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Updated: May 11, 2025
From St John's Church, the visitor, not without a glance at the old half timber house close by said to have been the residence of Anne of Cleves, will pass up to the High Street where, under the Castle, stands the parish church of St Michael, the only ancient part of which is the round Norman tower, a rare thing. A fourteenth century brass to one of the De Warennes is to be seen within.
'Without doubt you know these histories better than I, he answered. 'But judge them how you will, it is very certain that the King, who loveth simple natures, loveth Privy Seal. 'Yet you have said that he lay under a great shadow, Katharine convicted him. 'Well, he said composedly, 'the balance is down against him. This league with Cleves hath brought him into disfavour.
He did not reap any real advantage from his success, for Louis XIV. insisted that he should make peace with Sweden and give up all his conquests; and on his refusal, sent an army of 30,000 men to lay waste the duchy of Cleves, and city of Minden, so that he was forced to conclude the treaty of St.
By the force and plastic power of my imagination, I could have turned and moulded Lady de Brantefield, with all her repulsive haughtiness, into a Clelia, or a Princess de Cleves, or something of the Richardson full-dressed heroine, with hoop and fan, and stand off, man! and then there would be cruelty and difficulty, and incomprehensibility-something to be conquered something to be wooed and won.
The Duke was struck with such a violent grief to find that Madam de Cleves still continued to exercise the same rigours towards him, that he turned pale that moment.
The east window is Geometrical, as are several in the nave, others are Decorated and, in the transept, Perpendicular. The chalk arches are finely worked. In the village are several old timber houses, including one said to have been inhabited by Anne of Cleves. Until more accurate surveys were made this was supposed to be the highest point of the whole range.
John Cleves, the last to live in it, was a man whose evil practices got him into the penitentiary, but people had never associated him with the queer sights and sounds in the lower chambers, nor with the fact that a man named Syms, who had gone to that house in 1842, had never been known to leave it.
She also informed the King that the scheme for dividing the country was already arranged: that Augustus of Saxony was to have Friesland and Overyssel; Count Brederode, Holland; the Dukes of Cleves and Lorraine, Gueldres; the King of France, Flanders, Artois, and Hainault, of which territories Egmont was to be perpetual stadholder; the Prince of Orange, Brabant; and so on indefinitely.
"I believe so," replied Madam de Cleves, "but the Queen-Dauphin has heard to the contrary, and she won't think it very probable that the Viscount's letters should fall out of your pocket; you must therefore have some reason, that I don't know of, for concealing the truth of this matter from the Queen-Dauphin; I advise you to confess it to her."
But what they would do for beaters without them, he didn't know ... they were very short of beaters ... that was a fact. "I am staying at Cleves," I said, "and I'm out of a job. I am not long from hospital, and they've discharged me from the army. I wouldn't mind earning a few marks as a beater, and I'd like to see the sport.
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