Biographical fiction; Historical fiction; Short stories, English
So they came to be Hanged, on the Tenth of _March_, in _Pall Mall_ on
the Spot where Esquire Thynne had been Murdered; and Vratz was Buried
but the other two Hung in Chains, and the Great Frame of the Polander
hung near Camden Town long after his crime had been Forgotten by the
General.
There was a Fine Marble put up in the Abbey Church of _Westminster_
to the Memory of Mr. Thynne, and next year his Widow, the Lady Ogle,
married the Duke of Somerset, who was the Proudest Man in _England_.
As for Charles Count of Conningsmarke, he went to the Wars and became
Famous for his Achievements, but it was Believed that he was a Haunted
Man, and it has been Rumoured that he Confessed to being Troubled, not
by Mr. Thynne, or either of the two Soldiers, but by the figure of the
Polander in the New Coat and carrying the new Broadsword Mr. Hanson had
Bought, smiling, very humble and Grateful.
This Figure Followed him so Persistently that his Death at the Siege of
Argos in 1685 was a Release from a Life that had become _Unbearable_.
THE EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF GRACE ENDICOTT
Grace Endicott hath had as remarkable history as any woman of her
times, and slander, calumny and malice, as well as curiosity and
wonder, having noised and mouthed her story until it hath been used as
a scorn against the Nonconformists and the town of Bedford, one who
was well acquainted with her here putteth forth the facts as they were
known to him, of the which he can solemnly attest and sware the truth,
by his faith in Christianity. After this preamble he now giveth the
case, leaving the judgment thereof to the charity of the human heart
and the Eye of God Almighty, only adding for himself that never was
there a stranger instance of the dealings of Heaven and Hell with man
and woman.
Mrs. Endicott was born at Edworth, in the county of Bedford, in the
year 1652, being the period of the high glory of our late the Lord
Protector.
Her family was of the yeomanry and of considerable substance; she early
lost her mother and had but one sister, younger than herself.
Her father being a pious man, she was brought up to walk in the ways
of righteousness, and was well educated beside in the accomplishments
of her sex; and she became a hopeful sprightly maiden, full of winning
graces, so that she drew unto her many likely swains, yet would have
none of them, being contented enough in her present situation.
In the year 1672, Mrs. Endicott being then twenty years of age and her
sister married into a house of her own rank, her father left his farm
in charge of a steward and bought a residence in Bedford, where he came
to live with this remaining daughter.
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