The Bone Garden
“Yet I was heartily sorry to leave her ladyship, who did beg me to remain. I vowed to return … yet I doubt I shall visit Earlsacre again.
I paid my last call to the King’s Head, where I inquired further of the maidservant Jinny Cartwright. Such tales I heard.
Jinny, it seems, was a bright, inquisitive girl. Some said Sir Richard satisfied his lust upon her and did kill her to ensure her silence. Others said she fled the attentions of the gardener there and did drown in the water garden. ...Not one mentioned a soldier.
I left the village of Earlsacre with a heavy heart, certain that the girl had come to a bad end.
From Jacob Finsbury’s Account of His Travels around the Houses of England, 1703 Monday morning brought rain – or drizzle to be more precise. It fell in gossamer sheets over the hilly landscape, turning the greens and golds of the September fields to shades of grey.
But in spite of the disagreeable weather Wesley was glad to get out of the house.MoreLess
I paid my last call to the King’s Head, where I inquired further of the maidservant Jinny Cartwright. Such tales I heard.
Jinny, it seems, was a bright, inquisitive girl. Some said Sir Richard satisfied his lust upon her and did kill her to ensure her silence. Others said she fled the attentions of the gardener there and did drown in the water garden. ...Not one mentioned a soldier.
I left the village of Earlsacre with a heavy heart, certain that the girl had come to a bad end.
From Jacob Finsbury’s Account of His Travels around the Houses of England, 1703 Monday morning brought rain – or drizzle to be more precise. It fell in gossamer sheets over the hilly landscape, turning the greens and golds of the September fields to shades of grey.
But in spite of the disagreeable weather Wesley was glad to get out of the house.MoreLess
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