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THE DOVER ROAD 



The Saviour has accepted me. Go on, go on, I'll 

 follow thee till I drop ! " 



When the terrified three reached Canterbury, they 

 secured the aid of a company of the Forty-fifth 

 Regiment. A young officer, Lieutenant Bennett, 

 staying with friends in the city, volunteered to go 



COUKTENAY. 



From an old inivt. 



with them. Coming to Bossenden, they found 

 Courtenay and his hundred followers strongly posted 

 amid alder-bushes in a deep and sequestered part of 

 Bossenden Wood. Courtenay exhorted his people to 

 behave like men. " God," he said, " would protect 

 him and them. Should he fall, he would infallibly rise 

 again in greater glory than now ; and wounds for his 

 sake would be accounted for righteousness." 



