The Last of the Plantagenets

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Excerpt from The Last of the Plantagenets: An Historical Romance, Illustrating Some of the Public Events, and Domestic and Ecclesiastical Manners of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries He took a journey, being accompanied by a countryman and companion of his own College, and both on foot, which was then either more in fashion, or their want of money or humility made it so. Izaak Walton's Life of Hodker. He learned that these uncommonly scarce and precious volumes, belonged to an Ancient Gentleman, whose name was studiously concealed, but who was in the habit of coining once or twice a week, - to smoke his pipe and lounge over his books, sometimes making extracts from them, and sometimes making observations in the margin with a pencil. Dibdin's Bibliomania. It was towards the close of one of those long and delicious summer days, which the pious George Herbert has exquisitely called "the bridal of the earth and sky, " that two personages of clerical appearance, who seemed to have attained the middle period of life, presented themselves at the little Inn adjoining the village of Eastwell, in the fair County of Kent. 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.