Where Dorset Meets Devon
Where Dorset Meets Devon
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182 AXMINSTER TO MUSBURY It is scarcely surprising if they are reluctant to leave the place, seeing how long it was theirs. A certain Christian Billett, heiress of Ashe in the days of Agin- court, had two husbands. To the first of them, John Drake, she bore a son ; to the second, Richard Frank- W:'wt- m K^'. 'rSi. ■■ a ?
^■ ^\^^t^: ^- ASHE HOUSE.
cheyney, another. When his parents were dead Frank- cheyney's boy took possession of the manor. Young Drake, as child of the earlier marriage, natural...ly objected. So he took the matter to law, and, after lengthy proceedings, succeeded in disestablishing his half-brother. Frankcheyney retired from the scene, and thenceforward for more than three centuries the Drakes held Ashe.
183 WHERE DORSET MEETS DEVON They were very proud and jealous, these Drakes, and would brook no upstarts claiming their kinship. Even the man who immortalised their name must keep his distance. There was a terrible to-do at Elizabeth's court when Sir Bernard, head of his house and a captain of repute, boxed the ears of Sir Francis, that much greater captain, for having dared to make use of the family arms to which he had no claim.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
182 AXMINSTER TO MUSBURY It is scarcely surprising if they are reluctant to leave the place, seeing how long it was theirs. A certain Christian Billett, heiress of Ashe in the days of Agin- court, had two husbands. To the first of them, John Drake, she bore a son ; to the second, Richard Frank- W:'wt- m K^'. 'rSi. ■■ a ?
^■ ^\^^t^: ^- ASHE HOUSE.
cheyney, another. When his parents were dead Frank- cheyney's boy took possession of the manor. Young Drake, as child of the earlier marriage, natural...ly objected. So he took the matter to law, and, after lengthy proceedings, succeeded in disestablishing his half-brother. Frankcheyney retired from the scene, and thenceforward for more than three centuries the Drakes held Ashe.
183 WHERE DORSET MEETS DEVON They were very proud and jealous, these Drakes, and would brook no upstarts claiming their kinship. Even the man who immortalised their name must keep his distance. There was a terrible to-do at Elizabeth's court when Sir Bernard, head of his house and a captain of repute, boxed the ears of Sir Francis, that much greater captain, for having dared to make use of the family arms to which he had no claim.
What to read after Where Dorset Meets Devon?
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