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Roby, John

"Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 (of 2)"

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FOOTNOTES:
[10] _Beaufort_, Duke of Somerset. Somerset, Duke of Beaufort, now bears
the _portcullis_ for his crest. There is an engraving by Vertue, from a
painting in the royal collection at Kensington Palace by Maubeugius in
1496, of the three children of Henry VII. and Elizabeth his queen,
_Prince Henry, Prince Arthur_, and _Princess Margaret,_ which is
ornamented at the top with the _portcullis_ surmounted with roses.
[11] Glazebrook's Southport.
[Illustration: THE EAGLE AND CHILD.]


THE EAGLE AND CHILD.

"She's over the muir,
An' over the border,
An' ower the blue hills far awa':
With her callant, I trow,--
On his saddle-bow,
While the mist-wreaths around them fa'."
The main facts of the following narrative, lying scattered through a
wide field of barren inquiry, the author has been at considerable pains
to collect and arrange in a continuous narrative.
Little needs be said by way of introduction, the traditions here
interwoven with the general history being mostly of a trivial nature,
and not at all interfering with the facts developed by the historians
and rhymers who have illustrated the annals of the house of Stanley.


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