In the Golden Days Author:Edna Lyall General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1895 Original Publisher: W.L. Allison Co. Subjects: Great Britain Fiction / Classics Fiction / Historical Fiction / Literary Fiction / Romance / General Fiction / Romance / Historical History / Europe / Great Britain Literary Criticism / European / English, I... more »rish, Scottish, Welsh Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER XTV. Joyce's Journal. You cannot barre lovo outc, Father, mother, and you alle ; For, marke mee, lovo s a crafty boy, And his limbes nro very smalle ; He's lighter than the thistlodoune, He's fleeter than the dove, His voice is like the nightingale ; And oh ! beware of love. From the Seven Starrs of Witte, 1647. May, 1683. -- Evelyn and I have found but little to record in our journal all through the winter months. The news-letters brought us word that in London the persecution of Dissenters waxed severer, a special effort having been made against them as the time drew nigh to St. Thomas's Day. The churchwardens of most of the parishes named them to the Ecclesiastical Courts, and procured their excommunication. This my father saith was done that they might be incapacitated from voting at the election of common-councilmen to the City of London. Thus the Tory party will procure such a common-council as is fit for their turn, and, having already the mayor and most of the Court of Aldermen on their side, they will then bo able to surrender to the king the charter of the City of London. Since the sixth of October, however, no persecution reached us here at Mondisfield. But, after the sacking of the barn, no more meetings were held there. My father deemed it wiser for us to attend the parish church in...« less