This Other Eden
“ The cliffs veered sharply southward from this point, fronting the unbroken force of the Atlantic winds and waves, and were shattered by them into a grim array of jutting points. Here the gales and ocean were supreme.
But atop the cliffs of Eden Point, supremacy resided in human hands, and the command for the Public Whipping, considered barbaric for the civilized late eighteenth century, had been issued by Thomas Eden himself, Thirteenth Baron and Fifth Earl. Thomas Eden possessed the power ...and had suffered the outrage, so on a hot humid Thursday afternoon he shouted at Ragland, his male servant, "Whip her!" As his anger showed no signs of abating, he added, "Publicly! And all those who fail to witness it may also find themselves in her unfortunate position!" The whipping had been announced to all the tenants and fishermen of Mortemouth, the village that sat at sea level at the foot of Eden Castle. These people were totally dependent upon the Lord of the Castle and his twenty thousand acres of rich sheep-grazing land.MoreLess
But atop the cliffs of Eden Point, supremacy resided in human hands, and the command for the Public Whipping, considered barbaric for the civilized late eighteenth century, had been issued by Thomas Eden himself, Thirteenth Baron and Fifth Earl. Thomas Eden possessed the power ...and had suffered the outrage, so on a hot humid Thursday afternoon he shouted at Ragland, his male servant, "Whip her!" As his anger showed no signs of abating, he added, "Publicly! And all those who fail to witness it may also find themselves in her unfortunate position!" The whipping had been announced to all the tenants and fishermen of Mortemouth, the village that sat at sea level at the foot of Eden Castle. These people were totally dependent upon the Lord of the Castle and his twenty thousand acres of rich sheep-grazing land.MoreLess
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