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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER II Brinkwater Court bore about it, both within and without, the stamp of a most respectable old age; moreover, it had been associated with the name of Wynston for upwards of a couple of centuries, which gave it a position of no small importance in the county. In the village church, a beautiful little specimen of sixteenth-century work, were effigies, monuments, and more recent mural tablets in marble or brass to the memory of generations of Wynstons; their virtues and achievements set forth with a lavishness which would have astonished not a few had they returned to examine the "post-mortem " opinions of their friends, and which might have furnished a fund of grim humour in contrasts between the actual facts and the flattering hallucinations, inscribed for the benefit of all future ages of Wynstons. It was believed that the Court dated back even further than the church, and it was certain that it had been built upon the site of an ancient abbey. Most interesting traces and remains of it still existed in the grounds and the immediate neighbourhood of the grey stone building of to-day. It was many-gabled, creeper-clad, and stood amidst trees whose infancy it had sheltered, but who now were veterans themselves, the worthy bodyguard of so ancient an estate. Among the aforesaid inscriptions the name Gervais figured many times. The present owner bore it in accordance with the unwritten law that the eldest son should invariably be called thereby. This somewhat monotonous and confusing custom is none the less fascinating to an eminently progressive age worshipping at the perpetual shrine of antiquity. The Sir Gervais Wynston of to-day was a dapper energetic little gentleman close upon seventy years of age; he was exceedingly well preserved, and attribute...
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