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Title: The London & North-Western Railway
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Eyre-Todd, George, 1862-1937
Subjects: London and North-Western Railway Railroads -- Great Britain Great Britain -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : A. and C. Black
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ars of the Roses thefortress was captured again and again in turn by theadherents of York and Lancaster. And in the laterCivil War, after Cromwells forces had taken andplundered it, it was besieged andcaptured again and again in turnby the Royalists and the Parliamentmen. It was amid these last-namedchanges of ownership that a notableprisoner escaped. William Prynne,described as a lawyer distinguishedfor constitutional knowledge, butthe most obstinate and narrow-minded of men, had written abook which he called Histriomas-trix. This not only attackedactors, whom it called ministersof Satan, and theatres, which ittermed devils chapels, while itviolently abused the people whoindulged in hunting, cards, music,Christmas decoration, and the like, but it also includedan attack upon the queen. Prynne was evidently a crank, and might havebeen left to the ridicule of sensible men. But theGovernment took up the matter, and for his offencesentenced him to pay a fine of £5,000, to be dismissed 47
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Carnarvon Castle. London and North-Western Railway from the Bar, and deprived of his degree, then to beset in the pillory, to have his ears cut off, to be brandedon both cheeks, and to be imprisoned in CarnarvonCastle for life. It must have been a marvellous dayfor him when Cromwells forces captured the fortress,his dungeon-door was opened, and he was bade comeforth a free man. But the most famous event in the long story ofCarnarvon Castle took place in the days of Edward I.himself. All the world knows how, after the fall ofLlewellyn, Edward summoned the Welsh chiefs to meethim here, and how, when he asked them to agree withhim in arranging for the good government of thecountry, they clamoured out that they would acknow-ledge no prince but one born in Wales, who should speakto them in the Welsh tongue. The scene in the greathall at that moment has been made the subject of awell-known picture. With ready tact in the emer-gency, Edward produced before them his infant son,born in Carnarv

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