The graphic and historical illustrator; an original miscellany of literary, antiquarian, and topographical information, embellished with one hundred and fifty woodcuts . ll it may then folow yor thankes to be drownydAnd yet this moche I may say to yor lordshipe thatthe kyng ys veiy earnest yn hytt & fullye Detmynydthat the said Sr Thorns Dennys shall enioye the sameby other lawfull means Wherfore I thought no lessethan goode to adutyse yor lordshipp the whole someof his highnes pleasure And to requier you as I woldmy hartiest Frynde that you shulld yn no man ofwyse nor anye of yor sayde chapit
The graphic and historical illustrator; an original miscellany of literary, antiquarian, and topographical information, embellished with one hundred and fifty woodcuts . ll it may then folow yor thankes to be drownydAnd yet this moche I may say to yor lordshipe thatthe kyng ys veiy earnest yn hytt & fullye Detmynydthat the said Sr Thorns Dennys shall enioye the sameby other lawfull means Wherfore I thought no lessethan goode to adutyse yor lordshipp the whole someof his highnes pleasure And to requier you as I woldmy hartiest Frynde that you shulld yn no man ofwyse nor anye of yor sayde chapitre Disagre there-unto : Thus my good lord I take my leave of yow forthys tyme besichynge most hartely allmighty god tosend yow longe lyff to his plesure. Roten at thekyngs house of Hampton Courte the seconde Day of July by yor lordships assuryd J. Russell. To the Right honourable & his approvydgoode lorde the Busshope of Excetonihis good Lordshipe. The above letters had their intended effect, andCrediton Park was assigned to Sir Thomas Denyaunder the decided threat of these imperative missives. 32 THE GRAPHIC ILLUSTRATOR. THE LANDGATE, WINCHELSEA, Few toAvns in the south of England have higherclaims to the notice of the Historic Illustrator thanWinchelsea. It is one of the cinque ports, and issaid to have been a considerable place before the ar-rival of the Saxons in England. The site of the an-cient town is now overflowed by the sea; a notice ofthis inundation is retained in the records of Rye, inthe following- words : Be it remembered that in the year of our Lord1287, in the even of St. Agath, the Virgin, was thetown of Winchelsea drowned and all the lands,climesden, and the voches of Hithe. After this tremendous event the inhabitants re-solved to build a new town, upon the top of a hill,about a mile and a half from the sea; three of thegates of which are now standing, viz. : Newgate,Strandgate, and Landgate. The latter, as representedin the cut, is a square building
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