Changes—Old customs—Country houses—A dispirited Conservative—Wigs—The
last Bishops to wear them—Some witty replies—Nightcaps—Dr. Burney
and Nelson—Posy rings—Mutton-fat candles in 1835—Belvoir
Castle—Old-world
country life—Poachers—The last of the smugglers—A terrible
crime—Hanging in chains—Pressing to death—Books bound in the skin
of criminals—Sussex roads—Old ironwork—Cowdray—The monk’s
curse—Otway’s birthplace—Trotton—Charles James Fox—Midhurst and its
tokens—Oratory in the country 265