A TALE OF 1688.

BY THE

AUTHOR OF "BRAMBLETYE HOUSE," &c. &c.

HENRY COLBURN AND RICHARD BENTLEY,

NEW BURLINGTON-STREET.

LONDON

PRINTED BY SAMUEL BENTLEY,

Dorset Street, Fleet Street.

WALTER COLYTΟΝ.

CHAPTER I.

Your virtues

Are sanctified and holy traitors to you.
Oh! what a world is this, when what is comely
Envenoms him that bears it.

As You Like It.

In a short time, affairs at Orchard Place resumed their customary train, and although the death of Richard, his supposed apparition, and the somnambulism of Edith, formed, for some time, the prevalent subjects of conversation in the Colyton family, their effects ceased to be felt, sooner or later, according to the temperament of the different individuals. The Squire, who had