The Archive · 1940

STRONG BODIES

don't just happen house type.

All that remains is the banqueting hall, and this has long been used for court and county purposes, but is more famous on account of the unique collection: of horseshoes nailed on its walls, The collection is said to have ited from the right of the Lord of the Manor to demand a shoe from every peer visiting his lordship for the first, time. Some of the shoes in the collection are actual used specimens, but the majority are symbolic, with the coronets and names of the donors. Many are of enormous size and much decorated. Queen Elizabeth gave a magnificent specimen, and there are a great many others well worth viewing.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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