TEWIN-WATER, OR THE STORY OF LADY CATHCART; BEING A SUPPLEMENT TO THE "HISTORY OF ENFIELD," With an Appendix of Additional Notes, BY EDWARD FORD. "In winter's tedious nights sit by the fire With good old folks, and let them tell thee tales And ere thou bid good night, to quit their grief, KING RICHARD II. Printed for the benefit of the Girls' School of Industry and not Published. ΤΟ MISS GWENDOLIN ADELAIDE KATHERINE GEORGIANA MATILDA SOMERSET, THIS LITTLE WORK IS DEDICATED, (ON HER ELEVENTH BIRTHDAY, MAY 5TH, 1876), IN REMEMBRANCE OF HER GRACEFUL KIND OFFICES ON OCTOBER 28th, 1875. PREFACE. "This is all as true as it is strange.”—Measure for Measure. The following pages were written as a small contribution towards the sale undertaken by the ladies of Enfield, for the benefit of the Girls' School of Industry,—the first stone of which was laid on October 28th, 1875, by Miss Somerset. The story itself is so curious, that-unless the writer has greatly marred it in the telling,-it cannot well fail to interest the reader. At the same time it is so strange, that it would hardly be credible, if it did not rest upon the fullest evidence, and the narrator has therefore thought it well to give some minute details of names, dates, and places, which identify the incidents-at the risk perhaps of being somewhat rambling and tedious. |