Rosley Stories

# Jimin ff Best Scene Jimin: You we're there when i needed you the most I love you stay here beside me forever Y/n: I love you too and i promised

We meet Tom Johnston as he is about to leave his school in Holm Cultram, a monastery in North Cumbria near the western end of the Roman Wall. He is visiting Rosley Fair at a time when war between England and Scotland is about to visit destruction on everything he holds dear. His life will change forever.

Some three hundred miles north of the English capital, the city of London, lies a small tract of land, now simply a few acres of good but otherwise unexceptional farmland. Nothing about the setting gives even a hint of the history of the location. The rural village is called Rosley and, in the 1960s, the land, enclosed by the wall was subject to a minor piece of legislation, in the Houses of Parliament. Enacted by the then Home Secretary, the provision of the statutory instrument was that the land, henceforth, be declared free of the statutory right to hold a fair. This right had been set down in a royal charter dating back to the seventeenth century. The reason given, then, some four centuries ago, for creating the charter was that the "fayre" had been held since ancient time. In other words, no one had a clue when it started. That there was a fair has been well documented by poets and balladeers. The gathering was a spectacle like no other and it drew all manner of humankind from near and far. Rosley, in early spring, was the place to be: the excitement, the vast number of horses and cattle being corralled and the deals being done brought not only reputable merchants and traders but countless other hawkers, charlatans and snake-oil salesmen. Saints and sinners, rogues and vagabonds could all be found, every year, at Rosley "fair-hill" on the Whit-Monday. If the instigators of the Charter did not know the antecedents of this now forgotten Horse Festival, is it possible, that we, living with the scientific advances of the 21st century, can fill in some of the gaps in their knowledge? History and technology are now wedded to increase our understanding of the past so just maybe we can build the "back" story of this forgotten chapter in the life of the nation.

Robert and Wesley do teh frickle frackle