Excerpt from Following Feet In another age the gentle and pious followers of Rome and its doctrines, having tried mild per suasion without avail, roasted a few Protestants here - not for eating purposes, but as a benignant, motherly warning to other recalcitrants. (when a census of the hells is taken, surely the intolerant bigots of all religions will be found in the seventh and hottest.) Finally, and as if to round Off the history of the place, Queen Elizabeth slept here. TO one who has seen the room and bed at Brayley ...
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Excerpt from Following Feet In another age the gentle and pious followers of Rome and its doctrines, having tried mild per suasion without avail, roasted a few Protestants here - not for eating purposes, but as a benignant, motherly warning to other recalcitrants. (when a census of the hells is taken, surely the intolerant bigots of all religions will be found in the seventh and hottest.) Finally, and as if to round Off the history of the place, Queen Elizabeth slept here. TO one who has seen the room and bed at Brayley Hall, it would appear that the virgin queen - this sleep was in her earlier years, before Leicester became favourite - was of a very somnolent disposition, for both room and bed look very uncomfortable. But no place with pretensions to a history is com plete Without a sleep by Queen Elizabeth - in fact, the distinction is of such frequent occurrence as to possess a significance almost bourgeois - and Brayley numbers that sleep among its historical recollections. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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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