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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Kenilworth by Walter Scott: memories of persons in exalted stations, may have blackened the
character of Leicester with darker shades than really belonged to
it. But the almost general voice of the times attached the most
foul suspicions to the death of the unfortunate Countess, more
especially as it took place so very opportunely for the
indulgence of her lover's ambition. If we can trust Ashmole's
Antiquities of Berkshire, there was but too much ground for the
traditions which charge Leicester with the murder of his wife.
In the following extract of the passage, the reader will find the
authority I had for the story of the romance:--
"At the west end of the church are the ruins of a manor,
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