Roanoke of Roanoke Hall: A Romance — page 38: what you’re looking at

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32 Roanoke of Roanoke Hail. mother, blushing, burstin to tears and led me away. The cause of all which I will now write _ down. The sequestration of the estates, as hath already been said, was ordered because their late owner, Allan Roanoke, having re- belled against his lawful king, and having been taken in arms on July the sixth at the battle of Sedgémoor, had been duly sentenced to death because of and for that cause. The lawyers had fulfilled all the customary forms, had inventoried and sealed all the property, and thought without doubt that their work was done and all secure, when my grandmother Hester Roanoke, by means of a statement which she made, and which was in © all ways clearly supported and proved, skat- tered all their hopes and projects. The estates, she declared, could not right- fully be forfeited because of Allan Roanoke’s crime, in that they ’had never legally be- Jonged to him. He was, it was true Gerald Roanoke’s eldest son, but she herself was in fact his mother, and he, having been born out of wedlock, could not properly in- herit. es © comichbooks.com |