[129] There were no “earls” of Bottreaux. Knights, or barons, would be more correct.
[130] Wizard.
[132] Compare Tennyson—
“that gray king, whose name, a ghost,
Streams like a cloud, man-shaped, from mountain peak,
And cleaves to cairn and cromlech still.”
“One breed may rise, another fall;
The Berkshire hog survives them all.”
It was, perhaps, in commemoration of this episode that Hawker when afterwards curate of North Tamerton, kept a tame Berkshire pig. Another parson-poet, Robert Herrick, is also said to have had a pet porker.