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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1877 edition. Excerpt: ...echoed Cyril, contemptuously; "and pray who are the Leas? I never heard of any one of the name except yourself and your mother." "No; because father said I was the last of them. Many and many a time I've heard him talk about it. He said this place used to belong to our family, and that's why it was called The Lea." "Now whatever could have put such a foolish idea as that into the poor man's head?" cried Cyril, scarcely knowing whether to laugh at the folly or to be angry at the audacity of such pretensions. "Did not your father know then that Lea in the Saxon language means pasture, and that this estate is called The Lea because it consists of a large tract of pasture land?" "Then perhaps he meant that we took our name from that," persisted Walter, beginning to feel a little mystified. "You did no such thing, I tell you!" said Cyril, stamping his foot impatiently. "No one belonging to you could ever have had anything at all to do with it, unless some of your people worked for my ancestors; they might have done that, perhaps." "I tell you they were not workmen at all, Master Cyril; they were the masters of it, just as you are now. You ask all the people in the village if they haven't heard my father say so often and often. Besides, how can you know anything about it, sir, when it was hundreds of years before you were born?" "I do know all about it, because I've seen a very old book where the whole history of it is written. It says there that The Lea, or Lay Manor, was given by King Henry VIII. to one Cyril Bohun, who had fought bravely at the battle of Flodden Field; and that he left it to his daughter and heiress Dorothy, who married our ancestor Rowland...