saham-toney

Updated: June 11, 2025

Let us shut up his book, where he leaves Oxford, in 1686, to become rector of Saham-Toney, in Norfolk, and marry a wife, though, says he, "I little thought I should ever come to this." The name of her late Majesty Queen Anne has for some little time been a kind of party watch-word. To many moral critics in the press, however, Queen Anne is a kind of abomination.

Andrew Lang - Oxford