The Friday 56

The Friday 56 is a weekly meme hosted by Freda’s Voice.

Here are the rules:

– Turn to page 56 or 56% in your eReader
– Find any sentence, (or few, just don’t spoil it)
– Post it.
– Add the url of your post to the Linky on Freda’s most recent post.

“When Henry VIII had broken from Rome, and the monasteries were sacked, Batchcombe turned it’s face away, and not a pitchfork was raised in protest. The monks’ place of worship and home for centuries was raped, plundered, and defiled, left a craggy heap of stone.”

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