The First International Railway and the Colonization of New England: Life and Writings of John Alfred Poor (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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William the Conqueror's third and youngest son Prince Henry, was rather snubbed by his older brothers, and lived a jovial life in Normandy. One morning, as he was riding at the head of his mounted men-at-arms, in the vicinity of the city of Caen, he approached a small chapel - of the Roman Catholic faith, of course just as its bell rang forth the call, to matin prayers. The gay yet devout young prince halted his men, dismounted, and entered the humble sanctuary, where the parish priest, a gaunt, spare man, known as Father Roger, at once recognized him.

The priest, recollecting doubtless that soldiers do not like long prayers, and being, perhaps, himself more anxious for favor on earth than in heaven, despatched the morning service with extraordinary rapidity. 'whereat,' says the historian, 'they were so well pleased that the prince said to him, Follow my camp, which he did.' Soon afterwards the prince went to England to join his brother, King William Rufus, and he took the Caen priest as his chaplain. On crossing the Channel, every Norman assumed a surname, and the lean chaplain became Roger Poor. The nomenclature of that day was based, as in this case, on personal characteristics or local habitations. The families of Short, Long, Black, White, Brown, Gray, and Head, with many others, thus obtained their surnames.

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