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1887 N OVEMBE R 30 days.
THE COUNTESS OF DERBY AND HUB VICTORIOUS GARRISON.
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All Saints' Day.
All Sends' Day.
No. 1 of Notes and Queries published,
1849.
Memorable political panic in London.
No Lord Mayor's Snow on the 9th,
1830.
22nd Sunday after Trinity.
Sir Martin Frobisher mortally
■wounded, 1594.
Joseph Montgolfler made a silken bag
(the first fire balloon) ascend with
heated air, 1782. He and his brother
Stephen safely ascended and de-
scended by means of a fire balloon
at Annonay, 5th June, 1783.
11. Martinmas. — Assassination of the
Earl of Desmond, 1583.
02 p3 !
23rd Sunday after Trinity.
Luddite riots in Nottingham and
other places, 1811.
Domesday Book completed, 1086.
John Bright born, 1811.
Queen Elizabeth's Day.
Duke of "Wellington buried at St.
Paul's, 1852.
Nicholas Poussin died, 1665.
24th Sunday after Trinity.
Illness of the Prince of Wales, 1871.
St. Cecilia.
P. Warbeck hanged, 1499.
Win. Duell executed for murder at
Tyburn, but who came to life when
about undergoing dissection at
Surgeons' Hall 1740.
Capitulation of liars, 1855.
1st Sunday in Advent.
Tlie Times first printed by steam, 1814.
First Metropolitan School Board
eleoted, 1870.
St. Andrew's Day.
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TEE MOON'S CEANGES.
Last Quar. 8th,.. 2 min. past 5 after,
New Moon 15th,.. 8 min. past 8 morn.
First Quar. 22nd,.. 48 min. past 10 morn.
Full Moon 30th,.. 20 min. past 3 after.
IflUfrrcnce to Illustration.
THE earlier half of the seventeenth
century was remarkable for episodes
innumerable, not only of historical, but
of domestic interest, and the story of the
siege of Lathom House, near Ormskirk,
the seat of the Earl of Derby, is by no
means one of the least exciting and
romantic. It is of more than usual in-
terest, because it was the tact and
heroism of the Countess op Derby,
the ever-memorable Charlotte de la
Tremouille, that victoriously garri-
soned the mansion in the absence of her
lord at the Isle of Man. The hurried de-
parture of Lord Derby for that island
left him little time to get men and arms
together to protect Lathom House from
the Roundheads, but what he left in-
complete was made up for by the sa-
gacity and stratagem of the countess
after his departure. The situation of
the house has been thus described : —
" Before the house to the south and
south-west is a rising ground, so near it
as to overlook the top of it, from which
it falls so quick that nothing planted
against it on those sides can track it
further than the front wall ; and on the
north and last sides there is another
rising ground even to the edge of the
moat, and then falls away so quick that
you can scarce, at the distance of a car-
bine shot, sea the house over that
height, so that all batteries placed there
are so far below it as to be of little ser-
vice against it ; only let us observe by
the way that the uncommon situation of
it may be compared to the palm of a
man's hand, flat in the middle and
covered with a rising round about it,
and so near to it that the enemy in a two
years' siege were never able to raise a