Kind Ora’s call we’ll sigh for now in vain,
Amid her native flora laid to rest,
The modest speedwell a remembrance on her breast.
A. Farquharson.
Lanely Bield.
FOOTNOTES
[1] Or Medeshamstede = Meadow homestead.
[2] He claimed the Earldom of Oxford and the Great Chamberlainship of England in right of his mother, Lady Mary Vere, sister and heiress of Edward, seventeenth Earl of Oxford, but succeeded in establishing his claim to the Chamberlainship only.
[3] Defeated and slain at Flodden Field, 1513.
[4] The others are Riby, Sutton St. Edmund, and one in Lincoln, now destroyed.