# Household words, No. 19, August 3, 1850

Author: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 [Editor]

Genre: English literature -- Periodicals

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78184

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Household+words%2C+No.+19%2C+August+3%2C+1850+Dickens&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

Sir Roger Rockville of Rockville was the last of a very long line. It extended from the Norman Conquest to the present century. His first known ancestor came over with William, and must have been a man of some mark, either of bone and sinew, or of brain, for he obtained what the Americans would call a prime location. As his name does not occur in the Roll of Battle Abbey, he was, of course, not of a very high Norman extraction; but he had done enough, it seems, in the way of knocking down Saxons, to place himself on a considerable eminence in this kingdom. The centre of his domains was conspicuous far over the country, through a high range of rock overhanging one of the sweetest rivers in...

## Chapters

- [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/household-words-no-19-august-3-1850-78184/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/household-words-no-19-august-3-1850-78184/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Part 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/household-words-no-19-august-3-1850-78184/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Part 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/household-words-no-19-august-3-1850-78184/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/household-words-no-19-august-3-1850-78184/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/household-words-no-19-august-3-1850-78184/chapters/6/index.md)