Cricket Term, chapters 10-12

[coughingbear]

The final section of the book - the Play, the Match, and the End. Just about in time, but my apologies that it's so late; long day at work and trouble with laptop.

Comments

[ethelmay]

I still want to know what the story about "stand like kine in the gateway" was.

[mrs_redboots]

So do I!

The letter from Edwin

[occasionalhope]

Why does Nicholas marrying Burbage's daughter have to be kept *such* a big secret from Lawrie? Presumably the current Trennels Marlows aren't descended directly from them as Nicholas's elder brother had several sons of his own.

Re: The letter from Edwin

[ext_195770]

Apparently Forest alleged somewhere that Geoff's line descended from Nicholas and Jon's line descended from Geoffrey. Though since this can't possibly work (I think liadnan's knowledge of the Settled Land Act 1925 is likely to be better than mine, but the entail can't possibly both go back to Jacobean times and you be able to trace the common ancestor back that far) I like to think of the Geoffrey descendants supporting Parliament (as we know they do except slimy Malise) and the Nicholas lot being for King (not because of Wrong but Wromatic but because shutting the playhouses) and therefore when everything was done and said after the Restoration, Nicholas's line got back in position.

[occasionalhope]

Yes, I think it quite ludicrous that they could be such distant cousins and still in touch in the 20th century. But all the males of Geoffrey's descent getting killed in the Civil War would work.

[ext_195770]

They don't even have to be killed; just dropped out of Royal favour & the lands awarded to the other lot. But there was also the Plague and various outbreaks of sweating sickness and the like.

[ext_2787917]

I've always thought that there were marriages between the two branches of the family which is how they kept in touch. Not too often, but enough to stay in touch. A bit like the Morland Dynasty books by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

[ext_195770]

Well, that certainly works, but given that the entail is in tale male, either the inheritance would swap several times between the Geoffrey line and the Nicholas line over the years, or you've still got the problem of having to go too far back to find the common male ancestor. Though, come to think of it, there's nothing wrong with the idea of the settlement having been renewed several times, perhaps most recently by Great-Uncle Lawrence's father.