disguise, and dogged his footsteps from one coffee-house to another, which
he is supposed to have entered for the purpose of setting up an _alibi_.
At length, as he was stepping into a lodging-house in the City, the police
tapped him on the shoulder, with the question, "Haven't you just come from
Slough?" Tawell confusedly denied the fact, but he was arrested, with the
result already recounted.
[3] Lord Iveagh's name is Guinness. Unfortunately for the thoroughness of
the jest, there are but thirteen chapters in the Epistle to the Hebrews.
[4] It was about 1630 that the town of Marlborough obtained a new grant of
arms in place of its old shield of a "Castle _argent_, on a field
_sable_." The new shield, still in use, is heraldically described as--"Per
Saltire, gules and azure. In chief, a Bull passant, argent, armed or. In
fess, two Capons, argent. In base, three greyhounds courant in pale,
argent. On a chief, or, a pale charged with a Tower triple-towered, or,
between two Roses, gules. Crest--On a wreath, a Mount, vert, culminated by
a Tower triple-towered, argent. Supporters: two Greyhounds, argent." These
arms are intended to perpetuate the memory of the ancient custom in
Marlborough of the aldermen and burgesses presenting the mayor for the
time being with a leash of white greyhounds, a white bull, and two white
capons.
[5] "There are many pleasanter places, even in this dreary world, than
Marlborough Downs when it blows hard; and if you throw in beside a gloomy
winter's evening, a miry and sloppy road, and a pelting fall of heavy
rain, and try the effect, by way of experiment, in your own proper person,
you will experience the full force of this observation."
The traveller's horse stopped before "a road-side inn on the right-hand
side of the way, about half a quarter of a mile from the end of the
Downs.... It was a strange old place, built of a kind of shingle, inlaid,
as it were, with cross-beams, with gabled-topped windows projecting
completely over the pathway, and a low door with a dark porch and a couple
of steep steps leading down into the house, instead of the modern fashion
of half a dozen shallow ones leading up to it."
[6] That the Romans knew the city we call Bath as _Aquae Solis_--the
"Waters of the Sun"--we learn from the ancient history of Britain. A
highly interesting light upon this is furnished by the sculptured stone
discovered some years since, and now in the local museum, which shows a
decorative representation of the head of the Sun God from whose face
radiate sun-rays, alternately with serpents.
[7] Once the recognized pronunciation of the word. The great Duke of
Wellington was probably the last who spoke it thus.
[8] He meant Chippenham.