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ed first to Chartley, and afterwards to Fotheringay castle, the scene of her shameful trial and condemnation.

At the commencement of the civil wars in the reign of Charles the first, this castle was garrisoned and maintained by lord Loughborough, a zealous partizan and supporter of the royal cause. Sir William Brereton, one of the parliamentary commanders, however, laid siege to it, and conducted the attack with such judgement and vigour that his lordship was soon compelled to surrender. The damage sustained by the castle on this occasion was very great. It was not, however, doomed to total destruction, till towards the conclusion of the war, when the Parliament issued an order for that purpose dated in 1646, at which time it was reduced nearly to its present ruinous condition.

James the second paid a visit to this celebrated residence of the house of Lancaster, during his memorable tour through England. Instead of the sighs of a distressed queen, the walls now re-echoed the joyful acclamations of loyalty. They no longer beheld an unhappy, though illustrious prisoner, but a mighty monarch surrounded by all the splendour and magnificence of kingly power.

The few remains of this castle, which still exist, are alone sufficient to declare its former extent and grandeur. It has been built chiefly of hewn free stone, with admixtures of gypsum, and stands on an alabaster hill of considerable elevation, commanding a very fine and varied prospect. The ancient gateway is tolerably entire, and towers and buildings, with hewel staircases, as well as vestiges of divisions of rooms, with fire places, can yet be discovered in different parts of the walls which appear to have been of immense strength and thick

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The whole was surrounded by a broad and deep ditch over which, Dr. Plott* informs us, there was in his time an extraordinary timber bridge, composed of distinct pieces of wood,

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The living is a vicarage in the gift of the duke of Devonshire.

Before concluding our account of Tutbury, it will not perhaps be improper to state a few particulars relative to that remarkable living phenomenon, Mrs. Ann Moore, who has now subsisted for nearly five years without food or drink of any description. This woman, according to her own account, first totally lost the use of her digestive organs from washing the linen, and dressing the wounds, of a person extremely afflicted with scro phulous ulcers. From that period every thing she eat or drank presented to her imagination the taste and smell of the putrid matter which issued from the wounds. Her stomach, which before this was extremely weak, now refused the smallest sustenance. During her whole illness she has never felt the most distant inclination either for food or drink; nor has she for four years had a single passage by stool or urine. She never sleeps so soundly as to forget herself, but remains in a dozing state for a few hours of the night. Her body is totally insensible to the variations of heat and cold which our climate exhibits, feeling precisely in the same condition both in summer and winter. Her extremities feel cold, and apparently lifeless, to the touch of another, and though pressed with considerable force, produce no sensation of pain to her.

In person Mrs. Moore rather exceeds the ordinary size. The regularity and just proportion of her features are signs of former beauty. Her disposition seems to be naturally lively, and her conversation fluent. She preserves her mental faculties in a wonderful degree, but is somewhat tinctured with religious melancholy. By the assistance of glasses she is enabled both to read and sew with great ease. Her voice, which was originally strong is now extremely weak, and for the last twelve months she has been much liable to hysterical fits, and also to occasional paroxysms of fever, accompanied by great pain,*

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• This case is one of so extraordinary a nature, and so diametrically in opposition to the usual course of nature, that it is extremely difficult to give it

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