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Even to the siege itself they were perforce indifferent, seeing very little of it, for the parliamentary leader took care that none of them came into Harby park, and did not, as we may gather from occasional asperities in the "Diurnal," greatly encourage even the visits of Mr. Marfleet himself. The full chronicle of that siege does not concern us here.
And this was the beginning of the siege of Harby House. Mr. Samuel Marfleet, in his "Diurnal of certain events of moment happening of late at Harby," is very eloquent over the coming of the little company.
Those that are curious in the matter may seek for ampler information, if they will, in the Marfleet "Diurnal." Thanks to its situation, thanks to the experience of adventurer Halfman in barricading windows and so loop-holing them for musketry as fully to command the moat on all sides, Harby Hall proved a hard nut to crack.
Master Vallance also knew, for he had been told this by Master Marfleet, the school-master, that the Lady of Harby had no right to fly the standard, seeing that the presence of that standard implied the bodily presence of the King. But he also knew, still on Master Marfleet's authority, that the Lady of Harby had flung that standard to the winds in no ignorance nor defiance of courtly custom.
Thus we learn incidentally from some reflections on the wickedness of the great, that while the King reigned in Oxford to Master Marfleet he is always the "Man of Blood" when he is not Nebuchadnezzar Lady Brilliana Harby was in such favor at the court and with the Queen as to obtain patents of knighthood for two neighbors of hers, one Paul Hungerford and one Peter Rainham.
He learned much that was familiar and important to him of the Harby family history; he learned much that was unfamiliar and unimportant to him of local matters, such as that Master Marfleet, the village school-master, was inclined to say all that might be said in praise of the Parliament men, and that, when all was said and done, the only avowed out-and-out loyalist in the neighborhood was no man at all, but a beautiful, high-spirited girl-woman, the Lady Brilliana Harby.
We further learn that Brilliana accompanied the Queen in whom Mr. Marfleet traces a remarkable likeness to Jezebel to France in 1644, after which "flight of kites, crows, and other carrion fowl" the words are Mr. Marfleet's the estate of Harby came, through the good offices of General Cromwell, into the hands of Colonel Evander Cloud, much to Mr.
He looked fixedly at Brilliana and declaimed, "I did hear you speak, far above singing." Then his chin dropped; his head fell back on the supporting arms. Evander touched him, turned to Brilliana. "Alas! he's sped." The only sound in the silent room was the weeping of Brilliana in Evander's arms. Master Marfleet in his "Diurnal" hides in his prolixities some particulars interesting to us.
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