He
looked (says Pennant) towards Southampton House, the tear started into
his eye, but he instantly wiped it away.
"Gray's Inn is a place of great antiquity: it was originally the
residence of the Lord Grays, from the year 1315, when John, the son of
Reginold de Grey, resided here, till the latter end of the reign of Henry
the Seventh, when it was sold, by Edmund Lord Grey, of Wilton, to Hugh
Dennys, Esq., by the name of Portpole; and in eight years afterwards it
was disposed of to the prior and convent of Shene, who again, disposed
of it to the students of the law; not but that they were seated here
much earlier, it appearing that they had leased a residence here from
the Lord Grays, as early as the reign of Edward the Third. Chancery Lane
gapes on the opposite side, to receive the numberless _malheureuses_
who plunge unwarily on the rocks and shelves with which it abounds."
P.T.W.
[2] From Lord Scroops, of Bolton.
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ANCIENT SLAVERY IN ENGLAND.
(For the _Mirror_.)
"O Freedom! first delight of human kind.
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