The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 13, No. 350, January 3, 1829

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Various. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 13, No. 350, January 3, 1829

BRUCE CASTLE, TOTTENHAM

NEW YEAR'S CUSTOM

THE BARON'S TRUMPET

THE NEW YEAR

FALLING STONES

THE POET, CHATTERTON

LAY OF THE WANDERING ARAB

NOSTALGIA—MALADIE DE PAYS—CALENTURE

SINGULAR CUSTOM OF THE SULTAN OF TURKEY

THE SKETCH-BOOK

EL BORRACHO.3

RETROSPECTIVE GLEANINGS

THEATRICAL BILL

ROBINSON CRUSOE'S ISLAND

THE LETTER H

CHURCH OF AUSTIN FRIARS

DAUPHIN OF FRANCE

THE OLD ELEPHANT, FENCHURCH-STREET

THE SELECTOR

AND LITERARY NOTICES OF NEW WORKS DAYS DEPARTED; OR, BANWELL HILL:

SCENERY OF THE OHIO

SNOW-WOMAN'S STORY

THE COSMOPOLITE

ENGLISH GARDENS

NOTES OF A READER

PORTRAIT OF SIR WALTER SCOTT

ON A GIRL SLEEPING

THE GIPSY'S MALISON

EPICURES

COLLEGE DREAMS

WOMAN

ANGLING

THE GATHERER

LAUGHTER

LEGAL PEARL-DIVERS

GRAMMATICAL LEARNING

SWEARING BY PROXY

THE MUNIFICENT SAINT

PRODIGALITY

PHYSIOGNOMISTS

EPITAPH

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The engraving represents this interesting structure, as it appeared in the year 1686; being copied from a print, after a picture by Wolridge.

The original castle was very ancient, as appears by the foundations, and an old brick tower over a deep well, the upper part of which has been used as a dairy. The castle is said to have been built by Earl Waltheof, who, in 1069 married Judith, niece to William the Conqueror, who gave him the earldom of Northampton and Huntingdon for her portion. Matilda or Maud, their only child, after the death of Simon St. Liz, her first husband, married David, first of the name, king of Scotland; and Maud, being heiress of Huntingdon, had in her own right, as an appendix to that honour, the manor of Tottenham in Middlesex.

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and the fortunes of the two Bruces are "confirmation strong as holy writ."

The estate being forfeited to the crown, it had different proprietors, till 1631, when it was in the possession of Hugh Hare, Lord Coleraine. Henry Hare, the last Lord Coleraine of that family, having been deserted by his wife, who obstinately refused, for twenty years, to return to him, formed a connexion with Miss Roze Duplessis, a French lady, by whom he had a daughter, born in Italy, whom he named Henrietta Roza Peregrina, and to whom he left all his estates. This lady married the late Mr. Alderman Townsend; but, being an alien, she could not take the estates; and the will being legally made, barred the heirs at law; so that the estate escheated to the crown. However, a grant of these estates, confirmed by act of parliament, was made to Mr. Townsend and his lady, whose son, Henry Hare Townsend, Esq. in 1792, voluntarily sold the property for the payment of the family debts; and "although the castle may soon be levelled with the ground, yet the destruction of this ancient fabric will acquire him more honour, than if the prudence of his ancestors had enabled him to restore the three towers, of which now only one remains."1

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