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History of Worksop; With Historical Descriptive and Discursive Sketches of Sherwood Forest and the Neighbourhood

History of Worksop; With Historical Descriptive and Discursive Sketches of Sherwood Forest and the Neighbourhood


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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1854. Excerpt: ... occupied by Mr. Eobert Outram. In 1670 it was the residence of George Markham. Leland is supposed to allude to it when he mentions, in Henry the Eighth's reign, "a faire lodge in Wyrksoppe Parke, not yet fynyshed." Beyond this, about two miles distant, is occupied by Mr. Benjamin Eddison, and adjoining the small village of Shireoaks. The Hall is interesting from its having been purchased for a residence by Sir William Hewitt (a son of Edmund Hewitt of Wales, a village close by) Lord Mayor of London about 1559, and one of the most successful merchants of his day. He had a shop and house on old London Bridge; and there happened one of those romances which recall to us so vividly the London of a former day. His young daughter, whilst playing with her maid at a window, fell into the river Thames below, and was bravely rescued by her father's apprentice, a young man named Osborne, on whom (although she was wooed by the Earl of Shrewsbury) the father, in token of his gratitude, afterwards bestowed her in marriage, with a large dowry, saying that Osborne had saved her, and should have her; and from them is descended the present Duke of Leeds, who still possesses Kiveton Park and other property which adjoins the Shireoaks estate, and formerly belonged to the Hewitts. We believe this apprentice, Osborne, also became, like another Whittington, lord mayor of London. If we are to credit that oftentimes useful, but garrulous, old lady, Tradition, the descendants of this worthy lord mayor, from living at their lonesome country hall, or some other cause, imbibed fancies strange enough to invest the old place with that degree of interest which generally attaches to the companions, animate or inanimate, of the eccentric. The memory of one Sir Thomas Hewitt, who, according...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781150447594
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 78
  • Spine Width: 4 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1150447591
  • Publisher Date: 01 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 154 gr


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