The Strife of the Roses and Days of the Tudors in the West

William Henry Hamilton Rogers

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• Publié le: 08 décembre 2010
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You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: The Strife of the Roses and Days of the Tudors in the West Author: William Henry Hamilton Rogers Release Date: June 3, 2010 [eBook #32675] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE STRIFE OF THE ROSES AND DAYS OF THE TUDORS IN THE WEST*** E-text prepared by Irma Spehar, Hélène de Mink, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries (http://www.archive.org/details/toronto) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries. See Note: http://www.archive.org/details/strifeofroses00rogeuoft Transcriber's note: Inconsistent hyphenation and spelling in the original document have been preserved. Obvious typographical and errors have been corrected. Corrected text is indicated by dotted underlines. Scroll the mouse over the word and the original text will appear. cover THE STRIFE OF THE ROSES ANDDAYS OF THE TUDORS IN THE WEST. THE STRIFE OF THE ROSES ANDDAYS OF THE TUDORS IN THE WEST. BY W. H. HAMILTON ROGERS, F.S.A., AUTHOR OF "MEMORIALS OF THE WEST," &C. ILLUSTRATED BY ROSCOE GIBBS. WHAT FAME IS LEFT FOR HUMAN DEEDS IN ENDLESS AGE?" EXETER: JAMES G. COMMIN, 230 HIGH STREET. LONDON: W. W. GIBBINGS, 18 BURY STREET. M.DCCC.XC. TORQUAY: PRINTED BY SHINNER & DODD. M.DCCC.XC. PREFACE The subjects described in the following pages, have been chosen from among the almost unlimited number that present themselves to notice, during the stirring periods in which they are included, as they appeared to lend interest and variety of incident, illustrative of the days wherein they occurred. The concluding paper—not originally written for this series— extends into the era of the early Stuart, and has claimed admission from the comparatively unique features of its history. W. H. H. R. "The Middle Ages had their wars and agonies, but also intense delights. Their gold was dashed with blood; but ours is sprinkled with dust. Their life was inwove with white and purple, ours is one seamless stuff of brown." John Ruskin. CONTENTS. PAGE 1. "OUR STEWARD OF HOUSEHOLD." 1 Robert, Lord Willoughby de Broke, K.G.2. EXTINCT FOR THE WHITE ROSE. 37 William, Lord Bonville, K.G. 3. UNDER THE HOOF OF THE WHITE BOAR. 87 Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, K.G. 4. UNHORSED AT BOSWORTH. 118 John, Lord Cheney, K.G. 5. "WITH THE SILVER HAND." 137 Stafford of Suthwyke, Archbishop, and Earl 6. "THEY DID CAST HIM." 155 Sir Thomas Arundell, K.B. 7. OF THE IMPERIAL LINE. 183 Theodoro Paleologus POEMS. PAGE The Message of the Cross 24 Tamar's Flow 36 The Meadow Ranunculus 38 Autumnal Hours 84 A Mother's Song 86 Salisbury Spire 117 Distant Chimes 135 Bosworth Field 136 "The Transept of the Martyrdom" 154 The Five Wounds 167 "Sicut pullus hirundinis sic clamabo" 182 The Weltering Shore 189 Paleologus 196 "Ex hoc momento pendet æternitas" 206 ILLUSTRATIONS. A Glade in Old Shute Park FrontispieceWilliam Newbery Effigy of Lord Willoughby de Broke, Callington Roscoe Gibbs To face p. 1 The Cheney Monument, Edington — — — 8 Effigies of Sir Fulke and Lady Greville, Alcester — — — 29 Tomb of the Second Lord Willoughby de Broke, Beer-Ferrers — — — 32 Bench-ends, Beer-Ferrers — — — 33 Presumed Effigy of Cicely Bonville, Astley — — — 37 Effigy of the Earl of Shrewsbury, Whitchurch — — — 47 Effigies of Lord and Lady Harington, Porlock — — — 48 Old Shute Gateway Photograph — 66 Effigy of the Duchess of Suffolk, Westminster Abbey — 77Roscoe Gibbs Bench-end, Limington — — — 80 Bench-ends, Barwick — — — 81 Dorset Chapel, Ottery St. Mary — 84Photograph Monument to the Duke of Buckingham, Britford Roscoe Gibbs — 87 Discovery at the Saracen's Head Inn, Salisbury — 109Saturday Magazine Effigy of Cardinal Morton, Canterbury Cathedral — 116Roscoe Gibbs Effigy of Lord Cheney, Salisbury Cathedral — — — 118 Indent of Brass of Archbishop Stafford, Canterbury Cathedral — — — 137 Effigy of Sir John Dinham, Kings-Carswell — — — 140 Gravestone of Emma, Mother of Archbishop Stafford, North-Bradley — — — 143 Effigies of Lord and Lady Bottreaux, North Cadbury — — — 147 Brass of Sir John Arundell, St. Columb-Major — — — 155Regal Heraldy, temp. Henry VIII. Cowic, Exeter — — — 168 Bench-ends, Landulph — — — 183 Part of the Lower Seats, Landulph — — — 199 Panel from the Gorges Monument, St. Budeaux — — — 204 Imperial Arms of Greece (Paleologus Monument) — 206 Portrait — 206 EFFIGY WILLOUGHBY DE BROKE, EFFIGY OF ROBERT, LORD WILLOUGHBY DE BROKE, K.G. Callington Church, Cornwall—A.D. 1502. View larger image "OUR STEWARD OF HOUSEHOLD." At somewhat more than halfway distance between Weymouth on the skirt of the Atlantic, and the good old city of Bristow by the Severn sea, on the thin iron line that crosses the wide end of the western peninsula between those places,—and which in the early days of railway enterprise was cleverly, but of course futilely, stretched as a boom, designed to 'block' all further extension westward,—and just inside the county of Wilts, lies the quiet little town of Westbury. The station itself is somewhat "larger and more commodious" than common. A two-fold reason accounts for this, one, that of its being the junction of another line that departs hence for Salisbury, and secondly the nature of the industry that meets the eye from the platform, and is in its way unique in these parts. This is the appearance of three towering iron furnaces, with attendant rows of coke ovens, placed on an eminence just outside the station yard; busily smelting the iron- stone that is quarried from a large excavation on the opposite side of the line, and which passes under the railway proper in mimic trains, pulled by a tiny locomotive up to the great glowing bastions, there to be speedily devoured and purified into 'pigs' of the best quality. A very English sight indeed you will say. Yes, certainly if we were in some of the northern localities of this mineral- saturated island of ours, but strange in its isolated appearance among the bucolic characteristics of the southern portion of it, and moreover here, at least, a development in its way peculiarly modern. The antient 'staple' of the district is the very primeval one of the manufacture of woolen cloth, which has existed for centuries, is still considerably followed, and enjoys all its olden reputation as being 'West of England,' a pass-word for excellence and purity of fabric, untainted by the admixture of 'shoddy,' characteristic of north-country production. Westbury in company with her sister towns is largely interested in the industry. Our wandering to-day is not in quest of manufactured products iron or woolen, but of a nature that lends a clue to our thoughts which takes us back to the far past strife of the Red and White Roses, and era of Bosworth, and of the heart- burning that inspired the distich, "The Rat, the Cat, and Lovell our Dog, Rule all England under the Hog," for the writing of which and presumed sympathy with