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96<br />

THE STORY OF YORK CASTLE.<br />

upon which a dramatic composition has been founded, it<br />

is said, by Shakespeare. One Walter Calverly, or<br />

Calverly of Calverly, as he was most commonly called,<br />

murdered his children, attempted to do the same for his<br />

wife and two servants, and was only captured upon his<br />

horse throwing him as he was on his way to murder yet<br />

another of his children. He wascaptured by a friend who<br />

hadcome totellhimofthe imprisonment of his(Calverly's)<br />

brother for a bond. He was taken to York, and refusing<br />

to plead,was threatenedby the judge with the judgment<br />

of penance alreadymentioned, butreplied, " Iam familiar<br />

with everythingyou can urge,my lord. Iknow full well<br />

thatIshall die under lingeringtortures but<br />

such pains are welcome to me; they are the only atonementIcan<br />

offer to man or heaven." He was pressed to<br />

death August 5th, 1604. Eugene Aramis almost thelast<br />

of any particular note who diedat the Tyburn of York,he<br />

suffering there in 1759.

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