descendants passed it on to Robert de Paveli, whence its present
name, but in Carey's time it was held by the second Earl Bathurst,
who was Lord Chancellor. Up to the very schoolhouse came the royal
forest of Whittlebury, its walks leading north to the woods of
Salcey, of Yardley Chase and Rockingham, from the beeches which give
Buckingham its name. Carey must have often sat under the Queen's
Oak, still venerable in its riven form, where Edward IV., when
hunting, first saw Elizabeth, unhappy mother of the two princes
murdered in the Tower. The silent robbery of the people's rights
called "inclosures" has done much, before and since Carey's time, to
sweep away or shut up the woodlands. The country may be less
beautiful, while the population has grown so that Paulerspury has
now nearly double the eight hundred inhabitants of a century ago.
But its oolitic hills, gently swelling to above 700 feet, and the
valleys of the many rivers which flow from this central watershed,
west and east, are covered with fat vegetation almost equally
divided between grass and corn, with green crops. The many large
estates are rich in gardens and orchards. The farmers, chiefly on
small holdings, are famous for their shorthorns and Leicester sheep.
Except for the rapidly-developing production of iron from the Lias,
begun by the Romans, there is but one manufacture--that of shoes.
It is now centred by modern machinery and labour arrangements in
Northampton itself, which has 24,000 shoemakers, and in the other
towns, but a century ago the craft was common to every hamlet. For
botany and agriculture, however, Northamptonshire was the finest
county in England, and young Carey had trodden many a mile of it, as
boy and man, before he left home for ever for Bengal.

Two unfinished autobiographical sketches, written from India at the
request of Fuller and of Ryland, and letters of his youngest sister