Gertrude, Vol. 1 of 2 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Gertrude, Vol. 1 of 2 To the right lay a cheerful village, partly embosomed in trees, and partly clustering around the base of a steep, conical hill, which had once been the station of a Roman encampment. The church, with its spire pointing to the blue heavens, and its white tombstones shining in the morning sun, stood near, upon another hill of less considerable elevation, while, immediately adjoining, stretched the woods and lawns of Allingham Park, long in the possession of the elder branch of the Courtenay family. The house, an edifice of Grecian architecture, with no pretensions to beauty beyond a handsome Ionic colonnade, almost fronted the Priory, and to the left, the eye, after passing over a few miles of wooded country, rested upon the outline of the low hills, which, receding one behind the other, formed a barrier between the valley of Elsham and the sea. The Priory of Elsham existed now only in name, its rich endowments and lands having, in the reign of Henry the Eighth, shared the fate of the other church properties which were sacrificed to the rapacity of that monarch and his favourites. From that time the building, deserted by its former inmates, gradually fell into decay, and the crumbling walls at length entirely disappeared, as the stones were taken to form barns and stables for the farm, which, in after years, occupied the spot where the Priory had stood. The modern Priory, consisting of a square front of recent date, and a long wing erected about a hundred years before, had no connection with the old religious house except that of bearing the same designation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.