Hanley Castle
  • Chapter 1. UPTON-ON-SEVERN—A ROMAN CAMP—HANLEY—HANLEY CASTLE—BRICTRIC MEAWE AT HANLEY CASTLE—THE DE CLARES—BEAUCHAMPS—ISABEL DESPENSER—THE FAMILY OF FORESTERS—MISTRESS TABITHA FORESTER—HER DIARY—DISFORESTING OF MALVERN CHASE (1632)—A FOREST AND A CHASE—COMMONS SUCCEEDED THE FOREST—HANLEY CHURCH AND RECTOR—MASTER JOHN KELLY—SNOW IN AUGUST, (1635)—EARL OF WORCESTER AT HANLEY CASTLE—ROMAN STINGING NETTLES.
  • Chapter 2. FIRST RELIGIOUS DIFFERENCES—THE STAR CHAMBER AND MESSRS. PRYNNE, BURTON, AND BASTWICK—PURITANS AND ROYALISTS—SCOTLAND AND THE PRAYER BOOK—EARL OF STRAFFORD AND “THOROUGH”—LAUD AND TORTURE—ISABEL FORESTER—MEETING OF PURITANS AT UPTON—DISCOURSE BY PREACHER COCKTAIL—AUNT TABITHA'S VIEWS THEREON—ESTRANGEMENTS—MASSACRE OF PROTESTANTS IN IRELAND—JOHN KELLY'S VIEWS THEREON—ROUNDHEADS AND CAVALIERS.
  • Chapter 3. SIR GILES NANFAN—BRIDGET—SQUIRE BARTLETT—HAFOD THE FOOL—THE BROTHERS YATES—LORD COCKAYNE—THE BEACON UPON THE HEREFORDSHIRE BEACON—THE WELL OF ST. WAUM—COMMISSIONS OF ARRAY—CAPTAIN BOUND—THE PURITANS AND THE RECTOR OF UPTON—THE MEETING OF PURITANS AT UPTON.
  • Chapter 4. “FOOLS, REBELS, AND KNAVES”—PARSON WOODFORDE—SIGNS OF WAR—PRINCE RUPERT—MESSIEURS BRUMFAT, SLASHMERE, AND SLIGGONS—A SUPPER AT HANLEY CASTLE—“MERRIE ENGLAND”.
  • Chapter 5. CAPTAIN VON PRIG AND TREASONABLE CORRESPONDENCE—HAMME COURT—INVASION OF HAMME COURT BY PRINCE RUPERT'S TROOPERS—SQUIRE BROMLEY AND PRINCE RUPERT— STARTLING NEWS ABOUT LORD ESSEX AND THE ROUNDHEADS—UPTON CHURCH AND UPTON BRIDGE—THEIR IMPORTANCE IN TIMES OF WAR—KING CHARLES HOISTS HIS STANDARD—AUNT TABITHA'S CONCOCTIONS—THE FIRST RECONNOITRE—JOHN KELLY AND THE GHOST—PERSHORE FERRY—THE ADVANCED GUARD OF LORD ESSEX—ROYALIST TROOPERS AT WORCESTER AND POWICK.
  • Chapter 6. LEVYING WAR CONTRIBUTIONS—SEVERN END AND THE LEARNED MADAM PENELOPE LECHMERE—MISTRESS BOUND—PREPARATION FOR SOLDIERS' KITS—WAR MATERIALS—THE GALLOP TO POWICK—THE THORN TREE THERE—THE FIRST FIGHT IN WORCESTERSHIRE—DEATH OF COLONEL SANDYS—THE RESCUE IN THE TEME—WORCESTER OCCUPIED BY ROUNDHEADS— THEIR TREATMENT OF THE CATHEDRAL—LETTER FROM MRS. BROMLEY.
  • Chapter 7. (1642)—THE OAK TREE BY THE SEVERN—THE COCK EAGLE STONE—DRILLING ON LONGDON MARSHES—GILES NANFAN AND LORD COCKAYNE ARRIVE FROM SHREWSBURY—THE LONGDON TROOPERS—FAMILY JARS—THE WRONG BROTHER—ON THE MARCH—FORESTER SENT TO RECONNOITRE—KINETON—THE NIGHT BEFORE THE BATTLE—FIRST MEETING WITH KING CHARLES I.—THE BATTLE OF EDGEHILL—THE BURIAL OF THE DEAD.
  • Chapter 8. (1642 AND 1643)—THE MARCH AFTER EDGEHILL—CHRISTMAS TIME, 1642—THE NEWS LETTER ON NEW YEAR'S DAY—INTRIGUES OF THE TEWKESBURY PURITANS—A SPY IN OUR CAMP—WRONG SUSPICIONS—FORESTER SENT TO TEWKESBURY TO SIR M. CAREW—“THE OWL”—THE WELSH ROYALISTS AT HIGHNAM—THE QUEEN LANDS IN YORKSHIRE—HER OWN ACCOUNT OF HER DANGER—BONNER'S GRANDFATHER—THE RIDE TO HIGHNAM—“THE OWL”—TOO MUCH FOR LORD HERBERT—THE SLAUGHTER AT LUDNAM'S HILL—TEWKESBURY ABANDONED BY SIR M. CAREW.
  • Chapter 9. (1643)—GILES NANFAN'S LOVE OF GARDENING—FORAGING AT NEWENT—AN ENGLISH FARMER—WALLER'S MOVEMENTS IN THE FOREST OF DEAN—UNFORESEEN MEETING AT UPTON—WALLER'S TACTICS—BLOWING UP OF UPTON BRIDGE—THE FIGHT AT RIPPLE FIELD—MR. BROMLEY WOUNDED.
  • Chapter 10. (1643)—WALLER TAKES HEREFORD—WORCESTER PREPARES TO RESIST A SIEGE—MAY-DAY (1643)—THE ALARM—DEATH OF A TRUMPETER—REPULSE OF WALLER AND DEATH OF SIR ROBERT COOKE OF HIGHNAM—IMPEACHMENT OF THE QUEEN—THE SECRET EXPEDITION—BITTER BEER AT EVESHAM—QUARTERS AT STRATFORD-ON-AVON—“REQUISITIONING”—CHARLCOTE AND AN INVITATION—MARY BROMLEY'S AUNT—THE SHAKESPEARE BALL—THE HARPER—DAME QUICKLY—TO HORSE—“THE GHOST”
  • Chapter 11. (1643)—CAPTAIN BOUND'S PROJECT—THE QUEEN—LORD COCKAYNE PURVEYOR TO HER MAJESTY—THE NEW HOUSE AT STRATFORD—MARY BROMLEY'S REQUEST—“QUEEN MARY” AND THE PURITAN'S DAUGHTER—THE MEETING AT KINETON—THE BATTLE GROUND OF EDGEHILL—FORESTER SENT TO OCCUPY TEWKESBURY—THE RIDE TO EARL'S CROOME—SAMUEL BUTLER— THE SUCKING PIG—A TEWKESBURY BARBER—PRINCE RUPERT'S “EAT-ALLS”—A RECOGNITION BY CAPTAIN BOUND.
  • Chapter 12. (1643)—SCENE IN TEWKESBURY ABBEY CHURCH—DEPUTATION FROM GLOUCESTER—THE BOAT WITH THE WOUNDED SOLDIER—THE RENDEZVOUS AT NEWENT—THE KING BEFORE GLOUCESTER—THREE KINGS OF ENGLAND AT MATSON HOUSE—TOO MANY GENERALS—LORD COCKAYNE'S ADVICE TO THE BESIEGED—THE ATTACK AT KINGSHOLM—THE MARCH OF LORD ESSEX—REPLY TO LORD COCKAYNE—DR. CHILLINGWORTH AND HIS “DIVINE ENGINES”—THE BEACON FIRE ON WAINLODE HILL—THE ENCAMPMENT ON THE COTSWOLDS—THE INTERIOR OF GLOUCESTER.
  • Chapter 13. (1643 AND 1644)—AFTER THE SIEGE OF GLOUCESTER—TEWKESBURY STOCKINGS—ADVENTURE ON BROCKERIDGE COMMON—MR. BROMLEY'S “POOR COUSIN”—THE SOUTHEND OAK—A STRANGE LETTER—BATTLE OF NEWBURY—THE EARL OF COCKAYNE VISITS AUNT TABITHA—WINCEBY FIGHT—THE SCOTCH AND IRISH DIFFICULTIES—THE EARLS OF ANTRIM AND MONTROSE—LETTER OF CHARLES I. TO EARL OF ANTRIM—DEATHS OF LADY BRILLIANA HARLEY AND MR. PYM—NEW YEAR'S DAY, 1644—FESTIVITIES AT BIRTSMORTON COURT—INTERRUPTION—“HOPTON QUARTER”—TWO PARLIAMENTS—THE PLAGUE—THE IMPEACHMENT OF ARCHBISHOP LAUD—THE “BLOODY ALMANACK”—A SUMMONS TO THE WATERSIDE—“COUSIN OLIVER”—THE KERCHIEF.
  • Chapter 14. (1644)—COLONEL CROMWELL—THE LETTER RESPECTING THE QUEEN—FIRST VIEW OF OXFORD—ROYALISTS AT OXFORD—INTERVIEW WITH THE KING AND QUEEN—MISTRESS MARY HERBERT'S LETTER TO HER UNCLE—DR. MAYERNE'S LONDON PIE—ARCHIE ARMSTRONG'S BALLAD—THE CURE FOR CORNS—DR. GASTON'S APARTMENTS—THE QUEEN SETS OUT FOR EXETER—ARRIVAL AT ABINGDON—THE FOREWARNING OF NOSTRADAMUS—THE PARTING.
  • Chapter 15. (1644)—THE QUEEN REACHES EXETER—NEW PRESBYTER—“SAXON LEECHDOM”—“THE DEVIL'S TABBERINGS”—MOTHERING SUNDAY—BATTLE OF NEWENT—HERALDRY OF ISABEL AND BRIDGET NANFAN—MURDER OF THE REV. MR. PRALPH AT STOKE EDITH—THE PARSON'S WIFE AT FLADBURY—EVESHAM AND DISLOYALTY—CALAMITY AT PERSHORE BRIDGE—THE KING AT WORCESTER—THE FATAL LETTER—REQUISITIONING THE EVESHAM ROUND-HEADS—BATTLE OF COPREDY BRIDGE—MARCHES TO AND FRO—CRUELTY OF THE “SAINTS” AT GLOUCESTER—CHIVALRY OF THE EARL OF ESSEX—AUNT TABITHA'S OPINION THEREON.
  • Chapter 16. (1644)—HINTON WALDRIST AND SIR HENRY MARTEN—THE KING AT BUCKLAND RECTORY, BERKS—THE QUEEN AT BEDFORD HOUSE, EXETER—DR. GASTON'S OPINION ON THE SITUATION—THE QUEEN'S FLIGHT—THE KING ENTERS EXETER—TIDINGS OF THE DEFEAT AT MARSTON MOOR—FORESTER A LIEUT. COLONEL OF HORSE—THE FIGHT AT REDMARLEY—DICK BROMLEY IN A SCRAPE—THE DRAGON AT CORSE LAWN—SECOND BATTLE OF NEWBURY—HOUSES OCCUPIED BY TROOPS.
  • Chapter 17. (1645)—NEW YEAR'S DAY AT WORCESTER, 1645—DEATH OF LAUD—FAILURE OF PEACE HOPES AT UXBRIDGE—THE “NEW NODDLE ARMY”—PRINCE RUPERT'S DECLARATION—ROUNDHEADS REPLY—AUNT TABITHA'S LETTER ON DESECRATION OF UPTON AND HANLEY CHURCHES—LORD COCKAYNE'S VALENTINE—FATE OF COLONEL WINDEBANKE—THE REV. HAMILTON HOWARD SNOPER—LORD GLAMORGAN AND THE IRISH—MASSEY OCCUPIES LEDBURY—THE MARCH TO MEET PRINCE RUPERT—CASTLE FROME AND BOSBURY—THE BATTLE OF LEDBURY—INFORMATION OF WITCHCRAFT AGAINST NURSE STUBBS—CASPER KATLOFF—THE DEVICES OF CAPTAIN BOUND—THE KING LEAVES OXFORD.
  • Chapter 18. (1645)—THE KING MARCHES AND RELIEVES CHESTER—SIEGE OF LEICESTER—A DREAM—GILES NANFAN APPEARS AT WORCESTER—THE CATASTROPHE AT NASEBY—DUTY—THE RIDE TO ROSS— THE ROYALISTS AT GOODRICH CASTLE—PENGETHLY—HEREFORD ITS CASTLE AND DEFENCES—KING CHARLES THERE—THE COUNCIL IN THE LIBRARY—THE KING SETS OUT FOR RAGLAN CASTLE—THE “FAMOUS CASTLE FINE”—THE GUESTS, THEIR WAYS AND DOINGS—THE “CENTURY OF INVENTIONS”—MASSACRE AT CANON FROME—THE SCOTS MARCH UPON HEREFORD.
  • Chapter 19. THE KING AT CARDIFF—DUKE ROBERT'S SPIRIT—CAERPHILLY CASTLE AND BRECKNOCK CASTLE OMENS—ROUGH QUARTERS AT OLD RADNOR—DESPATCHES TO LORD DIGBY—A PRISONER—THE FISHERMAN ON THE HEATH—THE SECRET DESPATCH FORWARDED—WITHIN THE WALLS OF CHESTER—BETRAYED—COLONELS OF SIR W. BERETON AND POYNTZ.
  • Chapter 20. (1645)—THE FISHERMAN'S ADVICE—THE RELEASE—LORD DIGBY'S PORTFOLIO—THE DISAPPEARANCE OF HANLEY KEEP—THE SACKING OF OUR HOME—AUNT TABITHA AT THE WATERSIDE—FRIENDS AMONG OUR FOES—LOW WATER—THE KING AFTER DEFEAT—SURPRISE OF HEREFORD BY BIRCH—CHURCH MATTERS AND CHURCH SERVICES AT UPTON.
  • Chapter 21. (1646)—THE KING LEAVES OXFORD—PENDENNIS CASTLE AND THE PRINCE OF WALES—JOHN KELLY AND THE NEWS HE BROUGHT—PARIS AND THE TWO QUEENS—THE PRINCE OF WALES AT THE FRENCH COURT—THE BLUE DOMINO—“GAD ZOOKS”—GASTON'S ADVICE—EMBASSY OF SIR WILLIAM DAVENANT—EXPEDIENCY—LADY MORTON'S ESCAPE WITH THE PRINCESS—CHRISTMAS DAY IN PARIS—NEWS FROM AUNT TABITHA.
  • Chapter 22. (1647, 1648, 1649)—NEW YEAR'S GIFTS IN PARIS—THE SCOTS SELL THEIR KING—THE PRESBYTERIANS OUTWITTED BY THE INDEPENDENTS—THE “CHILD OF BENEDICTION”—LETTERS ON “EXPEDIENCY”—SEQUESTRATION—THE DUEL IN THE BLOODY MEADOW—THE QUEEN'S ADVICE AS TO THE TREATMENT OF GENERAL CROMWELL—THE WAR OF THE FRONDE—THE DUKE OF YORK ESCAPES FROM ENGLAND—THE KING NOT WANTED IN FRANCE—THE KING'S TREATIES—THE NEWS-LETTER FROM ENGLAND—THE “CARTE BLANCHE”—INTERVIEW WITH GENERAL CROMWELL—THE PLEASANT LETTER—“ON THE WORD OF A KING”—FORGERIES—JESUITS AND JESUITISM.
  • Chapter 23. (1649, 1650, 1651)—THE QUEEN HEARS OF THE DEATH OF THE KING—GENERAL CROMWELL AND THE KING'S BODY—CHARLES II. AT THE HAGUE—OLD ENEMIES NOW OUR NEW FRIENDS—THE EIKON BASILIKE—ITS EFFECT UPON SCOTCH AND IRISH—GENERAL CROMWELL IN IRELAND—THE OMEN AT THE BIRTH OF CHARLES II.—“EXPEDIENCY" TACTICS—OPENING OF THE SCOTCH CAMPAIGN (1650)—DEATH OF MONTROSE—CHARLES II. LANDS AT CROMARTY—SCOTCH SUPPERS—CROMWELL CROSSES THE BORDER—THE MATERIALS OF THE FIRST SCOTCH ARMY—CATCHING AGAG—BATTLE OF DUNBAR—THE KING'S COURT AMONG THE SCOTCH PURITANS—SCOTCH LASSIES AND THE COMMITTEE OF MINISTERS—FLIGHT OF CHARLES II. FROM SCOTCH SERMONS—CHANGE IN SCOTCH POLITICS—NEW YEAR'S DAY (1651), AND CROWNING OF THE KING—WE CROSS THE BORDER—THE FISHERMAN AGAIN—WORCESTER THE RENDEZVOUS FOR LOYAL CAVALIERS.
  • Chapter 24. (1651)—FORESTER AND NANFAN SENT ON TO WORCESTER—OMENS—CHARLES II. IN WORCESTER—THE RENDEZVOUS ON PITCHCROFT—MASSEY AT UPTON—THE ATTACK ON UPTON BRIDGE—MASSEY WOUNDED—CROMWELL'S QUARTERS—CAPTAIN BOUND A JUSTICE OF THE PEACE—THE BATTLE OF WORCESTER—THE STRUGGLE IN PERRY WOOD AND BEFORE SIDBURY GATE—BROKEN HEADS—FRIENDS IN NEED—CROMWELL AND THE DEVIL—CAPTAIN BOUND'S STONE—THE BROKEN FORGET-ME-NOT—THE TEXT OF SCRIPTURE—KELLY'S LAST MACHINES—AUNT TABITHA'S LAST LETTER.
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