rushall by agency of one Pitt, a treacherousbut influential Puritan of Wolverhampton. The affair proved unsuccessful ;the parliamentarian general was enraged beyond measure; and rested notuntil by counterplot he had secured the person of Pitt, who thereupon, andwith small waste of moments, was tried at the drum-head, and uncere-moniously consigned to the hangm
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