Lord Saye and Sele
1937; The MIT Press; Volume: 10; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/360029
ISSN1937-2213
Autores ResumoT WO or three months ago, a short, thin, frail old gentleman died in England. He was in his seventy-ninth year; his name was Geoffrey Cecil Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, and he was the eighteenth baron of the odd English and Norman title of Saye and Sele. His family has played its part through the whole period of English history since the time when William the Conqueror, injured by the stumbling of his horse, ended his amazing career. Through a marriage into the family of that legendary figure, William of Wykeham, the barons Saye and Sele became possessed, in 1540, of Broughton Castle, a moated fortification near Banbury. Its late owner used to say that each morning he asked of his valet: What part of the castle fell in last night? Geoffrey Cecil Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes was a kindly, humorous man, who liked a good story. Asked to speak at a celebration of the signing of Magna Carta, to which one of his ancestors had added his name, he told how a clergyman, invited to dine with his squire, described his visit to the village school that morning, when he questioned the children on history. asked Tommy Green who signed Magna Carta. Tommy began to snivel, and replied, 'Please, sir, I didn't.' 9Ah, exclaimed his host, I know that little devil, and I'll bet he did sign it. Lord Saye and Sele was duly invited to the celebration of the two-hundred-and-fiftieth anniversary of Saybrook, in Connecticut. One would like to know whether the reply with which he sent his regrets was read at the exercises. In his rollicking letter he stated that he had imitated his ancestor, founder of the town
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