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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Pages in good condition. Year 1956. Softcover. English. See images for condition.

About the book >.>.> THE traveller to Bristol from the west who pauses at Bedminster Down to look at the urban panorama spread before him cannot fail to notice the silhouette of towers and spires that faces him on the high land beyond the Avon valley. The highest eminence here is the hill on which just below the summit the pale stone square of the Royal Fort House can be seen amongst dark trees. Is it fanciful to suppose that the influence of strong personalities lingers on in the places where they have talked and struggled and suffered? Probably it is and yet many who have lived in old houses will bear witness to the influence these have had on their thoughts and emotions. Certainly some of the University lecturers and students who work in the Royal Fort House at the top of what was once called Windmill Hill will admit to the spell which this House has cast over them. This is not surprising for it was here that William Tyndale formed his resolution to spend the best years of his life in translating the New Testament from the Greek; here Prince Rupert of Bavaria made his gallant stand against Cromwell and Fairfax; here that plans for privateers and slavers came face to face with the stern Nonconformist conscience of members of the Tyndall family; and here finally that some of the builders of a new civic university found their inspiration. (LL)