Famous homes of Great Britain and their stories (1900)
Malan, Alfred Henry, editor · New York, G. P. Putnam's son; London, The Pall Mall magazine · leaf 226
there and foundeverything just as Sir Hugh had left it; and so it has remainedever since, unchanged and unspoiled. The tower still standsover the hawthorn tree, the drawbridge hangs as it has hungfor centuries; the stones of the Castle may be greyer and thetrees round it older and more stag-headed,… … THE GATEWAY BATTLE ABBEY BY C. L. W. CLEVELAND THE great Benedictine Abbey of La Bataille—the tokenand pledge of the Royal crown — was founded byWilliam the Conqueror, soon after his accession, in ful-filment of a vow. When, on his march from Hastings, he firstcaught sight, from the crest of Telham…
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