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Identifier: brightonroadclas00harp (find matches)
Title: The Brighton road : the classic highway to the south
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Harper, Charles G. (Charles George), 1863-1943
Subjects: Horses Brighton (England) -- Description and travel England -- Social life and customs
Publisher: London : C. Palmer
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

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ery and surrounded by barren mountains. From here you can, with some trouble, catch just a glimpse of the watery horizon through the grey haze that rises from countless chimney-pots, and never a breeze but blows laden with the scent of soot and smoke. Yet, for all the changed fortune that change fulTime has brought this hoary and grimy place, it has not been deprived of interesting mementoes. You may, with patience, discover the tombstone of Phoebe Hassall, a centenarian of pith and valour, who, in her youthful days, in male attire, joined the army of His Majesty King George the Second and warred with her regiment in many lands ; and all around are the resting-places of many celebrities, who, denied a wider fame, have yet their place in local annals; but prominent, in place and in fame, is the tomb of that Captain Tettersell who (it must be owned, for a consideration) sailed away one October morn of 1651 across the Channel, carrying with him the hope of the clouded Royalists aboard his grimy craft. •
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ST. NICHOLAS, THE OLD PARISH CHURCH OF BRIGHTHELMSTONE. 270 THE BRIGHTON ROAD His altar-tomb stands without the southern doorway of the church, and reads curiously to modern ears. That not one of all the many who have had occasion to print it has transcribed the quaintness of that epitaph aright seems a strange thing, but so it is: P.M.S. Captain NICHOLAS TETTERSELL, through whose Prudence valour an Loyalty Charles the second King of England & after he had escaped the sword of his merciless rebels and his forces received a fatal ouerthrow at Worcester Sept- 3d 1651, was faithfully preserved & conueyed into France. Departed this life the 26 tb day of Iuly 1674. Within this monument doth lye, Approued Ffaith, hono>- and Loyalty. In this Cold Clay he hath now tane up his station, At once preserued ye Church, the Crowne and nation. When Charles ye Greate was nothing but a breath This ualiant soule stept betweene him & death. Usurpers threats nor tyrant rebells frowne Could not

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