Identifier: townsofnewenglan00sta (find matches)
Title: Towns of New England and old England, Ireland and Scotland ... connecting links between cities and towns of New England and those of the same name in England, Ireland and Scotland;
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: (State street trust company, Boston) (from old catalog) Forbes, Allan, 1874- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Cities and towns Cities and towns Pilgrims (New Plymouth Colony)
Publisher: New York and London, G. P. Putnam's sons
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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as I (went) to Coventry, but left it on the left hand.Some told Capt. Ruggles that I gave the name and put words in hismouth to desire of me a Bell for the Town. The two New England Woodstocks remember with pride their historic mothertown, which is about eight miles from the town of O.xford, and fifty odd miles fromLondon. The appearance of the town has hardly changed an iota during the lastthree quarters of a century. Here have dwelt many of the kings of England; hereKing Alfred translated Boethius Consolations of Philosophy; and here, to the dis-pleasure of his French wife, Eleanor, Duchess of Aquitaine, Henry II broughtthe fair Rosamond, around whose name cluster so many stories which the light ofmodern research has proved untrue. Algernon Charles Swinburne has made useof one of the myths in his Rosamond, the first scene of which is laid inThe Maze at Woodstock, while Tennyson refers to Rosamonds terror of QueenEleanor in his Dream of Fair Women. Here Becket came, and Chaucer too.
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2o8 WOODSTOCK, VERMONT, and WOODSTOCK, CONNECTICUT who laid one of his scenes in The Dream in the park of Woodstock; PrincessElizabeth was also imprisoned here by her sister Mary. Tennyson also has faith-fully reproduced the scene and the inscription made by Elizabeth on her prisonwindow:— Much suspected, of meNothing proved can be,Quoth Elizabeth, Prisoner. From this town Sir Walter Scott, too, procured the material for his novel Wood-stock. Saxon and Norman kings for centuries hunted and feasted in Woodstock. Oneof the last royal banquets was held here for James II in 1687. Some years laterthe palace was declared to be beyond repair, and in 1704 the royal manor of Wood-stock was given to John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough, as a reward for his famous\actory at Blenheim. Parliament bestowed £500,000 with which to build thepresent palace that bears the name of the little village where the Duke of Marl-borough attained his victory, and in the park the trees are said to be arranged i

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