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company, the minstrels of music, and the trumpeters 

 again made the welkin ring with their notes of praise, 

 and the thanksgiving of the goodly company. Passing 

 down the hill onward to Markham Moor (then consisting 

 of only a few thatched cottages scattered here and there) 

 the procession left what is now the route of the Great 

 North Road, and proceeded through West Drayton, up 

 to near Ecksley, the bells of which church merrily 



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welcomed the daughter of the King of England. Pass- 

 ing slowly and heavily across the forest on the Old 

 London Road, the cavalcade arrived at Rushey Inn, then 

 a noted resting-place for travellers, and an agreeable 

 retreat from the gnats and flies, which then infested the 



