Original Ballads, by Living Authors, MDCCCL. Ed. by H. Thompson (Paperback)

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. 1850 edition. Excerpt: ... "This manor continued in the Abbey of Gloucester till its dissolution. The site of the manor house, with divers lands, and the rectory and advowson of the vicarage, were granted to Giles Huntley, I. Mar. They descended afterwards to Sir George Huntley, who came by a violent end in the Park."--Rudder's History of Gloucestershire--Frocester. "The manor of Woodchester was granted to Sir George Huntley by Queen Elizabeth, formerly in the Abbot of Gloucester."--Rudder. "Hoc anno 1574, die festo Laurentii Martyris, Serenissima Regina n'ra Elizabetha hoc n'rum oppidatum accessit et invisit, in eoq. in sedibus Georgii Huntlei, armigeri, comiter, benigneque, et sum'a cum humanitate tractantis, p'noctavit, indeq. Barkleyeum Castellum concessit."--Extract from the Parish Register of Frocester. "O1 may walk the abbot's hall, May seat me in his chair, May hunt throughout his woodlands all, His meads and pastures fair "His spotted trout upon the line, His buck upon the lair, His falcon gentle, she is mine, Her eiry in the air, "All these are mine O that I might His next fair lordship have O Woodchester --my full delight Within thy bounds I crave. "Grant me, O grant that gain I may This one sweet manor more, With me and mine still joined to stay, As erst in days of yore." "Now, husband dear, O pray not so, Nor ask for farther wealth, Nor wealth like this, which well I know Is ta'en from God by stealth "Eiches they be a fearful thing; To covet who may dare? When every glittering coin doth bring Temptation, and a snare. "Eiches in old ancestral line, Or gained in honest way, Seem pure, and do in honour shine, And meet the face of day: "But in our frail benighted state E'en these too oft betray The burdened traveller to his fate, Like lights which lead...