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They detested the marriage with Philip, which threatened the independence of England. At home they were powerless, but the sons of honourable houses Strangways, Tremaynes, Staffords, Horseys, Carews, Killegrews, and Cobhams dashed out upon the water to revenge the Smithfield massacres. They found help where it could least have been looked for.
The terraces, and lawns, and cedar-trees, and deer-park, the names of Edward III. and Elizabeth, the famous old Cobhams and their long line of distinguished descendants, their invaluable pictures and historic chapel, have all been the common property of the past and of the present.
But the Inquisition was inexorable, and the men were treated with such peculiar brutality that after nine months ninety only of the two hundred and forty were alive. Ferocity was answered by ferocity. Listen to this! The Cobhams of Cowling Castle were Protestants by descent. Lord Cobham was famous in the Lollard martyrology.
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