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days , and where things are not now very bad , but once were better ; we mean the little town of Buckingham , just eight-and-sixpence ride from the Euston-square terminus , including , sometimes , one " long stop " at Bletchley .
Buckingham has been a town of respectable antiquity , and gives its name to a county , which , although small , is full of busy market towns , and jolly farmers , busy parish men , and , on the whole , a tolerably well-cared-for population . But it is with $ few relics of its ancient honours that we purpose dealing ; for ancient Buckingham is unhappily among the " things that were , " and , as we survey the
elegant far-seen spire that crowns its handsome , but unarchitectural church , we cannot help regretting the old structure that once stood below Castle Hill , * and of which but a few moss-grown stones remain , scattered here and there amongst the quaint ^ gilt-lettered tombs that cover the graves of those who have died long since , but yet in later days than those of Buckingham ' s golden age .
The Romans , like a certain nameless personage , always have something to do with the early history of our old towns and cities , and Buckingham is no exception to the rule . " We read that about the 44 th year after our Blessed Saviour ' s nativity , Aulus Plautius , the Roman general under the Emperor Claudius , surprised the Britons on the banks of the river Ouse , at or near Buckingham . " f
"In ancient Roma ' s hoary day Beside our own blue river , Our British fathers faced the fray , And urged a bold endeavour , "If Aulus Plautius crushed their host , They fought their best—who'd doubt it ? " J All honour to each British ghost , And shame to him who'd flout it . J
Unlike , however , York , Manchester , and some other cities of England , it does not appear that Buckingham presents any vestiges of Boman walls , and we believe that even " the antiquary" would
find himself sorely puzzled to discover even the shadow of an agger ; though , at Thornborough , not far off , we find two remarkable tumuli , said to cover the remains of some of our early conquerors , and which popular superstition has peopled with the usual inhabitants , fairies , ghosts , and spirits of doubtful beings of uncertain age . Coming to a more historical period , but one in which superstition
* " In the survey of Domesday the church of Bucking is said to have belonged to Kemigius , bishop of Lincoln . Before the year 144 /) , Buckingham was a chapel of ease to the neighbouring church of King ' s Sutton , in Northamptonshire , the birth-place of St . Bumbald : it was then made an independent vicarage . The great tithes , together with the manor of Grawcofr , a considerable hamlet in this parish , were appropriated to a prebend in the church of Lincoln , called the
prebend of Sutton-cwm-Buckingham . "—Lyson , vol . i . p . 529 . t Browne Willis , Hist , of Buckingham , § iii . p . 23 . t Archer Gurney . This eloquent preacher and amiable clergyman lately lodged at the school-house building adjacent to the ancient chapel of St . John the Baptist , of which hereafter .
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days , and where things are not now very bad , but once were better ; we mean the little town of Buckingham , just eight-and-sixpence ride from the Euston-square terminus , including , sometimes , one " long stop " at Bletchley .
Buckingham has been a town of respectable antiquity , and gives its name to a county , which , although small , is full of busy market towns , and jolly farmers , busy parish men , and , on the whole , a tolerably well-cared-for population . But it is with $ few relics of its ancient honours that we purpose dealing ; for ancient Buckingham is unhappily among the " things that were , " and , as we survey the
elegant far-seen spire that crowns its handsome , but unarchitectural church , we cannot help regretting the old structure that once stood below Castle Hill , * and of which but a few moss-grown stones remain , scattered here and there amongst the quaint ^ gilt-lettered tombs that cover the graves of those who have died long since , but yet in later days than those of Buckingham ' s golden age .
The Romans , like a certain nameless personage , always have something to do with the early history of our old towns and cities , and Buckingham is no exception to the rule . " We read that about the 44 th year after our Blessed Saviour ' s nativity , Aulus Plautius , the Roman general under the Emperor Claudius , surprised the Britons on the banks of the river Ouse , at or near Buckingham . " f
"In ancient Roma ' s hoary day Beside our own blue river , Our British fathers faced the fray , And urged a bold endeavour , "If Aulus Plautius crushed their host , They fought their best—who'd doubt it ? " J All honour to each British ghost , And shame to him who'd flout it . J
Unlike , however , York , Manchester , and some other cities of England , it does not appear that Buckingham presents any vestiges of Boman walls , and we believe that even " the antiquary" would
find himself sorely puzzled to discover even the shadow of an agger ; though , at Thornborough , not far off , we find two remarkable tumuli , said to cover the remains of some of our early conquerors , and which popular superstition has peopled with the usual inhabitants , fairies , ghosts , and spirits of doubtful beings of uncertain age . Coming to a more historical period , but one in which superstition
* " In the survey of Domesday the church of Bucking is said to have belonged to Kemigius , bishop of Lincoln . Before the year 144 /) , Buckingham was a chapel of ease to the neighbouring church of King ' s Sutton , in Northamptonshire , the birth-place of St . Bumbald : it was then made an independent vicarage . The great tithes , together with the manor of Grawcofr , a considerable hamlet in this parish , were appropriated to a prebend in the church of Lincoln , called the
prebend of Sutton-cwm-Buckingham . "—Lyson , vol . i . p . 529 . t Browne Willis , Hist , of Buckingham , § iii . p . 23 . t Archer Gurney . This eloquent preacher and amiable clergyman lately lodged at the school-house building adjacent to the ancient chapel of St . John the Baptist , of which hereafter .