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General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1885 Original Publisher: West, Newman Subjects: History / General Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER IV. THIRTY YEARS OF PERSECUTION. 1656 -- 1689. " Call to remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were illuminated, ye endured a great fight of afflictions ; . . . . Ye took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves that ye have in heaven a better and an enduring substance." -- Hebrews x. 32 -- 34. Two hundred and thirty years ago the town of Evesham presented an aspect strangely different from that which it wears to-day. Gardening had not become the staple employment of its population, and the rich sunny slopes now so thickly planted with fruit-trees and vegetables were then only partially cultivated, and that after a very indifferent fashion. The town itself was smaller and more compact. The roads leading into it were in such an indescribably wretched condition as to be almost impassable for wheeled vehicles. The " divers praty streets, " alluded to by Leland were filthy and unpaved. The carriage-way was obstructed by heaps of stones and offal, and swine wallowed unhindered amidst the " pools of stagnant water and holes of mire." No May's Hist, of E., p. 370. lights were displayed at night, with the exception of the faint glimmer occasionally afforded by the watchman's lantern, so that locomotion after dusk must have been a work of considerable difficulty. The houses were largely constructed of wood, and in many places their overhanging gables seemed to exclude the sunshine from the road below. Eudely ornamented plaster-work relieved their dark carved timbers, and quaint swinging signboards projected ab
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