the Lord Percy, and many other nobles of England, returned home and went to the abbey church, there joining in hearty prayer and thanksgiving to God and holy St. Cuthbert for the victory atchieved that day." This battle was afterwards called the Battle of Neville's Cross from the following circumstance:-- "On the west side of the city of Durham, where two roads pass each other, a most notable, famous, and goodly cross of stone-work was erected, and set up to the honour of God for the victory there obtained in the field of battle, and known by the name of Nevil's Cross, and built at the sole cost of the Lord Ralph Nevil, one of the most excellent and chief persons in the said battle." The Relique of St. Cuthbert afterwards became of great importance in military events. For soon after this battle, says the same author, "The prior caused a goodly and sumptuous banner to be made, (which is then described at great length,) and in the midst of the same banner-cloth was the said holy relique and corporax-cloth enclosed, etc. etc., and so sumptuously finished, and absolutely perfected, this banner was dedicated to holy St. Cuthbert, of intent and purpose, that for the future it should be carried to any battle, as occasion should serve; and was never carried and shewed at any battle but by the especial grace of God Almighty, and the mediation of holy St. Cuthbert, it brought home victory; which banner-cloth, after the dissolution of the abbey, fell into the possession of Dean WHITTINGHAM, whose wife was called KATHARINE, being a French woman, (as is most credibly reported by eye-witnesses,) did most injuriously burn the same in her fire, to the open contempt and disgrace of all ancient and goodly reliques."--Extracted from a book entitled, _Durham Cathedral, as it stood before the Dissolution of the Monastery_. It appears, from the old metrical History, that the above-mentioned banner was carried by the Earl of Surrey to Flodden Field.--W. W. 1815. [JJ] Compare _An Evening Walk_, ll. 365, 366 (vol. i. p. 31)-- The song of mountain-streams, unheard by day, Now hardly heard, beguiles my homeward way. Also _The Excursion_ (book iv. ll. 1173, 1174)-- The little rills, and waters numberless, Inaudible by daylight. And Wordsworth's sonnet beginning-- The unremitting voice of nightly streams That wastes so oft, we think, its tuneful powers. Compare also in Gray's _Tour in the Lakes_, "At distance, heard the murmur of many waterfalls, not audible in the daytime."--ED. [KK] Compare Milton's Sonnet on his Blindness, l. 14-- They also serve who only stand and wait. ED. [LL] In the limestone ridges and hills of the Craven district of Yorkshire there are many caverns and underground recesses, such as the Yordas cave referred to in _The Prelude_ (vol. iii. p. 289).--ED. [MM] The Towers of Barnard Castle on the Tees in Yorkshire.--ED.