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'Still, I think we had better push on, said Sol. 'I am against running the risk of finding the way flooded about Havenpool. 'So am I, returned Mountclere. 'I know a wheelwright in Flychett, continued Sol, 'and he keeps a beer- house, and owns two horses. We could hire them, and have a bit of sommat in the shape of victuals, and then get on to Anglebury.
'No, sir unless we go there to change horses, which I thought to do. The direct road is straight on. Havenpool lies about three miles down there on the left. But the water is over the road, and we had better go round. We shall come to no place for two or three miles, and then only to Flychett. 'What's Flychett like? 'A trumpery small bit of a village.
She forced a laugh, as if she tried to see a good joke in the remark, and they went silently indoors. 'A miserable hole! said Roger, looking round the room. 'Nay, but 'tis very pretty! 'Not after what I've seen. Did he marry 'ee at church in orderly fashion? 'He did sure at our church at Havenpool. 'But in a privy way? 'Ay because of his friends it was at night-time.
Mastr John Horseleigh, Knyght, of the p'ysshe of Clyffton was maryd to Edith the wyffe late off John Stocker, m'chawnte of Havenpool the xiiij daje of December be p'vylegge gevyn by our sup'me hedd of the chyrche of Ingelonde Kynge Henry the viii th 1539.
Carriages and other conveyances were arriving every minute from London and elsewhere; and when among the rest a shabby stage-coach came in by a by-route along the coast from Havenpool, and drew up at a second-rate tavern, it attracted comparatively little notice.
When his thanksgiving had come to an end he rose; the people rose also, and all went out of church together. As soon as the sailor emerged, so that the remaining daylight fell upon his face, old inhabitants began to recognize him as no other than Shadrach Jolliffe, a young man who had not been seen at Havenpool for several years.
This, then, is the reason why the only lawful marriage of Sir John, as recorded in the obscure register at Havenpool, does not appear in the pedigree of the house of Horseleigh. Spring 1893.
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