Woodstock (Unabridged). Walter Scott

      Chapter I

       Table of Contents

      Some were for gospel ministers,

       And some for redcoat seculars,

       As men most fit t’ hold forth the word,

       And wield the one and th’ other sword.

      Butler’s Hudibras.

      There is a handsome parish church in the town of Woodstock,—I am told so, at least, for I never saw it, having scarce time, when at the place, to view the magnificence of Blenheim, its painted halls, and tapestried bowers, and then return in due season to dine in hall with my learned friend, the provost of –-; being one of those occasions on which a man wrongs himself extremely, if he lets his curiosity interfere with his punctuality. I had the church accurately described to me, with a view to this work; but, as I have some reason to doubt whether my informant had ever seen the inside of it himself, I shall be content to say that it is now a handsome edifice, most part of which was rebuilt forty or fifty years since, although it still contains some

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