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Title: Highways and byways in Oxford and the Cotswolds.$With illus. by Frederick L. Griggs
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Evans, Herbert Arthur, 1846-
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Publisher: London, Macmillan
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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it would havebeen a fit residence for Sir Anthony Kingston, that foe to allrebels, and stern instrument of the royal will. The son of SirWilliam Kingston, himself an accomplished courtier, andConstable of the Tower when Queen Anne Boleyn suffered,he was one of the most fortunate of Henrys favourites : in thiscounty alone three manors, Miserden, Quenington and Flaxley—the two last, the spoils of the dissolution—had been heapedupon him, and he had besides inherited from his father themanor of Painswick. He had led a thousand men of Glouces-tershire into the north to suppress the Pilgrimage of Grace,and had been knighted for his services, and when in the nextreign the western peasants took up arms in defence of thepriests and the old liturgy, he was dispatched into Cornwall asprovost-marshal. Holinshed tells the following story of theway in which he executed his office : It seems that the Mayor of Bodmin, one Boyer, had been a busie fellow among the rebels. His friends did their best
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JMii_- /. ( hurchyard. CH. xtii SIR ANTHONY KINGSTON 319 to exonerate him, and pleaded that he had acted only undercompulsion, but howsoever it was, Sir Anthonie Kingstonthat was provost-marshall in the kings armie under the lordprivie scale wrote his letter unto the said maior signifieng .tohim that he and other with him would come and dine withhim such a daie. The maior seeming to be glad thereof, madethe best purveiance he could to receive them, and at the timeappointed Sir Anthonie Kingston came with his companie, andwere right hartilie welcomed by the maior. But before theysat downe to dinner, calling the maior aside, he told him thatthere must be execution doone in that towne, and thereforewilled him that a paire of gallowes might be framed and set upwith speed, so that they might be readie by that time tliat theyshould make an end of dinner. The maior with all diligence caused the same to be doone;so that when dinner was ended, Sir Anthonie calling the maiorto him, and asking w

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