Old Castles Including Sketches of Carlisle Corby And Linstock Castles
Old Castles Including Sketches of Carlisle Corby And Linstock Castles
Stenton, F. M. (Frank Merry), 1880-1967
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" The citizens' clothes hung on them, " he says, " like those of men on gibbets ; and one day Carlisle Castle. 43 some officers and soldiers came to the common bake- house, and took away the horse flesh from the poor people who were as near starving as themselves. " Women met at the cross abusing Sir Henry Hadling the governor, who threatened to fire upon them ; they begged it as a mercy, and the old soldier went away with tears in his eyes — he could not help them. This was Leslie's siege. " S...ad troubled times of change and commotion were these, but the strong man had now come, and the storm subsided. Crom- well is one of the very noblest and bravest who have graced these gates ; and even to-day, dwelling on those stormy times, his presence is half realized. Fresh from the signal victory, or rather victories, at Preston, his heart, as he passed these portals, which he undoubtedly did, wovild perhaps be revolving his favourite Scripture, "Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing % The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together against the Lord and against his anointed, saying, ' Let us break their bands asunder and cast away tlieir cords from us.
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