New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 3, 1925, Page 12

DISLIKE PROPOSAL 10 HAVERAILROAD Nottinglam Indignant at Sher- wood Forest Line Proposal Washington Apr. 3—Nottingham is cported indignant at the proposal o run a coal-carrying raliroad line rough Sherwood Forest, home of bin Hood, Li‘tle John and Maid n. o local photests arise not o respect lege t because of the abiding beauty of 18 of the for- t which remain,” s a bulletin om the Washington, D. C. head- \rters of the National Society. One enth the wood- Birklands Bilhalgh, wir the route of the projected rail- wv, the finest, not merely in Sher- od, but {n all England. Towns and Fstates Grow Up ¢The early Sherwood Forest was jed, roughly, by the towns of m, Chesterfield, Workshop wark., It never was an un oken woodland; it included past- yes, heaths, and even harren tracts th here and there a densely wood- cd grove. Its original area—some 5 miles long by 10 miles wide—al- cady is cut thr h by railroads, nd inside these older limits today wre towns and cluster of beaut- ful estates known as the ¢¢Duker- om for a famous « considerable portl Is of and FED Railroad Assnils Robln Memory ‘Nottingham, on the southern order of the old forest limits, is a thriving city of nearly 300,000 peo- ple. It is famous for the strength of Hood's its ale and the beauty of its women; | ‘or the size of its extensive market place, the mystery of its caves, the its rock-planted castle, festivities of its Goose “While the castle rock stands, he inhabitants wiil tell you, their city will endure. The geologist hopes | hetter than that for the city, for the rocks of the vicinity are sandstone, a fact which accounts for the pre- Valence of caves. At Papplewick is the very cave wher Robin Hood and his merry band took shelter! Built By The First ‘William “The original Nottingham castle was bullt by Willlam the Conqueror. Jis grimmest memory is the hanging of 28 Welsh boys, whose bodies were suspended over the walls soO the town might see, by order of King John. The boys had been rlaced as hostages for the good be- | avior of their fathers. When the |arents rebelled there was'no re- course, in those times ot direct ac- tion, but to execute their sons. To this day visitors are shown ‘\fortimer's Hole," a passage through which young King Edward I1I gain- EVERY ROOM IN YOUR HOME NEEDS |ed entrance and {mother, Queen Isabella, In com- pany with her lover, Roger Mortim- {er, The Queen-mother's plea, ‘Fair Son, have pity on the gentie Mor- timer,' you will recall, had no ef- feet, and after a sojourn in ‘the |London tower the ‘Gentle Mortimer was tied to a horse's tail and drag- ged to the Tyburn gallows. “Nottingham history spans the centuries from the period when the Danes fought the Saxons for a foot- hold on the Trent, down through the meeting of parliaments there in the 14th century, the raising of the standard of Charles I in 1642, and {the dismantling of tha Castle by |Cronwell’s troops two years later. Makes Stockings and Lace “Then the strife shifted from eudal 16 industrial etruggles. or its prosperity today Nottingham thanks not kings, ls, or but Richard getting up there, in 17 spinning and John coast who, forty years later, a new era in lace manufacture by his machine for making hobbin net. Today Nottingham is famous for its hoslery and lace or g armies, Ar first ath- H opened frame, “Nottinghan's market place, with | its 5 1-2 ac is reputed to be the largest in England. On one side the second stories of the shops project over the sidewalks; on market da booths spring up all over the open | The size of the market place | square i6 a measure of No trade prosperity. in medieval England and when E: ingham's ear ward I granted Nottingham an §- | court adjudges T am a countess, T | day falr concession, the towns-peo ple had the thrills of an American® from branding in the hand.! The | {town which lands a big new fac tory. Anne bestowed two more fairs upon Nottingham, its fortune was made. Today the Goose fair survives, a falnt echo of the original falr which was serious business, | now a very raucous and noisy carni- | val for which normal business pends. “Romance seems to grow on the trees of Sherwood, Near Mansfield is the home of Byron's first love, Mary Chaworth; at Newstead Ab- bey is Byron’s room, kept very near- and |1y as he left it. The traveler who | | stops at Mansfleld may put up at | an excellent inn and to go to his | way three centuries old. | Brought Home Small-pox | ventive | Pre- | Mary Montagu, witty correspondent | and travel writer, who is credited rs were boons W BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, APRID surprised his | FOEistry of her marriage Lord Bris- | reading! tol set her plans awry by recover- ing. In the meantime she had scan- dalized the -county by various e | capades — including her wppe ance in an extremely | gown at a masked ball, Gossip as- soclated her name with the of Kingston and she confirmed the rumors when she was installed as ihonh\&s of the merry entertainments at Kingston House, Like the illus- | trous Lady Hamlilton she then be- | gan to dream of marriage, and she led her husband to divorce until he learned such a proge { dure would mean his assumption of nis wife's heavy debts. “Nothing . daunted, E brought a suit accusing her hus of falsely proclalming his marriage to her, she was duly declared a ‘spineter,’ and London gasped when she married the Duke of Kingston. “Five years later her husband died, but the Earl of Bristol in- conveniently died about the same time, embarrassing the Duchess of Kingston with the added title of the Countess of Bristol, “The courts being faced with this dilemma, commanded the lady's arrest on a charge of bigamy. The countess attested that the reg ot her first marrlage was bogus beth nd which was true, but witnesses turn- | ed up to swear that though the reglstry. was false the marriage actually had occurred, wipair enough' pleaded Eliza- beth, in effect, ‘It the honorable m. But as a countess I am immune bhewildered jurors discharged the luchess-countess, who went to St | Petershurg where she became the boon companion of the Empress | Catherlne, 1f the reminiscences of |this pair had heen recorded the | memoire thercof would be racy sus- | You're Bilious! Take a Laxative! room he must climb an oak stair- | “Thoreshy was the home of Lady | with bringing back from Turkey a| method of Inoculation | emall-pox. | “But story is that of the | Kingston. After a secret marriage, | at which the parson read the serv- Thoresby's most famous against Duchess of | ice by the ilght of a taper in the | ‘best man’s’ hat, and the birth of a child, Elizabeth Chudleigh and her | first husband separated. 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