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BUDE 361 them remember their good master's word when he wiped his sword after Stamford fight; how he said, when their cry was 'stab and slay,' ' Halt, men ; God will avenge.' I am coming down with the mournfullest burden that ever a poor servant did bear, to bring the great heart that is cold to Kilkhampton vault. Oh, my lady, how shall I ever brook your weep- ing face ? " Never was a sweeter communionship of husband and wife than that between Sir Beville and Lady Grace, thus brought to an earthly end ; it gives a lovely touch of domestic affection to annals that are otherwise stern and bloody enough, with all their glory. There are some charming letters preserved, that passed between the two ; showing the beautiful simpli- city of their natures and the tone of their home life. " My dearest," wrote the knight from London, "I am exceedingly glad to hear from you, but doe desire you not to be so passionat for ;my absence. I vow you cannot more desire to have me at home than I desire to be there." And again: " Charge Postlett and Hooper that they keepe out the Piggs and all other things out of my new nursery, and the other orchard too. Let them use any means to keepe them safe, for my trees will all be spoild if they com in, which I would not for a world." And the lady, addressing "Sweet Mr. Grenvile," adds in a postscript to her letter : " If you please to bestowe a plaine black Gownd of any cheape stufe on me I will thank you, and some black shoes." She died about four years after her husband fell at Lansdown. These two lie buried at Kilkhampton, but Payne, the loyal servant, is