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THE CLIFFORDS. 277<br />

So cruel Sussex (unrestrained<br />

By human feeling-) had ordained:<br />

The unhappy banner Francis saw,<br />

And with a look of calm command,<br />

Inspiring universal awe,<br />

He took it from the soldier's hand,<br />

And all the people that were round<br />

Confirmed the deed in peace profound.<br />

High transport did the father shed<br />

Upon his son, and they were led,<br />

Led on, and yielded up their breath,<br />

Together died, a happy death !"<br />

And Richard Norton's property, too, was confiscated, and committed<br />

first to Sir Stephen Tempest, but eventually, second year of James I., it<br />

was granted to<br />

the Earl of Cumberland, and these lands, which are in the<br />

centre of their barony, and the scene of many contentions throughout<br />

previous generations as regards "forest rights" and killing deer, were<br />

added to their estates.<br />

Of "Ryleston's old sequestered hill" little remains save the site; the<br />

little chapel which adjoined the manor-house has disappeared, and the old<br />

bells<br />

also, on one of which was the motto of the Nortons, "God us ayde,"<br />

and of which Wordsworth beautifully says<br />

:<br />

"When the bells of Rylstone played<br />

Their Sabbath music, '

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