The Redeemed Captive:

A TALE OF INGHAM PRIORY.

BY

THE REV. ARTHUR BROWN,

RECTOR OF CATFIELD, NORFOLK.

Author of the "Last of the Abbots," "Stanch for the King," &c.

He is the freeman whom the truth makes free,

And all are slaves besides.

COWPER.

Norwich:

SAMUEL MILLER & CO.,

LONDON: SIMPKİN, MARSHALL, & CO.

1875.

251. c. 278.

CHAPTER I.

The Founding of the Priory.

But let my due feet never fail
To walk the studious cloisters pale,
And love the high-embowed roof,
With antique pillars massy proof,
And storied windows richly dight,
Casting a dim religious light.

MILTON.

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BOUT the year 1360, in the palmy days

of that most able monarch Edward the Third, one of his valiant knights, Sir Miles

Stapleton-a Yorkshireman of ancient family who had married a Norfolk heiress-" having served in the French wars with great bravery and fidelity," returned to his home at Ingham in Norfolk, and

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