FRANCIS & JOHN RIVINGTON,

ST. PAUL'S CHURCH YARD, AND WATERLOO PLACE.

1851.

APJ6956

LONDON:

GILBERT AND RIVINGTON, PRINTERS,

ST. JOHN'S SQUARE.

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JAMES AND ROSA WHITE,

OF BONCHURCH,

66

WHO FIND

SERMONS IN STONES, AND GOOD IN EVERY THING,"

LOVE AND MEMORY

WOULD UTTER

66 THOUGHTS THAT VOLUNTARY MOVE

HARMONIOUS NUMBERS."

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

CANTO I.

Position and aspect of our Island.-Daybreak on Bembridge
Down.-Culver Cliff.-Cormorant.-Sandown Bay.-Dunnose-
hills in the centre.-Coloured Cove in White Cliff Bay.-Seafowl
on the sands.-Negro, of Legh Richmond, alone in a lofty temple.
-Bembridge and St. Helen's, at high water.-Spires and forest
trees.-Pastoral hills in the west.-Brading churchyard-Little
Jane. Yaverland.-Norman Arches.-The woods of Woolverton.
-Ruins.-Legend of the Culver.-Holy Well and Stone Cross.--
Palmer murdered.-Goblin Cave.-Cliff thrown down.-French
discovered at anchor.-Surprise and destruction of Woolverton-
desperate resistance.-Sir John De Langford, of Carisbrooke, Sir
Theobald De Russell, of Yaverland, and other knights, with their
retainers, engage and defeat the French on the plain of Yarbridge
-Sir Theobald De Russell slain