. Sun dials and roses of yesterday; garden delights which are here displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems . with by anofficer of the king, and told to support a certaincandidate for high office in her borough. Heranswer ran thus : — The Sun-dial as a Memorial 289 I have been bullied by an Usurper, I have beenneglected by a Court, but I wont be dictated to by aSubject. Your Man shant stand. Ann Dorset Pembroke and Montgomery. On page 287 is shown The Countesss Pillar,— a pillar set up also by her on the wayside betweenBrougham and Ap-pleby. The squareblock which sur-mount
. Sun dials and roses of yesterday; garden delights which are here displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems . with by anofficer of the king, and told to support a certaincandidate for high office in her borough. Heranswer ran thus : — The Sun-dial as a Memorial 289 I have been bullied by an Usurper, I have beenneglected by a Court, but I wont be dictated to by aSubject. Your Man shant stand. Ann Dorset Pembroke and Montgomery. On page 287 is shown The Countesss Pillar,— a pillar set up also by her on the wayside betweenBrougham and Ap-pleby. The squareblock which sur-mounts the octagonalpillar has carvings onfour sides; two aresun-dials. It is heregiven in enlarged sizeto show the is also an in-scription which ex-plains the name giventhe structure: — This Pillar wasErected Anno Domini1656 by the Right Countess Dowagerof Pembroke and SoleHeir of the Right Hon-orable George Earl ofCumberland, etc., for aMemorial of Her LastParting in This Placewith Her Good and PiousMother The Right Honorable Margaret Countess Dowagerof Cumberland, the Second of April, 1616. In Memory. Dial-block of the Countesss Pillar. u 290 Sun-dials and Roses of Yesterday Whereof She also left an Annuity of Four Pounds to beDistributed to the Poor within the Parish of BroughamEvery Second Day of April For Ever upon this StoneTable. Laus Deo. A custom existed in the sixteenth, seventeenth,and indeed the eighteenth centuries, of accompany-ing a departing guest some distance on his way —going agatew^rds, it was called. And it wasdeemed a great indignity if no one rode out withthe traveller. Sometimes a great party would goon horseback several miles on the way. Doubtlessthe countess parted with her mother by the way-side, after some visit which one had made to theother. The stone table for the alms still stands, but isconcealed in the picture by the ugly protecting present rector of Appleby Church was askedwhether the alms was still given, an
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