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The situation of Lastingham in a deep and picturesque valley surrounded by moors and overhung by woods is extremely rich. Further to the west there are a series of beautiful dales, watered by becks whose sources are among the Cleveland Hills.
Although Lastingham is not on the road to Helmsley, the few additional miles will scarcely be counted when we are on our way to a church which, besides being architecturally one of the most interesting in the county, is perhaps unique in having at one time had a curate whose wife kept a public house adjoining the church.
He had paid a visit to Lastingham with the double object of attending the marriage of one of his sisters, and of trying to persuade the Earl to pay some inconvenient debts. But the moment he mentioned, with due caution, this second reason for his arrival, he found it a hopeless cause. He represented that his income was small, and his prospects of advancement extremely slender.
"About him I certainly know nothing. It is twenty years since I left England, and he would then be only a child. His father I have seen two or three times. Mr. Percy resembles him extremely." "Was he a handsome man, then?" "Very handsome. And Lady Lastingham was said to be a most beautiful woman." "You never saw her?" "No, she died young.
It seemed as if her words had an application beyond Lucia's knowledge; yet they awed her strangely. Could they be true? Who then could be trusted? for according to her mother's story, Lord Lastingham had not merely deceived his wife, he had deceived himself also, with this counterfeit love.
Carter's inn was the present 'Blacksmith's Arms, but there is distinct evidence for stating that cock-fighting used to take place secretly in the crypt. The writings of the Venerable Bede give a special interest to Lastingham, for he tells us how King Oidilward requested Bishop Cedd to build a monastery there.
The situation of Lastingham in a deep and picturesque valley surrounded by moors and overhung by woods is extremely rich. Further to the west there are a series of beautiful dales watered by becks whose sources are among the Cleveland Hills.
Lord Lastingham married her, as people said, for love; that is to say, her great beauty tempted him. They were very poor, and he was not of a character to bear poverty. She was good and amiable, but he wearied of her, and scarcely pretended to feel her death as a loss." "Oh! mamma, how could that be possible? if he married her for love?" "For what he called love, at least.
Carter at all; and as there seems to have been no mention of an increased stipend, the parson publican must have continued this strange anomaly. The writings of Bede give a special interest to Lastingham, for he tells us how King Oidilward requested Bishop Cedd to build a monastery there.
It was a period when architecture was at a low ebb, and the desire to sweep away antiquity was certainly strong, for those churches not rebuilt from the ground were so hacked and renovated that their interest and picturesqueness has vanished. The churches at Pickering, Middleton, Lastingham, and Kirkdale must, however, be pointed out as priceless exceptions.
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