CHAPTER XI
Sir Mervyn's Tower
"Is that all?" asked the girls, as Monica finished her story and closed the book.
"Why, yes. It's a fairly long tale, I think."
"Not long enough. I want to know so much more about them," said Irene.
"Is it perfectly and absolutely true?" enquired Cicely.
"Yes, it is quite true. It was Sir Roger Courtenay who began to build the Manor as it stands to-day. All the central portion was put up in his time, and the coats of arms over the porch are those of himself and his wife, Catharine Mowbray. Their tomb is in the church too—that big carved monument in the side chapel. They had seven children—five sons and two daughters. The eldest son, Sir Godfrey Courtenay, married a relation of Sir Thomas More. Her name is mentioned in one of the Paston Letters."
"Was it really in Haversleigh Church that Sir Mervyn climbed into the belfry and was killed?"
"Or did the writer make that up?"