. The baronial halls, picturesque edifices, and ancient churches of England. spring, and sundry villeins their issue andgoods. t The sad death of this last Lord Dacre is thus recordedby Stow. The event occurred on the 17th of May, 1559. He was by a great mischaunce slayne at Thetford, in thehouse of Sir Richard Falmenstone, Knight, by meane of avaunting horse of woode, standing within the same house;upon which horse, as he meant to have vaunted, and the pinsof the feet being not made sure, the horse fell upon him andbruised the brains out of his head. In the January follow-ing, Leonard Dacre,
. The baronial halls, picturesque edifices, and ancient churches of England. spring, and sundry villeins their issue andgoods. t The sad death of this last Lord Dacre is thus recordedby Stow. The event occurred on the 17th of May, 1559. He was by a great mischaunce slayne at Thetford, in thehouse of Sir Richard Falmenstone, Knight, by meane of avaunting horse of woode, standing within the same house;upon which horse, as he meant to have vaunted, and the pinsof the feet being not made sure, the horse fell upon him andbruised the brains out of his head. In the January follow-ing, Leonard Dacre, Esq., of Horsley, in the county of York,second son of Lord William Dacre, of Gilsland, choosing,according to Camden, rather to try for the estate with hisprince in war, than with his nieces at law, entered intorebellion, with a design to carry off the Queen of Scots. Thisobject was frustrated by Marys removal to Coventry ; subse-quently he seized upon Naworth and other Castles, but havingbeen attacked and defeated by Lord Hunsdon, he fled intoFlanders, where he died. 0 f. NAWORTH. the Lord William. By its present noble owner, the Earl of Carlisle, it is, as we haveintimated, preserved from farther injury at the hand of Time,—and is the occasionalresidence of some members of his family, who resort to it in the sporting season. The romantic fame of Naworth is derived from Lord William Howard— belted WillHoward, one of the heroes of Border Minstrelsy. The commencement of his chivalrouscareer was the first chapter to a volume of romance. He was the third son of the fourthDuke of Norfolk, and grandson of the famous Earl of Surrey— Who has not heard of Surreys fame ? His father lost his title, his estates, and his head, on Tower Hill; and bequeathed himto the care of his elder brother, as having nothing to feed the cormorants was married, in 1577, to the Lady Elizabeth Dacre, the ages of both togetherbeing short of eight-and-twenty. During the whole of the reign of El
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