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As Christmas approached the royalists proposed a truce. Louis agreed on the condition that Berkhampsted should be surrendered, and early in 1217 both parties held councils, the royalists at Oxford and the barons at Cambridge. There was vague talk of peace, but the war was renewed, and Louis captured Hedingham and Orford in Essex, and besieged the castles of Colchester and Norwich.
After office done, went and eat some Colchester oysters with Sir W. Batten at his house, and there, with some company; dined and staid there talking all the afternoon; and late after dinner took Mrs.
"Remember me to your Family: you do not tell me if your Mother is better." The Mr. Spalding here referred to was at that time the manager for a large firm of agricultural implement makers. Subsequently he became the curator of the museum at Colchester, and the letters from FitzGerald to him which were handed to Mr.
"There ain't a man livin' that can! Go on with your third degree if you want to!" he sneered. "But for every blow you strike for every hour you keep me awake when I'm dead for sleep you'll be sorry, Colonel! You'll be sorry when you think of what might have happened back there in Colchester!" "Spotty, you're right!" faltered the colonel. "I almost wish you hadn't saved me. I've got to do my duty!
Fairfax, his superior in command, but inferior in influence, was subduing the rebel royalists, who made a firm resistance at Colchester, and all the various parties were sending their remonstrances to parliament.
Darcy, on the death of her husband, had further catered to it, so that the Darcy establishment, though it was not the richest or most showy in Colchester, was safely counted the most exclusive that is, it had a full line of the best goods, be it clocks or diamonds, and it had what, in bygone days, was called a "carriage trade," but which is now referred to as "automobile."
Nor did I ever know if they were Edric's men or not. Howbeit, their swords were drawn, and so I think we were not wrong in what we did, though the Colchester men smote hard, and my spear shaft was badly sprung over a helm. After that we did not draw rein till we came to our comrades, and they were halfway back to Stamford looking for me.
He was ordered by the King to build the first beginnings of the Tower of London. He probably designed the keep at Colchester and the castle of his cathedral town, and set the fashion of building these great ramparts of stone which were so serviceable in the subjugation and overawing of the English.
Every townsman, and every townswoman, wanted to hear the examination, and to know the fate of the prisoners of whom there were so many that not many houses were left in Colchester where the owners had not some family connection or friend among them.
The account of the siege, A.D. 1648, with a diary of the most remarkable passages, are as follows, which I had from so good a hand as that I have no reason to question its being a true relation. A Diary: Or, An Account Of The Siege And Blockade Of Colchester, A.D. 1648.
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