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He had thus been unable to procure horses for us, but at Eccleshall he had managed to obtain a pillion for Margaret's use behind him. This was awkward indeed, for though Master Freake had ridden hard, the pursuit could not be very far behind, and if, as was almost certain, the dragoons turned up at the "Ring of Bells," the sergeant would be set free, and be after us like a mad bull.
"Not your father, apparently?" I said in a cool voice, though my head was whirling a bit under the strain. "Here," I went on, fetching a fistful out of my pocket, "are some guineas. Follow me, unhitch the horse, and if I shout to you to be off, mount him from yon horse-trough, and away like lightning. That's the road to Eccleshall, along which Master Freake is bound to come."
Long as the way was, we seemed to me to be getting over the ground too rapidly. Mistress Waynflete did not tire, and did full credit to her father's soldiership. We circled round the red-tiled roofs of Eccleshall, and at length took shelter in the pines that ringed the great pool.
If the Duke had heard of the supposed intention of the Jacobites to turn off for Wales, he would, I imagined, send a scouting party through Eccleshall to look out for them, and we should, for the second time in our journey, be on dangerous ground in the neighbourhood of that village.
Small place as Eccleshall is, I shall skirt round it, and so get to the 'Ring of Bells. You cannot miss it if you ride through the village on the Newcastle road. Whoever's there first will await the other." "Then in about three hours we'll meet at the 'Ring of Bells, and I hope I shall bring good news of the Colonel.
Wright was soon released, and died two years later defending his episcopal seat, Eccleshall Castle, against the Parliamentarians, a member of the Church militant like Ancktill. The history of the College from its foundation to the beginning of the Civil War is uneventful, one of great prosperity.
"By travelling the by-roads," said I. "We'll go through Eccleshall." "How long will it take you to get there?" he asked. "About three hours," said I, "if Mistress Waynflete can stand the pace." "Very good," he replied. "I will join you there, and do my best to get horses for you in the meantime, and bring them along with me." "That's splendid," said I, "but I'd rather we met outside the village.
I was despatched one cold morning on the pony for Mr. Blythe, a neighbouring clergyman and friend, to pay my father a visit. We rode together from his manse to Eccleshall; and, on his arrival, he remained alone with my father, engaged in those hallowed communings betwixt a dying man and his spiritual comforter which it is unseemly and sacrilegious in any case to disclose to mortal eyes.
Douglas to the benefice of Eccleshall, which had fallen vacant by the demise of its minister.
A sea voyage, native air, and all other expedients suggested by skill or affection, were tried in vain; and, in the fiftieth year of his age, the minister of Eccleshall returned to the bosom of his family, with a full anticipation that the distemper under which he lingered would, ere long, prove fatal.
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