The wanderings of a pen and pencil . alls, pointed-pinnacled gables, and an infinite good taste in the STAR AND GARTER, WOLVERTTAMPTON. 15 other numerous details. The present landlord, too, Paul Law, is a personheld in great esteem, and presides over his numerous company with surpassinggenerosity, wit, and pleasant dignity. Unfortunately we lost much intel-ligence by his absence from home at the period of our arrival. After wehad quaffed our cool modicum to the shades of the past and the worthies ofthe present, wc rambled over the interior of the wide mansion. The publicroom beyond the great s
The wanderings of a pen and pencil . alls, pointed-pinnacled gables, and an infinite good taste in the STAR AND GARTER, WOLVERTTAMPTON. 15 other numerous details. The present landlord, too, Paul Law, is a personheld in great esteem, and presides over his numerous company with surpassinggenerosity, wit, and pleasant dignity. Unfortunately we lost much intel-ligence by his absence from home at the period of our arrival. After wehad quaffed our cool modicum to the shades of the past and the worthies ofthe present, wc rambled over the interior of the wide mansion. The publicroom beyond the great stairs is ornamented with a massive ceiling, in oldEnglish style, and the walls are covered with a profusion of paintings, mostlyof the modern school. To our inquiries at the bar as to the permanenceof the relics of a former dwelling upon the same site, we were answeredkindly by the hostess, who, at the hands of a sprightly intelligent damsel,furnished us with an oil painting of the Old Star and Garter, which inhere presented to The Old Star and Garter Inn, Wolverhampton. In this house Charles I., soon after the battle of Hopton Heath, wasentertained by the chief royalists of the neighbourhood; and hence heissued manifestoes, ordering in supplies, &c, from his liege lords and com-mons, for immediate and peculiar aid. Here also he appears to have helda levee of his adherents; for at the subsequent council much wonder was 16 WANDEKINGS OF A PEN AND PENCIL. made that, when the inhabitants and great persons had so cheerfully attendedto the subscription set on foot to aid the royal exigencies, Mr. HenryGough, nephew of Madame St. Andrew, the Kings hostess (who had ven-tured to accommodate their royal highnesses Charles Prince of Wales andJames Duke of York), alone absented himself, and withheld a portion ofhis considerable wealth. In fact the Kings commissioners had received arude repulse to their earnest solicitations. When night approached (saysthe tradition), putting on his
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