Memorials of old Northamptonshire . four and eleven in the morning, and elevenat night. The story was that in the reign of Elizabetha certain John Barton, being threatened by Sir JohnZouche that he would ruin him if he insisted upon hisright to graze his animals on the common of Benefield,Barton replied that he would leave a cow that, pulledby the tail, would low three times a day, to be heardall over the common. A very charming cross of fourteenth century work isat Helpston, a solid octagon on circular steps, with pilastersand crocketed gables. The shaft is a tapering octagonalmonolith. This
Memorials of old Northamptonshire . four and eleven in the morning, and elevenat night. The story was that in the reign of Elizabetha certain John Barton, being threatened by Sir JohnZouche that he would ruin him if he insisted upon hisright to graze his animals on the common of Benefield,Barton replied that he would leave a cow that, pulledby the tail, would low three times a day, to be heardall over the common. A very charming cross of fourteenth century work isat Helpston, a solid octagon on circular steps, with pilastersand crocketed gables. The shaft is a tapering octagonalmonolith. This structure appears to be unique, but bearsa certain resemblance to the White Friars cross nearHereford. In the southern end of the county is Astrop, a hamletof Kings Sutton, which at one time must have been alarge and fashionable resort, similar to Tunbridge Wells ;for on the discovery of the virtue of a mineral spring itappears to have attracted so many visitors that assembliesfor cards and balls were rife. Where have the buildings. oo HO 2 PQ o Northamptonshire Villages. 9 suitable for the accommodation of the gay throng vanishedwithout leaving any trace ? And why has no contem-porary gossip left us any chronicles of its ways and doings ?There are some curious old lines published in 1786, onthe abolition of the Goose Feast at Astrop, too long toquote entire, but from which we gather the wells werethen out of date : — Where were ye cacklers of the Wells,Ye brilliant beaus and lovely belles?* ? « « Astrop, once esteemed so sinks for ever and for ever. In connection with geese, there is a pretty old legendalluded to by Drayton: — the Nene .Falleth in her way with Weedon, where, tis said,St. Werburgh, princely born, a most religious maid,From these peculiar fields, by prayer, the wild fowl drove. St. Werburgh, having come from her convent at Ely tobe prioress of that at Weedon, the geese from the Fensfollowed her from affection, but did such damage to thecornfield
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