"He survived the battle of Flodden ten years, and died April 23d, 1523, aged about 70. I shall endeavour to appropriate to him a tomb, vault, and chantry, in the choir of the church of Bolton, as I should be sorry to believe that he was deposited when dead at a distance from the place which in his life-time he loved so well.
"By his last will he appointed his body to be interred at Shap if he died in Westmoreland; or at Bolton if he died in Yorkshire."
With respect to the Canons of Bolton, Dr. Whitaker shews from MSS. that not only alchemy but astronomy was a favourite pursuit with them.—W. W. 1815.
[U] Barden Tower is on the western bank of the Wharfe, fully two miles north-west of Bolton Priory, above the Strid. At the time of the restoration of the Shepherd-lord, Barden Tower was only a keeper's forest lodge. It is so hidden in trees, and so retired, that the situation is most accurately described as
the shy recess
Of Barden's lowly quietness.Ed.
[V] The year 1569.—Ed.
[W] Percy, Earl of Northumberland, and Neville, Earl of Westmoreland—the two peers who joined in support of the Duke of Norfolk's marriage with Queen Mary, with a view to the restoration of Catholicism in England. See note III. [p. 198].—Ed.
[X] Compare Twelfth Night, act I. scene i. l. 4—
That strain again! it had a dying fall.Ed.
[Y] See the Old Ballad,—The Rising of the North.—W. W. 1827.