Furnival's Inn, Oct. 3. 1851.
[This saying has always been attributed to Talleyrand; and it is
so clearly the remark of a clever politician, but lax moralist,
that we have little doubt it has been very justly appropriated to
that distinguished sayer of good things.]
_Arbor Lowe, Stanton Moor, Ayre Family._--Can any of your readers oblige
me with information respecting the Druidical remains at Arbor Lowe and
Stanton Moor, in the Peak of Derbyshire? I am unable to find any but
meagre notices; and in one or two so-called histories of Derbyshire,
they are only casually mentioned. Also any particulars concerning the
old family of the Ayres, who formerly lived at Birchever, and whose
house still stands in a very ruinous condition at the foot of the Routor
Rocks?
I have heard that some very singular histories are connected with the
family.