Legends Of The Past.

occasions of Eoyal visits , Newburgh is but little changed since King Henry AHTT . gave it to Antony Belasyse , the founder of the Eauconberg family . Newburgh and its broad acres came undiminished to the Woinbwells , AA'ho had from near Barnsley , on the marriage of the grandfather of the present incumbent with the heiress of Eauconbarg . The portrait of this lady , a magnificent full-length by Gainsborough , hangs in the draAA'ingroom . There is also a delicious half-length of the beautiful Elizabeth Belasyse ( the

mother of the present Lord Lucan ) , Avhose story invests NeAA'burgh Avith a halo of romance . The garden-Avalk , up and down AA'hich she paced day after day in the years before her death , is still pointed out , and the tradition of her great Wellness preserved . Li Sir George ' s private snuggery are many relics of the olden time , among them several letters of Sterne to his patron Lord Eauconberg . There is , hoAvever , a mightier memory than that of LaAvrence Sterne associated with Newburgh . In the long gallery is a lass

g case containing the saddle , holsters , pistols , bit , ancl bridle of "the greatest-prince AVIIO ever ruled in England . " Not quite opposite to these relics hangs the portrait of a lady clad in dark green and demureness . This serious-looking dame is Mary Cromwell , Avife of the second Lord Eauconberg . It was she AA'ho foresaAv that , the Eestoration once achieved , the men Avho had'fled before Oliver at Naseby and Worcester Avould not allow his bones to rest in Westminster . At dead of night his corpse Avas remoA'ed from the

vault in the Abbey , and that of some member of the undistinguished crowd substituted for it . In solemn secrecy Oliver ' s remains Avere conveyed to NeAvburgh , AA'here they yet repose , the insane fury of the Eoyalist ghouls , AVIIO hung the supposed body of CroniAvell as Avell as that of Ireton on the gallows at Tyburn , haA'ing thus been cheated of its noblest prey . The tomb of Cromwell occupies the end of a narroAv chamber at the head of a flight of steep stairs , and is an enormous mass of stonework built and

cemented into the AA'alls . There is no reason to doubt the truth of this story , preserved in the Belasyse family for two centuries ancl a quarter . The first baronet Avas chairman of the East India Company .

The second legend is the " Man in the Iron Mask " : — LEGEND OF THE IEON MASK . During the seventeen years' confinement of this strange prisoner at Sainte Marguerite , St . Mars , who brought him to the fortress , was replaced by a Monsieur de

Bonpart , as Governor . The daughter of the latter , just emerging from childhood to womanhood , grew up with this mystery about her . She had seen the graceful figure of the masked prisoner promenading at night upon the terrace ancl at Avorshi p in the chapel , where he Avas forbidden to speak or to uncover his face , the soldiers hi attendance always having their pieces pointed toward him if he should attempt to do either . She discovered that her father always treated him with the greatest respectserving him

, bare-headed and standing . His table service AVHS of massive silver , his dress of the richest velvet , and he Avore the finest linen and the most costl y lace . She had heard her father accidentally speak of him as " the prince . " No wonder that his sad fate occupied her thoughts by clay , ancl his noble figure haunted her dreams by night-She , too , was very young and beautiful , ancl their eyes occasionally met in chapel . Be sang beautifully , ancl was a very skilful performer on the guitar . It is said she climbed

the rocks under the castle terrace ancl sang sweet songs to the poor captive , thus a romantic love sprang up betAveen them , ancl as it gained strength the young girl Trtnf * t 0 P ' * " ^ keys from her father , and so obtained access to the prisoner , uhen the governor discovered his child's treachery lie was struck with the greatest dismay . His 0 ath was binding upon him to put to death immediately any one who had spoken to the risonerBut she confessed her love for himand iteouslfor

p . , pleaded p y ier young life . The captive , also , to whom the governor was much attached , joined his Prayers to hers , and implored that they might be made man and wife , ancl then the secret would be safe . The governor Avas not stern enough to immolate his child , and Perhaps a gleam of ambition may have flashed across bis mind , as in the eA'ent of the