The Barony of the Rose
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Excerpt from The Barony of the Rose: A Historical Monograph In the year seventeen hundred and thirty-one John, Thomas and Richard Penn received in trust for their half-sister a portion of the Seignory of Windsor in Pennsylvania. This was the gift of their father, William Penn, to his beloved daughter, Letitia Aubrey. Green pastures were Letitia´s, and many deep, cold springs. Her land dipped, rolled and rose in the most charming fashion known to vale and mountain, and crowned itself with spreading, giant evergreens. What could be demanded of Letitia Aubrey for her great share of the Lords bounty? She had but to walk each June under therippling leaves of her tall, pointed poplars and pluck one red rose. A rose from a rose was the rental, sweet and sufficient, for five thousand acres of Pennsylvania´s most beautiful hill country. But a greater name than Letitia Aubrey´s was to be associated with the Barony of the Rose - the name of one whose seal was a winged heart soaring above the globe with the motto, Astra petamus (We may ask the stars). George Whitefield has been called a flaming seraph, the apocalyptic angel, the apostle to Philadelphia. Upon the hatchments which mourned his death in his native England were the words, Mea vita - salus et gloria Christi (My life - the saving health and glory of Christ). A willing pilgrim, he called himself. Prom his boyish service at an English tavern, wearing the blue apron and snuffers of a common drawer, washing mops and cleaning rooms, he became a servitor to students of Pembroke College, was touched with religion and did penance. He mortified vanity with woollen gloves, a patched gown, dirty shoes and unpowdered hair. He lived in Lent on coarse bread and sage tea without sugar, except on Saturday and Sunday. He lay whole days on the ground in prayer. He rose from his penitence to become a preacher to tens of thousands. 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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