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BATTLE OF HASTINGS REFOUGHT. The Saxon battleery "Ut" rang out 1 on the slopes of Senlac a while ago when the battle of Hastings was refought under the ruined walls of Battfe Abbey. • Norman horsemen galloped up the hill and engaged in desperate conflict with Harold and his followers, who fled at the fall of their king, leaving the field strewn with dead. | When the armies had disappeared women searched the field for their , loved ones, and the hody of Harold ! was carried away on a hurdle. | This was the big scene of the Battle ' Pageant. j A telling episode showed the placing of the curse on Sir Anthony Browne and his descendants, to whom the Abbey was given after the Dis- , solution. The part of Sir Anthony was taken hy a descendant, Mr. Anthony Browne.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 331, 19 September 1932, Page 3
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139HISTORIC PAGEANT HELD Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 331, 19 September 1932, Page 3
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