The poetical works of Sir Walter Scott, with memoir of the author.

ROKEBY. 299' The uttermost walles were lime and brick;
But though they won them soon anone,
Long ere they wan the innermost walles,
For they were cut in rock and stone."
By the suppression of this rebellion, and the consequent forfeiture of the Earl of' Westmoreland, Barnard Castle reverted to the crown, and was sold or
leased out to Car, Earl of Somerset, the guilty and
unhappy favourite of James I. It was afterwards
granted to Sir Henry Vane the elder, and was therefore, in all probability, occupied for the Parliament,
whose interest during the Civil War was so keenly
espoused by the Vanes. It is now, with the other
estates of' that family, the property of the Right
Honourable the Earl of Darlington.
NOTE B.
The mzorion's plumes his?visage hide,
And the beiff-coct, in anmple fold,
Mantles his form's gigantic mould.-P. 32.
The use of complete suits of armour was fallen into
disuse during the Civil War, though they were still
worn by leaders of rank and importance. " In the
reign of King James I.," says our military antiquary,
"no great alterations were made in the article of defensive armour, except that the buff-coat, or jerkin,
which was originally worn under the cuirass, now
became frequently a substitute for it, it having been
found that a good buff leather would of itself resist
the stroke of a sword; this, however, only occasionally