BRAMPTON-AMONG-THE-ROSES.

 BD THOMAS MILLER,
 AUTIIOI OF "NO-MAN'S-LAND,/ GOLDEN AUTUMTIN, "SWEET
 SPRINGTIME," ETCI



 WAS as much struck with the quaint old
 English name of Brampton-among-tho
 Roses, the first time I visited that ancient
 village, as I was with Christabel Brampton,
whoso ancestors, at some remote period, either gave
their name to, or derived it from, the once picturesque
but now ruinous locality. All the traces left of the
former greatness of the family-excepting the founda-
tions of extensive ruins, said to be the site of the ancient
castle of the Barons of Brampton-was the old Manor
House, uninhabitable and roofless as Cromwell left it,
after battering down the great chimneys and knocking
in the strong oaken rafters with his cannon. If it is
an honour, it is mentioned in his red-letter, where he
says, I had good execution of the garrison," though
he spared the brave loyalist colonel, Sir Baldwin
Brampton, after the stubborn defence he made; for if
he warred against misused kingly power, he respected
the valour of a brave man who did his duty con-
scientiously without wavering. So there was nothing
left to tell what the brave Royalists had been but the
name and a pile of ruins, and the fame of a county