Anecdotes of the Aristocracy (1850)
by Bernard Burke (9780217778138)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: LOBD LOVEL. The Lord Lovel, who forms the subject of this tradition, was a lineal descendant of th'e Lord of Breherral and Ivery in Normandy, one of the fierce barons that came over with William to assist in achieving the conquest of England. He may therefore be regarded as the founder of the English race of that name, for like most of his Norman brethren, the stout baron quickly took root in the soil to which he had been transplanted. From the violence of his passions, he obtained the appellation of Lupus, or the Wolf, and violent indeed must he have been if he could justly lay any peculiar claims to such an epithet, when all around him seem to have been as little approachable as so many untamed tigers in their cages. The name, however, of Lupus dwindled down in his successors into Lupellus, or the Little Wolf, for like Dryden's Zimri,? " None but himself conld be his parallel;" and the race growing, no doubt, more tameable as they became more remote from their founder, this was softened into Luvel, and finally turned to Lovel. Hence the name of Francis, Lord Lovel, the hero of our present story, and one of the staunchest adherents of the House of York. All must recollect the popular saying, expressive of the familiar regard in which he was held by Richard the Third? "The cat, the rat, and Lovel our dog." The battle of Bosworth field had been bravely won, and, if that were possible, yet more bravely lost; Richard himself was slain, and such of his most faithful retainers as escaped from that scene of carnage owed their safety to immediate flight, when they sought a refuge upon the continent or in the church's sanctuary. Amongst the latter was Lord Lovel. The moment he learnt the defection of Stanley and witnessed the fall of Richard, he saw clearly that the day was...

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