Hereward: The Last of the English

By: Kingsley, Charles

Known to all is Lady Godiva, the most beautiful as well as the most saintly woman of her day; who, "all her life, kept at her own expense thirteen poor folk wherever she went; who, throughout Lent, watched in the church at triple matins, namely, one for the Trinity, one for the Cross, and one for St. Mary; who every day read the Psalter through, and so persevered in good and holy works to her life's end,"-the "devoted friend of St. Mary, ever a virgin," who enriched monasteries without number, -Leominster, Wenlock, Chester, St. Mary's Stow by Lincoln, Worcester, Evesham; and who, above all, founded the great monastery in that town of Coventry, which has made her name immortal for another and a far nobler deed; and enriched it so much "that no monastery in England possessed such abundance of gold, silver, jewels, and precious stones," beside that most precious jewel of all, the arm of St. Augustine, which not Lady Godiva, but her friend, Archbishop Ethelnoth, presented to Coventry, "having bought it at Pavia for a hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B08R6MTGRP
• ISBN13: 9798584273019
• Release Date: December 2020
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 536 Pages
• Weight: 1.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 1.3" x 5.0"