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Show uu CURSE OF DROWNING ON ABBEY'S TENANTS LONDON, Oct. 1. t Correspondence). Correspond-ence). The sudden death of Michael P Qrace, father of the Countess of 1 "enough more, recalls a legend ton-, ton-, necifd With Battle Abbey which he 'rented from Sir Augustus Webster. The great establishment was seized b Henry VIII. and it Is said that the last abbott pronounced a cur?e that the owners of it Should meet tleath by j drowning. It is Stated that Lord Montague, Mon-tague, who owned the property in the eighteenth century, was drowned, and a similar fate befell his two nephews. neph-ews. Lftdy Webster, wife of the present pres-ent owner WSS drowned three years ago and a short time later the eldest;, daughter.' then occupying the abbey lost her life In a similar way . |