The Ford (Classic Reprint)
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| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from The Ford The Barony of Gleddayne of the Ford is one of the most ancient in the English peerage, being of Queen Elizabeth´s creation. The family who hold the title were settled at the Ford before the Wars of the Roses. They defended it for the House of Lancaster in many sharp fights; and Sir Richard Gleddayne, the representative of the house at this date, was slain in the ford itself, so that its waters were dyed with his blood; and his ghost, clad in full armour, and mounted on a magnificent horse, - whose reasons for sharing in his master´s haunting proclivities have never been ascertained, - has from time to time been seen to cross the stream on moonlight nights, usually as a prelude to some misfortune in the family. There was another Gleddayne killed on the river bank during the Civil War, when he, with his retainers, was holding the Ford desperately against an overwhelming body of Puritans. But being of diffident nature - or, perhaps, unable to procure a ghostly charger, - he did no haunting. After that, the Gleddaynes carried their martial spirit farther from home; and though several members of the family have since died on the battlefield, their blood did not stain the land of their birth. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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