. The Dover road : annals of an ancient turnpike. Horses; Dover road (England). MARTYRS 59 of St. Edmund the Martyr, a halting-place at which j^ilgrims on their way to Canterbury stopped to pray and to kiss the usual relics. The site was probably where the Dartford Cemeter}^ now stands beside the road, on the border of what is now called Dartford Brent, a wide expanse of common land known in other times as Brent, or Burnt Heath. This place came very near to being the site of a battle between. DARTFORB BRIDGE. the Yorkists and the Lancastrians, for here it was that the rival armies first confro
. The Dover road : annals of an ancient turnpike. Horses; Dover road (England). MARTYRS 59 of St. Edmund the Martyr, a halting-place at which j^ilgrims on their way to Canterbury stopped to pray and to kiss the usual relics. The site was probably where the Dartford Cemeter}^ now stands beside the road, on the border of what is now called Dartford Brent, a wide expanse of common land known in other times as Brent, or Burnt Heath. This place came very near to being the site of a battle between. DARTFORB BRIDGE. the Yorkists and the Lancastrians, for here it was that the rival armies first confronted one another ; but, instead of coming to blows, their leaders held a parley ; and so, fair words on their lips, but with deceit in their hearts, they went up to London. Many years later, on July 19, 1555, to be precise, Dartford Brent reappears in history as the place on which three Protestant martyrs, Christopher Wade, Margaret Pollen, and Nicholas Hall, were burnt at the stake, and since then the annals of the place have been quite uninteresting. The gilt-crested spire of the memorial to them peers up on the skyline of the road-cutting, on. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Harper, Charles George, 1863-1943. Hartford, Conn. : Edwin Valentine Mitchell
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