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Title: Evesham

Author: Edmund H. New

Release Date: October 14, 2004 [EBook #13754]

Language: English

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EVESHAM

WRITTEN AND
ILLUSTRATED BY
EDMUND H. NEW

LONDON: J.M. DENT & CO.
29 BEDFORD STREET

NEW YORK: E.P. DUTTON CO.

MDCCCCIV

[Illustration: Bridge St. Evesham]

DEDICATED
TO THE MEMORY OF

_H.N._
1820-1893

_D.N._
1834-1901

NOTE

For the historical matter contained in the following pages the writer
is indebted mainly to George May's admirable history of the town
issued in 1845, a book which, since its publication, has been the
acknowledged authority on local history.

To Mr. Oswald Knapp his thanks are especially due not only for
permission to make use of the series of articles, founded on the
monastic chronicles, which appeared some years ago in the _Evesham
Journal_, most of them under the title of "Evesham Episodes," but also
for much generous help and criticism.

CONTENTS

I. INTRODUCTION
II. EVESHAM AND THE VALE
III. THE ABBEY
1. THE FOUNDING OF THE ABBEY
2. THE ABBEY AFTER THE CONQUEST.
3. THE DISSOLUTION.
IV. THE REMAINS OF THE ABBEY
V. THE PARISH CHURCHES
VI. THE TOWN--INCLUDING BENGEWORTH AND GREEN HILL
VII. THE BATTLE OF EVESHAM
VIII. CAVALIERS AND ROUNDHEADS
IX. THE RIVER
X. THE NEIGHBOURHOOD

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

_Bridge Street_
_Evesham and Bredon Hill, from the Parks_
_The Bell Tower_
_The Gatehouse and Almonry_
_Abbot Reginald's Gateway_
_In the Market Place_
_High Street_
_The Bell Tower, from Bengeworth_
_St. Egwin's, Honeybourne_

Evesham

CHAPTER I

INTRODUCTION

_Yonder lies our ... village--Art and Grace are less and less:_
_Science grows and Beauty dwindles--roofs of slated hideousness!_

--LOCKSLEY HALL, SIXTY YEARS AFTER

Those who love with a deep reverence the work of their forefathers,
whether because of the character and beauty of their handiwork, or