Rambles among the Channel Islands / by a Naturalist.

Date:: [1855?]

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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Rambles among the Channel Islands / by a Naturalist. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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houses to be pulled down for the purpose of enlarging the area, and amongst them one whose OAvner had received no satisfaction for his loss. The son of this person, observing that the grave of the Conqueror was being pre- pared in the very spot of ground which had formerly belonged to his father, came fearlessly into the assembly, and in the name of RoUo forbade them to proceed with their work. He is said to have made use of the following bold language:— The ground wherein you are going to lay this man is mine, and I affirm that none may in justice bury their dead in ground which belongs to another. If force and vio- lence are still used to detain my right from me, I appeal to Hollo, the founder and father of our nation, who, though dead, lives in his laws. I take refuge in those laws, owning no authority above them.” This courageous appeal, made in the presence of the deceased monarch’s own son, produced a striking effect: the undertaking was immediately suspended, the man’s claims were adjusted to his satisfaction, upon which he with- drew his opposition, and the body of the king was laid in the grave. Pope alludes to this incident in his “ Windsor Forest,” in the fol- lowing lines:— “ But see, the man who spacious regions gave A waste for beasts, himseK denied a grave.”