Blossholme

From this day forward the whole countryside for fifty miles round rang with the tales of what were known as the Blossholme witchings, of which

The Lady of Blossholme Henry Rider Haggard 1890

Under it he bound himself to be her slave and join himself with her in working woe to the monks of Blossholme, and especially to their Abbot, Clement

The Lady of Blossholme Henry Rider Haggard 1890

For as they passed along the Blossholme highway, purposing to leave the Abbey on their left, when they were about three miles from

The Lady of Blossholme Henry Rider Haggard 1890

King Henry VIII, as it is said to commemorate the fact that on this spot stood the stakes to which Cicely Harflete, Lady of Blossholme, and her foster-mother, Emlyn, were chained to be burned as witches.

The Lady of Blossholme Henry Rider Haggard 1890

Blossholme must draw their girdles tight this winter.

The Lady of Blossholme Henry Rider Haggard 1890

For hundreds of years we have sat at Blossholme, and during all those generations have prayed to God for the souls of men and ministered to their bodies.

The Lady of Blossholme Henry Rider Haggard 1890

Blossholme, I am a free woman of full age, even though, as you say, I am

The Lady of Blossholme Henry Rider Haggard 1890

So it is with everything at Blossholme, a place that Time has touched but lightly.

The Lady of Blossholme Henry Rider Haggard 1890

"Clement Maldonado, Abbot of Blossholme, I, whom thou didst murder, summon thee to meet me within a year before the throne of God."

The Lady of Blossholme Henry Rider Haggard 1890

There were many folk at the marriage of Emlyn Stower and Thomas Bolle, for of late Blossholme had been but a sorry place, and this wedding came to it like the breath of spring to the woods and meads around, a hint of happiness after the miseries of winter.

The Lady of Blossholme Henry Rider Haggard 1890