BERKHAMSTED CASTLE

LONDON

PRINTED BY SPOTTISWOODE AND CO.

NEW-STREET SQUARE

An Historical Reverie

BY J. R. CRAWFORD, M.A.

MASTER OF BERKHAMSTED SCHOOL

J. GREEDY, BERKHAMSTED
HAMILTON, ADAMS, AND CO., LONDON

1861

ΤΟ

LIEUTENANT-GENERAL

THE HON. JOHN FINCH, C.B.

OF BERKHAMSTED PLACE.

Meet tenant of yon mansion on the hill,
Built from the ruins of these Castle walls;
Bright pattern of that self-denying will

That lends a ready ear when duty calls!

We mourn departed worth, and fondly deem
That bygone days were better than our own.

Thy honeft name difpels the idle dream

That from our land true nobleness hath flown.

Accept the tribute of my humble muse,

This retrospect of days long passed away;
And may the mention of thy name diffuse
A better estimate of our to-day.