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The History of Thomas HickathriftThere seems to be some considerable reason for believing that the hero of...
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Author: Gomme, George Laurence,1853-1916
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Chap-books and folk-lore tracts ... First series. Vol. 1 (of 5)

Chap-books and folk-lore tracts ... First series. Vol. 1 (of 5)

€6,22

Chap-books and folk-lore tracts ... First series. Vol. 1 (of 5)

€6,22
Author: Gomme, George Laurence,1853-1916
Format: eBook
Language: English

The History of Thomas Hickathrift

There seems to be some considerable reason for believing that the hero of this story was a reality. The story tells us that he lived in the marsh of the Isle of Ely, and that he became a brewers man at Lyn, and traded to Wisbeach. This little piece of geographical evidence enables us to fix the story as belonging to the great Fen District, which occupied the north of Cambridgeshire and Norfolk. The antiquary Thomas Hearne has gone so far as to identify the hero of tradition with a doughty knight of the Crusaders. Writing in the Quarterly Review (vol. xxi. p. 102), Sir Francis Palgrave says: Mr. Thomas Hickathrift, afterwards Sir Thomas Hickathrift, Knight, is praised by Mr. Thomas Hearne as a famous champion. The honest antiquary has identified this well-known knight with the far less celebrated Sir Frederick de Tylney, Baron of Tylney in Norfolk, the ancestor of the Tylney family, who was killed at Acon, in Syria, in the reign of Richard Cur de Lion. Hycophric, or Hycothrift, as the mister-wight observes, being probably a corruption of Frederick.[ii] This happy exertion of etymological acumen is not wholly due to Hearne, who only adopted a hint given by Mr. Philip le Neve, whilome of the College of Arms. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 58463
Author: Gomme, George Laurence
Release Date: Dec 12, 2018
Format: eBook
Language: English

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