. Coaching days & ways. Horses; Coaching (Transportation) -- England; England -- Social life and customs. 24 COACHING DAYS AND COACHING WAYS story of the immortal Vicar. Perhaps at his children's request, he sang them a song, or perchance a ballad, according to prescription, though I am not quite sure whether one was extant at the timeâprobably it wasn't. At any rate, the Vicar alone would make a subject for an afternoon drive. There are few characters in English history that I admire more than the soft-hearted Simon Aleyn. This genial churchman had seen some martyrs burnt; he thought the
. Coaching days & ways. Horses; Coaching (Transportation) -- England; England -- Social life and customs. 24 COACHING DAYS AND COACHING WAYS story of the immortal Vicar. Perhaps at his children's request, he sang them a song, or perchance a ballad, according to prescription, though I am not quite sure whether one was extant at the timeâprobably it wasn't. At any rate, the Vicar alone would make a subject for an afternoon drive. There are few characters in English history that I admire more than the soft-hearted Simon Aleyn. This genial churchman had seen some martyrs burnt; he thought the game was not worth the candle, and at the same time discovered in himself no particu- lar penchant for martyrdom. The result was that he was a papist in Henry the Eighth's time, a Protestant in Edward the Sixth's time, a papist in Mary's, and in Elizabeth's a Protestant ao;ain. I cannot sufficiently admire the genial adroitness of this bending to circum- stance, or weary of considering what seas of precious blood might have been saved to England if Simon Aleyn's contemporaries could have added a leaven of his circumspection to the fury of their faith, l^ut 1 do not think that his contemporaries thought very highly of poor Simonâthough from all I can read, he made as good a vicar as many of them, and a better one than. i"! ^ â ' ' ' < â '31" The Jack cf 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 Cuming, E. D. (Edward William Dirom), 1862-1941; Armour, G. D. (George Denholm), 1864-1949. [London] : Hodder and Stoughton
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