De Gretna Green à Land's End : Un voyage littéraire en Angleterre. Rtyran, révoltant pasu-liarly, mais le pire de tout est thatShakespeare, consciemment ou inconsciemment, avalisé la caricature catholique romaine et a torqué un esprit vrai et généreux dans son portrait effacable de Sir John Falstaff, PrinceHals ancien lad du château. Ce doit être la colline de Raggedstone, qui jette une malédiction quel que soit son ombre touche, groné avec un chantage particulier sur le chevalier chassé. Son ombre inquiétante aurait volé le cardinal Wolsey et sur les fugitivesroyaux de la Rose rouge, Margaret d'Anjou et

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From Gretna Green to Land's End : a literary journey in England . rtyrdom, pecu-liarly revolting, but the worst of it all is thatShakespeare, consciously or unconsciously, endorsed the Roman Catholic caricature andwronged a true and generous spirit in his in-effaceable portrait of Sir John Falstaff, PrinceHals old lad of the castle. It must be thatRaggedstone Hill, which casts a curse onwhomsoever its shadow touches, gloomed withpeculiar blackness over the hunted knight.Its ominous shade is said to have stolen onCardinal Wolsey and on those royal fugitivesof the Red Rose, Margaret of Anjou and thehapless young Prince Edward. From the summit of Worcester Beacon andfrom other of the higher Malvern crests theview ranges, on a clear day, over some fifteencounties and embraces the six momentousbattlefields of Shrewsbury, Mortimers Cross, Edge Hill, Worcester, Evesham and Tewkes-bury, and the three cathedrals of Hereford, Worcester, and Gloucester, besides the rem-nants of six great religious houses of medisevalEngland, — Great and Little Malvern, Per- 282. COUNTIES OF THE SEVERN VALLEY shore, Evesham, Deerhiirst and Tewkesbury.Little Malvern Priory, established in thetwelfth century by a band of Benedictinemonks from Worcester who sought the wildsthat they might emulate the life of hermits, survives only in fragments, but the church ofGreat Malvern Priory, an earlier outgrowthfrom Worcester, keeps its Norman interior, with rich treasures of stained glass andmiserere carvings. We had passed throughthe Vale of Evesham toward the close of ourlong Midland drive and seen the scant relicsof its mitred abbey, but we failed to follow theAvon on to Pershore, one of the richest andmost powerful of the old monastic founda-tions. Not only were these monasteriesplanted in the fairest and most fruitful landsof the county, but a large portion of Worces-tershire was owned by them and by the neigh-bouring abbeys of Gloucestershire. In allthis horde of priests one has a special claimto liter

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