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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