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At Winceby fight they charged "singing psalms," cleared Lincolnshire of the Cavaliers, and freed the eastern counties from all danger from Newcastle's partizans. At Marston Moor they faced and routed Rupert's chivalry. At Newbury it was only Manchester's reluctance that hindered them from completing the ruin of Charles.
An aged correspondent tells me that in the days of her youth there was standing a house called Cobb Hall, evidently the former residence of Lady Tanfield's family. He built a grand Elizabethan mansion on the site of the old Priory, and here was born Lucius Gary, Lord Falkland, who was slain in Newbury fight. That Civil War brought stirring times to Burford.
"Don't be so sure. Come and take me a turn in the lime avenue before lunch." The two disappeared. James followed them. Marcia, full of disquiet, was going off to find Lady Coryston when Coryston stopped her. "I say, Marcia it's true isn't it? You're engaged to Newbury?" She turned proudly, confronting him. "I am." "I'm not going to congratulate you!" he said, vehemently.
In Cotton Mather's time a double-headed snake was found at Newbury, Massachusetts, it had a head at each end, and before it was killed it showed its evil disposition by chasing and striking at the lad who first met it. A snake haunts Wolf Pond, Pennsylvania, that is an alleged relic of the Silurian age.
Perhaps they woke the offender up and rudely and summarily dragged him out and caged him at once and kept him thus prisoned throughout the nooning, a veritable jail-bird. A rather unconventional and eccentric preacher in Newbury awoke one sleeper in a most novel manner.
As to the personal appearance of our hero, we have not much to say of it not half so much as the girls in Newbury found it necessary to remark, the first Sabbath that he shone out in the meeting house. There was a saucy frankness of countenance, a knowing roguery of eye, a joviality and prankishness of demeanor, that was wonderfully captivating, especially to the ladies.
This backwardness, whether it arose from internal dissension, or from inferiority of numbers, provoked loud complaints, not only in the capital, where the conflict at Newbury had been celebrated as a victory, but in the two houses, who had ordered the army to follow up its success. The generals, having dispersed their troops in winter quarters, hastened to vindicate their own conduct.
He will only marry Miss Glenwilliam over his mother's body and if he does marry her he may whistle for the estates." "Then James will have them?" said Newbury, smiling. "Why not Marcia? She has as good a chance as anybody." "I hope not!" Newbury's tone showed a genuine discomfort. "What is Lady Coryston doing?" "About the Glenwilliam affair?
His family was of British origin. Anthony Morse, of Marlborough, in Wiltshire, had emigrated to America in 1635, and settled in Newbury, Massachusetts, He and his descendants prospered.
You are to go in his gig to Newbury, if you'll walk up as fur as his farm; he's afeared to come down our hill, a says, because if he did, his mare 'ud kick his gig into toothpicks, he says. Oh! Master George, I be sorry you be going," and the boy, who had begun quite cheerfully, ended in a whimper. "I thank him! Take my bag, boy, and I'll follow in half an hour."
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