This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 edition. Excerpt: ... PART I CHAPTER I SOTHERNWOOD CASTLE The tall wrought-iron gates of the great avenue leading to Sothernwood Castle stand on the Fossway--that Roman road in the west by which so much history has rolled. Close by the park wall is the Three Shires Stone, a hoary cairn at the meetingplace of Wilts, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 edition. Excerpt: ... PART I CHAPTER I SOTHERNWOOD CASTLE The tall wrought-iron gates of the great avenue leading to Sothernwood Castle stand on the Fossway--that Roman road in the west by which so much history has rolled. Close by the park wall is the Three Shires Stone, a hoary cairn at the meetingplace of Wilts, Somerset, and Gloucestershire. It is a castle without records, yet standing as it does on a height above a deep gorge near enough to the Welsh Border to have kept watch over the excitable Land of Morgan, it must have had its day of importance. Parts of the building are old enough to have seen some service, but from time to time halls and towers have been added until it has grown into a long, imposing edifice. South-westward it looks across green valleys and curiously sudden knolls to the blue line of the distant Welsh mountains, over its own "Diamond wood," "Dicksnick," and "Cherrywood," and again through leafy scrolls below the cliff to where beautiful St ': '-iix '-' "'---..'' ';,"' //.., ': ..'--Catherine's Court nestles, an Elizabethan house that succeeded a choice cell belonging to Bath Abbey. Danes and Saxons, and all the rest who have fought for the land and built up the nation, have watered the red furrows with their blood, where peaceful, huge brown horses draw the leisurely plough; and black-faced lambs skip on "Wallers heaps," and round Sir Bevil Grenvil's monument where the battle of Lansdown was fought between the men of the old ideals and men of the new. John Meredyth was Squire of Sothernwood in 1719. His branch of the Brecon family had been Gloucestershire landowners for a hundred years and more. Like all Tory gentlemen he deeply resented the throne being occupied by the "Wee, wee German lairdie" who spluttered curses on England...
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