Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places . atened to make known Klit>ufn,] A LEGEND OF KILBURN. 247 to her husband; and that, to prevent this beingdone, Stephen resolved to waylay his brother andkill him. This he effected by seizing him in anarrow lane and stabbing him in the back; where-upon he fell upon a projecting rock and dyed itwith his blood. In his expiring moments SirGervaise, recognising his brother in the assassin,upbraided him with his cruelty, adding, Thisstone shall be thy death-bed. Stephen returnedto Kilburn. and his brothers wife still ref
Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places . atened to make known Klit>ufn,] A LEGEND OF KILBURN. 247 to her husband; and that, to prevent this beingdone, Stephen resolved to waylay his brother andkill him. This he effected by seizing him in anarrow lane and stabbing him in the back; where-upon he fell upon a projecting rock and dyed itwith his blood. In his expiring moments SirGervaise, recognising his brother in the assassin,upbraided him with his cruelty, adding, Thisstone shall be thy death-bed. Stephen returnedto Kilburn. and his brothers wife still refusinsj to Bishop of London, and making a full confession ofhis guilt, he demised his property to the Priory atKilburn, in the hope thereby of making atone-ment. But all in vain ; for in spite of having thusendeavoured to compensate his guilt by a deed ofcharity and mortification, he was seized upon bysuch feelings of remorse and grief as quickly hurriedhim to his grave. Whether there is any truth or not in this story weare not prepared to say ; but, at all events, it wears. THE PRIORY, KILBURN, I750. listen to his criminal proposals, he confined her ina dungeon, and strove to forget his many crimesby a dissolute enjoyment of his wealth and , however, by a troubled conscience, hedetermined upon submitting to a religious penance ;and so, ordering his brothers remains to be re-moved to Kilburn, he gave directions for their re-interment in a handsome mausoleum, erected withstone brought from the quarry hard by where themurderous deed was committed. The identicalstone on which his murdered brother had breathedhis last thus came too for his tomb, and the legendadds that as soon as the eye of the murderer restedupon it blood began to issue from it. Struck withhorror at the sight, the murderer hastened to the about it the air of probability, and it is told here, asthey say, just for what it is worth. We may add,however, that just three hundred and thirty yearsafter the s
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