Crossword-Solution: EMLYN 5 letters, 12 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

But Gabriel still twists about as manfully as he did when old Peter, the famous smith, fashioned and set him up with his own hand in the last year of King Henry VIII, as it is said to commemorate the fact that on this spot stood the stakes to which Cicely Harflete, Lady of Blossholme, and her foster-mother, Emlyn, were chained to be burned as witches.

There were but two people in the world for whom Emlyn Stower cared--Cicely, her foster-child, and a certain playmate of hers, one Thomas Bolle, now a lay-brother at the Abbey who had charge of the cattle.

Then she lifted it, and asked-- “Who told you? Give me all the truth or I shall die.” “A friend of mine who has to do with the Abbey yonder; ask not his name.” “I know it, Emlyn; Thomas Bolle,” she whispered back.

And the Abbot is coming to Shefton to declare me his ward and thrust me into the Nunnery--that was Emlyn’s tale.

And so, although it is a strange thing to do, having none to protect me, I have fled to you--because Emlyn said I ought.” “She is a wise woman, Emlyn,” broke in Christopher; “I always thought well of her judgment.