Identifier: ancestryofabraha1909leaj (find matches)
Title: The ancestry of Abraham Lincoln
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Lea, J. Henry (James Henry), 1846-1914 Hutchinson, J. R. (John Robert), 1858-1921, joint author
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln family Lincoln, Samuel, 1619?-1690
Publisher: Boston, New York : Houghton Mifflin Company
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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a precipitous hill-side fell away to Dussindale, where the Wensum then as nowflowed sinuously between the hill and the city wall—on thisside low, out of repair, distant from the citys centre and diffi-cult of defence. Behind him, for supplies, lay the fattest landsin Norfolk. On this spot, beneath a spreading oak named by Kett him-self TheOak of Reformation, he set up his court, exercis-ing freely all the functions of the power he dreamed of.Reinforcements, such as they were, flowed in apace. To holdthis groVising rabble in check, to direct its restless energies The ruins of St. Michaels chapel, otherwise Ketts Castle, stand on theleft-hand side as you ascend Gas-Hill to the brow of the Heath,in what is nowthe garden of the manager of the city gas-works. The chapel anciently stoodin Tombland, within the city, whence it was removed to its present site byHerbert de Losinga, Bishop of Norwich, when, founding the monastery andthe cathedral, he sought to improve the approach on the west.
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THE NORFOLK FURIES 53 into the channel of his ambitions, was a task more than suf-ficient even for one of Retts calibre. Supplies were plentiful,and his lawless followers, waxing fat and unruly, ravaged thecountryside for miles around, indulging in wholesale plunder,sacking mansions, haling before their chief all who resistedtheir exactions. To cool their misdirected ardour, and at thesame time to further his own projects, Rett resolved to attackthe city without delay. His resolution was both confirmedand quickened by the arrival on the scene of the Marquisof Northampton, a general, according to repute, betteracquainted with the witty than the warlike side of Pallas,more skilled in leading a measure than a march. At hisback the Marquis had about 2500 men; Rett, 20,000. The first intimation the startled watchers upon the ram-parts had of Retts design was supplied by the emergence fromthe river of a dripping band who hurled themselves with irre-sistible fury upon the defences, where the

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