The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 17, No. 484, April 9, 1831

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Various. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 17, No. 484, April 9, 1831

CORFE CASTLE

ANCIENT PARLIAMENTS

ANCIENT BOROUGH OF LYDFORD

A WORD FOR THE READERS OF THE MIRROR

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WRITING INK

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MANNERS & CUSTOMS OF ALL NATIONS

BULL-BAITING IN SUFFOLK

THE SELECTOR, AND LITERARY NOTICES OF NEW WORKS

THE JEWS BEFORE THEIR DISPERSION

ANATOMY OF SOCIETY

THE NATURALIST

BIRDS CHANGING COLOUR

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS

BATTLE OF THE CATS

FROM THE SPANISH

THE SLAVE SHIP, A GALLEY YARN

SPIRIT OF DISCOVERY

VENTRILOQUISM

THE GATHERER

EPITAPH ON STERNE

LADIES FORMERLY IN PARLIAMENT

FASTING

ANNUAL OF SCIENCE

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The annexed Engravings are an interesting page in the early history of our country, and deserve all the space we have appropriated to them. Their political notoriety, of much less interesting character, we leave to be set down, said, sung, or set aside, elsewhere.

Corfe Castle nearly adjoins a town of the same name: both are situate in the Isle of Purbeck; and their histories are so incorporated, that we shall not attempt their separation.

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“King Edward being hunting in a forest neare the sea, upon the south-east coast of the countie of Dorset, and in the Isle of Purbecke, came neare unto a fair and stronge castell, seated on a little river called Corfe, wherein his mother-in-law, Elfrida, with her sonne Ethelred, then lived: the King, ever beareing a kinde affection to them, beeing soe neare, would needs make knowne soe much by his personall visitation; which haveing resolved, and beeing either of purpose or by chance, singled from his followers, hee rode to the Castell gate. The Queene, who long had looked for an opportunitie, that, by makeing him awaye, shee might make waye for her own sonne to the Crowne, was glad the occasion nowe offered itselfe; and therefore, with a modest and humble behaviour, she bade him welcome, desireing to enjoye his presence that night. But hee, haveing performed what hee purposed, and doubting his companie might find him misseing, tolde her, that he now intended on horseback to drink to her and his brother in a cuppe of wine, and soe leave her; which beeing presented unto him, the cuppe was no sooner at his mouth, but a knife was at his back, which a servant, appointed by this treacherous woman, stroke into him. The Kinge, finding himselfe hurt, sett spurs to his horse, thinking to recover his companie; but the wounde beeing deepe, and fainting through the losse of much blood, he felle from his horse, which dragged him by one foot hanging in the stirrop, untill he was left dead at Corfe gate, Anno Dom. 979.”

Thus far Malmesbury: Hutchins, in his History of Dorset, relates the circumstances of this event in the following words:—

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