Ah, pleasant harborough of my heart's thought!

March 15th was an annular eclipse of the Sun, for the observation of which I sent parties fully equipped to Bedford, Wellingborough, and Market Harborough.

On the evening of the[e] seventh day his van overtook the rear of the royalists between Daventry and Harborough.

Early[f] in the morning the royal army formed in line about a mile south of Harborough.

On this understanding it was agreed that the king should attempt on the night of the following Tuesday to break through the parliamentary force lying round Oxford, and that at the same time a body of three hundred Scottish cavalry should advance as far as Harborough to receive him, and escort him in safety to their own army.

At last he turned in the direction of St. Alban's; and, avoiding that town, hastened through bye-ways to Harborough.

Market Harborough.

for a mansion in Thames Street, called "Cold Harborough," when it was converted by that monarch into a royal palace.

The king, though with great regret at the loss of his foot, yet seeing there was no other hope, took this advice, and retreated in good order to Harborough, and from thence to Leicester.

I remember I had once occasion to visit one of his dragoons in his last illness at Harborough, and I found the man upon the borders of eternitya circumstance which, as he apprehended himself, must add some peculiar weight and credibility to his discourse.

Lord Cadogan's regiment of dragoons, during the time he was lieutenant-colonel of it, was quartered in a variety of places, both in England and Scotland, from many of which I have letters before me; particularly from Hamilton, Ayr, Carlisle, Hereford, Maidenhead, Leicester, Warwick, Coventry, Stamford, Harborough, Northampton, and several other places, especially in our inland parts.

From the abovementioned extracts, it seems not improbable that one of the thirty battles mentioned by Suetonius, might have been fought during the time the Romans were forming this road through the Forest of Arden, which extended from Henley, in Warwickshire, to Market Harborough, in Leicestershire; and that it was called in compliment to Vitellius, the Vitellian Way, afterwards corrupted to the Watling Way.

BY ROBERT HARBOROUGH SHERARD.

The king's army was drawn up a mile from Market Harborough.

Without setting out unreasonably early in the morning, or travelling late at night they made such progress, that the first night they lay at Nottingham, and the second at Market Harborough.

Jane Cunningham was born in Market Harborough, Leicestershire, England, December 19, 1829.

Immediately I left the pursuit, and fell in with all my force to the assistance of my friends, and, after an obstinate resistance, we routed the whole party; we killed about 700 men, took 350, 27 officers, 100 arms, all their baggage, and 200 horses, and continued our march to Harborough, where we halted to refresh ourselves.

Between Harborough and Leicester we met with a party of 800 dragoons of the Parliament forces.

We had some foot, but they were still at Harborough, and were ordered to come after us.

The king, upon this, alters his resolution again, and resolves to fight, and at midnight calls us up at Harborough to come to a council of war.

The king, though with great regret at the loss of his foot, yet seeing there was no other hope, took this advice, and retreated in good order to Harborough, and from thence to Leicester.

DODDRIDGE, PHILIP, a Nonconformist divine, born in London; was minister at Kebworth, Market Harborough, and Northampton successively, and much esteemed both as a man and a teacher; suffered from pulmonary complaint; went to Lisbon for a change, and died there; was the author of "The Family Expositor," but is best known by his "Rise and Progress of Religion in the Soul," and perhaps also by his "Life of Colonel Gardiner" (1702-1751).