VANITY FAIR WILLIAM MAKERPEACE THACKERAY CHAPTER 7 Đây là một tác phẩm anh ngữ nổi tiếng với những từ vựng quen thuộc. Nhằm giúp các em và các bạn yêu thich tiếng anh luyện tập và củng cố thêm kỹ năng đọc tiếng anh | VANITY FAIR WILLIAM MAKERPEACE THACKERAY CHAPTER 7 Crawley of Queen s Crawley Among the most respected of the names beginning in C which the CourtGuide contained in the year 18 was that of Crawley Sir Pitt Baronet Great Gaunt Street and Queen s Crawley Hants. This honourable name had figured constantly also in the Parliamentary list for many years in conjunction with that of a number of other worthy gentlemen who sat in turns for the borough. It is related with regard to the borough of Queen s Crawley that Queen Elizabeth in one of her progresses stopping at Crawley to breakfast was so delighted with some remarkably fine Hampshire beer which was then presented to her by the Crawley of the day a handsome gentleman with a trim beard and a good leg that she forthwith erected Crawley into a borough to send two members to Parliament and the place from the day of that illustrious visit took the name of Queen s Crawley which it holds up to the present moment. And though by the lapse of time and those mutations which age produces in empires cities and boroughs Queen s Crawley was no longer so populous a place as it had been in Queen Bess s time nay was come down to that condition of borough which used to be denominated rotten yet as Sir Pitt Crawley would say with perfect justice in his elegant way Rotten be hanged it produces me a good fifteen hundred a year. Sir Pitt Crawley named after the great Commoner was the son of Walpole Crawley first Baronet of the Tape and Sealing-Wax Office in the reign of George II. when he was impeached for peculation as were a great number of other honest gentlemen of those days and Walpole Crawley was as need scarcely be said son of John Churchill Crawley named after the celebrated military commander of the reign of Queen Anne. The family tree which hangs up at Queen s Crawley furthermore mentions Charles Stuart afterwards called Barebones Crawley son of the Crawley of James the First s time and finally Queen Elizabeth s Crawley who is .
