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To the end of his ife Mr. Carlyle persisted in declaring that his father was the most remarkable man—" quite the remark- ablest man*’—whom he had ever seen. Posterity, however, will be apt to regard the son as not only more remarkable than the father, but as the remarkablest man of our generation. To get such a man’s life and history from himself is a boon greater than even his greatest works. This work will be read with profound interest 01 both continents. Itis moreinteresting than any novel, JAMES Seaside Library No, 846. DORA THORNE. PRICE 10 CENTS. | For sale by all newsdealers, or sent by mail, post ' paid, on receipt of 12 cents, MUNRO. luhiisher. 17 to 27 Vandewater street, New York. P, O, Box 8751, GEORGE MUNRO, PUBLISHER, P.O. Box 3761. 17 to 27 Vandewater Street. N. Y- ® ‘ ALICE BRIDGE OF NORWICH. By the Rey. ANDREW REED, B.A. This Number contains a Complete Story, Unchanged and U : nabridged. aoe 3 4 DOUBLE GEORGE MUNRO, PUBLISHER , i : Vol. L LI. INUMBER.S Nos. 17 To a vate Srrerr, New macces toc Cane | N 0. 1059 The Seaside Library, Issued Daily,—By Subseription, $36 per a nnum, Copyrighted 1881, by Guorek Munro.—Entered at the Post Office at New York at Second Class Rates.—August 24, 1881. Alice Bridge of Norwich: A TALE OF THE TIME OF CHARLES THE FIRST. DEDICATION. This Tale is affectionately dedicated to the | strength. Wife and Children of the Author, for whom it; it was remarkable for a steadfast a was written, and by whose warm ap- one of England’s chief places of wealth and In the times of which we shall speak herence to cBy the Rev. ANDREW REED, B.A. Indian bombazine trade has passed away ; and it still retains a conspicuous love of con- suitutional liberty, but of that quality also it can pretend to no monopoly at pres- preciation he was first encouraged. i The Book may also interest those Norwich friends who remember the writer’s happy residence in their old City as a Christian Minister, where he gained that knowledge of locali- ties, and that historic interest in the = romance of Puritan times, which gave birth to this story, and lend it whatever attraction it may be found to possess. The Author takes the opportunity to thank his dear brother, Sir Charles Reed, for many historical and anti- quarian sugeestions while the work was passing throuvh the press, aud for access to important papers. May the volume help to revive the serious piety, the self-denying virtue, and tbe noble public spirit for which our Puritan ancestors were so dis- tinguished. St, LEonaRDs-on-S. October, 1879, i, Oo CHAPTER I. TOMBLAND CLERK-ALE, “On every enray blooms lovely May, And balmy zephyrs breathe; Ethereal splendor all above, And beauty all beneath. The cuckoo’s song, the woods among, Sounds sweetly as of old, As bright and warm the sunbeams shine,— Oh, why should hearts grow cold?’ OLD Sone. AN old rhyme says, “ Caistor was a city when Norwich was none, And Norwich was built of Caistor stone, ’— in which is perpetuated the removal of the city from the Roman ‘station of Caistor (Castrum), to the Norman vicus of the present Norwich. Vain- glorious little Caistor, whose stones and reputation were thus shamefully plundered, is still a village some three miles from Norwich. The present City was brought to- gether for shelter under the Castle, a royal fort- ress in « commanding situation, which then afforded the protection required for the prose- cution of peaceful trades. The City was once i ent, i Just outside the precincts of its Cathedral, called the Close, there is a large open space surrounded by respectable mansions, which bears the quaint and melancholy name of Tombland, either from its having been a burying ground or from ‘ils being the scene of desperate conflicts between the City and the Close—a sort of debatable land claimed by both parties, There are no graves now on Tomb- land, nor was it at all a melanckoly spot on a certain Sunday of May, 1627, for the parish of St. George's was holding its clerk ale on the Green. The Green is intersected by a busy highway running down a gentle SSS slope, and on either side tables were set out on the grassy triangles like booths at a fair, sheltered from the wind and weather by coverings of boughs or tent cloth. The tables were covered with pewter and earthen- ware mugs, while great jacks and taunkarcs full of ale, together with large dishes of bread, meat, cheese, cakes, and butter, completed the provision for the expected feast. These attractive viands were sent in freely by the parishioners as presents to the Clerk, whose privilege it was to give the entertainment and real- ize the benefit of it. Like the Jand- lord of a public-house, he charged ample payment on his guests, and thus by a double profit eked out his poor stipend. : A large share of the good things came from the Alderman’s house, situated in Tombland, and those thought themselves happy who feast- ed on some of Dame Sherwood’s cakes and pastry, for which she was famed through the City. Another liberal donor was the great Flemish manufacturer, Van Diense, who em- ployed bunareds of weavers, and Alice Bridge standing by her father in the pillory. the cause of liberty a’ posed eseptj of the Stuarts. No/ tel @) ve lous, ,active, manu 1 fl fi h was at the head of that important industry, Nor were the Rector and < monopoly of the Flemish wares and of JOOKS:EOM the | ranging the provisions in momentary expecta-