Contrast between the bleached and skeleton-looking Tree, and the lawns and thickets by which it is surrounded--History of Howel Sele--His Fight with his cousin Owen Glendour--His Death, and the inhuming of him within an hollow Oak--Search made for the Chieftain by his Vassals--Weary watchings of his Widow--Arrival of Madoc, after many years, at the Castle of the murdered Chieftain--Telling of Glendour's Death, and how he had charged him to make known where the body of Howel Sele was concealed--Working of the Vassals by torch-light, and the discovery of his Bones.--_Page 51._ Queen Mary's Tower. Winfield Castle--Peverel's Tower--Apartment and Tower of Mary, Queen of Scots--Ruins, when best seen--Heavy Storm during the Night--Aspect of Nature in the Morning--Old Tree within sight of Apartments occupied by Queen Mary--Beautiful Ash growing before her window.--_Page 57._ Chesnut of Tortworth. Celebrated as a large Tree in the days of King John--Chesnut-tree preferred among all others by Salvator Rosa--Notice of Penda, of his son, Wolfere, and Eva--Wolfere, Governor of Mercia--Benefactor of the City of Gloucester--Caer Glou, or the Bright City--Persecutions of the Christians by Penda--Piety of Eva, who became, on the death of her husband, Abbess of the Nunnery of St. Peter's--Baptism of Penda.--_Page 61._ Oak of Ellerslie. Wallace's Oak. Observations on the aged Tree--Place of its Growth--Sports and sorrows of Childhood--Assembling of the Village Children, with young Wallace, under the shade of the Oak of Ellerslie--Claim of Edward to the fealty of Scotland on the Death of the young Queen--Advance of his Armies--Contemporary Events--Wallace, when grown to manhood, takes up arms against the English--Joined by his young Companions--Concealed with many of his Officers, in an hollow of the Oak of Ellerslie, beneath which they had played in Childhood--Escape to the old Oak of Torwood, which becomes his head-quarters--Scenery on the banks of the Carron--Conversation with Bruce--Captivity and Death of Wallace--Veneration in which his Memory is held by the young People of Ellerslie--Memorial Spots associated with his Name.--_Page 69._ The Nut-Tree of Rosamond's Grave. Rebuke of St. Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln, to the Sisters of Godstow Nunnery--Removal of Rosamond's Hearse from before the Altar--Her Burial in the Churchyard--Belief of the Nuns respecting her private Marriage with the King--Sketch of her Life--Interview with the Queen, and retirement from her bower at Woodstock to Godstow Nunnery--Her Death--Visit to her Tomb.