This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 Excerpt: ...FitzWalter, is one of the few haunted houses still to be found in Surrey. Nowadays, it is true, you will learn little of the legend attached to it, save from your guide-book. Still, not so many years ago, as credible historians relate, no villager in the neighbourhood would approach the house after nightfall for fear ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 Excerpt: ...FitzWalter, is one of the few haunted houses still to be found in Surrey. Nowadays, it is true, you will learn little of the legend attached to it, save from your guide-book. Still, not so many years ago, as credible historians relate, no villager in the neighbourhood would approach the house after nightfall for fear of the ghost, which was alleged to have made the place its home for generations. The story goes back over many, many years, and has survived many vicissitudes. It is traced (conjecturally) to the middle of the sixteenth century, when the head of Sir Thomas More, after his execution, was believed to have been preserved beneath the roof of Baynards by his favourite daughter, Margaret Roper, who resided there with her daughter, then the wife of Sir Edward Bray the younger. Now, we must bear in mind that the house in which poor Sir Thomas's head was thus believed to have found a temporary resting-place was not the mansion we now see. The ghost survived the demolition of the earlier house and clung to the site even when Sir George More erected a new dwelling-house, and again when, fifty or sixty years ago, the Rev. T. Thurlow enlarged, restored, and almost rebuilt the mansion. But more than this: Margaret Roper herself was buried in St. Dunstan's Church, Canterbury, and near her coffin her father's skull was placed in a niche in the wall. Further still, at least one critic has boldly asserted that Margaret Roper never lived at Baynards at all. And yet for years--nay, for centuries--the Baynards ghost continued to linger on the spot, and Sir Thomas More's head was alleged to have had an uncomfortable knack of rolling audibly down the stairs of the house at midnight. With or without the alleged ghost, Baynards passed from the Mores to the Evelyns. Joh...
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