TENTH HAYCOCK. =A Tale.= BY HARRIET MARTINEAU. --------------------- LONDON: CHARLES FOX, 67, PATERNOSTER-ROW. --- 834. LONDON: Printed by WILLIAM CLOWES, Duke-street, Lambeth. THE TENTH HAYCOCK. =A Tale.= BY HARRIET MARTINEAU. --------------------- LONDON: CHARLES FOX, 67, PATERNOSTER-ROW. --- 834. CONTENTS. CHAP. PAGE 1. Perambulation 1 2. Interlocutory Decrees 14 3. Intrusion 31 4. Heresy 55 5. Extortion 68 6. Commutation 88 7. Dimission 112 8. Benefit of Clergy 136 THE TENTH HAYCOCK. --------------------- CHAPTER I. PERAMBULATION. Widow Lambert liked to be told, a very few years ago, that the Abbey Farm was as great an ornament to her native district as the abbey itself could ever have been in the days of its splendour. She recalled the tales with which she had been struck in her childhood, before her sober father forbade her climbing old apple-trees, and her strict mother ordained the adoption of the quaker cap, and the handkerchief she had worn ever since;—tales of the former grandeur of this religious house, with its eighty monks and its hundred and ten servants: and it gratified her maternal pride to be assured that her two comely sons and their labourers kept the estate in as flourishing a condition as their predecessors,—the ecclesiastics and their lay brethren who were subordinate to them.