Hereward; the Saxon patriot: a history of his life and character; with a record of his ancestors and descendants, AD445 to AD1896 . night so trim,But in close fight a champion grim,In camps a leader sage. Scotts Marmion. * Porque hum velho idoso,Feio e muito socegado,Se na guerra tern boa fama,Com a mais fermosa damaMerece de ser ditoso. Spanish Ballad. {Translation : A man who has earned a goodly fame in war, let him beever so old, ugly, and broken down, is worthy to be happy with the mostbeautiful of women, proving courage to be the most estimable of qualities,and most admired by the ladies.
Hereward; the Saxon patriot: a history of his life and character; with a record of his ancestors and descendants, AD445 to AD1896 . night so trim,But in close fight a champion grim,In camps a leader sage. Scotts Marmion. * Porque hum velho idoso,Feio e muito socegado,Se na guerra tern boa fama,Com a mais fermosa damaMerece de ser ditoso. Spanish Ballad. {Translation : A man who has earned a goodly fame in war, let him beever so old, ugly, and broken down, is worthy to be happy with the mostbeautiful of women, proving courage to be the most estimable of qualities,and most admired by the ladies.) IVES of adventure are seldom extended ; butthere is every reason to believe that Here-ward was spared to pass through anothercampaign after his patriotic struggle for thefreedom of England from a foreign yoke inthe island of Ely, and that he ended his dayspeacefully, after a stormy life, transmittinghis name, his virtues, and his estates to his descendantsthrough his second marriage with the Saxon lady ^Ifthryth. Sometimes Hereward, attended by his old comrade I beWinter (who settled in Norfolk, and whose descendants called. The War in Mai?te. 45 their Bultees estate Herewards, and left it to that family),another friend or two, and their serving-men, passed betweenEvenlode and Herewards castle at Coleshill, county Warwick,to visit his mother at Kingsbury Hall, the old residence of aline of Mercian kings, occupied some time by Ethelfleda,King Alfreds daughter, whilst she superintended the raisingof the strong and regal tower of Tamworth. On the cliffabove the Tame, where the site shows what an importantpost of defence Kingsbury held, may still be seen the remainsof the moat; and its associations with a long line of SaxonKings renders it dear to antiquaries. It is not improbable that Here ward found it difficult tohold his Warwickshire lands under the Earl of Mellent. Ahundred years later we find the old Warwickshire estatesabandoned, and one branch of the family settled at Peb
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