File:An historical narrative of the Ely, Revell and Stacye families who were among the founders of Trenton and Burlington in the province of West Jersey 1678-1683, with the genealogy of the Ely descendants (14585877377).jpg

Identifier: historicalnarrat00elyr (find matches)
Title: An historical narrative of the Ely, Revell and Stacye families who were among the founders of Trenton and Burlington in the province of West Jersey 1678-1683, with the genealogy of the Ely descendants in America
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Ely, Reuben Pownall, 1815-1899, comp Ely, Warren S. (Warren Smedley), b. 1855, joint comp Ely, Daniel Brittain, b. 1861, joint comp
Subjects: Ely family Revell family Stacy family Ely, Joshua, d. 1702
Publisher: New York, Chicago (etc.) Fleming H. Revell Company
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
lass taken out of oneof the windows of the west wing of the Hall by Mr.Turbutts grandfather on which is written with a dia-mond William Eyre, Feby 26—1640. Neminem metueinnocens.^^ A VISIT TO OGSTON IN 1903. To the lover of nature, and out of door life, there is nocountry on earth perhaps more charming than rural Eng-land in spring and summer. No wonder that the earlyRomans remained on the little Island and were fol-lowed by the Saxons, Danes and Normans. The com-bination of the balmy Gulf stream climate with the keenstimulation of the extreme northern latitude, has hadmuch to do no doubt with the amalgamation of races rep-resented in the modern Briton. On a bright morning in May in 1903 I left the train atAlfreton, Derbyshire, armed with a pocket camera, tomake a foot trip to Ogston Hall and vicinity. The brightgreen of the fields with the yellow and purple tints inthem from the buttercups and spring flowers, the invig-orating air, gave one the full inspiration of the joy ofliving.
Text Appearing After Image:
REVELL EFFIGIES IN SHIRLAND CHURCH THE REVELLS OF OGSTON HALL. 105 The road to Ogston Hall winds up a steep ascent andplainly shows its centuries of age in the mossgrown rocksalong its sides out of which it was hewn during the daysof the Crusaders. As I followed the winding course of the road up thehill, past massive oaks which met overhead in a canopyof green, my thoughts naturally turned back to the dayswhen over this same well-beaten path, armed Crusaders,bearing on their shoulders the red cross of the Templars,started forth on their long journey to the Holy Land,embued with the self-sacrificing spirit of the early Chris-tian martyrs, to save the Holy City from the hands ofthe Infidels. And years after, on the return of these samewarriors bronzed and weather beaten, what glad heartsmet them and led their jaded steeds up the same path.What stories these intrepid knights must have had torelate of their life in the far East. At the top of the hill the road ends before a mediaevalwall

Note About Images