Highways and byways in Surrey . e village maidens would doubt whether they wouldhave the strength to refuse an Olibrius. Then the deliverancefrom the devil would do admirably; the bumpkins wouldswallow that as easily as the devil swallowed St. how to go on ? How to explain the failure of Providence c c 2 388 CHARLWOOD FAMILIES CH. xxxvil afterwards ? The preacher must have slurred that, and got onquickly to the wings of the dove. Two great Surrey families belong to Charlwood. One is theline of Sander, or Saunder, settled at Charlwood as early asEdward II, and still surviving, in n
Highways and byways in Surrey . e village maidens would doubt whether they wouldhave the strength to refuse an Olibrius. Then the deliverancefrom the devil would do admirably; the bumpkins wouldswallow that as easily as the devil swallowed St. how to go on ? How to explain the failure of Providence c c 2 388 CHARLWOOD FAMILIES CH. xxxvil afterwards ? The preacher must have slurred that, and got onquickly to the wings of the dove. Two great Surrey families belong to Charlwood. One is theline of Sander, or Saunder, settled at Charlwood as early asEdward II, and still surviving, in name at all events, in theneighbourhood. It was Richard Saunder who placed in thechurch the delicate fifteenth-century oak screen, the mostbeautiful in the county ; but a more famous member of thefamily was Nicholas Saunder, Regius Professor and JesuitDivine, over whose writings many good churchmen other family are the Jordans of Gatwick, almost as oldas the Saunders, and like them surviving in cottage Godstonc. CHAPTER XXXVIII GODSTONE AND BLETCHINGLEY The White Hart at Godstone. —Cobbetts violets.—Bletchingley.—Beaglesand Foxhounds.—Dr. Nathaniel Harris.—Begging the Luve of Neigh-bours.—Agratious woman.—Swift and a gentle prelate.—Bletchingleymanor.—The Master of the Revels.—An English gentlemans Armour.— How to be buried.—Posing for a tombstone.—Nutfield.—Fullersearth and its new uses. The key to the east of Surrey is Godstone. It is true thatthe village itself lies more than two miles from the railwaystation which bears its name, but which might equally well havebeen named Tandridge or Crowhurst. But there is no othercentre in East Surrey from which so many other villages andplaces of interest are easily reached. To the west, a mile and 389 J90 GODSTONE VIOLETS chap. a-half away, lies Bletchingley, and another mile beyond that,Nutfield, which has not yet been absorbed by Redhill, and,indeed, belongs to Surrey country as
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