MARGARET RAMSAY.

The boy was clad in a grey suit of the finest cloth, laid down with silver lace, with a buff-coloured cloak of the same pattern. His cap, which was a Montero of black velvet, was pulled over his brows, and, with the profusion of his long ringlets, almost concealed his face.

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"Ay, ay, young man," said Heriot, shaking his head, "make me believe that To sum the matter up," he said, rising from his seat, and walking towards that occupied by the disguised female, "you shall as soon make me believe that this masquerading mummer, on whom I now lay the hand of paternal authority, is a French page who understands no English."

So saying, he took hold of the supposed page's cloak, and, not without some gentle degree of violence, led into the middle of the apartment the disguised fair one, who in vain attempted to cover her face, first with her mantle, and afterwards with her hands; both which impediments Master Heriot removed somewhat unceremoniously, and gave to view the detected daughter of the old chronologist, his own fair god-daughter, Margaret Ramsay.

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KETTON CHURCH.

Ketton is a small village at the extremity of the county of Rutland, four miles S.W. by W. from the borough town of Stamford, which stands chiefly in Lincolnshire, partly also in Northamptonshire. It is near the river Welland, which traverses Northamptonshire, and, running through Stamford, enters the fen district of Holland, and falls into the German Ocean at Fossdyke Wash.

Ketton Church is dedicated to St. Mary. The dimensions are not large; but there is much in it to interest the inquirer. It is principally in the early style of English architecture; but at the west end there is an intermixture of Norman. It consists of a nave, with aisles, and a beautiful steeple-a tower, crowned with a lofty spire. This steeple, the principal ornament of the church, is similar to several in the same neighbourhood, and is deservedly admired for its exquisite windows. The south porch is said to have been erected in the year 1232.