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| | Legends of Berkshire: The Ghost of Lady Hoby |
 | | When the fl monks of Bisham were forcibly evicted from their beautiful Abbey on the banks of the Thames in 1538, they did not go quietly. |
 | | Like his brothers and sisters before him he was brought up at Bisham Abbey under the watchful eye of his mother, Sir Thomas having died when his children were very small. |
 | | Lady Hoby revelled in Court life: the banquets, the balls, the handsome young men, the flirting, the flattery, the compliments, the gossip, and the envious eyes that poured over her friendship with the Queen. |
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