She was much admired, and many suitors sought her hand in vain.

At last a stranger, named Hatfield, who called himself the Hon.

Colonel Hope, brother of Lord Hopetoun, won her heart, and married her.

Soon after the marriage, he was apprehended on a charge of forgery, surreptitiously franking a letter in the name of a Member of Parliament, tried at Carlisle, convicted, and hanged.

It was discovered during the trial, that he had a wife and family, and had fled to these sequestered parts to escape the arm of the law.' See 'Essays on his own Times', by S.T.Coleridge, edited by his daughter Sara.