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The

Last of the Old Squires

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OF

THE OLD SQUIRES

A SKETCH

BY CEDRIC OLDACRE, ESQ.

OF SAX-NORMANBURY

SOMETIME OF CHRIST-CHURCH, OXON.

(JOHN WOOD WARTER, B.D., Vicar of Weft Tarring, Suffex)

FORMERLY CHAPLAIN TO THE BRITISH EMBASSY, AND HONORARY
MEMBER OF THE SCANDINAVIAN AND ICELANDIC

LITERARY SOCIETIES, COPENHAGEN

"His Life was gentle and the Elements

So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up
And say to all the World, THIS WAS A MAN!"

Julius Cæfar, A&t v. Sc. 5

"A Place in Time

Is given us, only that we may prepare
Our Portion for Eternity: the Soul
Poffeffeth there what Treasures for itself,
Wife to Salvation, it laid up in Heaven"

SOUTHEY'S Infcriptions, iii. 162

"My Name I did not publish, as not willing it should sway
the Reader, either for me, or against me"

MILTON, To the Parliament, P. W. ii. 297

LONDON

LONGMAN, GREEN, LONGMAN, AND ROBERTS

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