Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1909-03-12
CHAPTER XIX,

The early train on Thursday morning
ar Granville Rose, accompanied by Mr..
E5tmr. solicitor, junior partner of the
i'm Of Hawk, Sparrowbill and Co, on
lw way to Slantoyer, the nearest railway
n.On to Mannersley, from which it was
slant about four miles. Having arriv-
j at the latter place, and ascertained
at Pearman was at home, Grenville sent
d bis card, and a request to see that gen
Imam for a few minutes, on business Of
-Drnnce Now, it so happened, that
hugh Rose had a thorough knowledge
t&m Pearman, the other knew nothing
v.atever Of him. He had never encoun-
s ssi him personally, except to exchange
/ bat sentence or two after the minister
4 aL | don't know whether even then
/ bad identified him; but of a surety
bat scene had pretty we'll faded from
Is memory especially as regarded the
n0naIity Of the other actor therein. 1t
Us as an entire stranger that he receiv-
a1e young barrister.
Imust apologize for troubling you, Mr..
anan; but l am here as the represen-
11re Of Mr. Harold Denison."
You could not have come with better
.o7entjaIs, Mr.. Rose. Charr1ed to see
.a.l you and your friend :" ne glanced at
Be cards in his hands. MIR. Nightjar, [
l1k; VIII you take some lunch now,
4 after we have had our little palaver?"
Nothing, thanks; our time is pre-
~N and We will detain you as briefly
i maybe You are, of course, aware
l there is i death fine on Mannersley;
e. 10 speak more intelligibly, that the
72ar of GIjnn has a right of heriot over
/ Iii manor en- the death of any holder
-cpof:'
i right Of heriot I" muttered Pear
4@ NO, l never heard of such claim
ed | think my father died in complete
'..'ance Of any such right"
though far from suspecting what was
-eI to take place, Sam Pearman knew
-)asA Of law to understand this express
m
lou had better read that deed, Night
4" Such right exists, and has been al
,'S exercised; generally compromised as
. ~4e-a course we propose to adopt in
u Present. instance"
LIE solicitor laughed, and opened, first
%ne|nat musty parchment, and then
"cument consisting of some two or
~ee sheets Of foolscap. Il will be as
Nut, as | can. Mr.. Pearman, but the
WY IS a little intricate to follow. |
,N premise that Mannersley was by no
~''4S originally part of the Glinn proper
". Il seems to have been granted by the
-s,0' OF minister to one Hugh Wilson,
''-an, for service rendered, conditional
's~ MS bearing arms for the abbey, and
.-~s ever ready to do service under the
---sT OF Sir James Denison of Glinn,
1, nen lay lord and champion of the
I,3' lie further lay under the right
q. Is'IoI IN the first place, to the monks
minister, who were entitled to claim
NV =, beasts upon the death of Hugh Will
), y, VI any one of his descendants hold
!, ,ee"unerSley, as an acknowledgment of
l. ,valIy they owed to the abbey; IN
ny SytOnd place, of one beast to the lords
u I'Iun' as a similar acknowledgment
- 1' secular representative of the abb
Raw. out the monks Of minister were
f., -, away in the Reformation under
49,! VII, and of course that right of
H.. disappeared. Still the masters of
a. continued to exercise their claim
ma. very occasion COR rather over two
ma 81 years, at the expiration of which
r m, IL consequence of the decay of the
a, sYu family, Mannersley fell, by pur-
IN INTO their hands, where it remain
;, ~ SoIu 70 Mr.. Pearman twelve years
sro. 1ue curious thing is, this right of
S']I exists; the owner of Glinn is