The Litchfield County post. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1826-1829, 1828-12-04

you thai he has been nlcaSed n, ron,ovs
you from the statjnn ni,:cLs von hsva -
long unworthily uccapied. set;So ,hat ~,
| arc an u,learned and foolish nerson co..
ant of the French lansSuarr and wboiIy ~
capable either 10 Instruct The cbnrcl,.oy -.
wise the king. II therefore cal! Moon yo,,
to deliver up your pastoral ring and sIaf.
that a may Give ii ID whom the kine .ha,b
been pleased Eo nominate as vonr success.
1 0r. .
uisfan 9lfest gSflns,.l il mn nropdl. II i,
DIV. aud his s:sI form segs,..a i, ~
coI lnSsSf s1inSenst,,,a u ~ II
INV ord Asehi,;shan IL sss ;asss,,.s, I 3
Eeniirhi pniiisana unWasSSlhv s tle han1r'
an unequal u, tisb task: Ana Sc,S n th;nl'
sasonabI &, d,.ss, J
soff nas,, II HI elf IL EeiS 10 Ftss
tfona ytstis However, ill some iIllsassli'e i
SUI mi i 10 our sentence, and will resion
tliat & but 4 consider it lust to make
|thaIres ignatioii To nome other than Kino
Edward the Confessor, who conferred II
on me.
hus ending, lie rose, and crossed the
Church towards King Edwards tomb.--
Bold traitor!' said tie Kine..ar thoI, mad?
or whittier would Inv insoience lead thee?
Wulstan needed not. and seemed NOT even
10 hear the indion,nt axcIsms,;on 1of ~
monarch, but apnroacb;ne the tomb Lna,,
down before it and said. sThou knowest
o holy King, that with mucl, ,inwillingnesS
and even by force was | constrained To
take this office upon me for neither The
desire ofthe preiates. the pet;tions. Of the
Monks, nor the voice of the nob;litv nre-
vailed, till thy commands were laid on me.
But now, behold there are new. kings and
new Lords and new Bishop pronoun-
ces new sentence. Thee they accuse of
fondness for making me d bishop. and me
Of assurance for conserving to become one.
Nevertheless, mot unto them, but unto thee
VIII resign my staff. ....1-..
Thus saying he arose. and striking his
staff with extraordinary force and violence
on the tomb, tspenetrated above an inch
into the solid stone, and remained there fix
ed. The King WIG had risen from his
throne, on pereeiving the inn ASSIGNED ges-
lures of Wulstaa, sunk back Into it again.
with smile OF contempt, when he sa " his
passion had. ended in adisplay so impotent.
If, he said, the wounded vanity ofthe old
.d9taea can be thus alleyiated be it even so.
Wy good Lord Robert Of OrlA..-,~,
.nd tps usN = a e. p, ,h a;, s'"h a.
-, - w
Inc NORMAN monk descended with a.
lacriy rom nus 'seh' 10 seize upon the
symoo, OIL ms new memoirs; but ne might
as eas,ly VIII" single arm nave uprooted
ihe OAK from ITS foundations, 7as have re-
moved ~ 1ne stan rom we place 10 winch
me hana oiiW uistan mad planted if:-
fDeath J: cried the eklng, foamlng with the
passions nave our Norman preiates SUCH
g,rllsn muscles, mat they cannot unseat the
planning o..naI oid driveher's arm. MY
Lofd ArchD'shoP' orlng me that stan
Y LafraDc, man of apparently superiour
strength to Wulstan, and of fewer years,
then approached the tomb, but his efforts
were uravailing as those of his brother
Monk. The King,wiih mixture of Won
der and contempt on his coantenance, deri-
ded their imbecile efforts, and at length, to
punish their effennacy promised TO bestow
the bishopric upon whlciieyerof the ecclee-
siastics could remove the stan. The rev.
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The King, incenseds almost to madness,