William Lilly\'s History of His Life and Times From the Year 1602 to 1681
WILLIAM LILLY'S HISTORY OF HIS LIFE AND TIMES, FROM THE YEAR 1602 TO 1681. * * * * * Written by Himself, IN THE SIXTY-SIXTH YEAR OF HIS AGE, TO HIS WORTHY FRIEND, ELIAS ASHMOLE, ESQ. * * * * * PUBLISHED FROM THE ORIGINAL MS.
THE EARL'S VICTIMS.
CHAPTER I.
THE STEWARD.
Earl de Montford sat in a plainly furnished room in his stately mansion.
Gorgeously decorated as were the other apartments of his princely
residence, this apartment, with its plain business-look--its hard
benches for such of the tenantry as came to him or his agent on
business--its walls garnished with abstracts of the Game and Poor Law
Enactments--its worn old chairs and heavy oak presses, the open doors of
some of which disclosed bundles of old papers, parchments, etc.--this
little room, the only one almost ever seen by any save the aristocracy
WILLIAM LILLY'S HISTORY OF HIS LIFE AND TIMES, FROM THE YEAR 1602 TO 1681. * * * * * Written by Himself, IN THE SIXTY-SIXTH YEAR OF HIS AGE, TO HIS WORTHY FRIEND, ELIAS ASHMOLE, ESQ. * * * * * PUBLISHED FROM THE ORIGINAL MS.