CHIDDINGSTONE.
Most famous of all the warlike and polite Sidneys who owned Penshurst was Sir Philip Sidney, who fell at the siege of Zutphen, and is the hero of that chivalric action, the giving up, when wounded to death, the cup of water for which he thirsted, so that a wounded soldier might quench his thirst. “He has more need of it than I,” said this chivalric soul.
SUNSET ON THE EDEN.
Among the historic pictures here is the remarkable portrait of Algernon Sidney, executed in 1683 on Tower Hill. He met death in characteristic Sidney fashion:—
“Are you ready, sir?” asked the headsman, when he had laid his head on the block; “will you rise again?”
“Not till the general resurrection. Strike on;” and his head was severed from his body.