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The reader will recall the stately old representative of the family in Scott's "Woodstock" Sir Henry Lee of Ditchley who is seen stalking proudly through the great apartments of the palace, in his laced doublet, slashed boots, and velvet cloak, scowling darkly at the Puritan intruders.
Nevertheless, when you know that the provisions were provided and paid for out of your own rents and stock at Ditchley, sequestrated to the use of the state more than a year since, it may be you will have less scruple to use them for your own behoof." "Rest assured that I shall," said Sir Henry; "and glad you have helped me to a share of mine own.
"Soh!" said the knight "the honourable Master Kernigo hath laid down his arms. Withdraw these things, and give us our glasses Fill them around, Joceline; and if the devil or the whole Parliament were within hearing, let them hear Henry Lee of Ditchley drink a health to King Charles, and confusion to his enemies!" "Amen!" said a voice from behind the door.
"It will kindle again in an instant," said Lance; internally adding, "I pray to God it may! It will kindle in an instant lack of fuel, and the confusion of the family." "Ay, like enow, like enow," said Ditchley; "but I winna budge till I see it blazing." "Why then, there a-goes!" said Lance. "Thank thee, Cis thank thee, my good wench.
"Hark ye, gaffer," said Lance, "and take notice, my mates, all of you," for a considerable number of these rude and subterranean people had now assembled to hear the discussion "Has Sir Geoffrey, think you, ever put a penny in his pouch out of this same Bonadventure mine?" "I cannot say as I think he has," answered old Ditchley, the party who maintained the controversy.
"Albert Lee of Ditchley, a faithful subject of King Charles." "I might have guessed it," said Cromwell. "Ay, and to King Charles shalt thou go as soon as it is noon on the dial. Pearson," he continued, "let him be carried to the others; and let them be executed at twelve exactly."
"Answer on your conscience, though it be but a leaden one. Do not you know that he hath lost a good penny?" "Why, I believe he may," said Gaffer Ditchley. "What then! lose to-day, win to-morrow the miner must eat in the meantime." "True; but what will you eat when Master Bridgenorth gets the land, that will not hear of a mine being wrought on his own ground?
"Or who stopped a promising mine," said Ditchley, "to save a few thousand pounds, when he might have made himself as rich as Lord of Chatsworth, and fed a hundred good fellows all the whilst."
"Who commands this garrison?" "Sir Henry Lee of Ditchley," answered the old knight, stepping forward; "who, having no other garrison than two weak women, is compelled to submit to what he would willingly have resisted." "Disarm the inveterate and malignant rebel," cried Oliver. "Art thou not ashamed, sir, to detain me before the door of a house which you had no force to defend?
Lance Outram halted his party, at the distance, as he himself described it, of a flight-shot from the house, and advanced, alone, and in silence, to reconnoitre; and having previously commanded Ditchley and his subterranean allies to come to his assistance whenever he should whistle, he crept cautiously forward, and soon found that those whom he came to surprise, true to the discipline which had gained their party such decided superiority during the Civil War, had posted a sentinel, who paced through the courtyard, piously chanting a psalm-tune, while his arms, crossed on his bosom, supported a gun of formidable length.
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