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THE KING'S STORY BOOK 
 
THE 
 
 KING'S STORY BOOK 
 
 '"okI.""''"*"'^'- '''°''"'' COLLECTED o^r 
 Of hNGUSH ROMANTIC LITERATURE IN ILLU^ 
 
 TRATION OK THE REIGNS OP KNoJI; 
 
 MONARCIIS KROM THE CONQUEST 
 
 TO WILLIAM IV 
 
 AND EDITED 
 
 WITH AN INTKOUUCTION 
 
 RV 
 
 GKOKCiE LAURENCE tiOMME 
 
 II.UrSTKArED UY 
 
 MAkUlsoN MILI.liR 
 
 TORONTO 
 GEORGE N. MORANG & COMPANY LIMITED 
 
 1902 
 

 BUTLM a TaNNHR, 
 
 The Selwoou Printing Works. 
 Fromr, anu Lonikin. 
 
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INTRODUCTION 
 
 'T*HE object of this book is to present to the young 
 ■*■ reader a series of stories illustrative of events in 
 English history. Too little attention is given to English 
 subjects in books of this kind. Fairy tales, as Christmas 
 books, have been nearly exhausted by Mr. Andrew Ung 
 and Mr. Joseph Jacobs, and attention has been turned to 
 other sources of amusement by reading. But hitherto 
 English history and English romantic literature have not 
 been appealed to. 
 
 I am willing to admit that in a few cases in the pre- 
 sent volume the appeal has not resulted so well as could 
 have been desired. Robert Louis Stevenson's story of the 
 Black Arrow, Dr. Conan Doyle's story of Sedgmoor, Sir 
 Walter Besant's account of the Derwentwater rebellion, and 
 others, at once occur to the mind as gems one would have 
 liked to see placed in the same setting with Scott, Thackeray 
 Charlotte Bronte, and the rest. But even with these omis! 
 sions, due to the inexorable law of copyright, not to editorial 
 choice, the present collection of historical stories will, I 
 think, be found of value as well as of interest. 
 
 The value of such a collection is that it supplies material 
 for a comparative study of English romantic literature. It 
 will, no doubt, be suggested that the chief result is to 
 demonstrate, what is already so well known, that the 
 genius of Scott makes his stories stand out conspicuously 
 above all the rest. But still Scott, contrasted at close 
 
vi 
 
 INTRODUCTION 
 
 A unique position is reserved for M ^^ '^""^^^• 
 
 gentle touch is very wellT .' Manning, whose 
 
 More's execut oT and to a7 '" "^ ''"'' "' ^" ^''°'"- 
 Kefs rebellion Marv IvnluT" '/^"^^ '" ">« ''°'y °f 
 view of Henry vn'Itttud:l°r '''"'^' '"'"^^''"^ 
 and Leigh Hunt's ]^co^ 'r 1" T""''^ '"'^' °' ^°'^' 
 questionable conduct Tt °^ "*" '^'^^ ^^ke of York's 
 
 Dickens is only rt Le ted'h^^H ' '"'' ""' ^""^^ ''"- 
 Gordon. ^.^^^0' tht Sd^Ts *?"' ^^°'^^ 
 writer, William Harri^nn i u ™ y*' P°P"'ar 
 
 chose; the sTorifs oTudv^re r'™" ^'°'" ' •^='- 
 the crown and the battle of p"^ "" '"™P' *° *'" 
 Other writers, not well town °" ''""' '"^ J='^°''''-- 
 lection. thou;h°herDkr V ' '^P^"^"'^^ in the col- 
 
 importlnt lor J stoJof H "r'"" ''" """"P^ "<" ^^'^ 
 use VVillian, of M^eVu .fcZ^H-^^- '^' "> 
 
INTRODUCTION 
 
 vil 
 
 utilize history only as the setting Of ,1,. t 
 
 Lord Lytton and Charles Kingsley are hi h T" """ 
 
 and there are a host of i.c r u ^^^ exponents, 
 
 belong not o.^i^Z t^^Z^' I .""^ '^ ''''' 
 if this choice of method btZV^' ^^"" ^'™°" "^ 
 
 enough to determine whfchnV.. ° ^''•'""' ""''''' ^"' 
 for literature bmTn^hl '"° '""'^°''' '^ 'he better 
 
 germ of the 'epic ^nd I TT °' ""'^'^^ '^^'^ "es the 
 
 hope that .her^ istclir rkTeitb^'^^ "h^ '^^ 
 from this rich source. '^ '° ^^ produced 
 
 stu'dytrnVlTeZ' m^'r '° ""^"'P' ''^ " "'-y 
 onl/Uh to ind~hra"'colirf'"" "'='' ^ "'^^- ' 
 genuine extracts from nea Iv th. T? '""' "' '^'"' °f 
 romantic literature, TasSbiielot ""'' °' ^"S''^" 
 yond the immedia e ZZTTT "'' °'" ""<^ ^'■ 
 is designed. '^ '^ °^ amusement for which it 
 
 pii:::%;::;'^i:;-^:i-"-r'^.orcours..he 
 
 aud there is ample room f-'' '' ^"^"''' '"■^'°^'' 
 ;o the younger tl^ro^^rtTpir^n"-'^'"^ 
 forerunner of a desire for knowledge of he pLf "/'^ 
 .ng the stories two rules have been observed fir . 1" '""'" 
 as possible the events described sh!n hi \ ' ^"^ ^' '^"^ 
 
rill 
 
 INTRODUCTION 
 
 opening to the English epic. The contrast to these stirring 
 notes of history revealed in the story of William Rufus is 
 true to history, and the events are taken from the chronicles 
 Henry Lis represented by a chronicle narrative of an episode 
 which turned the course of English history. The reign of 
 Stephen is once more a period of fighting and the finish to 
 the Norman rule. Henry II. comes out well in Scott's story 
 of the Flemings ; and Richard Coeur de Lion is perforce 
 represented by the supposed interview between that wild 
 monarch and Robin Hood hich is taken from Scott. 
 John is represented by the historical drama of Shake- 
 speare, and brings us to the shameful surrender of the 
 kingdom to the Pope. The story from Mrs. Radcliffe 
 fairly illustrates Henry III.'s position, and it introduces 
 Prmce Edward in his true light. The border warfare 
 with Scotland in Edward the First's reign is .-.gain repre- 
 sented by Scott. An anonymous author of not much 
 brilliancy gives us the fateful battle of Bannockburn, which 
 proclaimed that the second Edward did not partake of his 
 great sire's wondrous ability. For Edward III. we have for 
 the first time a contribution from the pen of John Gait, and 
 the episode which led up to the ina'i.;uration of the Order of 
 the Garter is chosen as the representative story. The well- 
 known story of Richard II. and Wat Tyler is told by Pierce 
 Egan. Henry IV. is illustrated from Shakespeare, and for 
 Henry V. the wondrous epic outburst of the great poet on 
 Agincourt is utilized. Henry VI. is depicted as he resumed 
 the throne after Edward was dethroned by Warwick ; but while 
 the king's character is perhaps a true one, it is doubtful 
 whether Lytton has not drawn too favourably the position of 
 the crafty Warwick. Lytton's fine but o/erwrought descrip- 
 tion of Edward IV. and Gloucester, and Warwick and Mon- 
 tagu at Barnet, is the nextt,reat event, an event which prac- 
 tically terminated the feudal life of England. The pathetic 
 
INTRODUCTION 
 
 story of the young princes, Edward V and hi. K .u • 
 ta>«. from Shakespeare. The death nfl, °"'"' " 
 PlantagenetB, Richard III is told hv\f t '"" °^ ''"' 
 Shelley in her little tJ-n 'V°'°.'''^ ^'^y Woollstoncraft 
 
 ;;." Warheck.'t.'^ri -^r-n ""'^ °\^"- 
 depicts the cruel tho.mh „„r. " ^ ^"^^"^ which 
 
 wards Perkin "tbecf wroX^^^^^^ °' "^"^ ^"- '"• 
 Richard Duke of York Tr^H , '' "'"'"' "' "'^ «=" 
 More by Henry VHI is bZr ''• °' ''' ^''°"'" 
 mind in Miss Mann ng'rer^alhl'"'' """' ''^'"^'^ '"« 
 Thomas More's favourite SS t7' '°"' " '' "^ "'^ 
 VI. also is illustrated LT^ ^ ''^'8" °^ ^'^ward 
 
 ^elating to KrSelH:" :hrr ar^^eaTd-'-^'' 
 reahsnc picture of the peasants' revoU Ma v ? '° ' 
 agam to war, and the pitiful fir,hf / r . ^ ^""^^ "' 
 •old from Ainsworth- sC^ of'the tack ' ^'"^ """^ " 
 of London. Eliiabeih', „I "^ °" ">« Tower 
 
 'hebattleagain he soan h'T '^°'^'' '^ ''^P^esen.ed by 
 
 .han HastinVLtnglr reetrth'a'''^'''" '«'' ^^- 
 - told by the brillian't pen of Chal^T""? °' "'"'' 
 exquisite story of James T V J ^^'ngsley. The 
 
 founded on hlory iodract r 'n' "^'"'^ '^°«- ""' 
 
 arch from the humoZn™;'?"^ ''" '"°"- 
 that the story represent In \T '"" "°' '° Relieve 
 
 suppliesther'oma' ceTo Char T th""7""- ''=°" ="- 
 rose being the event wLvh > •' "^"^"' '^g'" "^yMont- 
 period. And Scrtto: J '""'"" ''^'■"' ''^'^ ^"d stormy 
 half legendary story ,rhi;h 1." .f T' °' ^^°'"-^". =^ 
 hand,comesltrea. enoth s aeh ""'T' ^"""'"^ 
 great Protector. The shamlll^^Xll if ' °' ''''^ 
 sented by the shameful act of 7he K „ ^ "" '' '^P^^' 
 
X INTRODUCTION 
 
 by the battle of Sedgmoor. The event of William and 
 Mary's reign, which stands out conspicuously, is the battle of 
 Killiecrankie and the death of Claverhouse of Dundee, which 
 is told by John Gait in feverish covenanting spirit. We 
 reach Queen Anne through the great master of English his- 
 torical fiction, and, perhaps, the little picture which Thac- 
 keray gives of Marlborough's officer's coquetting with the 
 Pretender is strong enough to tell how nearly England got 
 back again to the rule of the Stuarts. The period of the 
 (luelphs is reached by the story of Preston fight by Ainsworth, 
 and continued by Scott's masterly description of a landing by 
 the young Pretender (in the reign of George II., after the 
 battle of CuUoden) and the quiet dispersal of the Jacobites 
 by diplomacy rather than arms— an episode which perhaps 
 has no warrant in history, but which truly represents the 
 position of the Hanoverian line of kings in relation to the 
 Stuarts in their last days. For George III. there was much 
 to choose from, but the great name of Charles Dickens 
 determined the choice to be the religious cry raised by 
 Lord George Gordon. The battle of Waterloo, while 
 George IV. was regent, told by Thackeray, is perhaps one 
 of the most masterly sketches of a great event in a short 
 space that could possibly be conceived. And finally, the 
 poor reign of William IV. is represented from its social side 
 and by the peasant war against machinery in the grand and 
 passionate style of Charlotte Bront^. 
 
 Thus we have run through the centuries of English 
 history since England was finally fashioned at the Con- 
 quest. The events are great enough and small enough 
 for all purposes of illustrative observation, and perhaps 
 the different stories will be read by those who do not 
 know the originals from which they are taken, but who are 
 by means of this book introduced to a few of the glories 
 of English romance as it appears glamoured over by the 
 
INTRODUCTION 
 
 xi 
 
 «enera.swho,e.d .he a™' r'orTe ^ ^The ri" 
 of events ,, well Lrough, out by the storie, L a„y 1' 
 can judge by contrasting the two accounts of the baftle of 
 deSr; " Mar'""'°°- 0"'"''i«-ca. phasest^lo 
 
 ,e!T,lt J^ T'"' .'*'*"' 'P^"=''' '"'^^ 'heir changes duly 
 represented, and not inadequately 
 
 The plan has been to lift each story from its place in the 
 
 lovel from which it is taken, and leT it stand one a a 
 
 -meo of English historical fiction. Only to g.Ve a date 
 
 oadd a name, or to slightly vary a descriptfve opening 
 
 sentence has the original been touched, except where^tTas 
 
 been necessary to shorten the extract ^y om'ting Pas^ge 
 
 of ummportant relevancy to the purpose of a shon "^ 
 
 o?an h k" '"r" '""' '"''^°' ^P^'"'^ f°' himself. ThT, 
 P an has been adopted as much for the purpose of securing 
 l.terary accuracy as for the benefit of the narrative ^ 
 n. y be thought to occasion here and there a 1 lof il 
 t^ductory description of certain fictional characters but 
 his ,s not so great a drawback as would at first sight 
 appear ,f the stories are properly read. One ne d nj 
 
 except °ha" hi ' "'°J' J"""'" ''"'y ^' Brussels 
 
 except that he represents hundreds of such men. And 
 
 ^t:^"-''''°'"^"-- They are representatives 
 
 Taken as a whole, I think it will be admitted that Eng- 
 
 ish romantic literature must be allotted a higher place 
 
 han has gene,.lly been considered its due; and t need 
 
 hardly be sa,d, that if this book should lead a few 
 
 .he ?H /r' '^"' ""'^ ''°'" "•^''^'^ '' - derived, to 
 the tudy o hterary history for which it is in some son 
 an aid, to the sludy of political and social history for 
 
xii 
 
 INTRODUCTION 
 
 which it forms in more senses than one a very strong plea— 
 if it makes any young mind think well of the history which 
 he inherits, if he does not know, then, I shall rest satisfied 
 that It has filled a place on our bookshelves which was 
 waiting to be filled. 
 
 The Frontispiece is reproduced from one of" The Tapes- 
 try Hangings of the House of I^rds," engravings of which 
 were published by John Pine in 1739. These tapestries 
 are historical. 
 
 In the old House of Lords, destroyed by fire on October 
 »4tli, 1834, there existed a suite of tapestry representing 
 the engagements between the English and Spanish Fleets, 
 and of this Pennant, in Some Account of London, says: 
 "The House of Lords is a room, ornamented with the 
 tapestry which records our victory over the Spanish Armada 
 It was bespoke by the Earl of Nottingham, Lord High Ad- 
 miral, and Commander-in-Chief. The Earl sold it to James 
 I. The design was drawn by Cornelius Vroan, and the 
 tapestry execut, by Francis Spiering. Vroan had a hun- 
 dred pieces of gold for his labour. The arras itself cost 
 ;f 1,628. It was not put up till the year 1650, two years 
 after the extinction of the monarchy, when the House of 
 Lords was used as a Committee Room for the House of 
 Commons." 
 
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CONTENTS 
 
 •• HA,o.n= How. H«o.K,„B Fought .ndDWfcEnsUnd. 
 
 a- William I. : How Tr«.i,™ Mr , ■*-'^«^-0'"'w 
 
 William """"^ *"""■« '■8'" f" King 
 
 3. WaLUM II. : I„ u,.-paU„ of i Co„'^'u.?ors„r-'"-"'"' 
 
 4- """V I. = How, King-. Son WM Drowned. ''""'•'"'"" 
 5. St.,.„b. , A high, fo. King SifpJn'"''"" '^"""""""^ 
 
 6- HESKV II. : „„„ .H. r,.„.„^, ^.,f^ ";tr^'""'''"' 
 
 7- R.C ..Ko I. : The Return of the Lion-lf "^'■'" '"" 
 
 8- John : The Kingdom Surrendered. ^'' ^"' "'"'"^ ^"" 
 HE.VRV m. : A Cry for Justice ^ »'"""«JM',f,,r. „ 
 E.nv.KO I. : A CaTtle h^d f the King. "^ """■ '''""'' "* 
 
 Edward II. : Scot, and English "" ^"' "'f'" ^"" '" 
 
 Edward III. • Twn k:„„. jr." ' ■"'•'»>ymms 135 
 
 K.C..ARD II. ; ,^;° Xm." '^■'.^- ,/;>t''/- '4' 
 
 H^-VKV IV. : The King is Dead, Long LivfThXl""" ''° 
 He.nrv V. = Agincourt ^y'^H^'n Shakespeare .58 
 
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 H}' Mary W. SI. . .., 
 
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 IUx«v VII. I A I*« Sum! ror the Whil. Rom. 
 
 n.«.v V„,., Th. T,U1 .„d K».lf7^^!!Z 
 
 MAtv : A t ,ght for th. Crown. . Jfj, i,r „ ^,„^,„2 
 Elizaietii : How the Spanish Arm.d« w.. Defctd. 
 
 JAMM I. ! The King he would a lluniing go. 
 
 ,. , _, •*>' Sir H'alier Sedl 
 
 Charles I. , The llighUnder. to the Re«., of ihei, King. 
 
 fly Sir ll'alltr Sea// 
 Co»iMONWi!Ai,TH! Wh.t Cromwell «w in the Portrait of 
 
 theK,,^. ■ . . . JlySirlia/Z/rS,.// 
 CHARLES U. : How > My.terioui Order was Given by a 
 
 Koyal Duke. . a. / i ./ 
 
 ,,„„.,, „ . „ ■ By Uigh Huh/ 
 
 JAMES II. ! How the Commonalty Fought for a Royal Duke. 
 
 ,,, . By C. Griffin 
 
 William and Mary = A Shot for Freedom. Byjchn UaU 
 Anne : A King and no King. By If. M. Thacktrn 
 
 GEORO. I : Guelph and Stuart. By W. H. Ain/^crik 
 George II. : How the Guelph Fought the Last Battle with 
 
 George III : No Popery. . . By CiarU, Di.t,„, 
 George IV. (Regency): The Sound of Revelry and of War. 
 
 William IV. : The New Warfare. By Ckcrh/u Bron/i 5^ 
 
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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 
 
 Ki". R.ch.„, .„., y ^,';;; '^^'' '-'"•' llcnry „. 
 At the Court of Ht„,^ I „ ' ' • • 
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 King Edward m. ,nd ih. r ' 
 
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 The Utath of Watwu-k ' ' " ' • 
 
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How a Hero-King Fought 
 and Died for England 
 
 array. Mass had bel "a , Od " h'^"" °'" '" '''^"'^ 
 'ance had blessed the troo,' a^d ""= '^"'^''"P °f Cou- 
 
 -ore to eat flesh on thi "n^ L" ''Tl"^ '^'"'^ ^°- never 
 had mounted his snowlh " ^h ' "^''"' '''^' ^"^^ Odo 
 
 up 'he cavalry against the iin'oTh T f^''^ ^-»•" 
 The army was marshalled in M "! '"^ brother the Duke. 
 
 Roger de Montgommcri and wr^' .^•''■^'■°"^- 
 fi"t; and with then, >"/ 2^Zt T "^"^^'"^"^ '^'^ ">e 
 countship of Boulogne and tt« " ^''^"^y and the 
 MartelandtheOermCHuis? ' ^^""''^ ' G^Tric 
 
 Wd of Thouars, and the s^," if ll""' "^ ^^""y> Aimeri, 
 B-tagne, led the second whch c "" '>"'' °"^<= "' 
 of the allies from BretLne and M ''"' "' """ '^"'^ 
 both these divisions were ,nV T"'' '""^ ^'""°"- B"t 
 
 their own special NormTn S'"' "'" ^°™"-' ""''" 
 
 th/moit i:s ::;' tn:';,?^-' ''^--•^' ^-ope. 
 
 kniglus bore the French titl^^ 'u'' ^^''^" 'hose 
 Scandinavian names had bloL, ' r '"'"^'' ""-''^ ancestral 
 fou and Harcourt Abbev le and r^'-""^ °^ ^-"- 
 Grantmesnil, Lacie D'Ain ou^ and n U ^ ""' ''°""''=''^'' 
 sell preserving, amidst thdrnf '*'"'""; °f whether, 
 that had scattSed dfsly Lth ^ """' "^ "'"^ — 
 0-™eandXonstain,\f:;;:fi— ---t^ 
 
HAROLD 
 
 Bruse. And over this division presided Duke William. 
 Here was the main body of the matchless cavalry, to which, 
 however, orders were given to support either of the other 
 sections, as need might demand. And with this body were 
 also the reserve. For it is curious to notice that William's 
 strategy resembled in much that of the last great Invader 
 of Nations— relying first upon the effect of the charge; 
 secondly, upon a vast reserve brought to bear at the exact 
 moment on the weakest point of the foe. 
 
 Ail the horsemen wjre in complete link or net mail, 
 armed with spears and strong swords, and long, pear-shaped 
 shields, with the device either of a cross or a dragon. The 
 archers, on whom William greatly relied, were numerous in 
 all three of the corps, were armed more lightly — helms on 
 their heads, but with leather or quilted breastplates, and 
 "lianels," or gaiters, for the lower limbs. 
 
 But before the chiefs and captains rode to their several 
 posts, they assembled round William, whom Fitzosborne 
 had called betimes, and who had not yet endued his heavy 
 mail, that all men might see suspended from his throat 
 certain relics chosen out of those on which Harold had 
 pledged his fatal oath. Standing on an eminence in front 
 of all his lines, the consecrated banner behind him, and 
 Bayard, his Spanish destrier, held by his squires at his side, 
 the Duke conversed cheerily with his barons, often pointing 
 to the relics. Then, in sight of all, he put on his mail, and, 
 by the haste of his squires, the back-piece was presented to 
 him first. The superstitious Normans recoiled as at an 
 evil omen. 
 
 "Tut!" said tlie ready chief; "not in omens and divina- 
 tions, but in God, trust I ! Yet, good omen indeed is this, 
 and one that may give heart to the most doubtful, for it 
 betokens that the last shall be first— the dukedom a king- 
 dom, the count a king ! Ho there, Rou de Terni ! as 
 Hereditary Standard-bearer take thy right, and hold fast 
 to yon holy gonfanon." 
 
HOW A HERO-KING FOUGHT 3 
 
 "™ for „y sword, and lyllt\tZZt ■""' ''«"' 
 my trusty shield." '^ charger's rem and 
 
 mg fro™ ih, g.e™ ..d kigte " "' "'"'»"«" 
 
 Thll'" *'■" ■"* "•" " "• -a ». «~... d. 
 
 maesty of brow and mien Wnu^t ''s 'n „ ^.^ ^.^g^j^^ 
 
HAKOLD 
 
 10 avenge our whole nation for the felonies of yonder 
 English. They b'tchered our kinsmen the Danes, on the 
 night of St. Brice ; they murdered Alfred, the brother of 
 their last King, and decimated the Normans who were with 
 him. Vondcr they stand- malefactors that await their 
 doom ! and ye the doomsmen ! Never, even in a good 
 cause, were yon English illustrious for warlike temper and 
 martial glory. Remember how easily the Danes subdued 
 them! Are ye less than Danes, or I than Canute? By 
 victory ye obtain vengeance, glory, honours, Unds, spoil — 
 aye, spoil beyond your wildest dreams. By defeat— yea, 
 even but by loss of ground, ye are given uj) to the sword ] 
 Escape there is not, for the ships are useless. Before you 
 the foe, behind you the ocean ! Normans, remember the 
 feats of your countrymen in Sicily ! Behold a Sicily more 
 rich I Lordships and lands to the living— glory and salva- 
 tion to those who die under the gonfanon of the Church ! 
 On, tc the cry of the Norman warrior ; the cry before which 
 have fled so often the prowest Paladins of Burgundy and 
 France—' JVoire Dame et De.x aide t ' " 
 
 Meanniiile, no less vigilant, and in his own strategy no 
 less skilful, Harold had marshalled his men. He formed 
 two divisions : those in front of the entrenchments ; those 
 within it. At the first the men of Kent, as from time 
 immemorial, claimed the honour iif the van, under "the 
 Pale Charger" — famous banner of Hengist. This force 
 was drawn up in the form of ihe Anglo-Danish wedge ; the 
 foremost lines in the triangle aU in heavy mail, armed with 
 their gre.it axes, and covered by their immense shields. 
 Behind these lines, in the interior of the wedge, were the 
 archers, protected by the front rows of the heavy armed ; 
 while the few horsemen— few indeed compared with the 
 Norman cavalry— were artfully disposed where they could 
 best harass and distract the formidable chivalry with which 
 they were instructed to skirmish, and not peril actual en- 
 counter. Ot.'ier bodies of the light armed— slingers, javelin 
 
HOW A HERO-KING FOUGHT 5 
 
 wood, and dyke" -it Nf'?"""^ by trees, brush- 
 warlike popula,ion„orh, he vf"^''""' <"'=" '»' ="' <he 
 
 shame and future ruin ah.,.m r , ' "'^"' P^^sent 
 
 a few who had joined h2 ,',"'"' '^^''^' ''■'^^' '"^eed, 
 
 Hut there were, he n^td" 'r"» "'"''> '° L""""" 
 wi.h the pure str 0/ L^' S''"^'^^'''- -'^ E^-, 
 
 ''ody of the sturdy Anglo DaneVfr r"'^' """^ ' '"«« 
 and Norfolk. Men too tl r ^'""'^'""^^''^^hko. Ely 
 
 ..ood fron-. ..orsetiyretr^nd'^orou f er" ''' ''"'' 
 
 -?t''^r^nff,^ir---= 
 
 tyl-ing) were united undo tSir ' T '"""'''' ^°' 
 
 Every ten of these tythi"; had t "'""'"• 
 
 Jc- to the populace' pface'f' '""'t '°'"^' "^'"^f' 
 
 spread front hoLhold. h^t rn-tiirall'^o 'f T'^ 
 
 '-i^^^ -hat wondiSn^r-h^^^-- ^^- 
 
 -.h^compani^rhrsSr^''"^^'''^'' '° "^'-^ ^''■""X 
 the „,artial liast-AnglianlrioM "''''''"'' '"''■"^ '''""^ ^f 
 and Middlesex, and'^. both , trnt^T^I'^ ''°"'''^" 
 'emperand athletic habits rtnkedh "''"'' '"'"'■^' 
 
 stalwart of the troops, mixed "sth-f ""'""^ '''' "'°»' 
 warlike Dane and L^; 1 o'^ InT T ''""' '^« 
 was comprised the reserve AnH. ""s division, too, 
 by the pihsades and breaTt'wofk, / T "" '="<=°'"P^^sed 
 sorties, whence the defe ,1 Jm : " T '"' ''"' ''"' "'^-=«= 
 at need the vang. 1. """if'" -""'y- °^ '"rough which 
 
 armed had mail £ .^ •'"•^"■'^^'- All the heavy 
 
 elds similar to the Nornuns, though 
 
f> ilAROLD 
 
 somewhat less heavy; the light armed had, some tunics of 
 quilted linen, some of hide; helmets of the last material, 
 spears, javelins, swords, and clubs. But the main arm of 
 the host was in the great shield, and the great axe wielded 
 by men larger in stature and stronger of muscle than the 
 majority of the Normans, whose physical race had deterio- 
 rated partly by intermarriage with the more delicate Frank 
 partly by the haughty disdain of foot exercise 
 
 Mounting a swift and light steed, intended not for en- 
 counter (for it was the custom of Engli.h kings to fight on 
 foot, in token that where they fought there was no retreat), 
 but to bear the rider rapidly from line to line. King Harold 
 rode to the front of the vanguard-his brothers by his side. 
 His head, hke his great foe's, was bare, nor could there be 
 a more striking contrast than that of the broad unwrinkled 
 brow of the Saxon, with his fair locks, the sign of royalty 
 ami freedom, parted and falling over the collar of mail 
 the clear and steadfast eye of blue, the cheek somewhat 
 hollowed by kingly cares, but flushed now with manly pride 
 -the form stalwart and erect, but spare in its graceful 
 symmetry, and void of all that theatric pomp of bearing 
 which was assumed by William-no greater contrast could 
 there be than that which the simple earnest Hero-king pre- 
 sented, to the brovv furrowed with harsh ire and politic wile 
 the shaven hair of monastic affectation, the dark, sparkling 
 tiger eye, and the vast proportions that awed the gaze in 
 the port and form of the imperious Norman. Deei) and 
 loud and hearty as the shout with which his armaments had 
 welcomed William, was that which now greeted the King of 
 the Knghsh host : and clear and full, and practised in the 
 storm of popular assemblies, went his voice down the 
 listening lines. 
 
 "This day, O friends and Englishmen, sons of our 
 common land-this day ye fight for lib.^rty. The Count of 
 the Normans hath, I know, a mighty army; I disguise not 
 its strength. That army he hath collected together, by 
 
HOW A HERO-KING FOUGHT , 
 
 greatest chief boons nobler than tlrl t' '."""°' °^" '° hi. 
 freeman-liberty, and rfgVt and ' " '° ""^ "'^''"^^' 
 fathers I Ye have heard flhenv ' '" "'' '°''^ °f ^is 
 '"»e under the Dane but .h^ ""' ^""^"""^ '" 'he old 
 which ye n,ay expe t fron IT ''''"" '""''" '° 'hosr 
 kindred to us in languag^nd in h °'"'^"' ^'"= '^''"^ "'" 
 Saxon from Dane? But von ""'"'^ '""^ ""^^ <='"• 'ell 
 language ye know no,, l,yala",hr T""''' '"^' ^^ '" " 
 "ght of the sword, and divide! he f"T "'' """" "^ " 
 hngs of an army, w^ iZlfZ k r '^ ""'^''S 'he hire- 
 '-edh, fierce'souMnlr S!''^J.'7'-'^ 'he Church 
 Church Itself their ally and mt ' ^ . ^°" ""'" """ke the 
 hanner profaned to . ; f^lr^f"'" "-^S^ under the 
 'icourings of all nations, they clml "" ""°"^' ' O"'" 
 as brothers under the eyeY of v Tu ^°" = ^'^ "ght 
 chiefs; J. fight fo, „^ women ': m"' ""^ ^''-- 
 ravsher; y« fight fo, ,he chfldren "^ '"" '"™'" 'he 
 
 eternal bondage; ye fiX for tt ,/' ^"'"^ f™"' 
 
 now darkens ! Foreign pr£ ' a t " """' '"" '«"'"" 
 f rn as ye shall find foreign baron n n't"' '' '""""= ^"^ 
 dream of retreat ; every inch ofTro ^ l"^ ' '-^' "" "'an 
 ^"il of your native land '"f!" "^ /round that ye yield is the 
 Think that mine ej^L ■; 21 T' "I""" '^^'^ ' P"" all. 
 hne waver or shrink veshTK ^ "^"'^^^ >'^ are. If » 
 your King. HmI^^T yZ 'V': '"^'^^ ^'^ ^oij ^f 
 amongst you as fought with „l " ' ''^""^"'^^r, such 
 member that it was not d the V^""" "''•^drada-re. 
 rallies, their serried arraj ,h,t our ""'" '"''' ^^^ "'h 
 'hem. Be warned by the r fa .1 err ™k "T'''''' =■«=""«' 
 of the battle; and I tell you on fh;'- u"'''"' "°' "^^ form 
 never yet hath left field without J'cL'" °J " ^°""" "ho 
 
 ^ea'en. While xspea,.h;::^r::ysi>:—- 
 
8 
 
 HAROLD 
 
 Norse ships, bearing hoine the corpse of Hardrada. Ac- 
 complish this day the last triumph of England; add to 
 these hills a new mount of the conquered dead I And 
 when, in far times and strange lands, scald and scop shall 
 praise the brave man for some valiant deed wrought in some 
 holy cause, they shall say, ' He was brave as those who 
 fought by the side of Harold, and swept from the sward of 
 England (he hosts of the haughty Norman.' " 
 
 Scarcely had the rapturous huirahs of the Saxons closed 
 on this speech, when full in sight, to the north-west of 
 Hastings, came the (Irst division of the Invader. 
 
 Harold remained gazing at them, and, not seeing the 
 other sections in movement, said to Gurth, " If these are 
 all that they venture out, the day is ours." 
 
 " Look • ,der ! " said the sombre Haco, and he pointed 
 to the long array that now gleamed from the wood through 
 which the Saxon kinsmen had p.issed the night before ; and 
 scarcely were these cohorts in view, than lo ! from a third 
 qu.irter advanced the glittering knighthood under the Duke. 
 All three divisions came on in simultaneous assault, two on 
 either wing of the Saxon vanguard, the third (the Norman) 
 towards the entrenchments. 
 
 In the midst of the IJuke's cohort was the sacred gon- 
 fanon, and in front of it and of the whole line, rode a 
 strange warrior of gigantic height. And as he rode, the 
 warrior sang— 
 
 *' Chaiintiiig loud tlie lusty strain 
 Of Knland and of Charleniain, 
 And Ihe de.id, wlio, di-athless all. 
 Fell at famous Koncesval." 
 
 And the knights, no longer singing hymn and litany, 
 swelled, hoarse t:irough their helmets, the martial chorus. 
 This warrior, in front of the Duke and the horsemen, 
 seemed beside himself with the joy of battle. As he rode, 
 and as he chaunted, he threw up his sword in the air like 
 a gleeman, catching it nimbly as it fell, and flourishing it 
 wildly, till, as if unable to restrain his fierce exhilaration, 
 
now A HERaKING TOUGHT 5 
 
 what .seemed rljr TVT ,'""' "'^ '^°^' ^ ^ut'l 
 knight's fnir fence "LLXv ^'" °' ''""'^ '^an a 
 '"g hi. sword with nS ;,eT:L', "1"« ""'"" «'="- 
 Saxon from tlie helm to h! v ^' ''"'''' """■ ""happy 
 corpse, shouting and ,n ^h t'T, "' "■''"« "^^ '^' 
 'enge. A second rode fonh and L '^ .'"J""'''"''''^ *"' chal- 
 rest of the KnKhsl, hnr. ""^ ""^ ''"•"e fate. The 
 
 'he >^houtingti'n^T ''"'''' "" <^"<--'' "'her aghaV 
 "night ,.ut ICf; n TSnT' "r"^" '° '"^ - 
 all other battle, in sM. of ,"' I"?'''"'' P^'^'''"'""y 'o 
 -fficed todam^ 'he aSour of Thet'^'r''!; ""»"^' »•'- 
 «-me, who had been despatched bv tht .^ ' ""'' ""' ^eof- 
 'o the entrenchments come in 7^ ^'"^ "■'"■ " -""^age 
 »nd his gay spirit, routed nVstunTh °i "" ''"-""-nf; 
 Norman, and the evident Inn' "f ^h .' '"'°''"'^'' "^ '"^ 
 out thought of his graver du^!^f J ^' ^'™" "'l"^- "i'h- 
 n.ailed steed to the^Nor ,an ^'..".^^'r^''-'^ his light half, 
 his sword, but with his sne^r^m 1 ' ""' '^^^" ''^"^ing 
 form covered by his :;i:'; l^HedT k' '"^=''' '^""^ '"' 
 "(■c and chant to the fou rl^Tr. Romance tongue, 
 Taillefer rushed forward hi r^H, '™'^''"« """^•^•-' ' " 
 shield, and in the sa e mo nenT h f ir^^^'' "" ""•' S^™" 
 hoofs Of his steed, tranl^ .J'ti: 1?"'"' ""'^^ '"= 
 
 A cry of woe, in which even \Vir,; 7u '''"• 
 poet's achievements, had prrsedloT/"^"' P™"" °' ^'^ 
 tlm new encounter) joined hs V ""°'' ^''"' *° ^^« 
 
 'he Norman ranks wle rl r^ ''°''''' ^^''^-^ 'hrough 
 -rds them, halted '. mot IuTT, "^' "'''''"'"^'y 'O" 
 the midst w,th so d dly ' T T """« '''■' 'i'^^' '" 
 
 sr"-oof.,i,.am.r^,^„:'r5j;e^r,j:;:s^ 
 
10 
 
 HAROLD 
 
 "How like ye, O Normans, the Saxon gleemen?" said 
 Leofwine, as he turned slowly, regained the detachment, 
 and bade them heed carefully the orders they had received, 
 viz., to avoid the direct charge of the Norman horse, but to 
 tolte every occasion to harass and divert the stragglers ; and 
 then blithely singing a Saxon stave, as if inspired by Normal' 
 minstrelsy, he rode into the entrenchments. 
 The war now raged. 
 
 The two divisions of the invading army that included the 
 auxiliaries, had sought in vain to surround the English van- 
 guard, and take it in the rear ; that noble phalanx had no 
 rear. Deepest and strongest at the base of the triangle, 
 everywhere a front opposed the foe; shields formed a 
 rampart against the dart-spears a palisade against the 
 horse. While that vanguard maintained its ground, 
 William could not pierce to the entrenchments, the strength 
 of which, however, he was enabled to perceive. He now 
 changed his tactics, joined his knighthood to the other 
 sections, threw his hosts rapidly into many wings, and 
 leaving broad spaces between his archers— who continued 
 their fiery hail— ordered his heavy-armed foot to advance 
 on all sides upon the wedge, and break its ranks for the 
 awaiting charge of his horse. 
 
 Harold, still in the centre of the vanguard, amidst the 
 men of Kent, continued to animate them all with voice 
 and hand ; and, as the Normans now closed in, he flung 
 himself from his steed, and strode on foot, with his mighty 
 battle-axe, to the spot where the rush was dreadest. 
 
 Now came the shock— the fight hand to hand : spear 
 and lance were thrown aside, axe and sword rose and shore 
 But before the close-serried Imes of the English, with their 
 physical strength, and veteran practice in their own special 
 arm, the Norman foot were mowed as by the scythe. In 
 vain, in the intervals, thundered the repeated charges of 
 the fiery knights ; in vain-throughout all, came the shaft 
 and the bolt, 
 
HOW A HERaKING FOUGHT „ 
 
 the™ rr,1if,f : P^^^^^^^^ «gh.i„g a«on«,. 
 
 forwce. his voice ever „rZL ' ^" "^^ «"'' quick to 
 -served not . foo, L^? '° *""' ">« ""« of Kent 
 Norman infantry wlv'ed ,„;" '"'°""'"''''' '"""»• The 
 "III unbroken in ar^v ■.«""' ""y-- °''. "ep by 1' 
 
 flmsoundof..HaW Ha' ?«'''«'' '"~^'= «»>« 
 
 »'e but women in the garb of No ' "■"• " ^"' ^"^iers 
 ""^'■e ! With me to the °h,r ^ • "°' ^P^rs to the 
 :.>ttain_wi,h me, jLt R, ^*' ^"" "'^-m^'e and De 
 ne Graville and £tme!n rA"' ""' *^°''»'"-»ith me 
 And heading hi, proS i^ ." ""^ ' N°"« nam^'! 
 
 '"-derbolt.onthebili: 'ndsSd', 'h"'" '^""^- - « 
 a mmute before had been !n T ^"°^'^' ^ho scarce 
 
 a' the brunt of that cha^V IT'" I""'' *« "'^^^y 
 foremost line, leaving nought bu^.r'^'^""^" ''"^" 'he 
 pear.points against The h^rsl Wh^''^''?'*''^' ""d 'heir 
 axem both hands, bent forwa;d th ^ v''""'* "'«'". 'he 
 "nk. to smite and to crush aIh T ^""^ '" ">= '^-^ond 
 'V'.-dge, poured the shafts of th.'.""" "'* ^°"' °' 'he 
 'he dust half the charge of hn,"l "'^ °°"" ™"«d in 
 on h.s saddle; the dfead Ut h 'li"'''" «'"»« '«=«=>ed 
 'oPPed by the axe. De GravSe I L°^ '''^""""^ Wl 
 foiled at the feet of HaroM '^ .""^ f™™ his horse 
 great steed and his coK/ """^^ ^^'"■"m. borne by hU 
 ' -« dealt, right and left Z"t """'^'^ ""«' ""k-l 
 <^'"b. till he felt his hor e si^k-n^ !."°''^' °' '''^ iron 
 carceb. time to back from h" fo! ""''" *"'"-'•"'» had 
 beyond reach of their weLn! '^°'-f'"-«'y 'ime to get 
 fr'ghtfully gashed , uJhT .' "" "'^ ^P='"''^h destrie/ 
 P'-n. His knights swt ',l7r''' ''^" ''"'' °" « 
 leapt from selle to yield hfm their ch' ""^""'y '^"""s 
 one r earest to hand, sprang to foot T'"' "^ ^^'O'^ 'he 
 back to his lines. ^ ° '^°°' ""^^ 'o stirrup, and rode 
 
13 
 
 HAROLD 
 
 The Norman inrantry, who had been berore rernlling, no 
 sooner saw their Duke (whom ihcy recognised liy his steed 
 and equipment) fall on the ground, than, setting up a shout, 
 "The Duke is dead !" they fairly turned round, and did 
 fast in disorder. 
 
 The fortune of the day was now wellnigh turned in 
 favour of the Saxons ; and the confusion of the Normans, 
 as the cry of "The Duke is dead !" reached, and circled 
 round, the host, would have hcen irrecoverable, had Harold 
 |)ossi;ssed a cavalry fit to press the advantage gained, or 
 had not William himself rushed into the midst of the 
 fugitives, throwing his helmet hack on his neck, showing 
 his fare, all animated with fierce valour and disdainful 
 wratli, while he cried aloud— 
 
 "Hive, ye varlets ! llchold the face of a chief who 
 never yet forgave coward ! Ay, tremhle more at me than 
 at yon Knglish, doomed and accursed as they be I Ye 
 Normans, ye ! I blush for you ! " and striking the foremost 
 in the retreat with the flat of his sword, chiding, liniulating, 
 threatening, promising in a breath, he succeeded in staying 
 the flight, reforming the lines, and dispelling the general 
 panic. Then, as he joined his own chosen knights, and 
 surveyed the field, he beheld an opening which the 
 advanced i)osition of the Saxon vanguard had left, and by 
 which his knights might gain the entrenchments. He 
 mused a moment, his face still bare, and brightening, as he 
 mused. Looking round him, he saw Mallet de Gravillc, 
 who had remounted, and said shortly — 
 
 " Pardex, dear knight, we thought you already with St. 
 Michael !-joy, that you live yet to be an English earl. 
 Look you, ride to Fitzosborne with the signal-word, ' La 
 Hardiz passent avant ! ' Off, and quick." 
 
 De Graville bowed, and darted across the plain. 
 
 " Now, my Quens and chevaliers," said William gaily, as 
 he closed his helmet, and took from his squire another 
 spear ; " now, I shall give ye the days great pastime. Pass 
 
HOW A HERO-Ki.VG l-'OUGHT 
 
 '3 
 
 '-rofa,eSnxorvaSd°n,aHT'"?*' ""= '""'" "' ""■■ 
 
 ""s "cvv a>,d more mRem < cT'"' ""■ °''J«'- ""d .eeing 
 'he l«.,ali„n, over wh!"h ! h f "" *"' ^'"'""='-- ^^^'"^^ 
 'he co„,„.and ,o leoft 'o' ,"""'^"'' T"' >'^''''"8 
 slronuously, enjoined th^ , ? """■" ''"^■"y- but 
 
 and on n^J^f /"J 7;! '"''-'->■ th.ir leaders, 
 
 «hich lay their whole ,ren7h,o.h '"' 'u ""' '°™ °' 
 the greater number of , he foj n ''"''""'' "'' ^'"^'"'y '>"'' 
 and attended only by Hico he '" T""""^ ^'" ^orse, 
 
 in the opposite dirL.fon":ThaX'S.rcT '"' """'"• 
 
 As Harold and Haco si.ran.. ,7?. '^ "'"''■'"'• 
 
 entrcnchn,en,s, .he shout of "The Ki„l' T".^- "'""" ""^ 
 
 Crosse ! " came in time to nllv .h. f ®~"' ^'"8 '-""'y 
 
 ■- undergoin, ,he f , 1 S h "r '" ""^ '"""" ^"''. 
 
 The willoiv r.mmrt, """""'•"''■'IfV. 
 
 beneath the Lr " rsr^d" h" ^ T' ""-^ ^'-'^ 
 "•c sharp points on the f^n, fs oT.t M°' "'■"'^''' """^ 
 «cre already gleaming «• ,Tin ,K ^°""''" '''-'*'"'••" 
 
 HaroUl arri^d^t tHru 'o^ a Sr"'!,^-';-" '^- ^■''-- 
 turned ; not one of those rash rid!^s Wr .h ''' "'"' ""•■" 
 they had gained ; steel and hnr T, ""^ <^ntrenchments 
 'he ponderous bat elos and U^ , ""-"" '"'" ''^"-'h 
 baffled, dre. off his cavalry wihth"'' Y" '"'"'"' ^'^'^ 
 tion that those breast-works so m "''■' /'"■'""ant convic- 
 «-" by horse. Slol °he\lhT, '^^ *"' ""' '° "^'-■ 
 »'ope of the hillock, and , ,e Kn^ J'"'"'''^ ''°*" the 
 ^ight, would have left "hei stron.^l!; ""'"""'''^ ''y "'at 
 the warning cry of H.rold Th! '^^'"^ ,'° ''"""« ''"t for 
 gained was promptly "j"; J '^'"'^^^'•■'" the strife thus 
 the palisades. A^nd' tTis dre SoM ' °''' '" "'^"'"^ 
 and the thegns round him, said joSj- "'"' '° "'""• 
 
M 
 
 HAROLD 
 
 "By Heaven's help we shall yet win this day. And 
 know you not that it is my fortuhate day— the day on 
 which, hitherto, all hath prospered with ine, in peace and 
 in war — the day of my birth ? " 
 
 Suddenly the King was recalled to the sense of the 
 present hour, by shouts and cries, in which the yell of 
 Norman triumph jjredominated, at the further end of the 
 field. The signal words to Fitzosborne had conveyed to 
 that chief the order for the mock charge on the Saxon 
 vanguard, to be followed by the feigned flight ; and so 
 artfully had this stratagem been practised, that despite all 
 the solemn orders of Harold, despite even the warning cry 
 of Leofwinc, who, rash ind gay hearted though he was, had 
 yet a captain's skill— the bold English, their blood heated 
 by long contest and seeming victory, could not resist 
 pursuit. They rushed forward impetuously, breaking the 
 order of their hitherto indomitable phalanx, and the more 
 eagerly because the Normans had unwittingly taken their 
 way towards a part of the ground concealing dykes and 
 ditches, into which the English trusted to precipitate the 
 foe. It was as William's knights retreated from the breast- 
 works that this fatal error was committed ; and pointing 
 towards the disordered Saxons with a wild laugh of revenge- 
 ful joy, William set spurs to his horse, and, followed by all 
 his chivalry, joined the cavalry of I'oitou and Boulogne 
 in their swoop upon the scattered array. Already the 
 Norman infantry had turned round— already the horses 
 that lay in ambush amongst the brushwood near the dykes, 
 had thundered forth. The whole of the late impregnable 
 vanguard was broken up— divided corps from corps- 
 hemmed in ; horse after horsf charging to the rear, to the 
 front, to the flank, to the right, to the left. 
 
 Gurth, with the men of Surrey and Sussex had alone kept 
 their ground, but they were now compelled to advance to 
 the aid of their scattered comrades ; and coming up ir close 
 order, they not only a while stayed the slaughter, but again 
 
 K.s 
 
HOW A 
 
 HERCKING FOUGHT 
 
 half turned the day 
 
 Ourth lured the foe\r,; T'!"LIT """"'^y ""oroughly, 
 hundred yards of their o,.. .n'.bu h '^T'™'"' *'""'" " 
 the foreigners was so great that the hn ^"' ""^ '''""^ °f 
 been literally made level with 1 V °"'' "' ''"'"° ''^'^e 
 Vet this combat, however fi rte anH '^" '^ ""'' "^-P^"- 
 -ekto repair the former error, cou d „o brt'" '"" ""'s'" 
 against such disparity of nnmh '""Sn'aintained 
 
 whole of the divlion under ce„ff t"' "'^""'^•>"'^' ""^ 
 captains, had by a fresh ode^ of u'il. "''''' "' "'^ '°- 
 space between the entrenchment! J'"^' """"P'"^ 'he 
 engagement; thus wheX "d? l'", "'" "'""^ '"«"'"' 
 of "he hillocks so lined >Wth t ^ "'^ "''' '"^ ^'>" 'he foot 
 'hat he himself could wi:L\S;VfT"'" '' ''"P^'"^ 
 set h,s teeth Hrmly, looked on / ^' vanguard. He 
 smothered exclan.aflons 1 owed hTs °"'' '^ ^"'"^"^ ='"d 
 fcar. At length he cried- """"""^ °f hope and 
 
 moving this way. The L'ef '''''' ' »'' ' 'hey are 
 'hrough the hea'rt of the f:ff tT Tj" '"'' "^ P^'h 
 drawing off the shattered remains of th ' "'^ '^'"^' "°^ 
 disunited, but still each sec'bn 1 ' ™""'^>'-'"en, still 
 
 on came the English, wfth^eir X'"m"'"' "^"S^"'"'-- 
 'hrough the te.npest of mts eT . T' '""'" head, 
 
 steeds, here and there, throul ,h? ? ""^ ""'^ °^ 'he 
 towards the ontrenchmentTn^J '''! t"'"l' "^ "'^ ^'"P^s, 
 array of Mattel, and harassed behind f ""^ '■°™'''-hle 
 numberless. The King col re' V"''' "'^ ''""''^ 
 He selected fiv« hundred of £ bravr a T"" "° "'"^'^^• 
 
 ::^«r-s=ts-5r^---s 
 '-s:^;::-r^^^^^^ 
 
 . but Gurth. Leofwme, and Vebba hewed 
 c 
 
i6 
 
 HAROLD 
 
 the way for their followers to the side of Harold, and 
 entered the entrenchments, close followed by the nearer 
 foe, who were again repulsed amidst the shouts of the 
 English. 
 
 But, alas I small indeed the band thus saved, and hope- 
 less the thought that the small detachments of English still 
 surviving and scattered over the plain, would ever win to 
 their aid. 
 
 Yet in those scattered remnants were, perhaps, almost the 
 only men who, availing themselves of their acquaintance 
 witli tlie country, and despairing of victory, escaped by 
 Wight from the Field of Sanguei..'\c. Nevertheless, within 
 the entrencliments not a man had lost heart ; the day was 
 already far advanced, no impression had been yet made on 
 the outworks, the position seemed as impregnable as a fortress 
 of stone ; and, truth to say, even the bravest Normans were 
 disheartened, when they !■ oked to that eminence which had 
 foiled the charge of William himself. The Duke, in the 
 recent milk, had received more than one wound, his third 
 horse that day had been slain under him. The slaughter 
 among the knights and the nobles had been immense, for 
 they had exposed their persons with the most desperate 
 valour. And William, afte- surveying the rout of nearly 
 I'ne half of the English army, heard everywhere, to his wrath 
 and his shame, murmurs of discontent and dismay at the 
 prospect of ;,oaling the heights, in which the gallant remnant 
 iiad found their refuge. At this critical juncture, Odo of 
 IJayeu.N, who liad hitherto remained in the rear, with the 
 crowds of monks that accompanied the armament, rode 
 into the full field, where al! the hosts were re forming their 
 lines. He was in complet- mail, but a white surplice was 
 drawn over the steel, his head was bare, and in his right 
 hand he bore the crozier. A formidable club swung by a 
 leather noose from his wrist, to be used only for self- 
 defence : the canons forbade the priest to strike merely in 
 assault. 
 
now A 
 
 HERO-KING FOUGHT ,7 
 
 "'-■hind the milk-white steeH «f n . 
 °f — c, fresh and nb eafhed r'^' ""^'^'-'^ '-dy 
 
 f'her uiMhe harvest? How It""' ^"'' ^'^ ''^™ ''"t t. 
 
 -arnorsof.heCross'avengeLf h T' °' "''' Church! 
 Count, ,f,.ep,ea.,e ; l.ut shrink nofb.lf'"'^ ' '^--' Xo- 
 han man. I.o, i co,„e forth 7n ^ ""' '^ '-"■■'' ■"'Shtier 
 -'« or, bare-headed, the il/''' "'^' '^>' ^''''-- »"h my 
 fa.ls h,.s liege is but a co!va H h '"u'"^ '''"'^- "« 'vl,o 
 apostate ! " o«ard-he who fails the Church Is 
 
 ;H 'tr:fte"';:i 'TT'-' ''' "--...e and 
 l^^^'ght to back them e'nerved h" "" P-^^-'-' a!^' ' 
 «''°'<-' of Wilhani's n,igK ":f "''^ "^X- And now the 
 ''"es seemed to bend wit • ' t "'"^ ""^ fi^'d till its 
 
 steadied orderly_to all s, ',2°"'°"- <^^""^ on serried, 
 of the inutility of hi, h ■ <="trenchment. Au-,r^ 
 
 -'eared, AVilliam'iej in th"'" "" "'^ ^'^'^^^'-orks wel 
 ^^P-rmen, and ar'c h s' ."o 'oi::T "' "^''^^ "">^d fToT 
 ^ades, the sorties from ;h,ch had n^ T' "'""«'' ">- Pal 
 .-}^ they came up the hills 1 M ^''" '""^^""y <^'o^d 
 ";d" Where is thy' battleip","-"'-^ turned .0 Haco Tnd 
 
 Harold," ansH-PF-B/i u 
 of son,bre sadness'tS;"'''" "'"'' '"=■" "is usual tone 
 for thou must use t'hine axe wituTo!^ I' '"^ shield-be :er 
 asts and thy shield is usJe s w.^'"''' "'"'^ 'he daJ 
 ^'>d I w,ll shield thee " '' ^^"erefore thou strike 
 
 tin::/;:::t:di.."'-^---°^s.eyn?:,,.,^_ 
 
 ceasi'^:':i^:;;;J-P-ofmy,ife,andwith.hy,in. 
 covers the breast of LroTd ' "'^ '""''^ ^""■■ds when it 
 ' would bid thee liV,. „' 
 
 ''-"vc, poor youth." whispered Harold; 
 
tS 
 
 HAROLD 
 
 "but what were life if this day were lost? Happy, then, 
 will be those who die ! " 
 
 Scarce had the words left his lips ere he sprang to the 
 breastworks, and with a sudden sweep of his axe, down 
 dropped a helm that peered above them. But helm after 
 helm succeeds. Now they come or, swarm upon swarm, 
 as wolves on a traveller, as bears round a bark. Countless, 
 amidst their carnage, on they come ! The arrows of the 
 Norman blacken the air ; with deadly precision, to each 
 arm, each limb, each front exposed above the bulwarks — 
 whirrs the shaft. They clamber the palisades, the foremost 
 fall dead urder the Saxon axe ; new thousands rush on : 
 vain is the might of Harold, vain had been a Harold's might 
 in every Saxon there ! The first row of breastworks is forced 
 — it is trampled, hewed, crushed down, cumbered with the 
 dead. " Ha Rou ! Ha Rou ! Notre Dame ! Notre Dame! " 
 sounds joyous and shrill, the chargers snort and leap, and 
 charge into the circle. High wheels in air the great mace 
 of William ; bright by the slaughterers flashes the crozier 
 of the Church. 
 
 " On, Normans !— Earldom and land ! " cries the Duke. 
 
 " On, Sons of the Church ! Salvation and heaven ! " 
 shouts the voice of Odo. 
 
 The first breastwork down — the Saxons yielding inch by 
 inch, loot by foot, are pressed, crushed back, into the 
 second enclosure. The same rush, and swarm, and fight, 
 and cry, and roar : — the second enclosure gives way. 
 And now in the centre of the third — lo, before the eyes of 
 the Normans, towers proudly aloft, and shines in the rays 
 of the westering sun, broidered with goM, and blazing 
 with mystic gems, the standard of England's King ! And 
 there, are gathered the reserve of the English host ; there, 
 the heroes who had never yet known defeat — unwearied 
 they by the battle— vigorous, highhearted still ; and round 
 them the breastworks were thicker, and stronger, and 
 higher, and fastened by chains to pillars of wood and 
 
HOW A HERO-KING FOUGHT ,9 
 
 leaning for rest upon 'his axefoTV ""'' ""°"' "'^ '^^' 
 in many places, and the blood o ^ T '""'^ *°""<1^^ 
 his mail. • ° 'he blood oozed through the links of 
 
 die';'"' ""°"^ "■''^ >'^^' -'l Saxon England shall not 
 
 of those within the rlmlr ^^"''''' ^""^ "'^ ^h='f« 
 
 had time to paut^ndTt::;!: ^7hV N '"" ""^ ^°= 
 mean^vhile fle.v fast and thick bm Wm, H ^"°^' 
 
 Brief that they struck against ,h !nT "°'"^ '° ^'' 
 barricades, and so failed >nr I . '"•^astworks and 
 
 He mused a mom nt ZdletT'^'Vl'' '""""^ '"«'«• 
 .0 him three of the chiefs of the rThlf "Th"'''" '° '^^" 
 at the side of his destrier ^>' "'-''= 5°°" 
 
 sh^id^r'farhfrS'Lr;^ '"^ °"''=' ""'^' ^°- 
 
 in the air ; let the arrol fn 1 . °"" "''"' ' Shoot 
 
 -fall as'the vengeance of tr"'""'"°"'''°^^ """in 
 heaven.. Give me^t; bo. ^r'^eHLf "'-„'':," ^^°"^ 
 bow as he sate on his stPP.1 . "^ '^'^«' "le 
 
 descended in the heart o tl """"^ "^^'^^'^ "P- =""1 
 the standard. '"^ '''"""' """in a few feet of 
 
 baSef '"'"'' '^ ^°- -"'." -d 'he Duke, giving 
 
 thrLnTs'rndt"ar """^ "'" '=''^"""^<' '"-Sh 
 iron rain, it'ook the ET.l"'hr'''""^ ''°"" -■"« 'he 
 hi^e cap, and evfn lit t an'in'th ' '"'"'"'' '?'"'='"« 
 ™ade them instinctively loik ip-d t an!7 "'""" ""' 
 
20 
 
 JIAROLD 
 
 A dull groan as from many hearts boomed from the 
 entrenchments on the Norman ear. 
 
 " Now," said William, " they must either use their shields 
 to guard their heads-and their axes are useless— or while 
 they smite with the axe they fall l,y the shaft. On now to 
 the ramparts. I see my crown already resting on yonder 
 standard ! " 
 
 Yet_ despite all, the l-nglish bear up ; the thickness of 
 the ,,uiisades, the comparative smallness of the last enclosure, 
 more easily therefore manned and maintained by the small 
 force of the -.urvivors, defy other weapons than those of the 
 bow. Every Norman who altempls to scale the breastwork 
 IS slam on the instant, and his body cast forth under the 
 hoofs of the baffled steeds. The sun sinks near and nearer 
 towards the red horizon. 
 
 "Courage!" cries the voice of Harold, "hold but till 
 night-fall, and ye are saved. Courage and freedom ! " 
 " Harold and Holy Crosse ! " is the answer. 
 Still foiled, William again resolves to hazard this fatal 
 stratagem. He marked that quarter of the enclosure which 
 was most remote from the chief point of attack-most 
 remote from the provident watch of Harold, «hose cheering 
 voice, ever and anon, he recognised amidst the hurtling 
 clamour. In this quarter the palisades were the weakest 
 and the ground the least elevated ; but it was guarded by 
 men on whose skill with axe and shield Harold placed the 
 firmest reliance— the Anglo-Danes of his old East-Anglian 
 earldom, 'Jhither, then, the Duke advanced a chosen 
 column of his heavy-armed foot, tutored especially by him- 
 self in the rehearsals of his favourite ruse, and accompanied 
 by a band of archers ; while, at the same time, he himself 
 with his brother Odo, headed a considerable company of 
 kmghts under the son of the great Roger de Beaumont, to 
 gain the contiguous level heights on which now stretches 
 the little town of " Battle "; there to watch and to aid the 
 manoeuvre. "1 he foot column advanced to the appointed 
 
HOW A HERO-KING LOUGIIT ,, 
 
 P-ary success only a^^', t^""'"?''- '^"' "^'« ten- 
 
 pouring t,.„u„. ,^,- ;;: ,7 :'"^r ? '":;• ''t"- •^"'' 
 
 he,r axes. Thu column of tl I, '^ '^'■°'' ''™'^'-"'> 
 
 I'ack down tl,c. slope., ^h.!" t 'T''^ ^"^^''^ f^" 
 -they retreat-.hey fly buf ^'7 '' '"" '" '"^"^er 
 -ay on ,l,e descen.-.lfo'se "'d r^ T ' '"""^ ''™' ">'''- 
 -«ii^h-.l,e ten,ptation s i^ "^.fb^' 1 "^^ "?^ '° ""-■ 
 harassed, and n.addened by he W,' f"^ *'''''""'' ^"^ 
 'u^l' ford, at the heels of the m' "" ^"8'°-l>anes 
 -eepingdown to extern, inatth *".'" »»-^Jsmen. and 
 "'fy leave gapes «.ide " "'^"'' "><= ''^^^^h that 
 
 UrZr"'-" "'"' ^""-"- -<! he gallops towards the 
 steeds round the living r" ""'"^ that wheel our war- 
 
 shattered breastworks. ^"S" '° '■^i'lace the 
 
 " Close shields ! Hold h-^t t » k 
 
 liefore him were he stfl n ^ ' ^" """S'^ ^■°'«- 
 At his breast their spea s ^Haco hold" "' '=""""-"'■'■ 
 s re d. Swinging aloft w th both ttt T '"' ''""^' "^'^ 
 o (.rantmesnil is shivered in 'J, vth t^'' ""^ ^^^^"^ 
 Cloven to the skull rolls the steed If n ^'"«' ''^°'''=- 
 
 steed roll on the bloody sward "''■ ^"«'" ^"d 
 
 .Hei^^S::r--^^^^eUcy has br.ken down 
 ;? his knee. ^Vith lif"d blades C "'.'^ " '' ^'"^l'- 
 Norman knights charge througlfthebrcad;''"^ maces the 
 -e-:?\K^^----%S;.. cries the rata, 
 A-hatcr, the Kin, r^esh. flashing eyes. Why halts 
 
33 
 
 HAROLD 
 
 his stride? Why drops the axe froin his hand? As he 
 raised his head, down came the hissing death-shaft. It 
 smote the lifted face ; it crushed into the dauntless eyeball. 
 He reeled, he st.iggered, he fell back several yards, at the 
 foot of his gorgeous standard. With desperate hand he 
 broke the head of the shaft, and left the barb, quivering in 
 the anguish. 
 
 Gurth knelt over him. 
 
 "Fight on," gasped the King; "conceal my death! 
 Holy Crosse ! England to the rescue ! woe— woe I " 
 
 Rallying himself a moment, he sprang to his feet, clenched 
 his right hand, and fell once more — a corpse. 
 
 At the same moment a simultaneous rush of horsemen 
 towards the standard bore back a line of Saxons, and 
 covered the body of the King with heaps of the slain. 
 
 His helmet cloven in two, his face all streaming with 
 blood, but still calm in its ghastly hues, amidst the fore- 
 most of those slain, fell the fated Haco. He fell with his 
 head on the breast of Harold, kissed the bloody cheek 
 with bloody lips, groaned and died. 
 
 Inspired by despair with superhuman strength, Gurth, 
 striding over the corpses of his kinsmen, opposed himself 
 singly to the knights ; and the entire strength of the Eng- 
 lish remnant, coming round him at the menaced danger to 
 the standard, once more drove off the assailants. 
 
 But now all the enclosure was filled with the foe, the 
 whole space seemed gay, in the darkening air, with banderols 
 and banners. High through all, rose the club of the Con- 
 queror ; high, through all, shone the crozier of the Church- 
 man. Not one Englishman fled ; all now centering round 
 the standard, they fell, slaughtering if slaughtered. Man 
 by man, under the charmed banner, fell the lithsmen of 
 Harold. 
 
 Even still in that age, when the Teuton had yet in his 
 veins the blood of Odin, the demi god— even still one man 
 could delay the might o. numbers. Through the crowd, 
 

 
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"ow A iii.:k<).ki.\g i\)l-(;iit .-^ 
 
 shivered, 1„.,„ dn, IdrZ' '■f"^^«l"«^' ^^^ M'-r 
 
 \trsL tlic dcL-ds Ijut not Ihc iiijn,l f.ll 1„ i ■ • 
 
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 cried u'^ll- ' "" ^'■"'""' "^ '""■^^'"f'' ">=" l>--'"«lny nn- '■ 
 
 or'si:;;^:^;;;:;-'-^ '-"'■■ '- '^" "^ "-^ -e 
 
 •'Sorcury," cried lit/.usl,ornc, 
 man, hut fiend " 
 
 •>'A~':dr<=::::i,;r'""'^'^'- •'-••.'-- 
 
 » .".am turned round in wrath nt the cry of mercv and 
 
 y onstan, Cose behind iun,, so that it shad l^S 
 nclniet— he came to the foot of the standnrd ^n,I r 
 --U d,ere .as sin„e hatde U:j:::t''K:^\Z 
 and the Saxon i,ero. Nor, even then, con,,uered by the 
 Norman sword, but exhausted by a hundred wo.nd that 
 ^"ve ch.ef fell, and the falchion vainly pierced Wn, fall L' 
 So, last man at the standard, died Curth ^' 
 
 "r!«lUir'\/w."'' %'r ^'"^'^"^■" "-«"■ 'h. 
 nn„ 7r "'■'" '■'"'^ '"'"■■ ='"d "" ">''t spot Where 
 
 now all forlorn and shattered, amidst stagnant water 
 s ands the altar stone of llattle Abbey, rose thT g i.rer ' 
 
 Jrn^ttor™°""'^-^'^^r^T^''-"-""^' 
 
 —iMKIi LVTTON, //,m/d. 
 
 'sorcery. Thi 
 
II 
 
 How Treachery Won the Fight 
 for King William 
 
 THE Camp of Refuge, wherein the Saxons had so long 
 withstood the violent threats of the Normans, was 
 not in Itself a very noticeal.le place. Hut for the army and 
 the last hopes of ICngland collected therein, the wayfarer 
 might have passed it without any esi>ecial observation, 
 there being several such places in the Fen country, partly 
 surrounded by embankments of earth, and wholly girded 
 in, and doubly or trebly girded by rivers, ditches, pools, 
 and meres. 
 
 There was no moon, and the night was of the darkest, 
 when Elfric, Hereward's sword-bearer, approached the Camp, 
 flying along the ground like a lapwing. As watches were 
 set, and as the men were vigilant as became the soldiers of 
 the Lord of Brunn, he was challenged sundry times before 
 he reached his lord's tent. Hereward was asleep, but at 
 the voice and tidings of his sword-bearer he was presently 
 up and armed, and ready to go the round of the Camp 
 
 "Elfric," said Hereward, "if the traitorous monks of 
 Ely shall have called in their own people, who formed our 
 outer guard, and have given the Normans the clue to the 
 watery labyrinth which has been our streng'h and safety so 
 long, we may still hold out against more than one assault 
 behind the embankments of this Camp, provided only our 
 people do not get panic-stricken by the suddenness of the 
 attack, and in the darkness of this night. Would that it 
 were morning I But come what may, there is one comfort • 
 
"OW TREACHERV WOX TME riGHT ,3 
 
 - ..... have ou, h.rr.c« on ou, U.C., ,«fo„ ,,, ,,,, 
 
 •'■e a.c.«. and' ;:::: .iXmiT •", "" ""= "•- "' - 
 
 the sleeping chief, ,0 .el ,h!" '.k' fT '"' 1° *""• '° ""»«' 
 •-.or« .0 ,he ,oocl c "„„';" J,'','^ "'""^^ of Ely were 
 •^o'-ng; and when this wasll i ^°""''"» *"« 
 unperturbed spiri,. and wiU, all ?h', ^""^"''- «'"' »" 
 »'"ch he had aciuired boon ''"' '"""^'*''8«> "( war 
 quickness which nature had „ ! "' ""'' f~"' =>" (hat 
 ror defending .hr'i";:.:" The'c" ''"''' '7" "'•''"- 
 every chief ,0 ,he po,, he shoulr h m '^' ,""'' 'PI'ointed 
 «° ">en. all. and !^l,ng th „ 'Lt fi" '"^'^'"^ •^''^•"^""y 
 ^'"ce the battle of Hasting ,„w..' T" '""' P^"ed 
 conquered yet; and "hat f^;/"" "'"' '="«'»"d "a, „o, 
 in this attack/ their loswolr'"-.'''""''^ *^ ^-'^d 
 across the fens almost tprSbl'e" '""'"^' "'^'•' --' 
 
 - h?u:;XrlLtidTi:hT;i^"'^'''r ■' "« -- •"- 
 
 done ere the ^arcry of^f No" an","' " t'" ""^^'^ '-''" 
 >he south western f7ce o the cZ. T ''"" '^"'' ""^^^ 
 the Abbat Thurstan, the fafse ,,Hn: uH """« "'^ "=""= "f 
 °f lli<-ul,:>v.,.ndonth f V ^'"' """^e 'he people 
 
 guided the Normans thrrgh riabvriT'^p' """'' ""^ 
 more fatal mischief yet tf oropi h ? "' "'"" *"« 
 
 cauldron and source'o ^Z "sTm/T ""= ^"^ '^'"'' 
 a.nong the retainers of the bbevTh.^°H / 1'""°'' '"''"^ 
 tered in the Canm, because ,h. . "'^ '''"" ''^f luar 
 
 Without Wd He'r;;:::rorde7-;''- he Withdrawn 
 Saxons were all betrayed and ,Z\ T »? ^ "^ 'ha' the 
 """ 'he Camp; and hereupon^ "'^•^?™''"^ had gotten 
 
36 
 
 WILLIAM I 
 
 had been appointed to hold, and disregarding the voice of 
 their commander, they fled across the Camp, shouting 
 " Treason ! treason ! Kly, Saxons, fly ! " 
 
 The Normans began to enter the Camp in overpowering 
 numbers; and ahhough the first glimmerings of day began 
 to be seen from the east, it was still so dark that it was hard 
 to distinguish between friend and foe. But Hereward soon 
 found himself at the spot where the danger was greatest ; 
 and the foe, who had not yet recovered from the dread of 
 his name, halted at the shouts of " Hereward for England ! " 
 and were soon driven out of the Camp, with a great slaugh- 
 ter. Whilst this was doing on the south-western side, 
 another host of Normans, imder the same traitorous guid- 
 ance, got round towards the north face of the Camp, and 
 after some hard fighting, got over the embankment, and 
 into the Camp. Leaving a brave old Saxon earl and his 
 people to keep the ground he had recovered, Hereward 
 rushed with Elfric and his own choice band to the northern 
 side ; and although the distance was considerable, his battle- 
 axe was ringing among the Normans there before they had 
 found time to form themselves in good fighting order. But 
 Odo, the fighting bishop, was among these Normans ; and 
 thus knights and men-at-arms fought most valiantly, and 
 held the ground they had gained for a long time. Never- 
 theless, just as the rising sun was shining on the tower of 
 Ely Abbey, Odo and his host, or such of his host as sur- 
 vived, retreated the way they had come; but while they 
 were in the act of retreating, Duke William led in person 
 an assault on another part of the Camp ; and on the south- 
 west side, the brave old Saxon earl being slain, his men 
 gave way, and the Normans again rushed in on that side. 
 Also, and at nearly the same instant of time, Norman 
 spears were discerned coming round upon the Camp from 
 other quarters. As he paused to deliberate whither he 
 should first direct his steps, and as he shook the blood 
 from the blade and shaft of his battle-axe — a ponderous 
 
"''' ^'^^Acnn.v WON t„e hcht . 
 
 fearer. " M,y ^od defend k! h '"''' ^"'^'"^^ '"^ ^«ord- 
 ,^'^''«; l^ut the knavish nonlfsh'i"'""'^ ""= Lord 
 treachery very completely I Th ''' "^""^ "«= work- of 
 
 I _^Ve are heset all about ! ^^H e „ ^"'''^'' °f 'he fens. 
 I " =•"« back again. NumcrouV are ,T '''" ''"'' ""^ ^or- 
 
 ■-"^:^sr-o::r^'SS'h-tit 
 
 \ -'■■'ed. and' std ■ ''n/^^" "^'^ -' "Pon his W. 
 only a scratch from tl e sharn Th /' ^°'"^ "'>' Lord • 'tis 
 "°ok. If he had nohe n Tn^ °^ ^'^''"P "'^'''^ Pas or 
 -f cleft his shaven ero?n roTr''—'^. ^ -S 
 ">ade hnn a prisoner ! " '^"^ °'^ '"^ ^'^e' Mp, or have 
 
 -.nrt:--'.ri-;e.eyeofHere.. 
 l*earer,andall his mr.tchle s ba^rf >' " ""^ ^'^ =«'o^d- 
 ° «'".-.. a hundred fig s and f: "' -^ '""' '''=^" '■'-•'■e^ 
 'he spot where floated the proud b ''"'''' '"'^"^ '""'^rds 
 They „ere soon upon tlJ? """""" °f JJ"ke Wlliam 
 and then was seen how the I ^77' '^' Gorman .ZT- 
 
 z ."^-/'r ■•" ".e"b:;:t'7t: 't r "'^ ^"- 
 
 axes ; gr.de the heavy swords i p . ""'''''• '^e battle- 
 ^f the Norman left Im at tn"' t'''"' "'^ ^^iver d. 
 "ke ha.el twigs; hel„,s are b okel' '^T "' ""'P^<^ "^ 
 -a-n; a„d ^„.„ „„, ^ ™^<^"- "nd corslets reft in 
 
 ™od! holy „od! Out o! "f^r'^''""'^''' "Holy 
 Hereward for England! W3 !' ^■\°"' Normans 1 
 Stout young Raoul of Caen ,h ' ''^'"^'"her Hastings m- 
 •^I'd 'he shield (an„a aTsL^, ""^'l '^at carried the arms 
 Hereward's sword-bearer • 2^ °1 ""^ '^"'"^' was slain by 
 timely death, other Mn "''"^ ^"oul met his nn 
 
 'Villiam shouted "Nort P"''^"^'' °' ^led D^^e 
 ^otre Dame! Notre Dame! S 
 
38 
 
 WILLIAM I 
 
 aide ! Dieu aide ! " but was forced to give ground, and the 
 Duke retreated beyond the earth-raised mound or great 
 embankment which girded the Camp on that side. 
 
 "The patrimony of Saint Etheldreda is not easy to 
 conquer ! We have beaten off the two brothers ! " Thus 
 spoke Elfric. 
 
 "So far is well," quoth Hereward; "but what is this I 
 see and hear? What are those cravens doing in the centre 
 of the Camp ? By tlie Lord of Hosts, some of them be 
 throwing down their weapons, and crying for quarter ! 
 Wipe the blood from out thine eyes, Elfric ; keep close to 
 my side, and come on, brave men all ! " 
 
 And away from the earth-raised mound, over which he 
 had driven the Norman Duke, went the Lord of Brunn 
 with his warrior band ; and then was the fight renewed in 
 the midst of the Camp, where some of the disheartened 
 Saxons were using all the French they knew in crying, 
 " Misericorde ! misericorde ! Grace ! grace ! " 
 
 " Fools ! " shouted the Lord of Brunn, " these Normans 
 will show ye no mercy ! There is no grac^ for ye but in 
 your own swords ! " And then the Saxons took heart 
 again, and rallying round Hereward, they soon charged the 
 foe, and fought them hand to hand. In their turn the 
 Normans began to yield, and to cry for quarter ; but this 
 band in the centre was supported by another and another ; 
 and soon Duke William^ and that ungodly bishop, his 
 brother, came back into the interior of the Camp, with 
 many knights and men-at-arms that had not yet tasted the 
 sharpness of the Saxon steel, and that were all fresh for the 
 combat. Louder and louder waxed the war-cry on either 
 side, and terrible and strange became the scene within the 
 wide Camp ; for the cattle, scared by the loud noise, and 
 by the clash and the glittering of arms, were running wildly 
 about the Camp in the midst of the combatants ; and the 
 fierce bulls of the fens, lashing themselves into furor, and 
 turning up the soil with their horns, came careering down, 
 
HOW TKEACHERV WON r„E p,o„T « 
 
 there to heaven a dreadful ru.Z i-'heldreda. Also rose 
 the loud bewailing and T ZfT' °^"='""g. ™i=^ed with 
 of won,en and ch'dren and .h! '""'' '""'''"'''• -"d 
 
 Saxons ran about the ^2 i""""' """^ "'"''i^^" °f the 
 -d finding none. The Saxon e.^°'" P''^^ of safety 
 fast, but the Normans feU also " nrf"'"' """ ""^ ^=""4 
 "'. when loud shouts were heard "f"^""''°"'^' 
 lances was seen coming down on the' r "?°"'" '°'«' «' 
 and upon this, one entire hnT r ^"'P '^'°'" ">« ^°"th; 
 
 down their arm;, and surndetdfh^ f"°" ''°^' ""- 
 
 Hereward, who was leaning „''u''" ^^ P"^°"^^^- 
 wiping the sweat from his bow ^ ^" '''"''"''"'=' ^"'^ 
 
 "This is a sad sight " ' '""^ '° '''^ sword-bearer, 
 
 unbroken." ""^^"^ Here our lines be all 
 
 - number of sl„Z;jZy'''''''-^^-^ord.^,,, 
 Refnge, and men that had^ou ght !:£:■ "" "^ ^'"'"P "^ 
 a battle since, gathered round Lo,dH'"^\^"'^ '" -"any 
 their swords and battle-axes -,nH J' Hereward, and threw 
 ground, and told him ha the fil 1 ''''''''' "P°" "'- 
 the common advice and contn If T' '°''' ""'^ "'^' ^^''h 
 all determined to surrenZ ' '"•'■gnates. they had 
 
 King's peace. '""" "P°" ^""'er, and take the 
 
 be all down in'a booKjom "^ No' " ' "^""^ -"« 
 
 SJ^'^ii^^;;--iersC"- 
 
 -g Harold at thJbattLtSi-Lr^geJar-'t 
 
 D 
 
30 
 
 WILLIAM I 
 
 worse plight than now ; and yet on that day we conquered. 
 So, up hearts, my Saxon lords and tlianes ! Let us make 
 one charge more for Kin^ Harold and the liberties of 
 England ! Nay, we will make a score good charges ere 
 we die ! " 
 
 But the magnates would not be heartened, nor take up 
 the shields and the arms they had thrown down ; and when 
 the reinforced battalia of the Norman centre formed once 
 more into line, and levelled their spears, and when the rest 
 of that countless Norman host began to close round the 
 Saxon army in the midst of the Camp, all the fighting men 
 that obeyed these Saxon lords threw down their arms, and 
 cried for quarter — for forgiveness and mercy ! 
 
 Sad and sick was the heart of the Lord of Brunn ; but 
 •iiis lasted but for a moment, and his eye was bright and his 
 lace joyous as he shouted to Elfric and the rest of his own 
 devoted band, " Let the fools that court dishonour and ' 
 mutilation, and an opprobrious grave, stay here and yield ; 
 but let those who would live in freedom or die with honour, 
 follow me ! We will cut our way out of this foully betrayed 
 Camp, and find another Camp of Refuge where there be no 
 monks of Ely for neighbours ! " 
 
 And at these good words three hundred stout Saxons and 
 more formed themselves into a compact column, and the 
 Lord of Brunn, with Elfric by his side, put himself in the 
 head of the column, and the band shouted again, " Here- 
 ward for England ! Saxons, remember Hastings ! " Then 
 were heard the voices of command all along the different 
 Norman lines, and from the right and from the left, from 
 behind and from before, those lines began to move and to 
 close, and to form living barriers and hedgerows of lances 
 on every side : and next, near voices were heard offering 
 fifty marks of gold to the man that should slay or seize the 
 traitor Hereward. But the Norman was not yet born that 
 could withstand the battle-axe of the Lord of Brunn : and 
 so the Norman lines yielded to his charge, and so he led 
 
HOW TREACHE.V WON THE P.ght 
 
 ^'^ 'hree hundred «. ^ ^l 
 
 'he Camp and across hTfLr" '""'^ '"-""Phantly out of 
 
 -- ., eve, .ar;„a/:S .ir;, ^^ - «- 
 
Ill 
 
 In the Palace of a 
 Conqueror's Son 
 
 Two persons of no ordinary demeanour awaited in 
 profound silence the termination of a king's repose. 
 One of these attendants, a light, graceful, page like stripling, 
 stood within the deep embrasure of a latt'ced window, and 
 silently amused himself by patting the long nose of a grey- 
 hound, whose extraordinary beauty suggested the only cause 
 or apology for his admission to such precincts. 
 
 The other, a person of graver and maturer aspect, occu- 
 pied a chair fashioned and carved in such wise as were few 
 seats of that comparatively inartificial day. He arose, how- 
 ever, and drew near, as, after a sound of deep and prolonged 
 respiration, the curtains of the bed were thrown apart by a 
 red and muscular hand, and a powerful voice exclaimed — 
 "What ho! Fitz-Hammon! Chamberlain, I say I" 
 " At hand, my liege," replied the officer — for the voice 
 was that of ' The Red King.' 
 
 " How goes the day ? Is the sun forth ? " 
 "Scarce yet, my liege, it is but early dawn." 
 " The better," answered the monarch. " I will strike 
 me a deer ere he hath been an hour in heaven— give me 
 mine hose." 
 
 The required appendages were given by the page to the 
 chamberlain — by the chamberlain to the king. 
 
 " Why," said the latter, " what call ye these, Fitz-Ham- 
 mon ? " 
 
'N THE PALACE OF A CONQUERORS SON 33 
 
 pray you ? " ™'" cost they, J 
 
 anIt:;Sl^S-:.r-™'-^ottothe«oo. 
 beam.-then ejaculated - ^ ""* '''^"^'' ^^^y 
 
 flinging then'n the fac of he S/e "and': '^ ^'''^''• 
 of the base shreds for th. L i^ ,' ^ '""'' " '>'»"e'- 
 to charge a kW r r ' u ''^' ^"°^' "°' better how 
 
 V, ii ^ -'—Give me others, I say " 
 
 insS7e:rthTiiorh"'r"^"' ^"'^^'' -'^'^d 
 
 considerabfe rar of Ss "Id . ?° '^' ^"'^J"«'"'=d a 
 ■naster, but dlcharced ht' T f ^' "'^ ^^'^ '^'"■'" "^ his 
 by goi^g himself t:f huge heLT^^^^ 
 unwieldy doors were eZ'^ZTT^'^Z'taY'"'' 
 from Its h- -ned contpnt^ ,u ^^ ' ""'' drawing 
 
 worse, mate^ly a Td b'vturTh"' 'k" "'"" °'''-'^^''' 
 He then presented them wr^,', ""^ "'"J'^'^'^ °n^^- 
 
 'He half-naLd stt: Jn" j;^^!^ "~^ ='"'^ ^^''^ - 
 
 fuli'mS' " ' ""'• "^ ^^^<^'°- ^'^g«. -re charged at a 
 andhurSon t' '"'' '^^' "P°" "'^ scarlet foor-cloth 
 
 sing.si'^^^^—rs:^:'^''^---- 
 stolp^ wi'tt^fold!:' '°"f ^ ''^^'^"^^'^' ^'"s ^■'"- 
 
 P . with the fondness of a sportsman, to caress the 
 
34 
 
 WILLIAM 11 
 
 noble hound, which had been impatiently watching the 
 
 and whined, half pleased, and half afraid, under the pat- 
 ting hand of royalty. The creature was a very recent 
 present together with a pair of magnificent Norway hawks 
 from Montgomery the Marshal; and to this the King 
 referred as he said aloud,— * 
 
 "Gentle, my lady the brachi Methinks thou hast 
 speedily forgotten thy old master, to whine thus lovingly 
 upon the new. Mass, by thy love of change alone I should 
 know thee or a cur of Welsh breed-ha, Fitz-Hammon ? " 
 Then, look, my liege," replied the Baron, whose late 
 repulse from his conquests beyond the Wye rendered him 
 sore upon that point-" look that ye pat him with a steel 
 gauntlet rather than a bare hand, lest a riven finger or two 
 vouch yet further for his Welsh strain." 
 
 fj ^"'^ r" ' ".'"''' "'^ Monarch, " we will tear out both 
 fang and claw, when we are next amidst those mountain- 
 dogs. But this IS a goodly brute, although he hath for- 
 gotten his late lord." 
 
 "He may prick up the cars of his memory," said the 
 Chamberlain, "m quick time, for the Marshal hath prayed 
 
 but ™rr ' . 7- "-''^^ '''"^'^' ""=' -""'"'"g- '•"d ^"^its 
 Out your Grace's leisure to pass within " 
 
 "Alone?" said Rufus. 
 
 "No; the smooth-cheeked Ilbert de Tunbridge-he of 
 
 he ever-newest garb, who follows Montgomery as though 
 
 bLT.K'%'l"'r-'"' '■'"'' '"^° "^™'' •"« his derate 
 body forth of the bed sheets ere second cockcrow " 
 
 »h.!n t" ''°*''' ^<J<'«d 'he King-., we will discuss with 
 hem even here-and make us quit of thee, too, white-facei" 
 
 1 on, ??fK "".. '''"''''"*^- '^^^ "^'" ™°"'«'" R"f"s was 
 a one, but the door speedily reopened, not for the admission 
 of Montgomery and his friend, but of the tall, thin, sinister- 
 ookingman who was the King's companion and minister; 
 m plain words, Ralph or Ranulph Flambard, Procurator 
 
'NrHEi.ALACEOKACONgUERORssON35 
 HSC.U Lord Justiciar,, and Pri„e Minister of the real, of 
 
 apartment to ascertain its inT. f-^^" ''>"= ''™""d 'he 
 -comest thou w"h Lke s 1."' T" «°"'' "'"^' '^''""'Ph 
 and pil,o. are divorced ieaJ;/'" ''°^^' '"« '"> "-^^ 
 
 ■■syef:;?er«r'';rrerr'^'''' "'"- '— 
 
 bring-having won a fa r w".? fn '° '"'" ""'•^ '^an to 
 youth yewot^of is even 'LTfu'esr..'"^ ""''' ^'^««- ''■''« 
 
 1 nou dost not say it I " . 
 
 " I will say it, and swear it I " 
 
 'I doubt ye not," answered the Kin.7 " i j . 
 but word nor oath win wager uoon n. ~k "'"''^ ""'^ 
 take that with thee. Sir Juf.icir"" """'°'" ''" P™°f- 
 
 ' Shalt have it, Sir King," answereH .K„ • • 
 proceeded to satisfy the KLuZTtt '''''^''' ""'* >>= 
 
 " What, hath our cousU^ of T f'"' '" '1"«"°" 
 
 cur. I do re^embt me so- u""^ ^ "' '"'" ""'^ ""'» 
 =>hip betwixt the Marchrnan a„; P fr.' '"'''P'"^'' '"^"<i- 
 beardless imp of the northern H ."k ^'^"'-^bat if this 
 i' afresh? belike my ro"' LWrh "" '""^^ '° ''"""'*•' 
 Lup^ hath a shrewd fep'oS;^sLr^^^ of Hugo 
 
 word'^"L.t r iis^£ J""^- '''"'"■•"« « '"e mere 
 
 De Mowbra;s, with thy nol tic ,1 T u''°"«'' '' ""^"^and 
 
 plotting treaso'n from Dover toThe Ph "' ''°°' °''"'- *-« 
 
 work to do, here and ab"ad tn "°'' ' ^"^ ' ''^^^ 
 
 heedful craftsman, uLtT'tol\7'' "T ""'^ ">« 
 
 and these, to give the devThL H ^^ ^ ''''^"'^ 'hem; 
 
 Look, Scotland is a tmv fl't . f "' "'''' *°"°'' """^^ 
 my feet, thanks to Black Robert, be 
 
36 
 
 WILLIAM II 
 
 he false or fauhful, that hath he done at least, and shall 
 do more I wll have help from him aRainst these har- 
 ..arous Welsh ; aye, and see his banner dance upon Norman 
 breezes, ere the world be a summer older ! Meanwhile, by 
 the splendour of heaven ! he shai: do homage full and 
 speedy, under this castle-roof, or see his earldom smoke 
 for It. fire and sword shall be mine apparitors-that and 
 his fair daughter to hostage-ha ! good Ranulph ?" 
 
 Tush " said the Justiciary, "the last weapon shall fight 
 better a thousand-fold than the first. Blood-letting is often- 
 
 kT w°?r '",''"u''" ^" " «'°"'"8 treason; and mark. 
 King WilliamI the blood of Constance de Mowbray 
 threatened but not shed, shall do more with its pure health- 
 ful current to crook the stubborn knee of her sire, than 
 torrents of meaner gore sluiced from base burgesses, greasy 
 mechanics, and poor peasant churls. Why, good my Liege, 
 the heavens are bountiful to us in these painted morsels 
 of soft creation 1 I have mine eye upon yet another mam- 
 met-another flutterer of the like gilded wing, that, if we 
 have but wit or grace to use the occasion, shall a' , prove 
 fetterlock upon a kinsman's -vavering faith." 
 
 "Aye, marry," said Rufus, "and who I pray - ?" 
 
 ^^He was interrupted by a low tapping at the chamber 
 
 "Softly, here are other matters toward ; one cometh that 
 f^ thee, good Ranulph, worse than a L-gion of fiends." 
 One? repeated the Procurator liscal, with a sardonic 
 smile, "which of ,i thousand? for by our Lady, I have 
 ever mine hands so blackened wth your Grace's work, that 
 never one c your liege barons shuts palm upon them, in 
 the way of greeting, that would not rejoice to make blo-d 
 and marrow spurt from under the nails." 
 
 "Hol^ho! ho!" laughed the King, with the loud and 
 discordant merriment belonging to him. " Truth is a fair 
 gem were it stuck in the turban of Mahound, but if thou 
 displayest it, Ranulph Flaml>ard, I will hold the jewel in 
 
^N THE PALACE OF A CONQUEROR'S SON 37 
 
 -ay! "he added, >.."" TnocIT "' "''" "^ "'—''"< 
 "•ore audibly, "mice thy bl^ I T '''•""•■'' » '""<-• 
 stair." '"^ '^'""""^ body down the tirret 
 
 —Anon., /{„/„,, 
 
IV 
 How a King's Son 
 was Drowned 
 
 KING HENRY had a son named William, educated 
 and destined to the succession, with the fondest 
 hope and surpassing care. For to him, when scarcely 
 ( jlve years of age, all the free men of England and 
 Normandy, of every rank and condition, and under fealty 
 to whatever lord, were obliged to submit themselves by 
 homage and by oath. When a boy, too, he was betrothed 
 to and received in wedlock the daughter of Kulco, Earl of 
 Anjou, who was herself scarcely marriageable ; his father- 
 in-law bestowing on him the county of Maine as her dower. 
 Moreover, Fulco, proceeding to Jerusalem, committed his 
 earldom to the King, to be restored, should he return, but 
 otherwise, to go to his son-in-law. iMnny provixices, then, 
 looked forward to thf government of this boy : for it was 
 supposed that the prediction of King Edward would be 
 verified in him ; and it was said, that now might it be 
 expected, that the; hopes of England, like the tree cut 
 down, would, through this youth, again blossom and bring 
 forth fruit, and thus put an end to her sufferings : but God 
 saw otherwise ; for this illusion vanished into air, as an 
 early day was hastening him to his fate. Indeed, by the 
 exertions of his father-in-law, and of Theobald the son of 
 Stephen, and of his aunt Adala, Lewis, King of France, 
 conceded the legal possession of Normandy to the lad, on 
 his doing him homage. The prudence of his truly careful 
 father so arranged and contrived, that the homage, which 
 
MOW A KINGS SON WAS DKoWNED 39 
 
 I".', from the extent of hi, empire, disdained t.. pcrforn. 
 should not be refused by hi, son a ycth of del cat^ 2 
 and not very hkely to live. In discussing and »ac^b v 
 
 ettmg these matters, the King spent th'e spacfof £ 
 >ears; cont.numg the whol. „f that time in Norn.andv 
 Neverth..ess. the calm of this brilliant and carefu ; Z 
 certed peace, this anxious, univer«,l hope, was desLved 
 m an mstant by the vicissitude, of humin es.ale For 
 giving order, for returning to England, the King set »ii 
 
 ka ends of December ; and the breeze which filled hi, 
 
 folr'^Buf th'" "'^'^ '° "" ^'"«''°'" -<» «'-'^ 
 more than ► ''"""'' ■"""• "''° *" "O" '"-"'^hat 
 
 more than seventeen year, of age, and. by his father's 
 indulgence, possessed everything but the name of king 
 commanded another vessel to be prepared for hims If 
 ahnost all the young nobility flocking around him, rom' 
 
 which their cups excited, exclaimed, that those who were 
 now a-head must soon be left astern; for the .hip was of 
 
 When'",h°"f ""'°"' '"^ ''"""^ ""^-^ "'"> "e* materials. 
 When, therefore, >t was now dark night, these imprudent 
 youths, overwhelmed with liquor, launched the vessel from 
 he shore. She flies swifter than the winged arrow, swee" 
 ■ng the rippling surface of the deep: but the carclessneS 
 of the intoxicated crew drove her on a rock, which rose 
 above the waves not far from shore. In the greatest con 
 sternation, they immediately ran on deck, and with loud 
 outcry got ready their boat-hooks, endeavouring for a 
 considerable time, to force the vessel off: but fortune 
 resisted and frustrated every exertion. The oars, too, 
 dashing, horribly crushed against the rock, and her battered 
 prow hung immovably fixed. Now, too, the water washed 
 some of the crew overboard, and, entering the chinks 
 drowned others ; when the boat having been laund.eU. the 
 
40 
 
 HENRY I 
 
 young prince was received into it, and might certainly have 
 been saved by reaching tlie sliore, had not his illegitimate 
 sister, the Countess of Perche, now struggling with death 
 in the larger vessel, implored her brother's assistance; 
 shrieking out that he should not abandon her so bar- 
 barously. Touched with pity, he ordered the boat to 
 return to the ship, that he might rescue his sister ; and thus 
 the unhappy youth met his death through excess of affec- 
 tion : for the skiff, overcharged by the multitudes who 
 leaped into her, sank, and buried all indiscriminately in 
 the deep. One rustic alone escaped ; who, floating all 
 night upon the mast, related, in the morning, the dismal 
 catastrophe of this tragedy. Here also perished with 
 William, Richard, another of the King's sons, whom a 
 woman of no rank had borne him, before his accession ; a 
 youth of intrepidity, and dear to his father from his obedi- 
 ence : Richard, Earl of Chester, and his brother Otuell, 
 the tutor and preceptor of the King's son : the Countess of 
 Perche, the King's daughter, and his niece, the Countess 
 of Chester, sister to Theobald; and indeed almost every 
 person of consequence about court, whether knight, or 
 chaplain, or young nobleman, training up to arms. For, 
 as I have said, they eagerly hastened from all quarters, 
 expecting no small addition to their reputation, if they 
 could either amuse, or show their devotion to the young 
 prince. The calamity was augmented by the difficulty of 
 finding the bodies, which could not be discovered by the 
 various persons who sought them along the shore. 
 
 — ^VlLLIAM OF MaI.JIESBURV. 
 
A Fight for King Stephen 
 
 T"f lord abbat of Reading communed upon the 
 1 measures wh.ch ought to be adopted for the defend 
 of the country, and gave comn,and,uent that th- dr^ 
 
 r:otr.'yLr;:ndt!,t."° 77 t^^ 
 
 a.emb.edwe.se.edira^L-'^^^^^^^ 
 
 cToSrst^ir^itTo^,-^^^^^^^^^ 
 
 many of the better sort were admit ed.Sf^ ^ ^"°' 
 
 with their Wives and chi.Xl^'Ts't, t ^7"™' 
 
 •hem vvittiritl,; ^^'croreLir r ''™"^''' 
 our house the asylum of the unhappy wS 
 
 deliberate withlis"::,,' e.SeTtThertho'UT'''^ '.° 
 
 or twain for my safety!" said the abbat , ^^^ "^^ 
 cause a ^,„„« non,in. to be sung in thl churl' T^ 
 
43 
 
 STEPHEN 
 
 thou wilt hold thyself ready, oh prior, to hurl an anathema 
 at the head of the rebels, if they should come near unto 
 this godly house ; and moreover, thou wilt see to such war- 
 harness and weapons as we do possess, and station the 
 strongest-armed of our monks and lay-brothers, and the 
 stoutest-hearted of our serfs, with our men-at-arms, in the 
 tower and turrets, with bows and cross-bows ; for it may 
 chance that those who respect not the Lord's anointed will 
 have no respect for holy church that hath anointed him ; 
 and when the children of Ishmael fall on, the children of 
 Jacob may defend themselves with the arms of the flesh." 
 
 Now our prior was a man of a very martial and fearless 
 temperament, and one that well remembered how, in the 
 times t! at were passed, bishops and abbats had put chain 
 armour over their rockets and albs, and had ridden forth 
 with lay-lords and men of war, and had ofttimes done battle 
 for the cause which they held to be the just one, or the 
 cause of the church. It is not for a humble servant of 
 mother church like me to decide whether such actions be 
 altogether conformable to the councils of the church and 
 the canons therein propounded ; but this I do know, th;it 
 the sword and battle-axe have wrought their eflects upon 
 stubborn and impenitent minds when our spiritual arms had 
 failed, ay, when the wicked had laughed to scorn our inter- 
 dicts and our very excommunications. But not to press 
 further this casus conscienliie, I will only record that our 
 prior responded with a firm voice and willing heart to the 
 warlike portions of our lord abbat's instructions, and thai 
 he, with marvellous alacrity, did arm the house and prepare 
 to do battle. 
 
 As the gate was unbarred and the draw-bridge again 
 lowered to allow the abbat to go forth for Caversham, those 
 of our knights and men-at-arms who had ridden at an 
 earlier hour to make reconnaissance, came back with loose 
 bridle to report that a great battalia of the rebels was 
 advancing upon the town of Reading by the western road. 
 

 A FIGHT FOR KING STEPHEN 43 
 which thing we did „o'„ proXl'!:.7ot' ""^ "^""= 
 
 ^i::J:Sf;re;iiKShr'.-^:^- 
 
 meadows and f™itfu. corn^afh ^^rn^I^ir^oH^^^^^^^^^ 
 
 i:raaxr\r '"i r r- " 
 
 from the westward s'^b;ought^^hittd'■"'H'f'''^ 
 smoke, which dirtied the b^ S sky a'd'a '^ °' 
 pungent smell, which overcame the sweet odour, th , 
 emitted by our flowering hedge-rowsTnd hv .t 7^'^ 
 
 flowers which grew in the SZ^ ^ ^^ ""^""^ °^ 
 .he moist bank^s by thllLll^wrS a'^r^ 
 
 and scent the bree J InTf . u °" °"' ""'^f t^fret 
 
44 
 
 STEPHEN 
 
 in the clear sky over our head, and the blackbird whisth'ng 
 in the brake at our feet. Not a bird of all that choir was 
 left now : the foul smoke and the pungent smell had scared 
 them all away, as ^Etna and Vesuve are said to do when 
 they vomit their sulphureous fires. 
 
 I was roused from some meditations of this sort by the 
 scream of a trumpet, and by a chorus of rude voices that 
 shouted, " The Empress for England I Down with the 
 usurper Stephen I Long life to the Queen, and death to 
 all who gainsay it I " 
 
 And presently, after hearing these sounds, I saw the 
 head of a great column wind round the castle-mound 
 (whereon there was not now any castle deserving of the 
 name), and take the high road which runs from Reading 
 town to Cavershara bridge. Saint John the Evangelist to 
 my aid, but it seemed a formidable host ! And there were 
 many men-at-arms in the midst, and a company of well- 
 mounted and fully appointed knights rode at the head of it. 
 But our prior, after waxing very red and wrathful at the 
 first sight, did say, upon better observance, that the mass of 
 that host were but rascaille people, serfs that had slipped 
 their collars, knaves that had no arms but staves and 
 bludgeons, and that would not stand for a moment against 
 a charge of horse, nay, nor even against a good flight of 
 quarrels or long-bow arrows. 
 
 " They will not win across the bridge," said the prior, 
 ' for the chains be up, and pass the river they cannot, for 
 the skiffs be all on the other side, and there is no ford 
 hereabout. But see, they halt ! And now they wheel 
 round for the King's Mead ! Will the caitiffs hitherward ? 
 Let them come — our walls be of flint. By the founder of 
 our house, it is this way they come ! " 
 
 And in little more time than it takes to say the credo 
 and pater-noster, the rebels crossed a brook which runs into 
 Thamesis, and came midway into the King's Mead, with 
 the head of their column pointing straight for our main 
 
A FIGriT FOR KING STEPHEN ,, 
 
 James, .he patrons of ouThouseu'"'"' John and s'aint 
 a"d ,t .s that right-heartedTan hi °"' ^°°'' '"'' ^^bat, 
 "ham ; and the latter hath a Thi^e fl ;"'^'P"'="' of Caver- 
 ""d he upholds a golden hn„? '^""'"^'"° his saddle 
 
 e%esofHim„hoS"o^orsi:'"T '^ "'^P-'^'^d the 
 "'as to be peace upon ear^h .nH '/"'' "^"Sht that there 
 And see, the rebels'halt anj Z' fbh' "" '""""^^^^ -en 
 earlessly ride up to thei'r lead"" ^/T^ '"^ '"^^-P^est 
 Word can we hear not at thrs dil u"""" "''h them, 
 d'^cern, by the abbafs gestures and k'' u"' P'^^'^'^ ^o we 
 '"g of the holy standard that' th^ k' ^""^ Sequent uplift- 
 
 earnestly recommending peace Indren^'f °' °" """'^ is 
 God for the present ,n7 repentance, the truce of 
 
 hereafter. Gen'tle Tr^ ^j rfrdTbh' •''"'' ''=™-"^"°n 
 ----Of. :^--eand^ 
 
 h>s b,g war-horse ag.ai^st th^' °"^ °f 'hem rides 
 
 abbat of Reading is' s Ld ouf :? h'"'"^' '"" "«= '-" 
 trateon the grass-miy it be so t ben IT- "'"' "^^ P™''' 
 
 Judge ye of the choler of o ,r "^ *""' ' 
 anger of all of us that aw th 1°' Tf °' "'^ S"'^f '"<^ 
 ^'ght We shouted from our towet ! '"'^ sacrilegious 
 ««^/" and the prior stanriL '^ '""^''' "<? '«'?>'>- 
 
 ^-tched out his'handTtotfdsT f' °"''"' '^='«'^™el 
 Mead, even as Pope Leo d^d frn . """^ '" "^e King', 
 Attila and his pagans c^meo'ToT'"' °' ^""^ '^"''n 
 ^■'y- But the prior's Ct anati ''''"" °^ "'e holy 
 
 our good abbat, assisted t he '""'' ""' ""' ^aid before 
 
46 
 
 STEPHEN 
 
 of his words, specialiter when he conjured them to depart 
 quietly thence, and avoid the shedding of blood. It was 
 plain that the savage crew would not listen to him ; and 
 we saw him remount his palfrey, and turn his head back 
 towards the bridge. We much feared that the rebels would 
 lay violent hands upon him, and keep him as their prisoner ; 
 but, nemo repente, this was but the beginning of the great 
 wickedness ; and albeit impious factions did afterwards load 
 the servants of the church with chains, and throw even 
 bishops into noisome dungeons, and keep them there for 
 ransom among toads and snakes, Jews and thieves, and 
 other unclean men, this present band did offer no let or 
 hindrance to our lord abbat or to the mass-priest, who went 
 back at a good pace to Caversham bridge. 
 
 "And now," quoth our prior, with a brightening eye, 
 "we shall surely see some feat of war if Sir Alain be alive ! 
 The foul rebels have refused to parley, and have atrociously 
 wronged the would-be peace-maker. Ay, by the bones of 
 King Henry, 'tis as I thought ! The trumpets sound I Sir 
 Alain's lances are on the bridge ! May the saints give them 
 the victory ! " 
 
 I, Felix the novice, being at the topmost part of all the 
 abbey with Philip, the lay-brother, who had been teaching 
 me how to use the long-bow, did now see a battalia rushing 
 across the bridge, a mixed force of horse and foot, and did 
 further perceive a good company of cross-bowmen descend 
 the left bank of Thamesis as if their intent was to march 
 below our abbey to Sunning. The battalia which crossed 
 the bridge divided itself into two parts, of the which one 
 marched hastily along the road that leads right to the 
 Castle-hill and town of Reading, while the other and major 
 part struck across the meadows for the King's Mead, never 
 halting or pausing until it was right in front of the rebels. 
 With the party in the mead were seen the pennon and 
 cognizances of Sir Alain de Bohun ; it seemed but a small 
 force compared with that which was opposed to it, but of 
 
A FIGHT FOR KING STEPHEN 
 
 hor.e Sir Alain seemed to have r..h 
 
 whicli 
 
 we could noThearbm if " ''"'''^' ""> ""'^s of 
 we heard right well, from the on. h T '''°^'' '""'^ '^en 
 for King st^ph,,,,'- and fror^h' '^'''°"' °f "«od 
 E".press.queen!" and when Tv ^ ^'^ "'""' '"' ">« 
 »P^ce, they joined battl I^^'^f '''"^ '"'°'"«d for a 
 "umber seemed to give the rebl,T /" ^"P"'0"ty in 
 Pnor was so transported at thj taf h "^T"'''' ' ='"" °" 
 "■f'l over his black gown toofc^ ^"PP""^ ^ '^°'>' of 
 '^""ed for his horse,f^d ;o°w fn- r '" ^'' ''^"<^' ""^ 
 our knights and menatarms to T t^""' '""'""'' 
 '«-^- But, lo! the cross-bows ofth^' "'\™'"'^ '" 'he 
 appeared on the river in sk^; Lh ."' ''"'^ '"" "'■ght. 
 'hey landed on the righ" blnk h '". '"' '"'"' "" ^ve 
 good order, and came on with ' T "'"" '^^V fo™ed in 
 °f the foe, and shoot'g dl' and T '° '"^ "«''' -"^ 
 sorely with their quarrel a„h 1 '°^"''''' ^"""^ '' 
 people fell off from theirleade/slnH"'"P°" "'^ ^"^^''''''^ 
 across the meadows. Now zbT'J, /t" '" """"^ ^'"^'^tr 
 which had marched towird th"^ '/ f '' '^'"'"'^ ''^"a'ion 
 umphant shout, and drove the fu^^H'^" ^" "^ ^ '"" 
 moved upon the other flank of i^^ >"' '^'"■"' ""^ 
 The serfs of the abbey-lands and ^h' l'""^"''^ ''^^ host, 
 who had been cowering under our 7"*" ""'' """ers 
 d'tches. became full of heart at sil/fu ^"'^ ^'^" '" our 
 S'r Alain's cross-bows and L '^ °^"'' 8'^^' »"<^<=ess of 
 of Caversham was now^co^er/'l^^ "^ «°°d knight 
 the prior to distribute bow, nnTJ,,' ^is encouraged 
 
 throw open the abbey-KatranH . """"^ "'""'• '"«' '" 
 
 round the discomfited ^ Kv S™; ""k ""^ " ''^«'>'- 
 go forth with the prior, and even^^l °" '^^"'erhood did 
 upon the Falbury.hil,;'b"t I ^e-x h ' ^'"' '" '"^^="'<=« 
 
48 STEPHEN 
 
 pedones and bring them to a head again, the Empress's 
 knights, not without holes in their chain jerkins, began to 
 fly themselves and to knock down and ride pitilessly over 
 their own people. They could go no other gait than close 
 by our abbey and across the Falbury ; and when they came 
 near unto our force on the hillock, a stiffish flight of arrows 
 and quarrels made them swerve and draw rein. At this 
 juncture. Sir Ingelric of Huntercombe, whose lance was 
 red with blood, and whose casque had been knocked from 
 his head by some terrible blow, and whose face was covered 
 with blood in a manner fearful to look upon, came thun- 
 dering among the rebel knights, calling upon his mortal foe, 
 that caitiff' knight Sir Jocelyn de Brienne, to tarry and 
 receive his inevitable doom as a felon traitor, coward, and 
 foul murtherer. At these hard words Sir Jocelyn, who was 
 aforetime a man of a very evil reputation, wheeled round 
 his horse, and with his lance in rest charged Sir Ingelric, 
 who was charging him. Sir Jocelyn, the prime leader of 
 the first rebellion, and main actor in the horrible deeds of 
 the past, was wounded and unhorsed, and lay on the 
 hard ground of the Falbury (not on a soft mead like that 
 on ȴhich he made fall our lord abbat), crying, " Rescue I 
 rescue ! Help me or I perish ! " 
 
 Ay ! there lay the proud, strong man, struck down in his 
 pride and strength, looking towards our abbey-gate, and 
 upon the hospital for lepers, called the Hospital of St. 
 Mary Magdalen, which Aucherius, the second abbat of our 
 house, did build near to the ^--eat gate, and I ween that 
 Sir Jocelyn would have changed his present estate even for 
 that of a leper ! and still he cried, " Rescue ! rescue ! Will 
 no true man stop and save me?" But the knigi. nd 
 men-at-arms that had ridden with him could not st to 
 lift him up it give him any aid, for that Sir Alain de BoUun 
 and his horsemen were now again close upon them, and 
 therefore did they spur their steeds and gallop madly past 
 some of the town-folk our prior had armed. Rings still in 
 
"mr. i'Ncr,NFF.ssEn"-AN enemy op king Stephen. 
 
 [A 41- 
 
A FIGHT FOR king STEPHEN ,, 
 
 foe to .how „,erry, aiTZmZhT ''"'' ''""^ "i>°" "is 
 »'■" -y blood run, i 'i: e „T'" '""'""''' ""^ 
 S>T Int'clric of HuntercomI,. T '''""""""" >" which 
 
 enemy's coat of „,aila„Tdt,JJ°"?''"«' "'■'^'' "P "i^^ 
 hwr, his long thick daaJer " " " '"'° S*' Jo^elyn's 
 
 -Jaf:s^^sir:s;rr^'^"'i^-'^- 
 
 yea, and close unto our church ,nT °"' "^^^ '""d^. 
 escaped were sorely wounded anH ,f "'"^- '^""V '"at 
 'he commoner sort were id '" "P"" '*° ^<^°^«^ of 
 Ki"S^ Mead or in the U^^'^ ^^^^, either i„ .he 
 combe, mad with revenge wouW h ! ** '"" "'^ """'er- 
 captive, on the Falbury hil7as . '""'^, '^""^hered all these 
 his beloved wife, but L Ala M de' p^^ '° '"^ '"'"'' "' 
 the wretched serfs and th s g^" tv "" T°^ ^'^'"^" 
 and merciful lord abbat rode !, ^'k "'' *''"" °"' «°°d 
 Ingelric was somewhat paafied^,;." '''^ ^'-^^ P^"^^>- S'> 
 foundation charter which teBeauclercrH""- ^' ""' 
 appertained to the lord abbat nnH " «"*■■" ""' " 
 
 judge of offences committed L.k,"""" *"" ''''". to 
 yea. our lord abbatTad the'^°" '"l' '''"'^^ °f 'he abbey; 
 courts, and all manner of pi as ':;:;'"" °' ''" ''"'"1-d 
 theof, and hamsoclcna; hat i s To satV"' ''"• '"""'^■ 
 causes, impost forfcitu es iud' l ho I' """'^ '^^ "" 
 with their children, eoodsind 1 ,,?''"'" ""^ ^'"^'"^. 
 any thiuf or houseSr "r othe t' ^'^f '^^ '"" ''""'^^ 
 our jurisdiction. All these rLh 1°'' ''^'" ^"^'" 
 
 granted to the abbat of Readin a m"" P"''''^*-'" *-« 
 extent, with judicial po: rl^ar^.t'^/ '" "l^" ^"""' 
 hreach of the peace and th,. l.-lT t """"''• "'Ufder, 
 
 as belonged to the'royal 'ut ori^ '" 1°'^ '" " '"" -'^"' 
 have hanged every one of th ^ • '' ^'^'"^"^ ""gh" 
 
 the trees on the Falburv ' ,1 ^™°""^ ^^^ "- "=ck'to 
 'albury,anj „„,„. couM have said him 
 
so 
 
 STEPHEN 
 
 nay; or he coulC '.lave chopped off their hands and feet 
 Hut being of a merciful nature, he only made cut off the 
 ears and slit the noses of a few of the churls, and ti.eii 
 dismissed them all, as to keep them in prison would l.e 
 troublesome and costly. And when this last thing was 
 done, all the victorious party came into our church, where 
 we the monks and novices did chant the Tt Daim /„/„/„. 
 mus, after which our abbat delivered a learned discourse 
 upon the rights of King Stephen, and put up a prayer for 
 his preservation on the throne. 
 
 Much bloodshedding and many horribly vindictive acts 
 did the lord abbat prevent on this unhappy day ; neverthe- 
 less much blood was shed, and a new score of vengeance 
 was commenced. The kin and friends of Sir Joceyhrcould 
 no more forgive and forget his death than Sir Ingelric of 
 Huntcrcombe could forgive the burning of his house and 
 the murther of his wife; every man that had fallen in the 
 field left some behind him who were sure to call for 
 vengeance. 
 
 — C. Macfari^ne, a Les'ii-I of Reading Abbty. 
 
VI 
 
 Hovv the Flemings settled 
 Wales 
 
 in 
 
 ^h'-ch it had bec-n once '"!.;"' ^^'"''''^S^^*'''' 
 "owly, whose pain,,." cbakM^':- "° '"'^"-'"^- *'"^^<J 
 hats, with a scallop hell bound'on7K'"r''' '"«^ ''"-''-'I 
 all. the cross, cut i„ red clo^h^f " V /'°"' "^ '^''^^' "bove 
 'hem as pilgrims ZtTl:ruTj :'""^'^-- '^'"'^'^ 
 
 p=al.S^=-^^^^ 
 be.ng burned to the ground 7i„T""°"' ""= '"'"^" 
 casses of the miserahip inK i ' """>' '=''^'=' 'he car- 
 
 objects, were su pe S j on 'r,,? " ""]" "'''== "' ^^^^ 
 Tees, which had b^n allowedT "'•^''''''-■''' " °" 'he 
 
 -M see„, to servr;!'t::t nrr thre^' t""'^' " 
 Living creatures they saw nnn^ executioners. 
 
 -ns of nature who seemed siSvT'"'"^ ""^ "'"^ ''™'- 
 district, from which they lit have be"'"f T"""''^'' 
 by the course of civilisation The!r '"""^^'y ^-P«"ed 
 
 agreeably occupied than their eyes ThTr!"' "° '''^ '^'^■ 
 eir^eyes. The pensive travellers 
 
 Mv 
 
53 
 
 HENRY II 
 
 might indeed hear the screams of the raven, as if lamenting 
 the decay of the carnage on which he had been gorged ; 
 and now and then the plaintive howl of some dog, de- 
 prived of his lionie and master ; but no sounds which 
 argued either labour or domestication of any kind. 
 
 The sable figures, who, with wearied steps, as it appeared, 
 travelled through these scenes of desolation and ravage, 
 seemed assimilated to them in appearance. They spoke 
 not with each other — they looked not to each other — but 
 one, the shorter of the pair, keeping about half a pace in 
 front of his companion, they moved slowly, as priests re- 
 turning from a sinner's death-bed, or rather as spectres 
 flitting along the precincts of a church-yard. 
 
 At length they reached a grassy mound, on the top of 
 which was placed one of those receptacles for the dead of 
 the ancient British chiefs of distinction, called Kist-vaen, 
 which are composed of upright fragments of granite, so 
 placed as to form a stone coffin, or something hearing that 
 resemblance. The sepulchre had b^-n long violated by 
 the victorious Saxons, either in sec. : /r in idle curiosity, 
 or because treasures were supposed to be sometimes con- 
 cealed in such spots. The huge flat stone which had once 
 been the cover of the coffin, if so it might be termed, lay 
 broken in two pieces at some distance from the sepulchre ; 
 and, overgrown as the fragments were with grass and lich- 
 ens, showed plainly that the lid had been removed to its 
 present situation many years before. A stunted and dod 
 dered oak still spread its branche."; over the open and rudo 
 mausoleum, as if the Druid's badge and emblem, shattered 
 and storm-broken, was still bending to offer its protection 
 to the last remnants of their worship. 
 
 " This, then, is the Kist-vaen" said the shorter pilgrim ; 
 " and here we must abide tidings of our scout. But what, 
 Philip Guarine, have we to expect as an explanation of the' 
 devastation which we have traversed ? " 
 
 "Some incursion of the Welsh wolves, my lord," replied 
 
THE FLEMINGS IN WALES 53 
 
 squire speak, and saw ^^00'! of "' *" ^"^"^ ^'' 
 'ong grass; by which, ndeed Tw s'so'hidr""!'' V'' 
 himself had passed wi hout notirl I '° '"dden, that he 
 
 abs.acted ^ood, hrd' 'r fa ed^ s ;'; Thr.' 'r^ 
 
 doubetof the <!lam h»e 1 ■.- "■" °"^^'"'^- I he leathern 
 body lay on hs te anT?. ™ '" ^"«"''' peasant-the 
 deat'h stystucUnL bacf """^ "'"=" '^^'^ ""-<» "is 
 
 ^oS^st:^:^r:h^j:^--°-— ■ 
 
 rfrdrn'?4^''^T''^^~^^^^^ 
 
 £:^irr-"i-rtr^ss-;r 
 
 dolent curiosity, and then sai,) "Th '"""^"^ j" " wtn in- 
 
 the esquire. '^ °^ hounds," answered 
 
 " It may be so," said the Constable • " but r r,th 
 some civil war amone the iJh aV ""' ^ "^^"i" augur 
 The Welsh, indeed, swU the iet'd": """"'^"■ 
 behind ,he,n but blood and alhesbLtht """""^ 
 
 =r^:-or^ir^^^=s 
 ^;rr;^i:;:ts';-^- 
 thou^T';:£s.S:ed r "'^i' ■^^^'^ ="^-''^ '°"' '"- 
 
 shown his faith i^do, bf ' h,f H ,"""^"'"'' ''"' ^''''" 
 courage in ba.t,e^:;^;;;::^J';,^—-^-lty-his 
 
54 
 
 HENRY II 
 
 yet-but what ava,ls to speak ?-I own 'he has done vou' 
 sometimes good service; but loath were I .hat your Hfe or 
 honour were at the mercy of Renault Vidal " 
 
 In the name of all the saints, thou peevish and sus 
 p.CK,us fool, what is it thou canst found u^on to h" pr:": 
 
 "Nothing, my lord," replied Guarine, "but instinctive 
 su.sp,c,o„ and avo.sion. The child that, for the firs t me 
 sees a snake, knows nothing of „s evl pro, erties ye h ' 
 w,l not chase it and take ,t up as he would a butterfly 
 Such ,s my d.shke to V,dal-I cannot help it. I "ouM 
 pardon the man his m,-, ,n„„s a«d «loomy s'dclon. look, 
 when he thmks no r,ne ..^.ves h,m : but his s^eerin ' 
 augh I cannot forgive-it . hko the ^.nst we hL7o in 
 Judea who laughs, they say. before i,e -^rs and d troy ' 
 "Ph.hp," sa,d De I^cy. -'I am sorrv for thee-Torry 
 •rom my soul, to see such a predo,„ina.,ng and cau eles; 
 jealousy occupy the brain of a gallant old'soldier H r 
 
 s fideS ""ir h'""' '° ^^'^^" "° --^ --"t proofs oJ 
 his fidelity, c ould he mean otherwise than well with us 
 when thrown by shipwreck upon the coast of U'l 2 
 would have been doomed to instant death, had the Cvmri 
 recognised in me the Constable of Chester and in hee his 
 uty esquire, the executioner of his commands aga , t the 
 W elsh in so many instances ? " ^ 
 
 "Well, my lord," said Guarine, "I mav b» .iilpn^»H i . 
 not satisfied. All the fair words'he can s^pet t he fi: 
 unes he can play-Renault Vidal will be' to my eyes ev 
 a dark and suspicious man, with features always ready to 
 n>ould themselves into the fittest form to attract confidence 
 w. h a tongue framed to utter the most flattering and aTree' 
 able words at one time, and at another to play shfewd 
 plainness or blunt honesty; and an eye which, when he 
 tb.nks himself unobserved, contradicts evcrv as „n ed 
 pression of features, every protestation of' hones y an I 
 
 Jip«n 
 
THE FLEMINGS IN WALES 
 
 55 
 
 J<=«; only I am an old mastiff of ,h°' """" "" '"'^ ^"b- 
 ™y master, but cannot endu^.ll' T '"''"^~^ 'ovu 
 favours; and yonder as TiZ °^ '^"'"^ "hom he 
 
 -Hanaccoun^torot;r^,L!:Jk3Tsra,u'^'' 'V"' ^ 
 A horseman was indepH . P''-''''*'^ '"«]■" 
 
 '--dstheKist-vaen^wth a ha"t ""'■'"^' '" '^^ P-" 
 f -ch something of the Eastern f'h^'' ' '"'^ ''"^ ''"^'^' '" 
 the fantastic atdre usuaHy I „ t'^"" "" '"^"■^-«' -th 
 ">ade the Constable aware that th ' "'" °' ""' P™"^^-™. 
 were speaking, was ra,2l '"'"'"■'^'' °' "horn thev 
 
 Although Hul 7 ^ approaching tfaem. '^ 
 
 ">- thaf wha?„tustt;^h:'^"'^'^'^ ''''^ --^"t no 
 ■nanded, when he v,„d ic'ted ^'"T" "^ ^^™=«^ de- 
 'hrown out by Guarine Je at the T , °" ^'"^ ^"^P'-""^ 
 had sometimes shared Ihose ' ■ " °' ''^ '^' '^^ 
 
 angry at himself, as a, -ust and h"'' ""'^ ^'^ "f^n 
 - the slight testimony of ,00™? r"''"-"-""S. 
 expressions, a fidelity which se™ / ^ '°"'"'™" '•'^^"a 
 a«s of zeal and integrity ""^ '" ''^ P^^^d by „,any 
 
 °^e.i:e:Sl,:rSr.'^r-edtoma.ehis 
 favour, as if conscious he had be , T '"" '" "'"^''^ "( 
 "nj"st judgment upon h m by t™',"! ' '"^'""« ^"-"'-■'^ 
 <^on>e, my trusty Vidal ^'h. T ''""'"S 'o it. " \Ve|. 
 ^aven that fed u^ on the n ' " "^°" '■"^' "^en the 
 
 <iove that brings us "ooj ZT' "' '''''''' ^^^ "-' ">. 
 "t -lent. What UKan tl e ' ? "" " ^'''"''"''- ^ "o" 
 ;assed carriage, that ap ,;';"?"' '^°''^- "-t embar- 
 " God's name, n.nn, spJak l- ''°"'" °'' 'hme e,es.P 
 l^ear worse than tongue of ™ ' "■"■ "°' f°'' '"^-I can 
 
 ■ne in the wars of Pa c,^L™:" ""^ "=''• Thou l.ast seen 
 "'an by man, around m ^".'"•' '^"^•'-' f°"°«ers fell 
 
 'he ship's keel lav ...„.-.,.- " ^ ' ''°" hast seen me wh.-n 
 - =■■•••■■== on tnc rock, and the billows flew 
 
 •frt 
 
56 
 
 HENRY 11 
 
 in foam over her deck — did I blench then ? No, nor 
 will I now.' 
 
 " Boast not," said the minstrel, looking fixedly upon the 
 Constable, as the former assumed the port and countenance 
 of one who sets Fortune and her utmost malice at defiance 
 —"boast not, lest thy bands be made strong. " 
 
 There was a pause of a minute, during which the group 
 formed at this instant a singular picture. 
 
 Afraid to ask, yet ashamed to seem to fear the ill tidings 
 which impended, ihe Constable confronted his messenger 
 with person erect, arms folded, and brow expanded with 
 resolution ; while the minstrel, carried beyond his usual 
 and guarded apathy by the interest of the moment, bent 
 on his master a keen, fixed glance, as if to observe whether 
 his courage was real or assumed. 
 
 Philip Guarine, on the other hand, to whom Heaven, in 
 assigning him a rough exterior, had denied neither sense 
 nor observation, kept his eye in turn firmly fixed on Vidal, 
 as if endeavouring to determine what was the character of 
 that deep interest which gleamed in the minstrel's looks 
 apparently, and was unable to ascertain whether it was that 
 of a faithful domestic sympathetically agitated by the barl 
 news with which he was about to afflict his master, or that 
 of an executioner standing with his knife suspended over 
 his victim, deferring his blow until he should discover 
 where it would be most sensibly felt. In Guarine's mind, 
 prejudiced, perhaps, by the previous ojjinion he had enter- 
 tained, the latter sentiment so decidedly prcdominaied, 
 that he longed to raise his staff and strike down lo the 
 earth the servant who seemed thus to enjoy thi protracted 
 sufferings of their common master 
 
 At length a convulsive movement crossed the brow of 
 the Constable, and Guarine, when he beheld a sardonr 
 smile begin to curl Vidal's lip, could keep si'iejice n^ 
 longer. " Vidal," he said, " thou art a — " 
 
 " A bearer of bad tidings," said Vi^t inter»u)tin- am! 
 
 »*PSr'. '^^ 
 
 ^^mtii^%M:9i 
 

 THE FLEMINGS IN WALES 
 
 who unwillingly reportsT" "' "^ ""^ ""^ ^im 
 
 forsaken and forgot nle" "'"" '"" ^ («"g-^veU^ b^ 
 
 i^hen,instrelas.s«n.ed by aw inclination. 
 -nnn'ireXrnt: "°" '"" ^^^^^ ""= stone 
 
 I-y? Alas! I have '11 ""■ '" ^g'- did 
 
 'he right I left in Z iZT"" '° "''^"" ^''^ "^ "" 
 was out, sh. had hea d J^'T"'" "'''' "^ -gagen^t 
 struction of my ho«s1h!^ ' T""' "^ ""'"'''■ ">« de- 
 has taken the (irstTt;n^ -Pend.ture of my wea«h, and 
 
 'o b.ak„. i.ri^^e'Tt-^^r'hrrupr f ""^ 
 and f:,„,e. Many a maiden would hav don " K "^ 
 prud^ce should have done "..^^''don.. -perhaps m 
 ^hould .,ot have beenVvrrt^il"- ~^ ^ 
 
 h<":rr^:tr:4""'-:n^"~'- 
 
 Ouarine had never before !Z '. ""°""" "■'"<=h 
 
 awkward kindness, he cou d -I '' """ "'"'^''' '" 
 
 hiddinghts n.aste . Lof ir' "''"""' '" "'"»'« hy 
 a woman." '''^'^ courage-he had lost but 
 
 - than^hat she"'hrm,sj.ige''r:::i;':t f "^-^ '^'' 
 ■ne as the pawnbroker does his wre h V f """''' 
 arrests the pledne as th,. V wretched creditor, who 
 
 .' might hL:ter ;v:rrrrr' t"^^'""""^'' 
 
 When I had wtlLtd^: 3^1^"^"^ 
 m. .. „ow .ciusn n,u.t she have supposed n,y 
 
58 
 
 HENRY 11 
 
 misfortunes to have made me ! But be it so-she is gone 
 and may she be ha,,py. The ib.ught that she disturbed 
 me shall pass from my mind, and 1 will think she has done 
 that ivhich I myself, as her best friend, must in honour 
 nave advised. 
 
 So saying, his countenance, to the surprise of his attend- 
 ants, resumed its usual firm composure. 
 
 "I give you joy," said the esquire, in a whisper to the 
 minstrel ; your evil news have wounded less deeply than 
 doubtless, you believed was possible." 
 
 "Alas ! " replied the minstrel, " I have others and worse 
 behind. 
 
 This answer was made in an equivocal tone of voice 
 corresponding to the peculiarity of his manner, and like 
 that seeming emotion of a deep but very doubtful character 
 __ tvehne Berengcr is then married," said the Constable ■ 
 and, let me make a wild guess, -she has not abandoned 
 the family, though she has forsaken the individual -she 
 .5 still a Lacy? ha? Dolt that thou art, wilt thou not 
 understand me ? She is married to Damian de Lacy-to 
 my nephew ? " 
 
 The effort with which the Constable gave breath to this 
 supposition formed a strange contrast to the constrained 
 smile to which he compelled his features while he uttered 
 It. With such a smile a man about to drink poison might 
 name a health, as he put the fatal beverage to his lips 
 
 "No, my lord,-not married," answered the minstrel 
 with an emphasis on the word, which the Constable knew 
 how to interpret. 
 
 "No, no" he replied quickly, "not married, perhaps, 
 but engaged-troth-plighted. Wherefore not ? The date 
 of her old affi^ince was out, why not enter into a new en- 
 gagement ? " 
 
 "The lady Eveline a„d Sir Damian de Lacy are not 
 irtianced tiiat I know of," answered his attendant 
 
 This reply drove De Lacy's patience to extremity 
 
THE FLEMINGS IN WALES -„ 
 
 or I will presently make ^h P^"'' "'^ "orst at oncr 
 
 Satan.- '^ """"= 'hee „„„strel to the househdd of 
 
 Calm and collected did ih„ 
 -Eveline and Sir Uali'^'j^''^^";'''^^ -Pl>-" The Lady 
 
 n.y lord. They have Wed ^hT'!'' "°' "'^^"^'^d- 
 -'ys." '""^I and hved together-/^; 
 
 " ^ogi and son of a doer " j 
 And, seizing the minstrel°b/X h' ^'"^y' " "'°" "est .'" 
 If ~" shook him with hi In. "•■""' ""^ exasperated 
 ■'"•' f ength was, n was unall tl' ."'«"'• ^"' g''^-' as 
 -estler.in the firn, posSUilT;'^'''''. a practised 
 '"ore than his ma.,Xvra h cou d d - k'^ """""^''' ""^ 
 of the minstrels bearing. "'"^ '''^'"'' 'he composure 
 
 Confess tbou hoc i: j „ 
 "'"■.after hav»g ^ dt; h"'' ^ ^°"^'^'"^' -'easing 
 of agitation than the exertion oft T "° greater degref 
 'he Rocking Stones of th^ult"'"^''.^"^'=e produces upon 
 '"deed, but not displaced ""'' "'"<='^ ""^y ^e shaken, 
 
 .'*e." s^d tirL„^:;;™l-- h^fe. yea. the lives of .„ ,, 
 
 c:s;'-^rL:^rr^.X^'"'':-™edthe 
 
 - 'ells me of ,t with a caln ook a " '"' '" '""^ «-"^- 
 altering tongue. U Ms-lantZ' ''' =°"'P0^ed, an un- 
 unk so low. timt h,\, r , "" " oe natural ? Is rv r , 
 
 ^1 'd ? Perhaps thou w l[ „ ^ """^ \"'<^'"'^ f- a vain 
 •^decl dartin« a furiou., gla„ f.' I °"'- "a ■' " as he con- 
 I'erhaps I „„■,,,„ „. V , ""•' ""nstrel. 
 
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6o 
 
 HENRY II 
 
 Vidal, who served a lord without either [latience to bear 
 insults and wrongs, or spirit to re ngc them on th<.' authors 
 of his. shame." 
 
 "Thou art right, thou art right, good fellow," said the 
 Constable hastily; "it is vengeance now alone which is 
 left us — and yet upon whom ! " 
 
 As he s|>okc, he walked shortly and hastily hj and fro ; 
 and, becoming suddenly silent, sttnxJ still and wrung his 
 hands with d • emotion. 
 
 Few min'iijs had elapsed before (Ik C'nstable of Chester 
 had regain ' the calm extcrr>al semWance with which, until 
 this last dri dful wound, he had (xjrn ■ all the inflictions of 
 fortune. He turned towards his followers, and addressed 
 the minstrel with his usual calmness, " Thou art right, good 
 fellow," he said, " in what thou saidst to me but now, and I 
 forgive thee the taunt which accompanied thy good counsel. 
 Speak out, in God's name ! and speak to one prepared to 
 endure the evil which God hath sent him. Certes, a good 
 knight is best known in battle, and a Christian in the time 
 of trouble and adversity." 
 
 The tone in which the Constable spoke seemed to pro- 
 duce a corresponding effect upon the deportment of his 
 followi;s. The minstrel dropped at once the cynical and 
 audacious tone in which he had hitherto seemed to tamper 
 with the passions of his master ; and in language simple 
 and respectful, and which even approached to sympathy, 
 informed him of the evil news which he had collected 
 during his absence. It was indeed disastrous. 
 
 The refusal of the Lady Eveline Berenger to admit 
 Monthermer and his forces into her castle, had, it appeared, 
 given circulation and credence to all the calumnies which 
 had been circulated to her prejudice, and that of Daiiiian 
 de Lacy ; and there were many who, for various causes, 
 were interested in spreading and supporting those slanders. 
 A large force had been sent into the country to subdue tin- 
 insurgent iie.isuiUs ; and the knights and nobles dispatclicd 
 
THE FLEMINGS IN WALES g, 
 
 alleging the hostile deC 'a^onslf n^" .""--T'-' '^^ 
 
 undeniable fact that DamL hJ^ ' \"''' J«'"ed to the 
 «'rong castleof Garde Doreu" T?*" ''^'"S'"' '" 'he 
 '"S itself against the r.yTZT' " " ^ ""^ ''^^'^"d- 
 enemies of the house ol LlL'"'"T^ '^e numerous 
 and friends aln.ost to desnair n?' ''™'" '" ^'^■'a's 
 
 d'^own their feudal a°iegrce„ "'" '"""''"' "''''" '" 
 sacred fealty which they owed ;o.hcir"r"''''''' '"" "'"^^ 
 
 At this crisis they rec.Wv.H • . , ^°*"e.gn. 
 active monarch by whon fht '""'"'^'''^'' '^at the wise and 
 -vayed was moving o:irds that"" °' ^"''"''' >™^ '"en 
 ^-d of a large bod' ofTold l orTh ^"^'^"'' =" "^^ 
 "fssmg the siege of the Garde n i ^"'^'^ "' °"<^e of 
 
 he suppression'of theTn^urtt f o/r' =""' ^"""'^""S 
 -y Monthermer had nearly .cZ;^,^^''""'' ^'''' 
 ^'L^rrnV:ct:tr'"-f- -pendent. 
 
 ■andal, the Constab eH „ ra:d V"- '" '"" '''• 
 -■■r, suddenly appeared ai oT m ' """ ^^mian, his 
 --on to raise ^,d col nd :; h n,'' "" ''' ^°>'"' '=°'"- 
 ■"ight not desire to be Tvolv , l""''" "^ "'« family 
 'he Constable's delegat t1 '" n' ^"P""'^-! 'Reason 
 ^e» are forgotten, proWded , ev T"^'°'"'-' ''"'''• ™^"'^ 
 i prudence, the virtu., ., e^ '^'^l"ay activity, courage, 
 '-"nee of Kanda w ho " .r'^' "l"'^^" • and the 
 
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63 
 
 HENRY II 
 
 the followers of his cousin. They quickly gathered around 
 him, surrendered to the royal mandate such strongholds 
 as they possessed, and, to vindicate themselves from any 
 participation in the alleged crimes of Uaniian, they dis- 
 tinguished themselves, under Randal's command, against 
 such scattered bodies of peasantry as still kept the field, or 
 lurked in the mountains and passes ; and conducted tliem- 
 selves with such severity after success, as made the troops 
 even of Monthermer appear gentle and clement in com- 
 parison with those of De Lacy. Finally, with the banner 
 of his ancient house displayed, and five hundred good men 
 assembled under it, Randal apiieared before the Garde 
 Doloureuse, and joined Henry's camp there. 
 
 The castle was already hardly pressed, and the few 
 defenders, disabled by wounds, watching, and privation, 
 had now the additional discouragement to see displayed 
 against their walls the only banner in Eiigland under which 
 they had hoped forces might be mustered for their aid. 
 
 The high-spirited entreaties of Eveline, unbent by adver- 
 sity and want, gradually lost effect on the defenders of the 
 castle ; and proposals for surrender were urged and dis- 
 cussed by a tumultuary council, into which not only the 
 inferior officers, but many of the conmion men, had 
 thrust themselves, as in a period of such general dis- 
 tress as unlooses all the bonds of discipline, and leaves 
 each man at liberty to speak and act for himself. To their 
 surprise, in the midst of their discussions, Damian de Lacy, 
 arisen from th'; sick-bed to which he had been so long con 
 lined, anpeared among them, pale and feeble, his cheek 
 tinged with the ghastly look which is left by long illness— 
 he leiiiicd on his page Anielot. "Gentlemen," he said, 
 "and soldiers— yet why should I call you either! Gentle- 
 men are ever ready to die in behalf of a lady — soldiers hold 
 life in scorn compared to their honour." 
 
 " Out upon him ! out upon him ! " exclaimed some ot 
 the soldiers, interrupting him ; " he would have us, who are 
 
THE FLEMINGS IN WALES 63 
 
 innocent, die the death of traitor,, and be hanged in our 
 armour over ,he wall,, rath.-r than par. with his ifn^^ • "" 
 
 ,uJ/"":: '""•"?"' ''^'"^'" "•■•id Uamian, in a voir, like 
 .hunder, "or my last blow shall be a me^n one. a n cd 
 _ vi.n t such a camn- a, thou art. And you," he con 
 .n«e.l n.Idress,ng the rest.-'.you, who are shrinking f om 
 the to,ls of your profession, because if you wrsis^ n. 
 cour.. f „ , ,,,„ ^^y ^,^^^^. ,^^^ ^ fe:y'e"" :„ "„e 
 
 than .needs must-you, who are scared like chi drT 
 he s,ght o a <lea.h's-head. do not suppose that Dami.n de 
 Ucy would des,re to shelter himself at the ex,, nse ^f 'hose 
 lives which you hold so dear Make vo„r , 
 
 King Hen,. Deliver me up to h^'jt.i Lr hirver 
 or, Jf you hke it better, strike my heid fro , „,y X and' 
 hurl ,t as a peace-offering, from the walls of the c." le it 
 (.od, m H,s good „„e, will I trust for the d™ ' ^ 
 mme honour. In a w„rd, s„rre„,ler me, dead or 2^ n 
 open the gate, and permit me to surrender umefOnK 
 as ye are men, since I may not sav berer 17 ■ 
 
 ^aast for the safety of your^islel a'nd mat ' hTe™: 
 as may secure hf.k ,af, ;y, and save yourselves from th 
 
 ytrrves°" ''"" '''' ™ "'"^ ^^ P"-e^ ^^^^^ 
 
 rendinng his body up to th,. Kin,, 1 
 c,.,-!, . ^ Kmg, and assure therehv 
 
 such terms as we can for ourselves and the lady ere the 
 last morsel of our provision is consunu .1 " 
 
 "I would hardly h .ve proposed .Ins measure," said or 
 
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 Genv,, " I see how the wind stirreth you ; but you decete 
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 HENRY II 
 
 Damian, a scape-goat for your light lady. Nay, never fro«n 
 nor fume, Sir Damian ; if you know not your safest course, 
 we know it for you. KoUowers of De I,acy, throw your- 
 selves on your horses, and two men on one, if it be neces- 
 sarv-we will take this stubborn boy in the midst of us, 
 and the dainty squire Amelot shall be prisoner too, if he 
 trouble us with his peevish opposition. Then let us make 
 a fair sally upon the siegers. Those who can cut her 
 way through will shift well enough; those who fall will be 
 
 ■" AlhoJ°from the troopers of Lacy's band approved this 
 proposal. Whilst the followers of Berengcr expostulated in 
 loud and angry tones, Eveline, summoned by the tumul 
 in vain endeavoured to appease it; and the anger and 
 entreaties of Damian were equally lost on his followers. 
 To each and either the answer was the same. 
 
 "Have you no care of it-Because you love /«/-«««««, 
 is it reasonable you should throw away your hfe and ours . 
 So exclaimed ('envil to De Lacy; and in softer language 
 but with equal obstinacy, the followers of Raymond 
 Berenger refused on the present occasion to listen to the 
 commands or prayers of his daughter. 
 
 Wilkin FlaLockhad retreated from the tumul, when 
 he saw the turn which matters had taken. He left the 
 castle by a sally-port, of which he had been intrusted wi h 
 the kev and proceeded without observation or opposition to 
 he royal camp, where he requested access to the Sovereign 
 This was easily obtained, and Wilkin speedily found him- 
 self in the presence of King Henry. The monarch was in 
 his royal pavilion, attended by two of his sons Richa d 
 and John, who afterwards swayed the sceptre of England 
 with very different auspices. 
 
 " How now ?-What art thou ? " was the royal question. ^ 
 "An honest man, from the castle of the Garde Dolourev.se. 
 "Thou may'st be honest," replied the Sovereign, but 
 lliou comest from a nest of traitors." 
 
THE FLEMINGS IN WALES 65 
 
 "Such as they are, my lord, it is my purpose to put 
 tlic-ni at your royal disposal ; for they have no longer the 
 wisdom to guide themselves, and lack alike prudence to 
 hold out, and grace to submit. But I would first know of 
 your grace to what terms you will admit the defenders of 
 yonder garrison ? " 
 
 "To such as kings give to trailers," said Henry, sternly— 
 "sharp knives and tough cords." 
 
 " Nay, my gracious lord, you must be kinder than that 
 amounts to, if the castle is to be rendered by my means ■ 
 else will your cords and knives have only my poor body to 
 work upon, and you will be as far as ever from the inside 
 of the Garde Doloureuse." 
 
 The King looked at him fi,;,.dly. "Thou knowest," he 
 said, "the law of arms. Here, provost-marshal, stands a 
 traitor, and yonder stands a tree." 
 
 " And here is a throat," said the stout-hearted Fleming 
 unbuttoning the collar of his doublet. 
 
 "By mine honour," said Prince Richard, "a sturdy and 
 faithful yeoman ! It were better send such fellows their 
 dinner, and then buffet it out with them for the castle than 
 to starve them as the beggarly Frenchmen famish their 
 nounds." 
 
 "Peace, Richard," said his father; "thy wit is over 
 green, and thy blood over hot, to make thee my counsellor 
 here. And you, knave, speak you some reasonable terms 
 and we will not be over strict with thee." ' 
 
 "First, then," said the Fleming, "I stipulate full and 
 free pardon for life, limb, body, and goods, to me, William 
 Hammock, and my daughter Rose." 
 
 "A true Fleming," said Prince John; "he takes care of 
 himself m the first instance." 
 
 "His request," said the King, "is reasonable. What 
 next ? " 
 
 " Safety, in life, honour, and land, for tliu demoiselle 
 Eveline Berenger." 
 
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66 
 
 HENRY II 
 
 " How, sir knave ! " said the King, angrily, " is it for 
 5uch as ihou to dictate to our judgment or clemency in tlie 
 case of a noble Norman lady ? Confine thy mediation to 
 such as thyself, or rather render us this castle without 
 further delay ; and be assured thy doing so will be of more 
 service to the traitors within, than weeks more of resistance, 
 which must and shall be bootless." 
 
 The Fleming stood silent, unwilling to surrender without 
 some specific terms, yet half convinced, from the situation 
 in which he had left the garrison of the Garde Doloureuse, 
 that his admitting the King's forces would be, perhaps, the 
 best he could do for Lady Eveline. 
 
 " I like thy fidelity, fellow," said the King, whose acute 
 eye perceived the struggle in the Fleming's bosom ; " but 
 carry not thy stubbornness too far. Have we not said we 
 will be gracious to yonder offenders, as far as our royal 
 duty will permit." 
 
 "And, royal father," said Prince John, Interposing, "I 
 pray you let me have the grace to take first possession of 
 the Garde Doloureuse, and the wardship or forfeiture of 
 the offending lady." 
 
 "/pray you also, my royal father, to grant John's boon," 
 said his brother Richard, in a tone of mockery. " Con- 
 sider, royal father, it is the first desire he hath shown to 
 approach the barriers of the castle, though we have attacked 
 them forty times at least. Marry, crossbow and mangonel 
 were busy on the former occasions, and it is like they will 
 be silent now." 
 
 "Peace, RIcha.-d," said the King; "your words, aimed 
 at thy brother's honour, pierce my heart. —John, thou hast 
 thy boon as concerns the castle ; for this unhappy young 
 lady, we will take her in our own charge. — Fleming, how 
 many men wilt thou undertake to admit ? " 
 
 Ere Flammock could answer, a squire approached Prince 
 Richard, and whispered in his ear, yet so as to be heard 
 by all present, " We have discovered that some internal 
 
THE FLEMINGS JN WALES cr 
 
 •-"'■■" k might " ''"'- """■'' =""1 "'at a suddu, 
 
 "Dost thou hear that Tohn:>" 
 "Ladders, man-get I^d^'r/ ^' '"''"■'''"""^d Richard, 
 ''hould delight to sfe thee on ;he h ,'° "' "'"' "°- I 
 shaking-thy hands g a^," con'T' [''""'^-"'y knees 
 one in an ague fit-all a! a i''J"r'''^' ''''<= "'"'^^ "f 
 of wood-the „,oat b low-t 1 11' '''' ' '''"" °^ '-° 
 throat " oeiow- half-a-dozen pikes at thy 
 
 '^.H?^^St::;t5:;^-^,:;-f'-Harity,.. said his 
 John, get ready for the' a'srult'" """ ^"''- " ^"<^ '^ou, 
 
 ;H:£t::T^iiS:::-™.'^ehe...ans.ered 
 
 can change his s,/k d;uh,erfo^a:ter:;'" "'''' "^ ^°'" 
 
 in ;at:rnaT^2::;'!rrS-^ ^■■^■^-''- exclaimed 
 brother is too cold /buMtifthe"' 7''^ '°° "^"^ "^ his 
 '-." said he to that ce leb at..""' 'f ^^'"'^-Glouces. 
 strength, and folW P ince R,Vh /"'' '^^^ ="«cient 
 "'•■n- If any one can r him t"' ^^""'^ """ -^'ain 
 established fame. Alas ala "Vo . ' ''' =* ''"'S'^' °f 'hy 
 'he afihction of the.e c^SLJ:^;" f.'" "^^ ' '^^ ^ 
 
 also f^aZS "'^ '""'•" '-'' '^^ chancellor, who was 
 di-sobediencetohimi" "^"''^ °nly in their 
 
 "Pon the throne of Enghnd Tl T "'°'"'"h, ever sa 
 
 
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68 
 
 HENRY II 
 
 brilliant lot to which Heaven permils humanity to aspire; 
 and how little gratified anihition, extended power, and the 
 highest reputation in war and in peace, can do towards 
 curing the wounds ol domestirr affliction. 
 
 The sudden and fiery attack of Richard, who hastened 
 to the escalade at the head of a score of followers, collected 
 at random, had the complete effect of surprise ; and having 
 surmounted the ■•vails with their ladders, before the con- 
 tending parties within were almost aware of the - "ault, 
 the assailants burst open the gates, and admitted Gi, xester, 
 who had hastily followed with a strong body of men-at- 
 arms. The garrison, in their state of surprise, confusion, 
 and disunion, rffered but little resistance, and would have 
 been put to the sword, and the place plundered, had not 
 Henry himself entered it, and by his personal exertions 
 and authority, restrained the excesses of the dissolute 
 soldiery. 
 
 The King conducted himself, considering the times and 
 the provocation, with laudable moderation. He contented 
 himself with disarming and dismissing the common soldiers, 
 giving them some trifle to carry them out of the country, 
 lest want should lead them to form themselves into bands 
 of robbers. The officers were more severely treated, being 
 for the greater part thrown into dungeons, to abide the 
 course of the law. In particular, imprisonment was the 
 lot of Damian de Lacy, against whom, believing the various 
 charges with which he was loaded, Henry was ro highly 
 incensed, that he purposed to make him an example to all 
 false knights and disloyal subjects. To the Lady Eveline 
 Berenger he assigned her own apartment as a prison, in 
 which she was honourably attended by Rose and Alice, 
 but guarded with the utmost strictness. It was generally 
 reported that her demesnes would be declared a forfeiture 
 to the crown, and bestowed, at least in part, upon Randal 
 de Lacy, who had done good service during the siege. 
 Her person, it was thought, was destined to the seclusion 
 
THE FLEMINGS IN WALES 69 
 
 his convent'lor"' ""' """'''""^ "'' '" 'he discipline of 
 nLrrre ^rdeTor 7.''"^'"^ '"' e/rectuali; .aught 
 Church Tu u I °f '"f""g'ns on the privileges of ihe 
 
 repressed Thr^'^ "" ""^ '^'°<^'^' ^e with difficulty 
 
 ^::rnt:t;:rhrotr:2: '° '- "--^-^^^ 
 
 caitiffs their lives-Richard iL!. , ' '"""^ P'x'f 
 less weapon. But fhou 'd thJ " f '^''"^ ' ^'°°^- 
 
 matters." '"'^" treasonable 
 
 "And our privileges and duties, my liege?" said Fl,,^ 
 
 mock ••Your Majesty knows wel we ale vassl' to T" 
 
 lord of th,s castle, and ,nust follow him i„ IJZT '° "' 
 
 It shall no longer be so," said Henry "T win f. 
 
 £Sp'sein1o'tr:Ln"^^' "" ''''' ^-^^' °'^'^^i-ce 
 
 .:z'^2i3:^t:p-?.^— fbeS^^^ 
 
 t'o^th^oo^r ^- --V^-w how :aTy1-eadVr 
 
 ":it?^zs^=s--;h:tsi 
 
 
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70 
 
 HENRY II 
 
 take it for no warrant to 
 
 arts which thou dost profess, 
 inlruili; farther on our privacy." 
 
 'i'ho I'lcming retired, rebuked, and in silence ; and the 
 fate of fii: unhappy prisoners remained in the King's 
 bosom. He himself took up his lodging in the castle oi 
 the Garde Doloureuse, as a convenient station for seiidinj; 
 abroad parties to suppress and extinguish all the embers 
 of rebellion; and so active was Randal de Lacy on these 
 occasions, that he appeared daily to rise in the King's 
 grace, and was gratified with considerable grants out of 
 the domains of Berenger and Lacy, which the King seemed 
 already to treat as forfeited property. 
 
 These were the events which met Hugh de Lacy on his 
 home-coming. After hearing Vidal's story he had left the 
 two servitors and had ridden on alone. Before reaching the 
 e. d of his journey he met two of the old retainers of his 
 house, from whom he learned how untrue were the dis- 
 honouring details of Vidal's narrative. In the meantime the 
 two dependants marched on in sullen silence, like men 
 who dislike and distrust each other, though bound to one 
 common service, and partners, therefore, in the same hopes 
 and fears. The dislike, indeed, was chiefly upon Guarine's 
 side; for nothing could be more indifferent to Renault 
 Vidal than was his companion, farther than as he was 
 conscious that Philip loved him not, and was not unlikely, 
 so far as lay in his power, to thwart some plans which 
 he had nearly at heart. He took little notice of his com- 
 panion, but hummed over to himself romances and songs. 
 
 They had proceeded together in this sullen manner for 
 nearly two hours, when they were met by a groom on 
 horseback, leading a saddled palfrey. "Pilgrims," ^ .id 
 the man, after looking at them with some attention, 
 "which of you is called Philip Guarine?" 
 
 " I, for fault ot a better," said the esquire, " reply to that 
 name." 
 
 " Thy lord, in that case, commends him to you," said the 
 
THE FLEMINGS IN WALES 7, 
 
 l^nott that I am his true nicssLiigur " 
 
 He showed the esquire a rosary, which Phihi. instanllv 
 recognised as that used by the Constable ' ^ 
 
 pleasure'""'"''" "" ""^"■" ""^ '''"'- "^"^"^ "'y --'"s 
 "He bids me say," replied the rider, "that his usit 
 hr.ves as well as is possible, a„d that .his' very e e - b 
 
 d",>es h r "'^' '^ "'" ""^ P"^^"^*^" "f his o«n.° H 
 dts r,,, ,h.«refore, you w,ll n,ount this palfrey, and come 
 
 w^n.eto^the.ardenoloureuse.asyot!:preLee'lnrb: 
 
 "It is well and I obey hit,,," said the esquire much 
 pleased w,th the import of the message, and not d s ;t™6ed 
 at_be,-,g separated from his travelling^'ompanion 
 ingtt"i:stnger '°""''" -" ""^ ---^Uddress. 
 
 "If you as I guess, are the minstrel, Renault Vidal vo„ 
 are to ab.de your .naster at the Battle-Lridgell dl " 
 the charge formerly given." -ecoraing to 
 
 "I will meet him, as in duty bound," was Vidal's answer- 
 and scarce was ,t uttered, ere the two horsen,en tu nin.' 
 
 lurof'Sr ""' """ ''-''' ^°™ "'■ -" -- VeTdi;^ 
 
 clinLnri '°'" '°"'' '"^' ""''"• '"" 'he sun was de- 
 cmmg yet there was more than three hours' space to the 
 t,n,e of rendezvous, and the distance from the pLe did not 
 
 sake of rest or reflection, withdrew from the path into a 
 h.cke on the left hand, from which gushed the' a^cs of a 
 reamlet, fed by a small fountain that bubbled up amongst 
 
 a r wh,..h seemed unconscious of what he was doing bent 
 h.scyc on the httle sparkling font for more than hilf a" 
 hour, wuhout change of posture; so that he migh i 
 Pagan ttmes, have represented the statue of a wal^god 
 
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72 
 
 HENRY n 
 
 bending over his urn, and altentivc only to the supplies 
 which it was pouring forth. At length, liowcver, he seemed 
 to recall himself from this state of deei> abstraction, drew 
 himself up, and took some coarse food from iiis pilgrim's 
 5^'ip, as if suddenly reminded that life is not supported 
 without mean . But he had prohauly something at his 
 heart which affected his throat or appetite. After a vain 
 attempt to swallow a morsel, he threw it from him in <lis- 
 gust, and applied him to a small flask in which he had some 
 wine or other liquor. Hut seemingly this also turned dis- 
 tasteful, for he threw from him both scrip and buttle, and, 
 bending down to the spring, drank deeply of the pure ele- 
 ment, bathed in it his hands and face, and, arising from the 
 fountain apparently refreshed, moved slowly on his way, 
 singing as he went, but in a low and saddened tone, wild 
 fragments of ancient poetry, in a tongue equally ancient. 
 
 Journeying m in this melancholy manner, he at length 
 came in sight of the IJattle bridge ; near to which arose, in 
 prouc' and gloomy strength, the celebrated castle of the 
 Garde Doloiireuse. " Here, then," he said—" here, then, 
 I am to await the proud De Lacy. Be it so, in God's name! 
 — he shall know me better ere we part." 
 
 So saying, he strode, with long and resolved steps, across 
 the bridge, and ascending a mound which arose on the 
 opposite side at some distance, he gazed for a time upon 
 the scene beneath— the beautiful river, rich with the re- 
 flected tints of the western sky— the trees, which were al- 
 ready brightened to the eye, and saddened to the fancy, 
 with the hue of autumn -and the darksome walls and 
 towers of the feudal castle, from which, at times, flashed a 
 glimpse of splendour, as some sentinel's arms caught and 
 gave back a transient ray of the setting sun. 
 
 The countenance of the minstrel, which had hitherto 
 been dark and troubled, seemed softened by the quiet of 
 the scene. He th.cw loose his pilgrim's dress, yet suffer- 
 ing part of its dark folds to hang around him mantle-wise; 
 
THE FLEMINGS LV WALKS 7, 
 
 "-can,, sang at others a5' '""" """•• '" '"- '^ "•^■^l. 
 
 an':«^rtt::t:';r trv^-^-^ - '•'« •'^"'^'^ 
 
 "i«ed up hi, e,; "Lard ■ h H- ' ''°"-' °^ ^" '^"'^' l-e 
 
 "■"'■■ was a mustcl of ,t «."■"' °'"-"^'''' ""'' "-at 
 ''•■"ners, as if somTi^li ''' ""'^ attendants without the 
 
 --p:.onon:^o:r.ra;;':.t:h " ^^' ^""^■- 
 
 S'-.'ie time, flancinc his -v .. ''''"f °" ""e scene. At the 
 landscape, so so im ' Ih™ h~r ' '"-' f ™^"'-''' "'^' ">= 
 
 Srcy stone from wlhSoverlnf^ '°"'' '" ^^•'' °" '^e 
 filled with figures. ""^^'""ked u, was now becoming 
 
 -i'vome;^ anTchiJdrT'hTr'' ^'""-^^"d in groups. 
 
 -Ives on boh s.dcs of he it 'T '" "^'^'"'^''^ "'«="'■ 
 
 - if expecting s^m^ spt."' "xr" '"'"'"« "^'^-• 
 
 busthng at the Flemings 'n';;hichr "■"' ■"•'" '""^'' 
 'ance, were also comnletelv , „'h ^ ' °"''" "' '°'"^ <)'■'- 
 
 -emed to be arran^t ^ f te ! ^'t ^ P™'^'-'^''- 
 move forward, with p,pe and , ^ ' f^ ^"'^ '"-'«'"' '" 
 strumentso. music and so"n "''"' f'^ ^"'°"^ ""-er i"- 
 "- place where vL. Ir™ ^r"'"'"' '" '"'''" °"'"' 
 
 '•>' 'heir decent russet I. '" °^""^ ""'-^ settlement, 
 
 of n,usic, wa"i^,grn^:f^,;r "Y^ "'^'"^"^ ^^^^ 
 •heir staves, and reguh inV the '"" '^"'' '"PP°«^<^ ^^X 
 cession by heir sob^r "anH^ I "'°"°" °^ """^ ^^ole pro 
 of the settlem , cin e Tvllkt F,'"" t''" '""^ ^"'^"^^ 
 ".ighty war-horse, and in Si, r'"°''' '"°'"'"''' °" '''^ 
 like a vassal prepared to 7^^ , "'"°"' '""''^ ^'^ head, 
 
 lica 
 
 I 
 
74 
 
 HENRY II 
 
 (■litturiiit; aniiuur, &huwcd steadiness and discipline, al- 
 though they lacked alike the fiery glance of the French 
 soldiery, or the look of dogged defiance which characterised 
 the Knglish, or the wild ecstatic imiietuosity of eye which 
 then distinguished the Welsh. The mothers and the 
 maidens of the colony came next ; then followed the chil- 
 dren, with faces as chubby, and features as serious, and steps 
 as grave as their parents ; and la't, as a rearguard, caiue 
 the youths from fourteen to twenty, armed with light lances, 
 Ik ws, and similar weapons becoming their age. 
 
 This procession wheeled around the base of the mound 
 or embankment on which the minstrel was seated ; crossed 
 the bridge with the same slow and regular pace, and formed 
 themselves into a double line, facing inwards, as if to re- 
 ceive some person of consequence, or witness some cere 
 monial. Flammock remained at the extremity of the 
 avenue thus formed by his countrymen, and quietly, and 
 earnestly, engaged in making arrangements and prepara- 
 tions. 
 
 In the meanwhile stragglers of different countries began 
 to draw together, apparently bro;;ght there by mere curi- 
 osity, and formed a motley assemblage at the farther end of 
 the bridge, which was that nearest to the castle. Two 
 English peasants passed very near the stone on which Vidal 
 iat.— " Wilt thou sing us a song, minstrel," said one of 
 them, "and here is a tester for thee ?" throwing into his 
 hat a small silver coin. 
 
 " I am under a vow," answered the minstrel, " and may 
 not practise the gay science at present." 
 
 " Or you are too proud to play to English churls," said 
 the elder peasant, " for thy tongue smacks of the Norman ' 
 
 " Keep the coin, nevert'ieless," said the younger ma.i. 
 " Let the palmer have what the minstrel refuses to earn." 
 
 *' I pr.ay you resetvo your bounty, kind friend," said \ hial. 
 "I need it not; -and tell nie of your kindiKSS, insic;iil, 
 what matters are going forward here." 
 
THE FLEMINGS IN WALES 
 
 73 
 
 re lu 
 
 «o saying, they presstd down the hill. 
 
 ..oJ::c:r^,r::;s;-:-^^r. not- 
 apprized him that o„o if note wns-,, nut t . r '^' ''"'~' 
 
 on his ear, scen.ed to aL """ .""^'■" '"^''"'^">' 
 
 the clarions ih-it .h. . "^ "^= "<'"" sound of 
 
 proction ' ' ''""P was advancing towards him in 
 
 .0 S hi: ^z"r:icT 'i " '''^™'"'"^ '^''^"- 
 
 ->ut remote vfe^^^.h^e To e ^^ t r,?""^" '^ ^"" 
 '>"t more partial one, l.y invoTv hl^ h m ,f ,' "'"" 
 «hich now closed around'o^c^h ' ' d "f h'", '! ""'"' 
 less where the avenue was ke ntL i 1 '"^^^^ ""' 
 arrayed Flemings. ^' °P'" '^>' "^^ ^™«d ''"d 
 
 A monk next hurried past Vidal nnH r.„ i,- 
 formerly the cause of the asse^bli.lsrred^ TZ"!, " 
 
 .he"n"iL'fr:" ''* '" ""''" "''^ •^""'-■'>- '"^''-'^V .said 
 " He that has ju.st cottcn -i <:«r^-.4 • ■ 
 
 '■ i;J 
 
 
76 
 
 HENRY II 
 
 understood imperfectly ; for Father Aldrovand had not 
 recovered the injury which he had received during the 
 siege. 
 
 Vidal, however, understood him to say, that he was to 
 meet the Constable there, to beg his favourable interces- 
 sion. 
 
 " I also will meet him," said Renault Vidal, rising sud- 
 denly from the stone which he occupied. 
 
 '• Follow me, then," mumbled the priest ; " the Flemings 
 krow me, and will let me forward." 
 
 But Father Aldrovand being in disgrace, his influence 
 was not so potent as he had flattered himself; and both he 
 and the minstrel were jostled to and fro in the crowd, and 
 separated from each other. 
 
 Vidal, however, was recognised by the English peasants 
 who had before spoke to him. " Canst thou do any jugglers' 
 feats, minstrel ? " said one. " Thou mayst earn a fair largess, 
 for our Norman masters \ose jou«krie" 
 
 " I know but one," said Vidal, " and I will show it, if 
 you will yield me some room." 
 
 They crowded a little way off from him, and gave him 
 time to throw aside his bonnet, bare his legs and knees, by 
 stripping off the leathern buskins which swathed them, and 
 retaining only his sandals. He then tied a parti-coloured 
 handkerchief around his swarthy and sunburnt hair, and 
 casting off his upper doublet, showed his brawny and 
 nervous arms, naked to the shoulder. 
 
 But while he amused those im.nediately about him with 
 these preparations, a commotion and rush among the 
 crowd, together with the close sound of trumpets, answered 
 by all the Flemish instruments of music, as well as the 
 shouts in Norman and English, of " Long live the gallant 
 Constable !— Our Lady for the bold De Lacy ! " announced 
 that the Constable was close at hand. 
 
 Vidal made incredible exertions to approach the leader 
 of the procession, whose morion, distinguished by its lofty 
 
THE FLEMINGS IN WALES 7, 
 
 S::;:*::!, ■S^'eS '"'^-^ •"—"- or leading 
 
 'ions prevailed, and e "1, • ' h'- '^' ''""«"■ '"'^ «='- 
 Constable, who was then r "" "'r^'"- ^''rds of the 
 
 with difficulty ken cSo" H ^'"'"^ «'h-h had been 
 
 of ">e day. ^^i^ba I was' tv'Xh "' "" """"'"■•■^' 
 was in the act of bending fonTht ' """'"'■'■ "'"^ ''^■ 
 royal charter to Wilkin Fllr 1, ■ "^ '° deliver the 
 knee to receive it tl e Lr ' ''''° ^'"^ '<"^" on one 
 
 "•■•s duty occasion ;\rCo:,TabreT'''; ""' "''"'"^^ "^ 
 plume seemed in the ac! of m T°^ '° '°"- "'•'" '"'^ 
 
 of his noble charged ""« "■'"' "''= "owing „,ane 
 
 ov::r;::n?i^^-:^::::;--;;."iar agility. 
 
 and, ere an eye could t^ nTl« I f"''"'^ "'^ '^''•ole; 
 croupe of the Const I's ho ' the''" '"f '^"^ °" '"e 
 on the collar of De L.'X h ^ ^''^''' *"'' '"" '"'"'^ 
 P;ey like a tiger aftL lis 1 ap t^^ .t tV"'^"''" ''^ 
 of time, a short, sharp daK«er--nnHh'' .'""'^. ''""'-' 'nstant 
 the neck, just where the tiL '"f.\""^'^ " '" the back of 
 stroke, series to convey to L "1 T '''"'"' ''^ '"« 
 •^e mysterious inflrc'ef Vrtr^Tl'T '^°'^^ 
 struck with the utmost accuracv of f ^^°^ "''' 
 
 '"•">• The unhappy hLseman drn T Z"*^ strength of 
 without groan or struggle ik^ a 17,^°'" ''^ '"""'^ 
 under the steel of the tau S,r 2 k' -"Ph'theatre 
 sat his murderer, brand^ inJ'th" h.'" ^ ''"'" '"^'^'^ 
 urging the horse to speed ° """^^ P°"'"''- ""nd 
 
 There was indeed a DOssih.l,t„ „f u- i 
 
 his escape, so much werrthoe Lid" '?"' '^'^''^^'^'' 
 moment by the suddenness and ,H ''"*'^'"<^ ''o^ 'he 
 
 but Flammock's presence of ^indd^i' "' "'^ ^"'"P"^«; 
 he seized the horse by he bridle and "T T""' '"'"- 
 wanted but an example nude .h'-.""^"'' ^^ "'"^^ "'ho 
 "-™s, and called a^:d£\f;:--2---^;^ 
 
78 
 
 HENRY II 
 
 l^ing Henry. This proposal, uttered in Flamniock's strong 
 and decided tone of voire, silenced a thousand wild cries 
 of murder and treason which had arisen while the different 
 and hostile natives, of which the crowd was composed 
 threw upon each other reciprocally the charge of treachery ' 
 AH the streams, however, now assembled in one channel 
 and poured with unanimous assent towards the Garde 
 Doloureuse, excepting a few of the murdered nobleman's 
 tram, who remained to transport their master's body in 
 decent solemnity of mourning, from the spot which he had 
 sought with so much pomp and triumph. 
 
 When Flammock reached the Garde Doloureuse he was 
 readily admitted with his prisoner, and with such witnesses 
 as he had selected to prove the execution of the crime. 
 To his request of an audience, he was answered that the 
 King had commanded that none should be admitted to 
 him for some time ; yet so singular were the tidings of the 
 Constable's slaughter, that the captain of the guard ven- 
 tured to interrupt Henry's privacy, in order to communicate 
 that event; and returned with orders that Flammock and 
 his prisoner should be instantly admitted to the royal 
 apartment. Here they found Henry attended by several 
 persons, who stood respectfully behind the royal seat, in a 
 darkened part of the room. 
 
 When Flammock entered, his large bulk and massive 
 hmbs were strangely contrasted with cheeks pale with 
 horror at what he had just witnessed, and with awe at 
 finding himself in the royal presence-chamber. Beside 
 him stood his prisoner, undaunted by the situation in 
 which he was placed. The blood of his victim, which 
 had spirted from the wound, was visible on his bare limbs 
 and his scanty garments ; but particularly upon his brow 
 and the handkerchief with which it was bound. 
 
 Henry gazed on him with a stern look, which the other 
 not only endured without dismay, but seemed to return 
 with a frown of defiance. 
 

THE FLE.MhVGS IN WALRS 
 
 ^rl^^l::^ °"^ ''"°-'" "'"■'r?.. said Henry, ,oo,i, 
 <;hair, said, thouci, 1^^ u \ "°°'' '"''•'"d the rova 
 
 f «e. but 4 .h^taS^^tr:;-- ?: ^-^^ ^- -' 
 
 I should say there was a househl " """^ "">'^d. 
 
 by name Renault Vidal " '^ """''^^' °^ «y master, 
 
 ■'^arUt^^^^^^^^ -piied the „i„strel ; 
 
 The Welshman's eyes look.H 
 
 «ymg from their sockets, while he ex r'"'r ^'"^"^ ^ '^ 
 ^"rpnse, mingled with horror "Do '"™'='^' '" " '""'^ of 
 monarchs? Or, if ,hon art ahve V/ "u'" '^""'^ ''^f-<^ 
 dreamed not, surely, of that hn' f"'" ''"^" ^ ^'■'"'" ? I 
 blow? ,et my vicHm 'tSs before "'"", °' "'^' """"^ 
 ^iam the Constable of Chester?" ""^ ' """^ I no. 
 
 'vhom that charge was th s mnr' ''" ^"^ ^acy on 
 
 of our loyal and' fa ^^]^2 ]T'T '' °"^ '-'-" 
 "pon h,s return from the Holy I^L" ""''"« ''^^" '»' 
 b- bad taken passage was repo ^ed ' V ''^^^' '" '^^ich 
 "ecfc. Thou hast cut short r„Vp u^^ '"^'"''^ '^bip- 
 by a few hours; for to^Urrots ' ^"'^ ^'^^«'on bm 
 
 b'm without land or lordshTp ' ^"" """'^ ''"- »S-n seen 
 
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 f 
 
8o 
 
 HKiXRY II 
 
 the eyes drop out that were cheated with those baubles, a 
 plumed cap and a lacquered baton ! " 
 
 " I will take care, Welshman, thine eyes cheat thee not 
 again," said the King sternly; "before the night is an 
 hour old;r, they shall be closed on all that is earthly." 
 
 " May I request of your nobleness," said the Constable, 
 " that you will permit me to ask the unhappy man a few 
 questions ? " 
 
 " When I have demanded of him myself," said the 
 King, "why ne has dipt his hands in the blood of a noble 
 Norman." 
 
 " Because he at whom I aimed my blow," said the 
 Briton, his eye glancing fiercely from the King to De Lacy 
 and back, " had spilled the blood of the descendant of a 
 thousand kings ; to '.vhich his own gore, or thine, proud 
 Count of Anjou, is but as the puadle of the highway to the 
 silver fountain." 
 
 Henry's eye menaced the audacious .speaker; but the 
 King reined in his wrath when he beheld the imploring 
 look of his servant—" What wouldst thou ask of him ? " he 
 said ; " be brief, for his time is short." 
 
 " So please you, my liege, I would but demand where- 
 fore he has for years forborne to take the life he aimed at, 
 when it was in his power— nay, when it must have been 
 lost but for his seemingly faithful service ? " 
 
 " Norman," said Cadwallon, " I will answer thee. When 
 I first took upon me thy service, it was well my purpose to 
 have slain thee that night. There stands ti.e man," point- 
 ing to Philip Guarine, "to whose vigilance thou owed'st 
 thy safety." 
 
 " Indeed," said De Lacy, " I do remember some indica- 
 tions of such a purpose ; but why didst thou forego it, 
 when followinor opportunities put it in thy power ? " 
 
 "When the slayer of my Sovereign bec.ime God's 
 soldier," answered Cadwallon, "and served His cause in 
 Palestine, he was safe from my earthly vengeance." 
 
THE FLRAIIXCS IX WAl.R.s g, 
 
 .ian1:?;ir W S;^^'"'-^"-'^«■'-ich ce„.i„ Chris- 
 neglected tetncTon,," ::'"'■■' '"' "'" "•^^'-' "-- 
 
 suddenly stoppin,, he s" d „?th " Pecul.arly; but, 
 
 the gallows Z tt knav. ; " "" '" °' ^"""-'"P'- " ^o 
 
 servant o^e revues" Spare tl/ "f""' ^""^ ='"^'^"' 
 -^.ight,.eLseitis^i.rnd^""-'^^- 
 said thT'K^g I'r"^',^,:'' ''r'f/''^^ of thy petition," 
 "oble Norman is In'tlt w M ""°'-""^ '"""'^ "^ » 
 As I am crowned ^n^h uf,"T' ^'"'^' ""'' 1'^°^- 
 
 H^eihavehiriS^:::^;i^,-^''-ipc^o. 
 
 the window; on which for > ' "''" '"'* ^« L^'^y to 
 
 'i«ht hegan'to S^' IZ^ Z:T 'r^^T ''''' 
 
 Henry , and so perish ^ll 1^^ <^'th '^^Le N '"'"^^ 
 men 1 ■' "^ gentle Norman 
 
 -Sir Waltek Scoit, r/« Be/rM,,,/. 
 
VII 
 
 The Return of the 
 Lion-Heart 
 
 A KNIGHT in black armour and his guide were pacing 
 at tlieir leisure through tlie recesses of the forest ■ the 
 good Knight whiles humming to himself the lay of sonic 
 enamoured troubadour, sometimes encouraging by ques 
 tions the prating disposition of his attendant, so that their 
 dialogue formed a whimsical mixture of song and jest of 
 which we would fain give our readers some idea. You 'are 
 then to imagine this Knight strong of person, tall, broad 
 »i.uuld.. -d, and large of bone, mounted on his mighty 
 black charger, which seemed made on purpose to bear his 
 weight, so easily he paced forward under it, having the 
 visor of his aelmet raised, in order to admit freedom of 
 breath, yet keeping the beaver, or under part, closed, so 
 that his features could be but imperfectly distinguished, 
 liut his ruddy, eml)rowned cheek-bones could be plainly 
 seen, and the large and bright blue eyes, that flashed from 
 under the dark shade of the raised visor; and the whole 
 gesture and look of the champion expressed careless gaiety 
 and fearless confidence-a mind which was unapt to appre- 
 hend danger, and prompt to defy it when most imminent 
 —yet with whom danger was a familiar thought, as witll 
 one whose trade was war and adventure. 
 
 The Jester wore his usual fantastic habit, but late 
 accidents had led him to adopt a good cutting falchion 
 ms ^ad of his wooden sword, with a targe to match it; of 
 
THE RETURN OK THE LION-HEART 83 
 
 any posture, or adhere to any certain train of ideas, a thouizh 
 
 panion to ride more steadiL thereafter 
 At tl-o point of their journey at vhich we take them uo 
 
 callert in which the down bore a mellow burden to the 
 tSt't~' Kni,,. of the Fetterlock. And "'h^: r'an^ 
 
 Anna-Marie, love, up is the sun, 
 Anna-Marie, love, nmrn is l)cgun. 
 Mists are dispersing, love, bird, singin.- free. 
 Up in the morning, love, Anna- Marie 
 Anna-Marie, love, up in ihe morn 
 l-he hunter is winding blithe sounds on his horn. 
 The echo rings meri-y from rock and from tree 
 ris time to arouse tliee, love, Anna- Marie 
 
 Wamba. 
 O Tybalt, love, Tyb.ilt, awake me not yet 
 Around my -oft pillow while softer dreams' flit 
 bor wliat are ilie j.>ys that in waking we prove 
 Comixired with these visions, O Tybalt, my love? 
 Let the birds to the rise of the mist carol shrill, 
 Let the hunter blow out his loud horn on the hill. 
 
®4 RICHAKD 1 
 
 Suflcr !R,un.l», soflir plca,urt», In slumhi-r I ,„„vc - 
 Hut Ihink nc.l 1 .lic-iini of il.^c, -lyi,,,!,^ ,„j, ,„j.^. 
 
 "A dainty song," said Waniba, when they had fini.shcd 
 I.eir carol, " and I s^vcar l,y my bauble, a pretty moral ' - 
 I used to siny it «i.h (Uirlh, once my playfellow, and now 
 by the grace of (lod and his master, no less than a free- 
 man ; and wc once came by the cudgel for being so 
 entranced by the n.elody, that we lay in bed two hours 
 after sunrise, smging the ditty betwixt sleeping and wakin- 
 -my bones ache at thinking of the tune ever sincet 
 Nevertheless, I have played the part of Anna-Marie lo 
 please you, fair sir." 
 
 The Jester next struck into another carol, a sort of comic 
 duty to wh.ch the Knight, catching up the tune, replied in 
 the like manner. 
 
 Knihht and Wamiia. 
 ThcM,; canii; three merry men frnn, soulh, >ve»l, a.ul norll.. 
 
 fcver more sing llie roundel.iy ; 
 To win the Widow of Wjconibe forth, 
 
 And where was tlie widow niijjlit i.ny iheiu nay? 
 The first was a knight, and from Ty,. lale he came, 
 
 tver more sing the roundelay ; 
 And hi, fathers, Go.1 save us, „■:.- men of great fan.e. 
 
 And where was the wi.low might s.ny him nay? 
 Of his father the laird, of his uncle the squire, 
 
 lie )".asted in rhyme and in roundelay ; 
 She bade him go bask by his sea-coal fire. 
 
 For she was the widow would say him nay. 
 
 Wamiia. 
 The next Hint came forth, swore by blood and by nails 
 
 Merrily sing the roundel.iy ; 
 Hur's a gentlei-.an, (lod wot, and hur's lineage was of Wales, 
 
 Am, where was the widow might say him nay? 
 Sir David ap Morgan ap Criflilh ap Hugu 
 
 Ap Tudor a|i Rhice, quoth his roundelay ; 
 She said that one widow for so many was loo few, 
 
 And she bade llie Welshman wend his way. 
 
THE RETURN OF thf rrnv,,„ 
 
 U'll llicn nc« cnm<r ., ye„„n„ „ 
 
 - noiii. 
 
 Fo' a yeoman of Kent «i.h h: ', 
 
 '•w .; w, wdi,. "•""■ -" >-» '" 4. ta ,ta, 
 
 " Ay," said the Knieht " m; ■ 
 good-wMI. .hough I a„.'„o't nt'Vt"'" "' '■"^'^^'^y^ 
 ""s bugle will, I am assure ih "^ "■ '''''^'^^ ">ots on 
 io-ly band Of y;nder;oTer,iot™'"™"'"'' « °- "-''. " 
 
 .' not .":: thr^i^-ristr-'r^ '^^ j--- ••- 
 
 peaceably." *" " " P'^''g« 'hey would let us pass 
 
 "Why, what meanest thou ?- said ,h. i- ■ , 
 
 construe me this, Sir Knightlwhl ^' ""■^' 'hou 
 
 -% purse better emp^'t::?. '^ '"^ '''-P"^''er 
 
 :on,e ere thou walk in the grtn^d"" '"" '"^ "'"-^ "• 
 
 ^"'«'-rrC,S"''^'^-obbers, then." said the 
 
 "'""'^^^"'^""'-^-'^'-'^■•saidWamba;... 
 
86 
 
 RICHARD I 
 
 may relieve a man'i steed to take off his mnil when he linth 
 a long jouriKy to make ; and, ccries, it may do good tn tlic 
 rider's soul to ease him of that which is the niiit of evil ; 
 therefore will I give no hard names to those who do such 
 services. Only I would wish my mail at home, and my 
 purse in my chamber, when I meet with these good fellows, 
 because it might save them some trouble." 
 
 " 11 'e are bound to pray for them, my friend, notwilh 
 (landing the fai character thou dost aiTord them." 
 
 " Pray for tl with all my heart," said Wamba ; " but 
 in the town, not m the greenwood, like the Abbot of Saint 
 Bees, whom they cau'-^d to say m-.ss with an old hollow 
 oak-tree for his stall." 
 
 " Say as thou list, Wamba," replied the Knight, " these 
 yeomen did thy master Cedric yeomaiily service at Torquil- 
 stone." 
 
 "Ay, truly," answered Wamba; "but that was in the 
 fashion of their trade with Heaven." 
 
 " Their trade, Wamba ! how mean you by that ? " replied 
 his companion. 
 
 "Marry, thus," said the Jester. "They make up .n 
 balanced account with Heaven, as our old cellarer used to 
 call his ciphering, as fai: as Isaac the Jew keeps with his 
 debtors, and, like him, give out a very li'tle, and take large 
 credit for doing so; reckoning, doubtless, on their own 
 behalf the sevenfold usury which the blessed text hath 
 promised to charitat'e loans." 
 
 "Give me an example of your meaning, Wamba, — I 
 know nothing of cipher^, or rates of usage," answered the 
 Knight. 
 
 "Why," said Wamba, "an your valour be so dull, you 
 will please tc learn that those honest fellows balance a 
 good deed with one not quite so laudable ; as a crown 
 given to a begging friar with an hundred byzants taken 
 from a fat abbot, or a wench kissed in the greenwood with 
 the relief of a poor widow." 
 
THE RETL-KX OK rUE UOS-HEA^j 8; 
 
 nothing so well. Sir kTut "winT'""""- ^"^ -^ 
 drunken vesper, with he ,iuff ,5" '"°'"' *'»•"" >'°" ^eld 
 The „,erry.„en of .he for '"If^^'r?"?" «" °"- 
 cottage with the burning o7 ' r. „ u' '""''''"« °f '■> 
 ^'■oir against the rolZ'g ^ ^h^'r ' ^ "'"'^:'""« "^ ^' 
 poor prisoner against the n.urder of a „~ '^' ?"'"« ^^^•'■' ••" 
 come nearer to our uoinr .ht / , '^ °"'' "''""^J °^ «o 
 f^-nklin against the bS- a ive r"""^;' °' " ■^''-" 
 Gentle thieves they are in tho I " ^•"■'"^'' ''"on. 
 I^ut it is ever the luckiesl to m. ,' " u" "'""^°"' ™''>«-'^'' i 
 at the worst." ""='-'' «""' 'hem when they arj 
 
 .'\"7 7' ^^""""'"-^id the Knight. 
 
 -^ing^iirrattt?:- rHrr-'^;-"--' -"^ -^ '- 
 
 struck an eve ,ance hTJ u "' "■*"^" ""^V have 
 'hey next open ccoun," Th" ^'^."'•■'" '^''"' *'>°"' 
 
 'hem after their g ,d serW ' a, T T"'^^ ^'^^ ""' >"« 
 woful flaying._.t„ yet " ^td vll'" ' "°"''' ''='^'-- =■ 
 
 'he Knighfs side, -'the e bTcon ' '°"""« ='°'<= "P 'o 
 
 dangerous for tralel ler to meetT:'°"7"° "" ^" "'°- 
 "And who may they be cT "^^'1 y^"dcT outlaws." 
 
 wolve, I trow." said tl'e Knight'" '"'" ""■'"" '^-^ ""^ 
 
 half-score of these is wor h a banH 'f '"^' °^ ''"' "="•• " 
 •n.ey are now expectrn/their h ''°'"" "* ""^ ''>"-• 
 
 -th the soldiers th'a t sca^ rom t:'' ",' "" '''"'°"='^ 
 ii'ould we meet with a ban^ of th '°^1"''^"'"=- So that, 
 - feats of arms.-No>y I o' '"'".'' ''■^'■'"P''^'"^ 
 ■ouidyoudoifwemettl^of'tLlP '" '""«'■'• '^"^'^ 
 
 ' n the villains to the earth „.;,i, 
 'hey offered us any impeding;;?- " ""' "'"^'^' ^^-"'•^- 
 
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38 
 
 RICHARD I 
 
 " But what if there were four of them ? " 
 
 "They should drink of the same cup," answered the 
 Knight. 
 
 " What if six," continued Wamba, " and we, as we now 
 are, barely two — would you not remember Locksley's 
 horn ? " 
 
 " What ! soun'" for aid," exclaimed the Knight, " against 
 a score of such rascaille as these, whom one good knight 
 could drive before him, as the wind drives the withered 
 leaves ? " 
 
 " Nay, then," said Wamba, " I will pray you for a close 
 sight of that same horn that hath so powerful a breath." 
 
 The Knight undid the clas of the baldric, and indulged 
 his fellow-traveller, who immeu. lely hung the bugle round 
 his own neck. 
 
 " Tra-lira-la," said he, whistling the notes; "nay, I 
 know my gamut as well as another." 
 
 " How mean you, knave ? " said the Knight ; " restore 
 me the bugle." 
 
 " Content you, Sir Knight, it is in safe keeping. When 
 Valour and Folly travel, Folly should bear the horn, be- 
 cause she cari blow the best." 
 
 " Nay but, rogue," said the Black Knight, " this ex- 
 ceedeth thy licens — Beware ye tamper not with my 
 patience." 
 
 "Urge me not with violence, Sir Knight," said the 
 Jester, keeping at a distance from the impatient champion, 
 " or Folly will show a clean pair of heels, and leave Valour 
 to find out his way through the wood as best he may." 
 
 " Nay, thou hast hit me there," said the Knight ; " and, 
 sooth to say, I have little time to jangle with thee. Keep 
 the horn an thou wilt, but let us proceed on our journey." 
 " You will not harm me, then ? " said Wamba. 
 " I tell thee no, thou knave ! " 
 
 " Ay, but pledge me your knightly word for it," con- 
 tinued Wamba, as he approached with great caution. 
 
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THE RETURN OF THE LION-HEART 89 
 
 foo,'is?se.?'^'"*""'' ' '''''''■' -'y "- on with thy 
 
 _ \ hat makes thee judge so ? " said the Kni-ht 
 
 honestmen "h ;;\T epUhfpTth""^. "^f ''^ ''^^" 
 a Choice chape. L the cttsTsai„t NicC" ''''''' ' 
 
 tHin^ehnt^ti;;:ro^:;?^'"^"'^'"^^'^^'-^"' 
 
 which hung a;:un7;;^fneek. '"'''■''"'' ''^ ""^ '"-"^ 
 "Thanks, trusty armourer," said the Knight -"Wamh, 
 let us close with them "—an^ 1, "-'"bnt— Wamba, 
 
 ;ri,'i:;-r :-- r - r *' -^ 
 
 side, crying, " Die, tyrant ' " ^ •"'" °" "^"^ 
 
 •"Ha. Saint Edward- Ha! Saint George !" said the 
 
90 
 
 RICHARD 1 
 
 Black Knight, striking down a man at every invocation ; 
 " have we traitors here ? " 
 
 His opponents, desperate as they were, bore back from 
 an arm which carried death in every blow, and it seemed 
 as if the terror of his single strength was about to gain the 
 battle against such odds, when a knight, in blue armour, 
 who had hitherto kept himself behind the other assailants, 
 spurred forward with his lance, and taking aim, not at the 
 rider but at the steed, wounded the nobie animal mortally. 
 
 " That was a felon stroke ! " exclaimed the Black Knight, 
 as the steed fell to the earth, bearing his rider along with 
 him. 
 
 And at this moment, Wamba winded the bugle, for the 
 whole had passed so speedily, that he had not time to do 
 so sooner. The sudden sound made the murderers bear 
 back once more, and Wamba, though so imperfectly 
 weaponed, did not hesitate to rush in and assist the Black 
 Knight to rise. 
 
 " Shame on ye, false cowards ! " exclaimed he in the blue 
 harness, who seemed to lead the assailants, " do ye fly from 
 the empty blast of a horn blown by a Jester?" 
 
 Animated by his words, they attacked the Black Knight 
 anew, whose best refuge was now to place his back against 
 an oak, and defend himself with his sword. The felon 
 knight, who had taken another spear, w.-.Lching the moment 
 when his formidable antagonist was most closely pressed, 
 galloped against him in hopes to nail hi;Ti with his lance 
 against the tree, when his purpose was again intercepted by 
 Wamba. The Jester, making up by agility the want of 
 strength, and little noticed by the men-at-arms, who were 
 busied in their more important object, hovered on the skirts 
 of the fight, and effectually checked the fatal career of the 
 Blue Knight, by hamstringing his horse with a stroke of his 
 sword. Horse and man went to the ground; yet the 
 situation of the Knight of the Fetterlock continued very 
 precarious, as he was pressed close by several men com- 
 
THE RETURN OF THE LIOX-HEART 91 
 
 pletely armed, and began to be fatigued by the violent 
 exertions necessary to defend himself on so many points at 
 nearly the same moment, when a grey goose shaft suddenly 
 stretched on the earth one of the most formidable of his 
 assailants, and a band of yeomen broke forth from the glade 
 headed by Locksley and the jovial Friar, who, taking ready 
 and effectual part in the fray, soon disposed of the ruffians, 
 all of whom lay on the spot dead or mortally wounded. 
 1 he Black Knight thanked his deliverers with a dignity they 
 had not observed in his former bearing, which hitherto had 
 seemed rather that of a blunt bold soldier, than of a person 
 of exalted rank. 
 
 "It concerns me much," he said, "even before I express 
 my full gratitude to my ready friends, to discover, if I may, 
 who have been my unprovoked enemies.— Open the visor 
 
 of th.it Blue Knight, "'amba, who seems the chief of these 
 
 villains." 
 The Jester instantly made up to the leader of the assassins, 
 
 who, bruised by his fall, and entangled under the wounded 
 
 steed, lay incapable either of flight or resistance. 
 
 " Come, valiant sir," said Wamba, " I must be your 
 
 armourer as well as your equerry— I have dismounted you, 
 
 and now I will unhelm you." 
 So saying, with no very gentle hand he undid the helmet 
 
 of the Blue Knight, which, rolling to a distance on the 
 
 grass, displayed to the Knight of the Fetterlock grizzled 
 
 locks, and a countenance he did not expect to have seen 
 
 under such circumstances. 
 " Waldemar Fitzurse ! " he said in astonishment ; " what 
 
 could urge one of thy rank and seeming worth to so foul an 
 
 undertaking ? " 
 
 " Richard," said the captive Knight, looking up to him, 
 
 " thou knowest little of mankind, if thou knowest not to 
 
 what ambition and revenge can lead every child of Adam." 
 "Revenge?" answered the Black Knight; "I never 
 
 wronged thee— On me thou hast nought to revenge." 
 
9a 
 
 RICHARD 1 
 
 " My daughter, Richard, whose alliance thou didst scorn 
 — was that no injury to a Norman, whose blood is not-le 
 as tliine own ? " 
 
 " Thy daughter ? " replied the Dlack Knight ; " a proper 
 cause of enmity, and followed up to a bloody issue ! — 
 Stand back, my masters, I would speak to him alone. — 
 And now, Waldemar Fitzurse, say me the truth— confess 
 who set thee on this traitorous deed." 
 
 " Thy father's son," answered Waldemar, " who, in so 
 doing, did but avenge on thee thy disobedience to thy 
 father." 
 
 Richard's eyes sparkled with indignation, but his better 
 nature overcame it. He pressed his hand against his brow, 
 and remained an instant gazing on the face of the humbled 
 baron, in whose features pride was contending with shame. 
 
 " Thou dost not ask thy life, \Valdemar," said the King. 
 
 " He that is in the lion's clutch," answered Fitzurse, 
 " knows it were needless." 
 
 "Take it, then, unasked," said Richard; "the lion preys 
 not on prostrate carcasses. — Take thy life, but with this 
 condition, that in three days thou shalt leave England, and 
 go to hide thine infamy in thy Ni rman castle, and that thou 
 wilt never mention the name of John of Anjou as Con- 
 ner ed with thy felony. If thou art found on Englisli 
 ground after the space I have allotted thee, thou diest— or 
 if thou breathest aught that can attaint the honour of my 
 house, by Saint George ! not the altar itself shall be a 
 sanctuary. I will hang thee out to feed the ravens, from 
 the very pinnacle of thine own castle.— Ixt this knight 
 have a steed, Locksley, for I see your yeomen have caught 
 those which were running loose, and let him depart un- 
 harmed." 
 
 " But that I judge I listen to a voice whose behests must 
 not be disputed," answered the yeoman, " I would send a 
 shaft after the skulking villain that should spare him the 
 labour of a long journey." 
 
THE RETURN OF THE LION-HEART 9. 
 
 bound to obey ^y behest-I a. Richard of Eld "°" 
 
 Cceur-de-Iion^he V d'«i"guished character of 
 
 hi.., and ^"ke same r" "' ?" ''"^^'^'' '^°''" before 
 in.piored ^rdon ^LlZ^'^' ^''" ^■■^■~. and 
 
 «ood-hLour'rd'^t:;To'~'th?'^^^^^^ 
 
 resentment, and whose feafnr„r . ■ ™""' "^ ''^"'J' 
 •ate desperate confl ct "ep, n/Thrfl T ■""' "' "«= 
 
 Locksley " ""ure. — And thou, brave 
 
 Hood of Sherwood Forest." ' *™ ^"l^'" 
 
 " King of Outlaws, and Prince nf ^^„j r n 
 the King, "who hath i^ot hea^d a namefhat ha 7" "'' 
 as far as Palestine? But be assurT rive o",ar"thar' 
 deed done in our absence -in,! ;„ ' ""^'^,'-'""aH, that no 
 
 Wlitn the cat is away. 
 The mice will play.'" 
 
 "H-hat, Wamba, ar, thou there?" said Kicha.d; "I 
 
94 
 
 RICHARD I 
 
 have been so long of hearing thy voice, I thought thou 
 hadst taken flight." 
 
 " I take flight ! " said Wamba ; " when do you ever find 
 Folly separated from Valour? There lies the trophy of 
 my sword, that good grey gelding, whom I heartily wish 
 upon his legs again, conditioning his master lay houghed in 
 his place. It is true, I gave a little ground at first, for 
 a motley jacket does not brook lance-heads, as a steel 
 doublet will. But if I fought not at sword's point, you will 
 grant me that I sounded the onset." 
 
 "And to good purpose, honest Womba," replied the 
 King. " Thy good service shall not be forgotten." 
 
 "Confi/eor! Confiteor I" exclaimed, in a submissive 
 tone, a voice ne.ir the King's side— "my Latin will carry 
 me no farther,— but I confess my deadly treason, and 
 pray leave to have absolution before I am led to execu- 
 tion ! " 
 
 Richard looked around, and beheld th jovial Friar on 
 his knees, telling his rosary, while his quarter-staff, which 
 had not been idle during the skirmish, lay on the grass 
 beside him. His countenance was gathered so as he 
 thought might best express the most profound contrition, 
 his eyes being turned up, and the corners of his mouth 
 drawn down, as Wamba expressed it, like the tassels at the 
 mouth of a purse. Yet this demure affectation of extreme 
 penitence was whimsically belied by a ludicrous meaning 
 which lurked in his huge features, and seemed to pronounce 
 his fear and repentance alike hypocritical. 
 
 "For what art thou cast down, mad Priest?" said 
 Richard ; " art thou afraid thy diocesan should learn how 
 truly thou dost serve Our Lady and St. Uunstan ?— Tush, 
 man ! fear it not ; Richard of England betrays no secrets 
 that pass over the flagon." 
 
 " Nay, most gracious sovereign," answered the Hermit, 
 (well known to the curious in penny histories of Robin 
 Hood, by the name of Friar Tuck,) "it is not the crosier I 
 
THE RETURN OF THE LION-HEART 93 
 
 should evefhaveteraJSied foU' '''f^Sious fi« 
 anointed ! " ^PP"ea to the ear of the Lord's 
 
 -^Vhad';S;le^tt;frV'"^ '^-'-''- 
 afteritforawholeday But if 1 T'' '"'"" '" ^""« 
 «■'" be judged by the eood 1 '"'^ *"' '■"'''^ S'y'W I 
 well repaid-or if thou fh 1, ? "°""''' '^ '' ^^^ "ot as 
 
 wn. sta^nd forthVo. tr;r;Li:t!i.'^ -«^'- -<^ 
 
 debts as fully . " "'"'^-"""y y°"r Majesty ever pay your 
 "If I could do so with ri>ff. •• j ■ 
 
 creditorsshouldhavehttlerJ" '. "'"' "'^ ^''"S' "my 
 exchequer." "* "''"°" '° ^^-ni'lain of an empty 
 
 And yet," saJH tka t* • 
 critical countenance. "I CwTo";"";!" "' ''^'""^^ ''>'P°- 
 
 havinfstrsorn; 1';™^"-''' "^^ ^ing; -after 
 I were void of reason to n,,^^ T""' ""'^ ""■^believers, 
 - holy as he of Cop„'a°„2 r Ye^ "^ Y'' °f ^ ^'-^ 
 think it would be best both fnrTf' T^ ''°""' ^""' I 
 that r should procure a hV^ ' '^''""'' """^ thyself, 
 
 '"ee as a yeo^T^'rorra d ""'"'^' "^^' ^"^ -'-" 
 person, as formerly i„ attendan^^' '"^ '" '"^ "^ °"^ 
 
 IJunstan." ^ attendance upon the altar of Saint 
 
 "My Liege," said the Friar " T i- 1 > 
 pardon; and you would read /' '^ "^^^ )°"^ 
 
 but know how the sin of H^ ^''"!. ""y "'^"^'-■. did you 
 Dunnan-may he be gracious'tT' ^"' '"" '"'^- «-"' 
 niche, though LhouldC°rnr"'^^''^^ *^"^^' '" '"^ 
 -I =tay out of my cdl sometrm V" ''"""g^'"at buck 
 
 -hat S,i„, DunJtan ner 0";,:,;;^ ^;'°'"^^-' -' 
 ■^ and a peaceful, as ever was ZhT 7 "•""' "^•'''*^^ ''^ 
 
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9« 
 
 RICHARD I 
 
 honour i. great. doubtle,s-yet. if I '"='^,„^"' .1° f Xert 
 
 ,0 comfort a widow in one corner, or to kill a deer in 
 
 Inothrit would be. 'Where is the dog I''*"' ' 7».°- 
 
 •Who f.as seen the accursed Tuck?' say, another^ The 
 
 unfrocked villain destroys more ven.son «>"n half he 
 
 country besides.' says one keeper; 'A"d 's huntmg ato 
 
 every shy doe in the country I ' quoth a 8econd.-In fine 
 
 ITJmv T ie^e I orav you to leave me as you found me; 
 
 Ti i7au VuS to extend your benevolence to me. 
 
 °haf I may be considered as the poor Clerk of Samt 
 
 Dunstan's cell in Copmanhurst. to whom any small dona- 
 
 tion will be most thankfully acceptable. 
 
 "I understand <hee," said the Kmg. "and the Hc^y 
 Clerk shall have a grant of vert and ven.son in my woods 
 o Warncl ffe. Mark, however, I will but assign thee three 
 bucks every season; but if that do not prove an apology 
 Ky staying thirty. I am no Christian kn.ght nor true 
 
 "Sd stretching out his hand to the H"mit the latter 
 somewhat abashed, bent his knee and saluted .t. Ihou 
 do" honour to my extended palm than to my clenched 
 S' LTd the Monarch ; " thou didst only kneel to the one. 
 and to the other didst prostrate thyself.' 
 
VIII 
 The Kingdom Surrendered 
 
 Scene. A Room of Slalt in th, Palact, Northampton. 
 
 Enttr King John, '■roivned ; Pembroke, Salisuukv, and 
 other Lords. The King takes his State. 
 
 [^ JO//X. Here once again we sit, once again crowned, 
 ■* *• • And looked upon, I hope, v.ith cheerful eyes. 
 
 Pem. This " once again," but that your highness pleased. 
 Was once superfluous ; you were crowned before, 
 And that high royalty was ne'er plucked ofl". 
 The faiths of men ne'er stained with revolt ; 
 Vresh expectation troubled not the land 
 With any longed-for change, or better state. 
 
 Sal. Therefore, to be possessed with double pomp, 
 To guard a title that was rich before, 
 To gild refined gold, to paint the lily. 
 To throw a perfume on the violet. 
 To smooth the ice, or add another hue 
 Unto the rainbo- or with taper-light 
 To seek the beau; >us eye of heaven to garnish. 
 Is wasteful and ridiculous excess. 
 
 Pem. But that your royal pleasure must be done, 
 This act is as an ancient tale new-told, 
 And in the last repeating troublesome. 
 Being urged at the time unseasonable. 
 
 Sal. In this, the antique and well-noi face 
 Of plain old form is much disfigured ; 
 .And, like a shifted wind unto a sail, 
 It makes the course of thoughts to fetch about, 
 
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93 
 
 JOHN 
 
 Startles and frights consideration, 
 
 Makes sound opinion sick, and truth suspected, 
 
 Kor putting on so new a fashioned rolic. 
 
 Ptm. When workmen strive to do better than well, 
 They do confound their skill in covetousness ; 
 And, oftentimes, excusing of a fault 
 Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse : 
 As patches set upon a little breech 
 Discredit more in hiding of the fault 
 Than did the fault before it was so patched. 
 
 Sal. To this effect, before you were new-crowned. 
 We breathed our counsel ; but it pleased your highness 
 To overbear it, and we are all well pleased ; 
 Since all and every part of what we would 
 Doth make a stand at what your highness will. 
 
 K.John. Some reasons of this double coronation 
 I have possessed you with, aiid think them strong; 
 And more, more strong, when lesser is my fear, 
 I shall indue you with ; meantime, but ask 
 What you would have reformed that is not well ; 
 And well shall you perceive how willingly 
 I will both hear and grant you your requests. 
 
 Pern. Then I, as one that am the tongue of these 
 To sound the purposes of all their hearts. 
 Both for myself and them, but, chief of all. 
 Your safety, for the which myself and them 
 liend their best studies, heartily request 
 The enfranchisement of Arthur ; whose restraint 
 Doth move the murmuring lips of discontent 
 To break into this dangerous argument : 
 If what in rest you have in right you hold. 
 Why then your fears,— which, as they say, attend 
 The steps of wrong,— should move you to mew up 
 Your tender kinsman, and to choke his days 
 With barbarous ignorance, and deny his youth 
 The rich advantage of good exercise? 
 
''■•"'n whereupon :t "'l" "" '""''" ""' 
 
 A. /«///,. f^t i, I 
 
 '" your direction. -HuJ.^f°"""" '"''' y°"^h 
 ""'-ert, what news with ,.„u? 
 
 ^'■'"- -ihi, i, ,he man should do '.h"!,""'"'^^" '^" '^•'no. 
 He showed his warrant to a fnenj ' '°°'''' ^^'''' = 
 J he image of a wirlr,.rf i, ■ o'^mine. 
 
 ■W. ThecXu'^;,H"''."•^'''^S*"<"^°• 
 HisU£vr;irifrr"'""'"- 
 
 .^,^-'. And whcnri ;;;';<■'""'''"''• 
 
 The foul corruption ofTsweet r^M.*!!' ''""'' ">-"=« 
 
 Z'-/. Indeed,le heTr^, h' '"''"^" ^''^ P^^' cure 
 
 AV.^«. Why do vlhT ''''"■ """^"-^e- 
 ^^;J>^"Ibei:1h/IJ-JS^-^™.so„.e, 
 "a^e I commandment nn jk ■ ^ 
 
loo 
 
 JOHN 
 
 That greatness should so grossly olTer it. 
 So thrive it in your game ! and so farewell. 
 
 Pern. Stay yet, Lord Salisbury ; I'll go with tliee, 
 And find the inheritance of this poor child, 
 His little kingdom of a forced grave. 
 That blood which owed the breadth of all this isle, 
 Three foot of it doth hold. Bad world the while ! 
 This must not be thus borne : this will break out 
 To all our sorrows, and ere long, I doubt. yF.xeiiiit Lords. 
 
 K.John. They burn in indignation. I repent. 
 There is no sure foundation set on blood. 
 No certain life achieved by others' death. 
 
 Enter a Afessenger. 
 A fearful eye thou hast. Where is that blood 
 That I have seen inhabit in those cheeks ? 
 So foul a sky clears not without a storm ; 
 Poui down thy weather.— How goes all in I'rance? 
 
 Mess. From France to England. Never such a power, 
 Vox any foreign preparation. 
 Was levied in the body of a land. 
 The copy of your speed is learned by them ; 
 Vox when you should be told they do prepare, 
 The tidings comes that they are all arrived. 
 
 A'. John. O, where hath our intelligence been drunk ? 
 Where hath it slept ? Where is my mother's care, 
 That such an army could be drawn in France, 
 And she not hear of it ? 
 
 Mess. My liege, her ear 
 
 Is stopped with dust : the first of April, died 
 Your noble mother : and, as I hear, my lord, 
 The Lady Constance in a frenzy died 
 Three days before ; but this from rumour's tongue 
 I idly heard : if true, or false, I know not. 
 
 K. John. Withhold thy speed, dreadful Occasion ! 
 O, make a league with me, till I have pleased 
 
THE KINGDOM SURRENDERED loi 
 
 My discontented peers.-What ! mother dead • 
 How wildly then walks my estate in France t 
 Under whose conduct came those powers of France 
 i hat thou for truth giv'st out are landed here ? 
 Afess. Under the Dauphin. 
 
 Elite t the Bastard, and Peter of Pomfret. 
 
 ,i-'\' ■{'"*"■ ''''^°" '^''st made me giddy 
 
 Uith these 111 tidings.-Now, what says the world 
 I o your proceedings ? do not seek to stuff 
 ■My head with more ill news, for it is full. 
 
 Ihut liut if you be afeard to hear the worst 
 I hen let the worst, unheard, fall on your head. 
 ^ h.John. Bear with me, cousin, for I was ama/ed 
 Under the tide ; but now I breathe again 
 Aloft the flood, and can give audience 
 To any tongue, speak it of what it will. 
 
 liait. How I have .sped among the clergymen, 
 I he sums I have collected shall express, 
 liut as I travelled hither through the land 
 I fmd the people strangely fantasied, 
 Possessed with rumours, full of idle dreams 
 Not knowing what they fear, but full of fear. 
 And here's a prophet that I brought with me 
 l>om forth the streets of Pomfret, whom I found 
 With many hundreds treading on his heels ; 
 To whom he sang, in rude harsh-sounding rhymes, 
 1 hat, ere the next Ascension-day at noon. 
 Your highness should deliver up your crown. 
 K.John Thou idle dreamer, wherefore didst thou so? 
 Jeter. I-oreknowing that the truth will fall out so 
 K John. Hubert, away with him : imprison him ; 
 And on that day at noon, whereon, he says, 
 I shall yield up my crown, let him be hanged. 
 Deliver him to safety, and return. 
 For I must use thee. [£.v,V Hubert with Peter.]- 
 
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loa 
 
 JOHN 
 
 Hear'st .!,„,. .i, ° '">' S^""^ cousin, 
 
 • ^h;,.f:re„ch, „y,o.d; men's n,outh, are fun 
 
 Besides, I met Lord Bigot and Lord Salisl)„ry 
 TnH T "' '"^ '' newenkindled fire, ^ 
 And hers more, going to seek the grive 
 
 Of Arthur, who, they say, is killed to'nigt 
 On your suggestion. '' 
 
 And thrust thyself into .heir companies 
 I have a way to win their loves again ■ 
 «rmg them before me. 
 
 y^asf. T -It 
 
 And r7'K"^'''"'"^'°"'y heels, 
 ^l"r".'i?"'-S''t from them torn; again. 
 f''., ^''V'"'" °f "'^ "■"« ^hall teach me speed '/-,// 
 
 Re-enter Huiiert. 
 
 The other four, in wondrous motion. 
 A./ohn. Five moons? 
 
 Do^^tphesy upon it d^ntr,;"' '^"^™' '■" "'^ --- 
 Voung Arthur's death is common in their mouths ; 
 
'"' '^^•^■c'^o^, sv,,,so,,no 
 
 And when they talk nfu- 
 
 i^-l smith stand ^Uhtisl'' "'"' '""'"^ «^>«. 
 / fie whilst his iron dir 1 ■""'"' "'"s, 
 y''hopen„,outh 'lnr''''^='"^''™oI. 
 ^^ho, with his shcara t "« ' '^""^'^ "-v.,, 
 ^'-"'Img on shW ^^,n"'"'^' '" ""'^ '■''"J. 
 J^ad falsely thrust nn '"' """Wi; haste 
 
 ''■old of a nunv tin '^°";°""-"y ^^•-''). 
 
 ^V, 'i-'^fs? '° P"""^^-^ "ic with tlicse 
 
 ^;ys£';,at'L^;';;;---f kings to be attended 
 ^° l^reak within the bCvT ' ^" ' ™"'>"' 
 
 "f'i-gerousn.i^herr'r ""'■"•■"« 
 -^>^-0.:rSar/«'^or What Z did. 
 
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104 
 
 JOHN 
 
 Makes deeds ill done ! Hadst not thou been by, 
 A fellow by the hand of nature marked, 
 Quoted and signed to do a deed of shame, 
 This murder had not come into my mind ; 
 But, taking note of thy abhorred aspect. 
 Finding thee fit for bloody villainy, 
 Apt, liable, to be employed in danger, 
 I faintly broke with thee of Arthur's death ; 
 And thou, to be endeared to a king. 
 Made it no conscience to destroy a prince. 
 
 •Hull. My lord, — 
 
 K.Johii. Hadst thou but shook thy head, or made a 
 pause. 
 When I spake darkly what I purposed. 
 Or turned an eye of doubt upon my face. 
 As bid me tell my tale in ey.press words, 
 Deep shame had struck me dumb, made me break oil", 
 And those thy fears mi^ht have wrought fears in me ; 
 But thou didst understand me by my signs. 
 And didst in signs again parley with sin ; 
 Yea, without stop, didst let thy heart consent. 
 And consequently thy rude hand to act. 
 The deed which both our tongues held vile to name. 
 Out of my sight, and never see me more ! 
 My nobles leave me, and my state is braved, 
 Kven at my gates, with ranks of foreign powers : 
 Nay, in the body of this fleshly land. 
 This kingdom, this confine of blood and breath. 
 Hostility and civil tumult reigns 
 Between my conscience and my cousin's death. 
 
 Hub. Arm you against you' other enemies, 
 I'll make a peace between your soul and you. 
 Young Arthur is alive : this hand of mine 
 Is yet a maiden and an innocent hand 
 Not painted with the crimson spots of blood. 
 Within this bosom never entered yet 
 
THE KINGDOM SURRENDERED ,03 
 
 1 ban to be butcher of an innocent child 
 
 a.Mh. Doth Arthur hVe? n k , 
 Throw this report on thei^ I'ntnsed ^f "'^ '° '"^ "^^ 
 
 And fouhmagmary eyes of blood 
 -^''/f/- AV//- John, 
 
 Pandulph re,///, //„ ^,^„ 
 ■Attendants. 
 
 Tht'.£t'of ;!:;";,o'.7 ^ ^'^"^'='* -P -° ^our hand 
 
 ^.(*/. [G/CTV/^r JoH., ,f^ 
 
 ;rom this „,y hand as holding 'he Tw'"""" 
 ^our sovereign greatness and'authortl'' 
 
 '"""■ 'Ccr--°'--:«o„.eet 
 
 Our discontented counties drre ," ""'• 
 Our people quarrel with obedience 
 ^'-eanng allegiance and the love of sou- 
 ,0 stranger blood, to foreign royal y 
 'h mundation of mistempered huniour 
 Rests by you only to be qualified. 
 
 and 
 
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 JOMN 
 
 PanJ. It was my breath that blew this temiiest up, 
 Upon your stubborn usage of the Pope ; 
 But since you are a gentle convertite, 
 My tongue shall hush again this storm of war 
 And make fair weather in your blustering land. 
 On this Ascension-day, remember well, 
 Upon your oath of service to the Pope, 
 Go I to make the French lay down their arms. [E.\il, 
 
 K.John. Is this Ascension-day? Did not the prophet 
 Say, that before Ascension-day at noon 
 My crown I should give off? Kven so I have. 
 I did suppose it should be on constraint ; 
 But, Heaven be thanked, it i^i hut voluntary. 
 
 Enter t/ie Bastard. 
 
 nasi. All Kent hath yielded ; nothing there holds out 
 I!ut Uover Castle ; London hath received, 
 Like a kind host, the Dauphin and his powers. 
 \"our nobles will not hear you, but are gone 
 To offer service to your enemy ; 
 And wild amazement hurries up and down 
 The little number of your doubtful friends. 
 
 K.John. Would not my lords return to me again, 
 After they heard young .\rthur was alive ? 
 
 Bast. They found him dead, and cast into the streets ; 
 An empty casket, where the jewel of life 
 By some damned hand was robbed and ta'un away. 
 
 K. John. That villain Hubert told me he did live. 
 
 Bast. So, on my soul, he did, for aught he knew. 
 But wherefore do you droop ? why look you sad ? 
 lie great in act, as you have been in thought ; 
 Let not the world see fear and sad distrust 
 Govern the motion of a kingly eye : 
 Be stirring as the time ; be fire with fire ; 
 Threaten the threatener, and outface the brow 
 Of bragging horror : so shall inferior eyes. 
 
THE KIXGDOM SURRENDERED ,07 
 
 Sho^v boldness and ■'°'"' ""^ ''^''^ = 
 
 "•hat, Shan ;eerf;";''°"''<^'^"-- 
 
 And fright him ,(, . ''"" '" '"'^ ^en, 
 
 O. 'et if n'ot 1:: S ' CI ^a^"'™ '^^'"'"^- "'- ^ 
 To meet rfi«ni„, - °™fc«> and run 
 
 AndgrtKntJ-f/^Jr'hedoor, 
 
 And I have madca'Svl'^ """'^ '''"' ''''" ^''h me. 
 And he hath nron, j ' ^ P'^"™ """' '"''" ; 
 '-d by the rCi-f'"'''^'"-'''^ powers 
 
 And«eshhiss;-.rr:;;:rsoi^ 
 
 Afockinc the air .u.fi, . °"' 
 
 Andfindnoei;cTpT?"''"y='P-a''. 
 Perchance, the Cardinn. "'" '"^ ''''«<^' '° "^s : 
 ,J;jr''edMetSra'strsL-^^>-^ peace; 
 
 ,-- Awa^:c:i:h%r;s"'^'----^^ 
 
 0- party n.ay .el, meet a pCudertr '' '"'• ' ^"°^' 
 
 1 1; I 
 
IX 
 
 A Cry for Justice 
 
 IN the morn next after King Henry came to Kenilwortli, 
 there was tilling in the great yard of the castle, at 
 which his Highness, with the Queen and her court, were 
 present. This was the day of Turney ; but, although this 
 noble company made a goodly show, they were not ap- 
 parelled with that splendour they showed on the chief day. 
 Among the ladies of the court, none surpassed for beauty 
 the lady Barbara, daughter of the Earl of Huntingdon and 
 a favourite damsel of the Queen ; her the King intended 
 to bestow in marriage, during his sojourn in Ardenn. She 
 was innocent and graceful, as the fawns that bound in 
 our forest, and excelled in all the accomplishments of the 
 court. She had fixed her heart on Sir C.aston de Blonde- 
 ville, a young knight of the King's household, who had 
 entreated her of her father in vain; for, though he was 
 of a good family, it was a foreign one, being of the Queen's 
 country, and he had little besides the favour of his master 
 to depend on. 'J'he youth was of a comely person and 
 gallant bearing; well practised in all martial exercises of 
 war, of which he had given some proof in exploits, and 
 had latterly so much displayed himself in a fierce adventure 
 against some of King Henry's rebellious subjects, beyond 
 sea, that his Highness had incontinently advanced him to 
 be one of his own knights. Moreover, the King, on 
 hearing of his ill-faring suit, had taken that matter into 
 his special cognizance ; and the King knew so well how to 
 
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A CRY FOR JUSTICE 
 
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 toinniand the Mrl ik.> u 
 
 '" the kniglu, and W, JI'k'"'""''"' •° K'^-^ '"•' daughter 
 
 should be ?oi;idiir '''"""■""' "■" "■-'•'■s' 
 '"Ss-;ts"!dS^5::,!:r?[7'-^'"--. 
 
 ing from the Tilt-vard ,^1 "'ghness was return- 
 
 attended by the S c'r^rf ''^ ""^ <^"^-. ''nd 
 him, a strange, came forth of 'th^ ?'' P'''^'"* ^f"™ 
 fee., called ou, Mdir£'^^,:,t"°Th ".-■'''"'"«''' •''^ 
 what he should say, the man nl,l ■ ! *''"8' "^'^ning 
 looks and his voice el", "\o;r"' '^'' "'''^"'-'^ '•'' 
 he demanded justice UMn r„M ' '""^ <'«'''i'"ed, that 
 '■"fested the highways of'T," kt^^ """ "'""i-", who 
 and frequency than was e ' I * "" '""' '"°^= *'"'e"ce 
 of his peaceable subje« ^ ^ ^;T "* u "• '" '"=" """-^ 
 The King seei J ,1 . ^ '^^°"' ">«•"• 
 
 -nge.,csso'rh!r fst :.;:tTth°/ "'^ '-' -^ ^^^ 
 
 '"'"self; yet he coLandedh^^rh" "'• T "«''''> 
 'here to wait, till he should speak ^Hu """ ""' ^'''"'^^• 
 others to do so ; and the ornc-f '""'' "' °''^^' ^o'"^ 
 
 Meanwhile the Ki„ w'^ "°" '"'"'^'' o"' 
 •i'i he should' 1 a etTn t:S "" '° '^''^■'' '"'^ -«"• 
 own discernment. He wenrs ' f .r'" '""""' "' *'"' h- 
 which was the courrof Is" ceT- ^ ^ '"'° "" *'''"^ *""'• 
 "oWes and o.her attend" ms !r'''"l°"'^ =• '■'^* °f h'^ 
 finger before him, and h^h' ot"r ""^ '""'"'°"'='' 'h« 
 h-; was and of what 1 . ,^ ""'" P"' t" '""'. «ho 
 complain. ''^' P""'^'"'" g"evance he had to 
 
 ■hree years before, t^veS w th"a "l" "'" ^'"^^-^at 
 ■n his possession, and bl/' ^'^ '"^^ '"■" "^ ""'"ey 
 travellers, two of them meTchanV?'"'"^ "'"' '^''' °ther 
 other a kinsman of his ow„ rh ^""^ '^P"'^' »'«' t^e 
 forest of Ardenn, when abomtJ^' ^'"^ "''''^"^ '" "•« 
 
 -^obbed Of nearly aS:;:-er%£rdi5trr; 
 
no 
 
 HENRY III 
 
 with it quietly, it was so much. His kinsman, however, 
 was the only one of the party that had good arms ; he had 
 served in the wars, and he now manfully resitted the 
 rulTians, who directed most of their vengeance to him ; hu 
 was murdered on the spot ; for the rest of his com()any, 
 they escaped with some hurts. No one of the robbers was 
 killed, hut two or three were wo'inded. He could truly 
 swear to the murderer, and that he had seen him in the 
 very co'irt, nay, that he saw him at that very instant, 
 standing even beside the King's chair. 
 
 King Henry, struck with astonishment, fixed his eyes 
 sternly on the stranger, for a njoment, and then looked at 
 those around him. On his right hand was his son, I'rince 
 Kdward, and, on his left, his young favourite, Gaston de 
 lllondeville, ui)on whom all eyes were fastened ; for to hini 
 the answer pcrtayned, and to him the accuser pointed, with 
 a look of horror, which convinced every one present, except 
 his Highness, he did indeed believe he saw before him the 
 murderer of his friend, whether his fancy deceived him or 
 not. 
 
 .At the boldness of this accusation. Sir liaston stood, at 
 first, like one stricken with dismay ; then, moving his hand 
 towards his sword, he said, " Hut for the presence of the 
 King, my master, I should soon avenge me for so foul a 
 slander." 
 
 To which the merchant, now much more tranquil than 
 he had been, said, " The same reason must restrain all ; 
 but I do ni ; need it : I would not set my life against that 
 of an assassin ! I ask for justice from his Highness." 
 
 At these words Sir Gaston was hardly withheld froin his 
 accuser. King Henry commanded silence : and, as soon 
 as all noise had ceased, he turned with a severe countenanci; 
 to the stranger, and said, " Know you not, that he whom 
 you accuse is a knight of my household, advanced to 
 honour for his valour ? " 
 
 " Yea, noble King Henry," replied the merchant, " I 
 
A CRV FOR JUSTICE 
 
 in 
 
 •enry .housh as,„„i.sl,e.l, be.un ,„ do [.. c 7v '" 
 
 to suffer ,he mercluru to l.e further , s^ontll and r 
 Kuig consented thereto. ' ^ "" 
 
 Then the man was nsW.-il .. »■ »i. i 
 and.hen,onth„.:,t'l:^:r,^^;: -■','^>-' 
 committed. He was ready cuoulV with i ''■■" 
 
 l.e.ng then servu,g as esquire to Sir I'ierse Afallory. 
 
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113 
 
 HENRY III 
 
 At the laiit words of t!ie merchant, Sir Gaston moved 
 towards the King, as though he would privily say some- 
 thing ; but his Highness reproved him with a frown ; and 
 asked the merchant at what hour the robbery was com- 
 mitted, and what were the array and appearance of the 
 robbers ? 
 
 The knight interrupting the reply, then said aloud, 
 " Sire ! I entreat you, be mindful of the condition of dis- 
 grace, in which I must stand, if you seem to give counte- 
 nance to this scandalous accusation. I know not, that I 
 shall be able to breathe, if it be thought that your Highness 
 could, for one minute, think it possible I could have com- 
 mitted so foul a deed." 
 
 King Henry, looking kindly upon him, said, " It is right 
 you should be cleared with those who know you not so 
 well as I do ; and chiefly with those who love not men of 
 your country ; and, therefore, would I examine this witless 
 charge to the uttermost" His Highness then made all his 
 questions over again. 
 
 The merchant considered awhile, and somewhat of his 
 boldness seemed to forsake him : he then answered, "The 
 number of the robbers was three ; they were most of them 
 tall in stature; they wore cloaks about them, and had 
 masks on their faces." 
 
 " Masks ? " said the King. 
 
 And the merchant said, that in the struggle between his 
 companions and the robbers, two of the vizors fell off, and 
 so he saw plainly the faces of the robbers, and he perfectly 
 remembered the face of the knight. His Highness, without 
 telling his thoughts on this, which many there present 
 scrupled not to hold an after-invention of the accuser, 
 commanded him to begin his tale anew, and to tell, one 
 by one, every particular he could bring to mind of the 
 alleged adventure; but before he began. Sir Caston, sur- 
 veying him, asked whether, about four years back, he was 
 not at Embrun, in the Dauphine. 
 
A CRY FOR JUSTICE 
 
 «rt:;::s^— s&^:T^''- 
 by robbe s. He «;° bSi '7 ' "V"'' ""' '""^^'^'^ 
 and of his company whfch he din"";, ""= """""^ °' '"^^ 
 The King asked hJlon'.ft'' ""'^°".' ^''^^'"g •"» tale, 
 assault began? which he ? f ""''" " "'*' ''^^" 'he 
 i' was so neary da k thL h^^, "°' """^"^ "-•" ^ but said 
 of the robbe7under he , ^VfTh" '"J' ""= «="-- 
 
 theyburs., .he.e.hanrpt?d:™,;:r '""' '''''' 
 "But? '"'^ "l^^'"g ""patiently :- 
 
 torch T tooTtm rr- "' "^'" "'^'"'^ --«" ^V a 
 a smith's in a wZe by the w "'°":' "'° """" "^'"''1 '' ^t 
 
 s«.i.h again" Ind h; Z^ ""^'l^ "^ '""""^ ""- '*- 
 
 --{was-o^el^^rViShlX." '""•^- 
 
 My kmsman," said he, "w-a, ,(,. „„, ^ . 
 was well-armed • and J L "'.e.°"'y ""e of us who 
 
 fought with h's 'sword tha '"T ""'^^ "^^<^- He 
 
 your Highness t wit . , ,""" "''° ""'^ '"'"'''' beside 
 ^'ood sert^l' S ^^wVr r hr •; ?' I^' '°"^ "'"' 
 skirmish, as I heard WhT . '^°' '^°'>'' after a 
 
 ^-^eJtr^rl™-^-:^ 
 "S.'ir^^t5?-----HiS 
 
 light, I plainly law ha sal "°' ^"""Suished, and, by its 
 upon me so vengLllv Z^T'^^T '""' "°^' «''»'- 
 which penetrlted the 'heH ; "''''" '"= "'■"^'^ '^e blow 
 ReginafddeFlMlle" °' ""^ ""'°"""'"<= "'"-"an. 
 
 The merchant paused, seemingly overcome by the re- 
 
 
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114 
 
 HENRY III 
 
 membrance of this event, while Sir Gnston exclaimed 
 "Was it Reginald de Folville ? He was esquire to a knight 
 of Saint John, and was then at Ly Ida : so much for the 
 truth of your story in that main point." 
 
 At the first words of Sir Gaston, the King and the 
 courtiers had turned their faces upon him ; but though his 
 words were so strong and sufficient, they beheld in his 
 countenance paleness and consternation. But he soon 
 recovered ; and, asking pardon of his Highness for the 
 emotion with which he had spoken, accounted for it by 
 saymg, that Reginald de Folville had been his earliest 
 friend. 
 
 " Your father's friend, you must surely mean," said the 
 merchant ; " for he was at the wars at a time that would 
 have made that possible. You must have been a child, 
 when he went there." 
 
 " 1 7vas then a child," said Sir Gaston, averting his eyes 
 from the stranger; "and I must ever remember the kind- 
 ness he showed me after the death of my father ; I owe 
 hmi much. He went from Provence to Syria; I heard he 
 fell m battle there. Sure I am he never returned : he died 
 in battle there. " 
 
 "He died in the forest of Ardenn," said the merchant 
 with solemnity, "and lies buried in the priory of Saint 
 Mary here. He died by your hand : that is his very sword 
 by your side ; I remember it now." 
 
 The audacity of this assertion struck all present, and 
 none more than the King himself. His Highness desired 
 to e.\amme the sword, and asked the merchant why he had 
 not sooner challenged it ; to which he answered nothing. 
 Sir Gaston, as he delivered it on his knee to the King, said, 
 " If I know my accuser, which I think I do, he is no 
 stranger to this weapon : he knows well that I usually wear 
 It ; but it never belonged to Reginald de Folville. My 
 hege, it was my father's sword ; he won it in the plains of 
 Palestine." 
 
A CRY FOR JUSTICE 
 
 The King examined it with attention T, 
 shape and finely wroueht fn !r u?' ' '"' °'^ ««tern 
 Pnnce Edward, as he leaned n *" ""^ " f'^^J^-els. 
 father a motto in an unk„o«n T" "' ^°''"'"^ ""' '° '»' 
 distance below i. a date wth ^"p' ""' "'^"' "' ^°"'e 
 remarking that probd ly' ,h ^ t. ^I^ J"'"^' "• •'^•• 
 exploit achieved In the ve->r nnf ''"":f.,'"'"''«d to son,e 
 hi.melf to Sir Gaston for'the me ']" ""'"^ ="^d^"»<=J 
 
 these letters; but he knew not t,'"? °' "'^ """^ ""^ of 
 'hey^wereaswhen his fath:rrn ^Xor/^o''^ ''"' ^^''^ 
 ihen the King addressed .uV ° "^ ""^ «"e"iy- 
 'i"estion,observingthatTs It ■"!"''"' "■'"' '^e san,e 
 to him. he probab^had bee^ Ml'''"''' '° ''^ '^'""''''^ 
 letters on it. '.Viih that ^h. u' ^'S"""'"""" of the 
 
 vnncing to receive it of one toTh "'!•"" '"•^"'^ ^<^- 
 dHivered it; when he suddell H " ^ ^''^^"'>'' ''■''d 
 eyes with his hand and t„„H ^ '"' ^"'^' ^"^"-^d his 
 aln,ost expected to see ,'m f^M 'aT"h"f I^"^' ''"''°- "--- 
 the castle court on the nirht1:^^:t a t' S r "' '"^'"" "' 
 same t.me, stepping forward, presun^d to t w"'™' "' "''-' 
 di^hver jt again to the Kin^ t"^«s"ni«l to take it, and to 
 
 Highness wni not tempt the vnh 'r't' "'°^'^^ = "^'°"r 
 •"■" in possession ofThe word hTf'l ,"'? ""'" '^^ ?""'"« 
 , 'i-he King, returningfhe sworS tot ' "''■""" 
 '"■" keep it forthcoming tl he l,'/r"^ ''"'■«'''> ^^^de 
 again, and then said tc he stranl f *"""' " "' '""' 
 words :_ "^ stranger these or such-like 
 
 to come into' n,; e„Tt 'and :V'"'' •""-■■ """^ ''''-d 
 0- servants, a gentlen'an and a kntht'° f"" ""' °' "'^ 
 foul and incredible Ynn h, , ^ ' "'^ " "'""^ most 
 Oave waited patien^y fo^so^e "vid '' T ''°^>' ^"^ ' 
 of your kinsman, if; i° trutTir '' "'"' ""^ ™"^<^«'" 
 violence, was Si ( a on de R, T''" ''^^''°>'^d by 
 
 -cept your story/ And, -.'lifr"'- ' """^ "°"e' 
 y And m th,s you have not scrupled to 
 
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Il6 
 
 HENRY III 
 
 affirm, that you would have seized him for the murderer, 
 even in a distant land, though you also say, that your 
 knowledge of his countenance was obtained only from the 
 sudden (and, therefore, the uncertain) light of a torch 
 lying on the ground, at a moment, when the danger you 
 were yourself exjiosed to, might, it may be readily believed, 
 have prevented you from closely observing any face what- 
 soever. You must be held unworthy of credit ; and I 
 commit you into safe custody, till it shall be discovered 
 who you are, and who those are, who urged you to this 
 base accusation. An adventure as remarkable as that you 
 have related,"pursued his Highness, " must have been known 
 here at the time it happened, and must be remembered now. 
 It is strange, if there be none who can recollect you also." 
 
 " My lord," observed I'rince Edward, " he said his friend 
 was buried here ii rhe priory. If so, the Prior must know 
 him and his strange history." 
 
 "Said he so?" quoth the King; and, turning to the 
 stranger, he inquired how it happened, that he was not 
 known to the Prior? and who it was that commanded the 
 burial of his kinsman ? 
 
 The merchant said he had himself ordered it, and had 
 conversed with a monk and even with the Prior himself. 
 
 "Then you are known to the Prior, at least," said the 
 King ; "he will surely recollect your story : let him be sent 
 for. It is strange you should have said you were unknown : 
 you are either guilty of falsehood, or your senses arc un- 
 settled." 
 
 The stranger raised his hand to his head and sighed 
 " I recollect the Prior," said he, " but he may not remeni 
 ber me." 
 
 " We shall see ! " said the King calmly, as he rose from 
 his chair : " If you are innocent, fear not ! if you are guilty, 
 you will lose your life, in seeking that of an innocent man." 
 
 And the merchant obtained the justice he sought, for Sir 
 Gaston was a caitiff knight. 
 
 —Mrs. Radcliifi:, Gastcn de Bloiidevi/k. 
 
X 
 
 A Castle held for 
 the King 
 
 ">« walls of the town bor ^L ' f ""« '"«'' ''''°^« 
 original constrac.ion It" '" '^^ S""deur of its 
 
 small portion of open sp ce wh'T '""' ^"'"''"^' '""^ "»= 
 worship was fitted L, inTflS;'? "f'"'' '°^ ""'^"•'• 
 lords rested from world " ifh ^ 5 ''''"'^ "^ ''^^'-'^^'^J 
 From the open ground ' h 7 " ""t ""^ ^'"'"'^ "^ -"r. 
 ■eye could Pursue'ri'sider :™: ;J, t '""'^"^' '"-> 
 "ver Douglas, which approached Zf r '°""' "^ ""^ 
 west, bordered by a linTof hiiL f . """ ^""^ "^« ^""'h- 
 'heir appearance'and in n ,,1'"'''"'=^"^ '"'^'^'^^'^ '" 
 
 wood, which desUnded to^rd he'' T'"" '''"'' '"P'"-" 
 P"t of the tan-led ,nH ! ''''"'^>'' ^"^ formed a 
 
 .ownwassurSderTre'ritrrs""'' '^ ^^'^'^ ""= 
 west side of the town and IZ L ' ""■*P'"S '"""d 'he 
 
 ^■a-Se inundation or;rtificiarp"eeT T^'l"'^ ^"PP"'^<^ 
 Scottish people beirinlwH ^u *""""• ^"eral of the 
 
 -present'he'pl'lm t n^thr'T'.^V"^^ "^^-■- '" 
 -nderinginrhechurchyaTas rafe^ 
 some person of peculiar ,=.n.,- "^ approach of 
 
 »dfriars, come to'rende the homn" h'"'=""'°" "^ """'^^ 
 Soldiers of the Ensllh tV ^^ "^"^ '° ">« solemnity, 
 
 for the serwS of' he daT^Th"" T"' '° '""= ^""-'^ 
 -gh, .r ;ohn de ^L.^t/^^ X'^^ 
 
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 EDWARD I 
 
 Berkely was in tl.e act of following Sir John into the church, 
 when she caught a glimpse of her faithful minstrel, and 
 instantly determined to regain the company of that old 
 servant of her house and confidant of her fortunes, and 
 trust to the chance afterwards of being rejoined by Sir 
 John de \V'alton, with a sufiScient party to provide for her 
 safety, which she in no respect doubted it would be his 
 care to collect. She darted away accordingly from the 
 path in which she was advancing, and reached the place 
 where the minstrel Bertram, with his acquaintance Creen- 
 leaf, were making some enquiries of the soldiers of the 
 English garrison. 
 
 I jdy Augusta Berkely, in the meantime, had an oppor- 
 tunity to say privately to her faithful attendant and guide, 
 " Take no notice of me, friend Bertram, but take heed, if 
 possible, that we be not again separated from each other." 
 Having given him this hint, she observed that it was adopted 
 by the minstrel, and that he presently afterwards looked 
 round and set his eye upon her, as, muffled in her pilgrim's 
 cloak, she slowly withdrew to another part of the cemetery, 
 and seemed to halt until, detaching himself from Greenleaf, 
 he should find an opportunity of joining her. 
 
 " I would pray you, worthy minstrel," said Greenleaf, 
 after looking carefully round, " is it not your opinion that 
 the Scottish natives have fi.\ed this very morning for some 
 of those dangerous attempts which they have repeatedly 
 made, and which are so carefully guarded against by tlie 
 governors placed in this district of Douglas by our good 
 King Edward, our rightful sovereign ? " 
 
 " I cannot see," replied the minstrel, " on what grounds 
 you found such an apprehension, or what you see here in 
 the churchyard different from that you talked of as »i; 
 approached it, when you held me rather in scorn for giving 
 way to some suspicions of the same kind." 
 
 " Do you not see," added the archer, " the numbers ol 
 men, with strange laces, and in various disguisements, who 
 
A CASTLE HELD FOR THE KING u, 
 
 '0 shun oLervadon and uh^^f' "" " ^°'' "''° »'^="'' 
 never been shaped i^^Scoi'"' "" "" ^"""' ''"^ 
 
 Berkely, " he surely a^.d, ^"'tt 7''' ""= '^''^ "^ 
 
 "I know not that" Tnt ,! ?^^ "" °^""'f'<^'°"" 
 «i" be n,y du^ o ;„fl, f ?r"'"'''' ">"" ' '^ink it 
 reach hin,, that he e Irl I ^°''" '^'^ ^^'"'°"' '^ I "" 
 
 ^i-P-ancUeitheTbeLrt^rr 
 
 of the country." ^ ""^ garrison, nor to this part 
 
 -i:^°r;S';:l:i;r:n:7'^'- V°" •^arass with accu. 
 
 -luences which n,ust^ne«ss'a iiv ^^'T ^'"^ '° ""= <=°"'^- 
 'his nature, how manv ^ "^ "P°" suspicions of 
 
 .-u.iarlyto'dev:.ioraTthrr:rK ""Z""" '"- 
 tune of the triumnh^i . ^ ^°' ""'^ '' "lis the 
 
 Christian reyo3tus[r''> °'."^ '°""'^- "^ '"c 
 l^ominica Confuentiun/ o . rs H ''' f'^ "^"^ ''' '•""-d 
 'he palm-tree, or the box /nd L ''"^ .°^ Confessors, and 
 ^"I'stitute, and which are di^h''"':.'"""' "*= "^'^^ '>'' "^ 
 hurnt solemnly ,o a hes,„dhof.\ V"' P""'^' "<= 
 
 'he pious, by tl.e priS;rpl'' t^id'T ''"""''' 
 succeeding year all J,: i . ^^'^""'^'^"esday of the 
 
 country afe obsmld f"^ !"'' ''"^ ceremonies in our 
 noroulhtyou, ; n L; 4^^^^^^^^ "^ '"e Christian church; 
 persecute those a lu ^,v r 7 •"" y°" "''hout a crime, 
 *hocan ascribetheir n '' u"^"' "P°" >'°"' H""'^"" 
 charge the duL o ' h Z andT 1° ''"" '"'" '° '^'•^- 
 I'rocession approaching w fh' h ^°^ ^'^ "' >'°" """"""^ 
 
 wears, consist"; Zome chTrct ""' T"' ^''<^' ''^ '' 
 attendants • let u, fir= churchman of rank, and his 
 
 «e Shan find t his nar""7'°^ "' '""^ " "^ P'^l-ble 
 'he peaceabVand orH 1 Tu "^"^ "''^''"' ^^=""'y ^r 
 
 ^-hisdayarmtiSL'cSTrr;;^^^^^^^^^ 
 
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130 
 
 HDW.' D I 
 
 Grtenlcaf accordingly madij the investigation recom- 
 mended by liis companion, and received information that 
 the holy man who headed the procession was no other 
 than the diocesan ol the district, the Bishop of (ilasgow, 
 who had come to give his countenance to the rites with 
 which the day was to be sanctified. 
 
 The prelate accordingly entered the walls of the dilapi- 
 dated churchyard, preceded by his cross-bearers, and 
 attended by numbers, with bough., of yew and other ever- 
 greens, used on the festivity instead of palms. Amonn 
 them the holy father showered his blessing, accompanied 
 by signs of the cross, which were met with devout exclama- 
 tions by such of the worshippers as crowded around him ;— 
 " To thee, reverend father, we apply for pardon for our 
 offences, which we humbly desire to confess to thee, in 
 order that we may obtain i>ardon from heaven." 
 
 In this manner the congregation and the dignified clergy- 
 man met together, exchanging pious greeting, and seemingly 
 intent upon nothing but the rites of the day. The acclania 
 tions of the congregation, mingled with the deep voice of 
 the officiating priest dispensing the sacred ritual ; the whole 
 forming a scene which, conducted with the Catholic skill 
 and ceremonial, was at once imposing and affecting. 
 
 Tlie body of the church, broken as it was, and hunj; 
 round with the armorial trophies of the last I,ord.s of 
 Douglas, furnished rather the appearance of a sacrilegiously 
 desecrated ruin than the inside of a holy place ; yet some 
 care appeared to have been taken to i)repare it for the 
 service of the day. At the lower end hung the great 
 escutcheon of William, Lord of Douglas, who had lately 
 died a prisoner in England ; around that escutcheon were 
 placed the smaller shields of his sixteen ancestors, and a 
 deep black shadow was diffused by the whole mass, unless 
 where relieved by the glance of the coronets, or the glimmer 
 of bearings particularly gay in emblazonry. At the eastern 
 part of the church was fitted up a temporary altar, by tiie 
 
A CASTLE HELD FOR THE KLNC ,.. 
 
 con,posed his ipisco,: ,eS ""T ""'^ ""'^"J'"''' as 
 numerous nor richly a,„>ed nor H^k- '""" ""' "'"■"''" 
 present a splendid specimen of h. f u°"" ''PP^^ance 
 '"e episcopal order/ ,Vhe^ ^ '^^./^f'"' """^ ^'8""^ °f 
 golden cross, at the stem .^ !'' ''°''"'- however, his 
 
 hensive that at some unevnl./^ "tonishment. appre. 
 
 '-de upon them, ei he tyThe 'l"' ? ''''"^ ^°->^^ 
 "perhaps by both in com'b natfo" 7/ '"'" "' ''^='^-. 
 great was the devotion of thVlco i,h ^' """' '■"■ '"« ^^ 
 ranks to the interests of the oaftv? p "^^ °^ "'^ ""'gher 
 '«d become jealous of i'mtfn.th '"'''*''' ''"'^ English 
 ""th those ceremonies of ™echich""K.°'"'"f"'= «ven 
 under their proper management aTd.r"' "''' P'""'' 
 "ahe Bishop of Glasgow oSnl'u"'" '^' P'^'«n=« 
 church of Douglas, wasacrcumrnc; •"«' '""■^'" '" ">e 
 not unattended both with wonde'anH °'"^^.<^'^"^'-n<=e,and 
 of the church, however hlT^Z ""'^'"'"P'^'O"- A council 
 prelates of Scotland o the Sfar? 1 f • '"■^'■•"«"'^''ed 
 festivity of Palm Sunday, and ne^h^ p^ '^" ""'^ <"> "'« 
 -V the ceremony with fidifferenee ^ t"''"" "°^ ^-"^h 
 wh.ch prevailed i„ the church fiL """'°"'''' ="^"'-'« 
 persons of different views hnn,'. u "' " "PPeared, with 
 resembled one of those 'soSn' T "' '"' ^^S^^-'a'.ons, 
 place before a strife of the eiemen'T"'''/'"^'' °'"'" '^l"^ 
 stood to be the forerunners of sor^' '"i"'' "■^" ""^er- 
 "^'ure. All animals, accorj^^X ,?''"' '=°"="''^'°" "f 
 express their sense of the aDorof-h "" '"''°"' ""'"re. 
 ---nd other inhabir^f^;;^^^--^. 
 
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 IJii 
 
EDWARD I 
 
 withdraw to the inmost recesses of their pastures ; the sheep 
 crowd into their fold ; and the dull stupor of universal 
 nature, whether animate or inanimate, presages its speedily 
 awakening into general convulsion and disturbance, when 
 the lurid lightning shall hiss r .ommand of the diapason of 
 the thunder. 
 
 It was thus that, in deep suspense, those who had come 
 to the church in arms at the summons of Douglas awaited 
 and expected every moment a signal to attack ; while the 
 soldiers of the English garrison, aware of the evil disposition 
 of the natives towards them, were reckoning every moment 
 when the well-known shout of " Bows and bills ! " should 
 give signal for a general conflict, and both parties, gazing 
 fiercely upon each other, seemed to expect the fatal onset. 
 
 Notwithstanding the tempest, which appeared every 
 moment ready to burst, the Bishop of Glasgow proceeded 
 with the utmost solemnity to perform the ceremonies proper 
 to the day ; he paused from time to time to survey the 
 throng, as if to calculate whether the turbulent passions of 
 those around him would be so long kept under as to admit 
 of his duties being brought to a close in a manner becom- 
 ing the time and place. 
 
 The peaceful disposition which the prelate had inspired 
 had in some degree diffused itself among those present, 
 who heard with awe the spiritual admonition to suspend 
 the natural antipathy, and remain in truce and amity with 
 each other. Heaven had, however, decreed that the 
 national quarrel, in which so much blood had been 
 sacrificed, should that day again be the occasion of deadly 
 strife. 
 
 A loud flourish of trumpets, seeming to proceed from 
 beneath the earth, now rung through he church, and 
 roused the attention of the soldiers ano worshippers then 
 assembled. Most of those who heard these warlike sounds 
 betook themselves to their weapons, as if they considered 
 it useless to wait any longer for the signal of conflict. 
 
A CASTLE HI£LD l-QR THE KING ,23 
 
 Hoarse v,„V.,, rude exclamations, the rattle of sword, 
 ".■arnst thcr sheaths, or their clashing against other pie e 
 ever rV""" "" ""'"' P""«^ "' "" '"-'^ ^hichj o" 
 h2„ \ " ";? ''"""^ ^' ""> exhortation, ^f Z 
 "Shop. A second flourish of trumpets having taken placL 
 
 " rhat wht.-eas there were many noble pursuivat,ts of 
 ch,valrypre,,e-uly assembled in the Kirk of DougU, Vd 
 where .her. existed among them the usual cuLof 
 nuarrel and points of del.ate for their advancement .n 
 ch.valry therefore the Scottish knights were ready .og" 
 anynumher of the English who might be agreed eithe 
 upon the superior beauty of their 'ladies, ofup'on the 
 national ,|uarrel in any of its branches, or upon whToever 
 pent m,ght be at issue between them, vvhTh touTd be 
 deemed satisfactory ground of quarrel by both and the 
 kmghts who should chance to be worsted in such dillte 
 should renounce the prosecution thereof, or the b ann. 
 uZ Tl f "=""'"• ^"" ^"'^'^ "'"^ -Editions to "^f 
 th'e knfr "' "' '"f "" '«"'"' "''°" ^y - -""cil of 
 orem of IT "' "', "'"' "' ''""^'"^ "'■"'--id. Hut 
 
 o twen vi Idrrr'^" °' "^•""■^'' ^"'■«'"^- f™"^ one 
 o twent. . ,v II defend the quarrel which has already drawn 
 
 Wood touchmg the freedom of Lady Augusta deBere^ 
 and the rend.fon of Douglas Castle to the owner here- 
 present. ^Vherefore it is required that the English knigh 
 do mtm,..te their consent that such trial of valour take 
 place, wh,ch according to the rules of chivalry, they an 
 no refuse, w„hout losing utterly the reputation of valour 
 and .ncurrmg the diminution of such other degree of 
 est,mat,on as a courageous pursuivant of arms would 
 wdhngly be held in, both by the good knights o" hi own 
 country, and those of others." 
 
 ,hn!!^*' ""«Pf J'^d gage of battle realised the worst fears of ■ 
 those who had looked with suspicion on the extraordinary 
 
 
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124 
 
 EDWARD I 
 
 ansemlilage this day of the de|)Cndants of the Home of 
 Douglas. After a short (lause, the trumiiets again flourished 
 lustily, when the reply of the English knights was made in 
 the following terms : — 
 
 " That God forbid the rights and privileges of England's 
 knights, and the beauty of her damsels, should not lie 
 asserted by her children, or that such English knights as 
 were here assembled, should show the least backwardness 
 to accept the combat offered, whether grounded upon the 
 su|)erior l)eauty of their ladies, or whether upon i.;i., ; jiises 
 of dispute between the countries, for either or all ',{ which 
 the knights of England here present were willing to do 
 battle in the terms of the indenture aforesaid, while sword 
 and lance shall endure. Saving and excepting the surrender 
 of the Casde of Douglas, whl can be rendered to no one 
 but England's king, or those acting under his orders." 
 
 This extraordir.ary cr-s j was the cause, as may be sup- 
 posed, of the leadeis ■ i. both sides now throwing aside all 
 concealment, and iisplaying their utmost strength, by 
 marshalling their respective adherents; the renowned 
 Knight of Douglas, with Sir Malcolm Fleming and other 
 distinguishef! cavaliers, were seen in close consultation. 
 
 Sir John de Walton, startled by the first flourish of 
 trumpets, while anxiously endeavouring to secure a retreat 
 for the Udy Augusta, was in a moment seen collecting his 
 followers, in which he was assisted by the active friendship 
 of the Knight of V^alence. 
 
 The Lady of Berkely showed no craven spirit at these 
 warlike preparations; she advanced, closely followed by 
 the f.-iithful Bertram, and a female in a riding-hood, whose 
 fact., though carefully concealed, was no other than that of 
 Ma.garet de Hautlieu, whose love for Malcolm Fleming, 
 against the wish of her father, had been the cause of dire 
 misfortune to her. 
 
 A pause ensued, which for some time no one present 
 thought himself of authority sufficient to break 
 
A CASTLE HELD FOR THE KLVG „- 
 
 '0 judge a fair field, and whether L "^ ""«'" ""'«■ "" 
 
 'ection in doing ^?-' ^" '" "''*'^» "o"glns'. pro- 
 
 never will I L^ep^of^J^^^'^^^^'^^^ deadly,-.„j 
 own .word i,, con.pe.en': ^ol!Z Z,-""' °"' '''"^'' ""^ 
 
 'hemselves to us " * "'""'''" °''''' "'ay oppose 
 
 ;''^^°"r'4^r^'S:'''"'-"'-''^«-lear. 
 I'ow, and (.ill, ..-A ;,«" en.er h ''' ""'^ "'"^ ''"l» 
 '-ke is in fun march hSoiTr T'^' "'"' P-- 
 «nd will be with us in half a^. '"^^""'f ^y^l-i'e, 
 Knglish ! Valence to the escu. ""^ ^'^ ""• S^"""' 
 ijnllant Earl of Pembroke." ""'' '°"8 '"■«= to the 
 
 deS^fra::::'';-•\-°;;^- Church no longer 
 
 <ioor; the Scottish findt« th"'. '" ""^ '° '"•-■ ^""-h 
 impression of terror whch arrrL'".""''^''^ '° '"'»' "'« 
 'his renowned knight econSl'T k' '"^ "'S"' "^ 
 I'othof whom had been so lot ,h^ ' brother-in-arms, 
 In .he meantime, it is p sstble ?« n 'T "i °' ''^ ^'■^'"«' 
 gether have forced h/way out S til Y T J"''«'" ^"°- 
 been met boldly by the voun, '*'e ^''urch, had he not 
 Ha.elside, while hfs ath r Ta's ec". r"' '''"''''°'' "^ 
 < harge of preserving the str^er b""? ""^ """""^''^ "'e 
 '"e fight, which, so long susoenH f '" '""" '"' '^""' fr-"" 
 °f taking place. ^ ^"^Pended, was now on the point 
 
 I^e Walton cast his eye ,..,.,eUdy August. Wit,.. 
 
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136 
 
 EDWARD I 
 
 desire of rushing to the rescue; but was forced to conclude, 
 that he provided best for her safety by leaving her under 
 the protection of Douglas's honour. 
 
 Young Dickson, in the meantime, heaped blow on blow, 
 seconding with all his juvenile courage every effort he could 
 make, in order to attain the prize due to the conqueror of 
 the renowned De Walton. 
 
 " Silly boy," at length said Sir John, who had for some 
 time forborne the striplmg, " take, then, thy death from a 
 noble hand, since thou preferrest that to peace and length 
 of days." 
 
 " I care not," said the Scottish youth, with his dying 
 breath ; " I have lived long enough, since I have kept 
 you so long in the place where you now stand." 
 
 And the youth said truly, for as he fell never again to 
 rise, the Douglas stood in his place, and, without a word 
 spoken, engaged with De Walton in single combat, but with 
 even additional fury. 
 
 Aymer de Valence drew up to his friend De Walton's left 
 hand, and seemed but to desire the apology of one of 
 Douglas's people attempting to second him, to join in the 
 fray ; but as he saw no person who seemed disposed to give 
 him such opportunity, he repressed the inclination, and 
 remained an unwilling spectator. At length it seemed as 
 if Fleming, who stood foremost among the Scottish knights, 
 was desirous to measure his sword with De Valence. 
 Aymer himself, burning with the desire of combat, at last 
 called out, " Faithless Knight of Boghall ! step forth and 
 defend yourself against the imputation of having deserted 
 your lady love, and of being a mansworn disgrace to the 
 rolls of chivalry ! " 
 
 " My answer," ;ai . ."ieuTing, "even to a less gross taunt, 
 hangs by my side." 
 
 In an instant his sword was in his hand, and even the 
 practised warriors who 'ooked on felt difficulty in dis- 
 covering the progress of the strife, which rather resembled 
 
A CASTLE HELD FOR THE KING :.; 
 
 •keeping L defens' ^tVe ^tr^ °" "''^ °- ^'^e, and 
 
 He Walton in maintaTninr ''" "°' ^^"'^ '^°"S'"^ ''"d 
 founded upon a 41' r^^ K- ?""'" ''^^'^'^ of reserve, 
 entertained for each oZvIt the "^"%''"'«'"' '-'-li; 
 by a degree of fury.TMch'I e I" °' '? ^'' '"PP''^" 
 share in the issue ^ """"^ ^' '*^^' »" equal 
 
 PaS^ iter™ i^^T::^^ -^^^^d. the 
 side, and looked on wUh the 1 "'" °" '''"'^' 
 
 tively paid to their co"lSe;;;;7,^«;''''='> *^^ '"="- 
 or two of the womenTre n th ' '" """'■ °"« 
 
 according to the nature o the sex b "''"""""^ ''"''"='=<^. 
 who had already experfenced tht ' ^ f°'"P^' °" ^" "-ose 
 Dickson, breathinrhisTatf ''"f""'"^*"- ^""""^ 
 
 batants. was in soL sort rl T. "^^ ^^^' °f "«= <^°'" 
 I-->dy of Berkclvlr„K f "^ '^'°'" "'^ '"""'t by the 
 
 o;;.-4 .0 .h^Sg^s'^resf :.s°"shrsr r'r r- 
 
 who in vain endeavoured t„ f retained, and 
 
 .ess.'riroirSor'..2 f"-' '^^ -'^^ --^ '^- 
 
 tention and mine from „' "" "°' >°"^ °»" ="■ 
 
 Douglas-s wish to reZTnr? '°"' ^"""^ '' '^ "^e 
 Saint Bride, I conXas ?,h ,7' '° "''''' ^'"'^ ""d 
 -y charge.' Beliele L t£ vouth'^H'":'"" ""^" 
 way forgotten, though this be not th/."" '" '" "° 
 it A tin,e will come for 1"^^ ""^ '° '^"'ember 
 
 revenge." recollection, and an hour for 
 
 strength. Havi„;,aS one mlT ' ' """"'' °' '"""'y ""'I 
 
 -d.andp,aceiihi:serwre::rc::,rL^;™ 
 
128 
 
 EDWARD I 
 
 In the interim the combat continued, without the least 
 
 Kni^hf nf l7"^"' ^'^'^'""'^ disposed to interfere; the 
 Kn,ght of Flemmg pushmg fiercely forward, and brought 
 by chance almost close to the person of Lady Margaret de 
 HauU,eu m.ssed his blow, and his foot sliding in the 
 blood of the young victim, Dickson, he fell before his 
 antagonist, and was in imminent danger of boin '« h 
 mercy, when Margaret de Hautlieu, who inherited Ih^ so 
 of a warnor, and, besides, was a very strong, as well as 
 an undaunted person, seeing a mace of no great w^Lh 
 
 cfson" It at tr "'"' ' ''' "^^^ ''^P' 'y "'^ f'"- 
 hJnH ^^^' ""^ '"'"'"'■ "^"^^^ ^^' ^y^. armed her 
 
 hand, and mtercepted, or st.,,ck down the s^ord of s! 
 Aymer de Valence, who would otherwise have remled 
 the master of the day at that interesting moment, f", ng 
 had more to do to avail himself of an unexpected chanct 
 
 in whirif'h rn'" ""'' ■■'' -"'"'-'-y "PO" the manner 
 ■n which It had been so smgularly brought about- he in 
 stantly recovered the advantage he had lost, and was a lie 
 m the ensumg close to trip up ,he feet of 'his anlg„n .' 
 ho fell on the pavement, while .he voice of his conque o ,' 
 f he could properly be termed such, resounded through 
 the church w,th the fatal words, "Yield thee, Aymer du 
 
 IfZT'T' r T '«'="^-y''^'d theel-yield thee:- 
 he added as he placed h,s sword to the throat of the fallen 
 
 reS" ' '° ""■ '"' '°"''' """^'^ '^"V-rescue or ^o 
 With a heavy heart the English knight perceived that he 
 had fa,rly lost so favourable an opportunity of acquiring 
 fame, and was obhged to submit to his destiny, or be slain 
 upon the spot. There was only one consolation, that no 
 battle was ever more honourably sustained, being gained 
 as much by accident as by valour. 
 
^■V^TLE HELD VoR 1,,,. Kl^c 
 
 '"'I'ense; indeed, the num,.."' ?'"'^'' ''""S'^f remain i 
 com^.atad.ievedby.h:^,";;;:,^-''"-^ in ,„;:; 
 
 ^O) lio never it u u 
 
 'hat th, ,r hu„,an bod es, ere' ft f " '" "'""• '"""^ 'kn. 
 dreadful exertion. The" ll ^^'"^ "'^ ^■"'cct of the 
 »owly, and were parried "i f,:; 'if " '° '''^ "ra.n n.^ 
 '^at the con,ba, ,nus, soon com! ""'• """S'^-^' ^'•'-••g 
 "ade a signal, intin.a.ing "o 1°" . "" ""^' 8'-"-°"»'y 
 hand for an instant. '' "" antagonist to hold his 
 
 ""'■avfden-alton,"l.esaid ",i • 
 ;';'--, ns, and ,ou n.ust be sens bT l^ "" """''' 'J""-' 
 "f anm, Douglas, though he isn """ '" ""» passage 
 
 ;- <^'-;.i<. has abstained f'jntal' ''"f '"'^ ^'^"'<^ and 
 "hen the chance of arms hi n '^ 'l'^"'^'^'^-^ '"'^^antage 
 «y father's house, the btd dT ""' ""'^ """-^'1^ 
 'J«ell.ng, and the graves of „ """' around it -h' 
 
 .-ward for a knigfrt fi^h?;:;'"?"' '"™ " ^--a l" 
 ";Pe""ve voice to prosecute "hL'l'r'''" "'^" "'^' '"an 
 "I'ject, while you ar^as , ecome r: "*"'-■'' '"^^ ^"^h an 
 honour and safety a. if T ° 'h*^ "oble ladv in .n 
 
 ;;-^-f Ki„g^tarVLi:^i n;r;'-<^ "er i;"it' 
 
 hat the utmost honours whicl c.? ,^? ^■''" '">' *^ord, 
 
 a careful absence of everwS rj "".""'^ ■■• ''^'^oner, and 
 
 attend J)e ^^'a,ton when he Im '"""^ " insult, shall 
 
 a3h.sswo.d, to James" dLS^ "" ""^ -="'^. a^ .^ 
 
 It IS the fate to which i 
 
130 
 
 EDWARD I 
 
 the last extremity, proMounced upon me the fatal sentence 
 to sink the point of my own sword. Pembroke is upon the 
 march with his whole army, to rescue the garrison of 
 Uouglas. I hear the tramp of his horses' feet even now • 
 and I will maintain my ground while I am within reach of 
 support; nor do I fear that the breath which now begins to 
 fail will not last long enough to uphold the struggle till the 
 arrival of the expected succour. Coiik- on, then, and treat 
 nie not as a child, but as one who, whether I stand or fall 
 fears not to encounter the utmost force of my knightly 
 antagonist." ' " ' 
 
 "So be it then," said Douglas, a darksome hue, like the 
 lurid colour of the thunder-cloud, changing his brow as he 
 spoke, intimating that he meditated a speedy end to the 
 contest when, just as the noise of horses' feet drew nigh, a 
 welsh knight, known as such by the diminutive size of his 
 steed, his naked limbs, and his bloody spear, called out 
 loudly to the combatants to hold their hands. 
 
 " Is Pembroke near ? " said De Walton. 
 ^ "No nea.ar than Loudon Hill," said the Preslantin ; 
 but I bring his commands to John de Walton." 
 "I stand ready to obey them through every danger" 
 answered the knight. 
 
 "Woe is me," said the Welshman, "that my mouth 
 should bring to the ears of so brave a man tidings so un- 
 welcome ! The Earl of Pembroke yesterday received 
 information that the Castle of Douglas was attacked by the 
 son of the deceased Earl, and the whole inhabitants of the 
 district. Pembroke, on hearing this, resolved to march to 
 your support, noble knight, with all the forces he had at his 
 disposal. He did so, and accordingly entertained every 
 assurance of relieving the castle, when unexpectedly he 
 met, on Loudon Hill, a body of men of no very inferior 
 force to his own, and having at their head that famous 
 Bruce whom th-: Scottish rebels acknowledge as their king 
 He marched instantly to the attack, swearing he would not 
 
A CASTLE HELD FOR THE KING ,3. 
 
 against us." ° '""S^e- Hut the fate of war was 
 
 "';'°PP;'^ here for lack of breath 
 -" ""-^P^^lljr^'f "°"='- "Robert liruce 
 ^o^ 'he slaugLer oft r^Vd:':^ Pr^"°- ^'-bro": 
 armyatMethuen^Vood. His men , "? V"P^'^'°" °f his 
 '° 'neet with dangers anH , ''' ""^^^''' •■«=<="s(on,ed 
 
 follow him have be^^ lin^H ?"''"" ">«"' = ">ose who 
 P«akersof the peris of B " v'"'''"'''^^ ''^^'d" beTng 
 ■'-' 'he waves had La nowerthem'^K '' ^''^ "'""S''' 
 the„,selves from the west buf Wn f ™ ""^^ "dipped 
 determined with the present revi' "''■" "'" ^^™== vas 
 P™ons, and that'he "e, i LZf T'^'" "'^^■'^""is 
 ;h.lehe lives, and while T He 1 i'""' ^.^'''''''i "gain 
 oot by his sovereign, in spite of all h '""'■'"' '° ^" ^is 
 bec.nsofe,omo„,,,„p,4 -^^^^^^^^^ which has 
 
 ;althoughitissaid 'H' pro'd st Y''"'^"""" ''f"^<^'">. 
 Pembroke, completely defined i"?""-1'he ^'^ « 
 'owards which he has rpt . '. ""^'^''^ '° »"' from Avr 
 
 Pembroke's defeat SiTrfr"'^'""'^'^''''' '"e news of 
 at '-berty to take 'r.Z£ for thT 'T"^ " P'"-'' "im 
 likely. He could not how^v "'^=!"^^'y°f 'he Lady of 
 able terms which had been offn "'"" "■« ^""^ honour 
 fore the news of the batt e of S ' " ^^ '^ """"^'''^ "- 
 "Noble knight," he sa d . ; " ^"'^ ''""^^■ 
 
 hesa,d, "« entirely at your pleasure 
 
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132 
 
 EDWARD I 
 
 to dictate the terms of surrender ot your paternal castle ; 
 nor have I a right to claim from you those conditions which, 
 a little while since, your generosity put in my offer. But I 
 submit to my fate ; and upon whatever terms you think fit 
 to grant me, I must be content to offer to surrender to you 
 the weapon, of which I now put the point in the earth, in 
 evidence that I will nevermore direct it against you until a 
 fair ransom shall place it once more at my own disposal." 
 
 "God forbid," answered the noble James of Douglas, 
 " that I should take such advantage of the bravest knight 
 out of not a few who have found me work in battle ! I will 
 take example from the Knight of Fleming, who has gallantly 
 bestowed his captive in guerdon upon a noble damsel here 
 present ; and in like manner I transfer my claim upon the 
 person of the redoubted Knight of Walton, to the high and 
 noble lady Augusta Berkely, who, I hope, will not scorn 
 to accept from the Douglas a gift which the chance of war 
 has thrown into his hands." 
 
 Sir John de Walton, on hearing this unexpected decision, 
 looked up like the traveller who discovers the beams of the 
 sun breaking through and dispersing the tempest which has 
 accompanied him for a whole morning. The Lady of 
 Berkely recollected what became her rank, and showed 
 her sense of the Douglas's chivalry. Hastily wiping off the 
 tears which had unwillingly flowed to her eyes, while her 
 lover's safety and her own were resting on the precarious 
 issue of a desperate comlat, she assumed the look proper 
 to a heroine of that age, who did not feel averse to accept 
 the importance which was conceded to her by the general 
 voice of the chivalry of the period. Stepping forward, 
 bearing her person gracefully, yet modestly, in the attitude 
 of a lady accustomed to be looked to in ditiicultics like the 
 present, she addressed the audience in a tone which might 
 not have misbecome the Goddess of Battle dispersing hi r 
 influence at the close of a field covered with the dead and 
 the dying. 
 
A CASTLE HELD FOR THE KING ,,3 
 
 a P^i^e from 'he^S'^hS hf L?"""' "°' «»" *"hou, 
 '"^h strmg of brilliants whth ° "°'''>' *°"- This 
 
 S""anofTrebisond, r^,r;'!',e„7h''M'" "°" f™™ ">e 
 by sustaining under the ItouU "'"' *"" ""^ ''""""red 
 ;he fortunate lady whom , | vL or°"[ "J"^" °^ "-> °f 
 '^''"ssuide in chivalry; and i Tjn - '''' '"^°P'^'' 
 '•dorn ,, with that lock/wm pe^t ,h r?'"'' "" '^« '^all 
 ''^■r which it „o^ '^earstoret^'^'^,'".''""''"^'! '°-k of 
 head ,.gre,v will hold it as a si" a TT"' '''^ °" *''°'e 
 fi^kely." pardoned for haWn? "I h ^°°' Augusta de 
 stnfe w,th the Knight of DouX's " ''" ""^ '"°"'" "'■'"' "• 
 
 --or"i:r'^S'^:K-i;'f-"-'vorce 
 
 oured province of Sirjohn de Wah '"l^^'"^" -d hon 
 men, that whoever shall sav,K^"' ""^ " known to all 
 «erkelyhas,in ths entailed' n^f "'^ "^"^ ^"«"«» ° 
 becomes the noblest of hef ex h! J'lff ' "'"""'^^ "-" 
 'o maintain such a proDos!Hr, I ! ' '^° *''^" ^° be ready 
 of nouglas, in a fair'^r'- " "'"" "^'^ '""<^^- ="8--' James 
 
 -'^et:fb::;;:rs-::;^approutiono„a„^ 
 
 tan of Pembroke, and hVsuh!» "'" '''^'"'•■«' °t the 
 
 'he fiercest of the Knghsh sold ''"'"' ''"'''' '"""•-■"ed 
 i'ouglas Castle. The ne^Larfrn'" "^ ^"^^■"der of 
 "g^eed on, -hich put Te Scmti,h """^ "'"^ 'P^-^'h 
 «™nghold, -thefwith .heT,^,'','",''--'^-'' of this 
 ammunition, .very kind which ' "' °' *">" ='"d 
 nson had it u, boast m,7 .u ^n'amed. The ^., 
 
 -.h their hor.es and'arm „'' °"""'^'' * ^^ P-^ 
 safes, route to the ma ch^ of""", '^ ''"" '^'•-^ 
 ^"ffenng or inflicting damage "*'"''' *"*«>'" ei,*»^ 
 
 .;'rrj;;i^r£--::j-.a.tinga^ero,.3 
 
 """wea to accorn- 
 
'34 
 
 EDWARD I 
 
 pany his friend De Walton and the Ijidy Augusta to Eng- 
 land, and without ransom. 
 
 The venerable prelate of Glasgow, seeing what appeared 
 at one time likely to end in a general conflict, terminate so 
 auspiciously for his country, contented himself with bestow, 
 ing his blessing on the assembled multitude, and retiring 
 with those who came to assist in the service of the day. 
 
 This surrender of Douglas Castle upon the Palm Sunday 
 of 19th March, 1306-7, was the beginning of a career of 
 conquest which was uninterrupted, in which the greater 
 part of the strengths and fortresses of Scotland were yielded 
 to those who asserted the liljerty of their country, until the 
 crowning mercy was gained in the celebrated field of 
 Bannockburn, where the English sustained a defeat more 
 disastrous than is mentioned upon any other occasion in 
 their annals. 
 
 Little need be said of the fate of the persons of this 
 story. King Edward was greatly enraged at Sir John de 
 Walton for having surrendered the Castle of Douglas, 
 securing at the same time his own object, the envied hand 
 of the heiress of Berkely. The knights to whom he re- 
 ferred the matter as a subject of enquiry, gave it neverthi- 
 less as their opinion thi t De Walton was void of all censure, 
 having discharged his Qity in its fullest extent, till thJ 
 commands of his superior officer obliged him to surrender ■ 
 the Dangerous Castle. 
 
 —Sir Waiter Scott, dutU Daiigermu 
 
XI 
 
 Scots and English 
 
 T T was on the >jth f r 
 
 1 bnlliant ar™/of Kin^glVwa'rd """ ""^ ■"""-- ""d 
 •Stirling Castle, and came in /n "''I^-'ared in .sisht nT 
 'he King of Scotland Tad rf '"* °' "-^ f'T'^eslhich 
 d.spu,e their further pX^^" r"' '°^'"''' "-- -d 
 Robert mounted his LZ,l ,;„ r""^' --"'ng King 
 battle-axe in his hand, distincnL i ''"">'' ""^ with his 
 
 s- "•■ - S'isr '"'• •"" *::^.? 
 
 English, and particularly to thlnnf ^ =°"^J"cuous to the 
 he.rkmg.and who were a li Je ,n "' '"'° '""°»"ded 
 he army. Amongst these nohl '"'*^"^« "f 'he rest of 
 
 ^'oucester, Baron UmfrSesfrfT ^^^ "' '^"' "^ 
 Henry Bohun. The latter !„ ' ^^«entine, and Sir 
 
 ^ '•-•dy of the Court, the ul^/"' f ^='">- enamoured o 
 
 determined to win a douKh^""; '"'' ""'^ ^"""e forth 
 
 engagement. He did no" fact '' ''''"'^ '" "><= "'esJm 
 
 Pres.mp.ion than prudencl. ' '"''"^' >"" "e had morj 
 
 ^^obert^.hetucf^i-fefhir'ir^''' ""^ ^^^'-ly 
 
 «"rage,Ifear,savours'too;urrf'l'? ""' """-; hs 
 
 i-h-s remark was not lost uno„ ^ u ™"'"'^ ^"^''"ess." 
 
 P"rred on his fine war-ho se'^a" """"' ^°'>""- He 
 
 h's .mention, dashed forward, " T "">" *"e aware of 
 
 *"'''"'^'^l'"-'"-.-d,„ietiy.,,. 
 
»3< 
 
 EDWARD II 
 
 till he was close upon him, when turning his horse a little, 
 so as to suffer Hohun to pass, he rose in his stirrup, and at 
 one blow split his adve rsary's helmet andskullopen. A 
 few of Bohun's followers had galloped after him ; but, 
 horror-struck at the catastrophe, they fled back in dismay ; 
 whilst King Robert, coolly wielding his axe, relumed to 
 his army. 
 
 This unexpected commencement of the battle was hailed 
 by the Scotch as a favourable omen ; and by the Knglish, 
 who were equally superstitious, it was of course considered 
 as quite the reverse. And although some of the young 
 nobles around the King wished instantly to revenge the 
 death of their companion, the older and more experienced 
 advised him by no means to engage with the enemy till the 
 morrow, when the effect of this tragic event would be in a 
 manner removed. In pursuance of this advice, the English 
 were ordered to wait till morning dawned. 
 
 Never before did day dawn upon a more imposing and 
 brilliant spectacle than now literally sparkled under its first 
 beams. The immense and richly dressed army of Edward, 
 with banners and flags gaily decorated— the shining armour,' 
 and the glittering weapons;— so that even the brave 
 Scottish chief, James of Douglas, exclaimed, " The bravest 
 and most powerful army in Christendom might be alarmed 
 to see such a host moving against them." No wonder, 
 then, that the English, who had heretofore, even witli 
 inferior numbers, been wont to conquer the Scots, should 
 now feel presumptuous confidence of success. But they 
 were not aware of all the precautions which the wise King 
 of Scotland had taken to make up for the inferiority of l)is 
 numbers. 
 
 He had chosen the best ground, a fine level plain, with 
 a hill on the right hand, a morass on the left, with a small 
 rivulet, or burn, in front. Not satisfied with these natural 
 advantages, he made other artificial ones. He had deep 
 pits dug along the banks of the rivulet, and sharp spikes 
 
placed 
 Karly 
 
 SCOTS AND ENGLISH 
 
 in tli'-'m, wliich 
 
 '.V 
 
 "crc ca 
 
 irefully 
 
 , / in .he -oming^K,;;'^. f"f"''y """'■''^ *'"' turf, 
 l^attle array. l|,„ arcl^« / '^ ^'^'^ °"' his army in 
 
 foresight of King Robert, they would nf" "'•" ""•=°"""<'" 
 have decided the victory but ri/""' '" ""-' ""'^t 
 'h". He had ready a body of ^„ .f '"°''"^"' "■«" 'or 
 whom he had ordered th. ™ ""^""'"rms, «,ell mounted 
 
 j^-. to gallop tiir.:::' iv"^'-:'^"' '^^ 
 
 This mana-uvre threw the wholHf^K "' ""''" ''°*" 
 confusion. The brave cavalrv, "■^^^'^''«-■" into ,o,.,l 
 s"PI>ort of their discomHtedarlh' 'T ""'' ••"'^•""'^'^d in 
 •he hidden pits, fe Un ^""^"."^ = but these encountering 
 spiked, and their rider 1ft ",'' °^ ""= """" *crt 
 their massive armour, ri 3,°'"^' "'"^'^ '° -''. f-n, 
 d-order; in vain their le d r.Ti d ''"'n' ''""' «^"-'" 
 there was nothing on all side? hi "">■ '^^<' ™en ; 
 To increase this disord , atod J of ^""'^ ""' ™"f-'°"' 
 *ho had been stationed by that nrl 7"'' ""^ '=°"''-''. 
 Bruce, on the brow of the hil nof u' " "'^'""^"vrers, the 
 At this moment the Jrl 'fX"' v fT "■"" '"-'■ 
 rest upon his son; for, with flahm ""'"' ''-■*'"<='' '" 
 
 led his body of reserv; Tward?' hH^h!; ''f,^''"^ ''""^'^^' 
 to rally around him the str! r^ ^"^ ^" '" ■''is power 
 
 army. His brave nephew flf'",? TT °' "''' ^-''- 
 commanded the left wing of Z t^'°'"--^«". vvh„ 
 e"t.rely routed, was surrounded fa! Vf:*^' """'' '^- 
 o" foot in the morass. The riL-ht " /'"'"^^ «»■""•« 
 •-•o.nfited; but stragglers from a f . "" ""'"^^y *^ 
 
 king bravely fighti„! n ade d. '" ' " ""= ''^^' «' 'heir 
 SirEdmund%u-e IhShttT"'' '"""^ '" """ him. 
 had done his best to ralt h s'„ren „" "''' u "^ "«*" -'"«- 
 t-elve of his own com^v thl V"''"-''' '''^'^'^ *"h 
 
138 
 
 EDWARD H 
 
 being much pressed by Sir James Douglas, whose intention 
 was evidently to capture the iMiglish king, liut Sir Giles 
 Argentine, observing it, pressed round the King with all the 
 forces he could muster, and seizing his horse's bridle led 
 him violently on. At this moment Edmund's eye wandered 
 over the morass in search of his friend, the Earl of 
 Gloucester. At one hurried glance his eye rested upon a 
 solitary form fighting desjjerately amongst heaps of slain ; 
 it was his friend. His whole toul sickened— and he was 
 springing down the hill, up which Argentine and a few 
 others of the surviving barons had ordered him to fly 
 with his few followers in support of the King, when the 
 reins of his horse were caught by Umfraville. 
 
 " Your duty lies before you, Sir Knight ; follow the King. 
 There are plenty of us old ones left to revenge that noble 
 Earl. This is your first battle, and from the way in which 
 you have fought it, I augur you may become a stay to 
 your country and a comfort to the King, who has this day 
 shown, that though unfortunate, he is his father's son. 
 Some of you brave youngsters must survive this ill-starred 
 battle to tell the King how much valour became him." 
 
 Edmund had at first tried to extricate himself from the 
 iron grasp of the old baron ; one hasty glance he again 
 turned towards the morass ; that tall, noble figure was no 
 longer standing. He rode forward with a choking sensa- 
 tion in his throat, and a mist over his eyes, which for a 
 moment rendered all outward objects indistinct. 
 
 " Press on ! ride on ! ' said the loud voice of Argentine ; 
 " make for yonder thicket ; the 1 )ouglas is upon us." And 
 pressing round the King, the broken remains of this late 
 numberless army galloped on. Fortunately for the escape 
 of the King these were all well mounted ; and besides this 
 circumstance, the different groups that the conquerors had 
 to pursue, facilitated their flight. They rode on without 
 speaking till they gained the thicket ; when Argentine and 
 Umfraville, cxhortinp Edmund not to disappoint the hope* 
 
SCOTS AND ENGLISH 
 
 139 
 
 nil speed for Dunba^' lt'"l'° "'' '''^'' ""'^ """'^ «'* 
 Highness ''""'^"■-"'°'' '' hasty leave of him and his 
 
 pursuit of the King ^ ^'"'"«' *" obstructing the 
 
 time, they were alarmed by the g lonL l^'h '" " 1^°" 
 were certainly gaining uDon thJ .h ? of horses, which 
 entering the wood FH L u ' ""^ '^"8"'^" "'"^ now 
 men to'galop forwards whhth' ^^^'"8 -''"^^ -"x of his 
 
 with theV^rit ?h™ :i,f :r'"'' '° ^•^-"^ 
 
 "ad scarcely put himself and ,h """""='■ "^ 
 
 defence ere the , hi? k '"^" '" ^" »"''"de of 
 
 were r^^^^^ ^^'r^^^l^^ '^'^ r'"' '"^^ 
 subjects of the English kin^ • whri "'""''f" '''"•'""1 
 left too thinly guarded hi/' ^' ['""'"S '''^ had been 
 midst of the carnage f; T''' ""-''^ ""^ "'^°"8'' "^e 
 
 three persona. rCn^r^rW''"^^^^ "^^ ^-"^'^ ^" 
 the truth of their storv frnn, h' • ""'"^ '°°" ''"'^"^'^d 
 
 horseman,- ""'' encountered the foremost 
 
 .0 Snd :" ^ tlr;':::^, r v[°" r' -"--'^ him 
 
 l>rother.in-law. The distressed t '^°"''"-'™-' "^e King's 
 ine distressed monarch stretched out his 
 
140 
 
 EDWARD II 
 
 hand towards the other two, one of whom said, hastily, 
 "On! on! my liege: the Douglas is in hot pursuit. It 
 was the hope that my knowledge of the country might 
 render me of service as your guide that brought me here ; 
 so waste not a moment, but follow, one by one. To you, 
 youngster," he continued to Edmund, " I appoint the post 
 of danger ; — follow last, and keep a sharp look-out." 
 
 " My Lord of Pembroke, we will be entirely guided in 
 this strait by you," said the King, who, for a moment, 
 appeared absorbed in a deep reverie. 
 
 " Then I and these five will issue out of the thicket ere it 
 terminate," answered Peml.>roke; "and, by giving a false 
 scent to the ilJouglas, will, I trust, enable your Highness to 
 reach Dunbar in safety. Mouthermer and Hereford, do you 
 two ride a little. I do not hesitate, from what I have this 
 day marked of your great bravery, to believe you will sell 
 your life dearly ere you suffer the King to be taken pmsunw 
 
 In a moment, the party thus disposed of were again 
 pursuing their road at full gallop. 
 
 The diminished party continued their route undisturbed 
 for some short dutance, when they were again startled In 
 the sound of horses approaching them. Through a break 
 in the trees, they perceived some ten or a dozen horsemen 
 take the route Lord Pembroke had pursued, evidently in 
 search of the King ; and believing Lord Pembroke to be 
 the King, they were warmly pursuing him. This did of 
 course greatly facilitate the escape of his Highness ; bul, 
 even gratifying as this was to Edmund, he did not the less 
 grieve, for the risk to which it eNi)Osed Lady Cecil's brother. 
 But he had not long to be in suspense on this account : a 
 clash of arms just in advance made him spring forward, 
 and catch King ICdward's bridle, just in time to prevent his 
 leaving the cover of the wood. Mouthermer and Hereford 
 were immediately surrounded and made prisoners. 
 
 " Where is the King ? " asked a Scottish officer of 
 Mouthermer. 
 
SCOTS AND ENGLISH ,41 
 
 Mouthermer, "for ,t removes all my fears on his account. 
 He d,d no, then fall into the hands of the party that were 
 lately close upon him : and since you tell me such comfort 
 able news, I forget I am myself a prisoner." 
 
 This conversation of Lord Mouthermer's completely 
 
 KinlJh T1 °'"^"' '^°"^'"='"8 .hem that it wa 
 Kmg whom Sir James Douglas had, lately, closely pur- 
 sued; and, satisfied with their two noble prisoners, they 
 mstantly conducted them back towards the main army ^ 
 Ldmund had with difficulty resisted the natural m- 
 clnatK,n wh.ch he felt .0 spring forward, and, at all 
 hazards, rescue the two noblemen; but the though of the 
 great trust placed in him, the safety of the King enabed 
 h,m to stand qu.etly, holding his Highness's bridl, till the 
 retreatmg footsteps of the conquerors were no longe heard 
 then he let go the bridle, and they dashed on ; and, ^th' 
 scarcely any other adventure worth mentioning, they 
 reached the ca.tle of Dunbar, which belonged to the Kinjs 
 ;a,thful fr,end, Patrick, Larl of March, Iho gladly ': 
 nmi shelter. ° J- ?.''>'• 
 
 —Anon., Margam AOky. 
 
XII 
 
 Two Kings and a Lady 
 
 IN the year 1346, Werk Castle was defended by the 
 celebrated Countess of Salisbury, in tlie absence of 
 the Earl, her Lord. 'I'his lady, sprung from the blood royal, 
 ind the fairest of the age, was not so much elevated 
 above all woman-kind by her illustrious birth and un- 
 paralleled beauty, as by the natural dignity of her spirit and 
 the greatness of her virtues. 
 
 Towards the close of an afternoon in tlie summer time, 
 wliile tree and town were bright m the setting sun, and 
 the rivers here and there still sparkled in his level beam, 
 as the Countess was walking on the castle walls, attendcfi 
 by her maidens, she iKiheld the spears of an approachint.' 
 army over a neighbourin;. wood, glittering and glancing t., 
 and fro, as they came forward, like str.;amers tM^ond^thc 
 northern clouds. 
 
 Having no ai)prehensiun of the enemy being so ne,ir, 
 though she had in the cour>c of the day heard th.it thr 
 Scots were returning home, she was at first greatly alarnic! 
 at the appearance of such a formidable array ; but soon 
 collecting the strength of her lofty character, she ordered 
 the servants and soldiers in the castle to arm themselves 
 and man the walls, resolved not to surrender without pro> 
 ing the valour of her garrison. 
 
 Thus was the Scottish king frustrated of the expectation 
 he had formed of taking the castle by a sudden assault . 
 for, as he approached the walls, he saw every battlennj:ii 
 and turret clustered with warriors : the lady herself, in a 
 
r^-^^ KINGS AND A LADY ,,3 
 
 Of i.er feminine exho^utLTs ^ '' '°'"''^'' ''^ '"^ 1^-4 
 
 ""courteously entered." ^ "' "'"<^'' "'^y "ot l,e 
 
 "I am loth," reolipri ^l, 
 Sentle past,„,es of f adv' 1 '"""^'^ ''■"«•"'" '^'""ri. the 
 -d we have co.e f r to I ^ ' ^r" " "°" "-"^ 
 ™os. w„h you to-„i,ht, and t' ^ere "o '. ' ""/' "^^ »-°'^' 
 «'Vf us ,et at once to partake of "„ :,:j:™'^",P^^'ey „. 
 I donlit not" «ni,i .1 ^ ^""^ oooa cheer" 
 
 ;---n.rand:^::. !^-trr^r"^"-" 
 i-dward is r«;hind you " i-utnoured that K,n- 
 
 --^nSrilr^'— ----ord.^_ 
 
 ^o;;e?a;::.'-''^'^-^-'-^--auce, He.hen.po.e 
 
 theTat"'-^'" '■■-- -^P-. -dan. ; I .eseeeh you to o^ 
 
 ;;:f^-orr,:::tr:aZ'i::"r"^"^''^"'^^'« 
 
 » .en n.,. Lord left, he turned the keys on th '™'" "■■"'™- 
 unless your Highness can und. th! , ? ' °"'''''« ^ ^"d 
 '-ntght must be your tester" °"''' ' ''^" '"e sky 
 
 ;;Sayyousoinearnest, l,ady?'■ 
 "«^^'"-t';X;•f-.3•ourHighness." 
 K.ng, some^ha, chafed toV sn '".""'S''"'?" cried the 
 'hereupon presently turned ,uf,ef to ™^ "f'^' '"" ''- 
 ™'»- up. In a »,on,ent, the CW ' "''^ "^'^''•-'0 
 'owanls a Und of ^chers'. weT LLr"'' '" """"^ 
 »ert standing on a battle- 
 
144 
 
 EDWARD III 
 
 ment behind that portion of the curtain-wall where this 
 parley was held, and they levelled their bows. 
 
 Some of tho Scottish nobles who were near the King, 
 seeing the jeopardy in which he was so suddenly placed, 
 stepped in between him and the castle, and spread their 
 shields over him just as the bowmen drew their strings. 
 
 The shafts rattled harmless on the shields, and some 
 of them were shivered by the shock, but none did any 
 detriment. 
 
 The Countess laughed, and called aloud to the King, for 
 the encouragement of her own men, who were all fired 
 with her bravery, — 
 
 " The grey goose wing is a sorry supper ; but there is 
 no better cheer for your Highness in Werk." 
 
 The Scottish archers, however, did not long leave her to 
 triumph in that sort. Seeing the danger in which their King 
 stood, they came briskly forward, and drawing their arrows 
 to the head, daunted the lady's bowmen, for her sake, ex- 
 posed as she was on the castle wall, from repeating the 
 shower, till his Highness was removed beyond their reach. 
 This was, however, but a brief pause ; for the Ijidy again 
 bade her men shoot, and fear not for her. Whereupon, 
 what with the dust that rose from the dinting of the shafts 
 on the walls and towers, together with the hail of arrows 
 flying between the archers of the garrison and the assail- 
 ants, the castle appeared as if it had been shrouded in 
 mist Little blood was pierced on either side by this 
 waste of quivers ; but in the meantime, some of the 
 Scottish soldiers had hewn down several large trees, and 
 were bringing their trunks up for battering-rams, which 
 the Countess observing, ordered a great fire of all sorts of 
 beams and brands to be kindled in the court of the 
 castle, and when the Scots came with their engines under 
 the defences of the gates, she caused the burning faggots 
 and rafters to be so hurled upon them that many threw 
 down 'he huge timbers to save themselves, and thereby 
 
TWO KINGS AND A LADY ,^5 
 
 men, were heard 'a'nlt ,h "'I' "^ "^-^ '>"d "'ounded 
 fighting. "^^ "•" ^''°'"' ""d confusion of 
 
 -I'o^hr;,! Ifrn 1'^^ "'■^■" •^'^^^'^ - the 
 of the great fire with.n the ecu" orTh'"' , ''''"-" "'"'"' 
 and high, shed a wHH ? ?■ ^^ '^'""^' '''^'"S red 
 
 towers,i;.nf:^eL;;:'tiru.trantrn''r''^ 
 
 on their backs her" "S^ "°°"' ""-' "sl^' •''"king 
 
 'heir head a ■ h" everTd ' '"^ '""'" ^"""' 
 
 strike doun the as!aihnts ,h^ T"" "'^'"'^ '''™''^'' '" 
 fnces, brightened by he ,«htan^I''' J'.' i "'" "'^•"^"'-■'* 
 climbing and scaling ou, of the^'^^^ ' ''">' '''^'"°'^' 
 
 the Lady Salisburylass^„''l!'^'*"°',^^k"-^; and 
 'ower hke a bright'and b^n ttl Ztl T"^' "' ' 
 .heSrgrvef — ^ - °;:et?S - 
 
 »e5.^rs;s^ra:::r:r'-'-^ 
 .he countesir ■iVLd'-ir To^s:i:^ s '^' "- 
 
 odds with which she was ron.^n^ '^ unequal 
 
 posed to treat with hin T "whit he't' 'h 7^^' '^■'- 
 weakness of the fortr,.« . regarded as the 
 
 - strength. L^r :^„:tar;rf ^^^^n^'' /'^ 
 magnanimity did so animate nnH '^ smgular 
 
 that the meanest serWto' of th har^-aTf f,,^^"^""' 
 hravery of his resolution as the proidest nl "?' '" "^ 
 supper with the King. Before the mnr„ u ""^ '^' "' 
 
146 
 
 EDWARD m 
 
 of returning home. In vain did the youthful son of tho 
 heroic Bruce remind them of the glories of their fathcr> 
 valour, their own hardnneut, and the dishonour of nvaknig 
 themselves, by avarice, so like fugitives before their ancient 
 enemies ; but all heroism was absorlied in their gain, in so 
 much that, about noon, when Ring lidward arrived at Werk, 
 he found no other traces of the Scottish army there, than 
 the broken weapons of the overnight assault — the trunks 
 of the trees which had been felled •" ■ 'ngines — and here 
 and there the bodies of the few -\:io had been slain in 
 the ('onflict. 
 
 The ICnglish king was mightily .joiced when he heaM 
 of the heroic spirit of his fair cousin, and after hailing his 
 forces on the fields and rising grounds around Weri, went 
 forward to the castle, attended l)y tlie 1 .ord Mo»bray and 
 other barons, to visit the Lady S;ilishury, arni to bestow 
 his praise and gratulations for tlic brave defiance with which 
 she had resisted a royal army. 
 
 His Highness had not seen her from the days of their 
 childhood, .ind he was so niucli ravished by the sight of 
 her beauty, that he stood as if he had been enchanted, 
 marvelling and eoninuming with himself whether so de- 
 lightful a vision could have grown out of the little playful 
 child with whom, in his ternler years, he was wont to riot 
 in many a prankful [Mstime. Anon, after gently expressing 
 his delight at beholding her, forgetting altogether the pur- 
 port of his visit, he took her by the hand and led her into 
 the castle ; for she had come forth to welcome him at the 
 gates. The Lord Mowbray and those who were with him 
 being left behind, looked at each other for some time, 
 admiring by what sudden spell his Highness was so strangely 
 overcome ; and then they silently followed the Countess 
 and him into the hall, where they found the tables spread 
 with a hasty banquet. 
 
 The King, on the invitation of the Lady, sat down to 
 ijartake of the cheer ; but it was remarked of him, that he. 
 
'^ """"""■ ^- -—„..,,„„„„,. 
 
 „ fA 146. 
 
TWO KrvGs Axn a lady ,,7 
 
 tasted little, choosing rather m f . 
 contemplation of hi, far kin, '" '^'"' ""*' ""•■ 
 
 w- "t firs, visibly d on etl"'""' • '""''' '"'^''^ 
 
 admiration, and aL,S d"" ^t 'em I T'"'"; "' '" 
 remembrance, of their old fenou", f, Ik ""f ^"""« 
 
 panic and perplexiti I. „'7 'I " """"' dcRree of 
 
 "1.0,0 who were'atund that "r'r""' T""' ""'•^'"^'^ ''> 
 calmness of her demeanour ,u, '"?'"''''>■""-• «"^'aine.l 
 Winsnunseeme^rnXVt Vil,:'''' "'-- '>" 
 onrslrSnrt::?" ''?'•-■ -'n.as.in.e. 
 children, and boasto of hel 1 ? "-" """ '""' "^ ''- 
 promised to prove I b ' ' '^'f' .'*"" "^ '^ ''"'<' l-y- wh,. 
 wl.om in corned nis he iol. " "'«"' '' ""'^ •"="''-. '-"' 
 King expressed h.^d Ight a sod" T'""' ' """ ""^ "^'• 
 beauty, ,he in,uired cone rn'ng hi ^L^^ In ''''"'''"' 
 cousm, Queen Philippa tendJlv 1 ''" «"'""" 
 
 fold merits, and lament n!,K*^. T""'"'^'"« '"='• "'^"i- 
 Salisbury obliged hi~o\S :';r'^"^^ "' '^'^ 
 "posed to the contumelies of »l t u ' "'" *"""' 
 which await his adventures "1™. '^' ^"''-chance, 
 defencelessness of a forlorn lad T' f '" ''" ' " """"Sh the 
 a" true knights manv Tlr,^^ '^'" '° ""-' """""f of 
 ii"ie reveroLLrLrrair" "' "'«'""™'' ""° ""' 
 
 »J to himself," 'eslth J ."' "'"" "^^ "^"^ '° her 
 he was kindled U he Ld! ^I,,'"' '"■'''"" "'"' ""ich 
 and the gentle dignity of h°rt """'"' ''"'"' '''^''^^^• 
 of whose brightnc" wa as .h T' "^''' '"-' ''-<= S'^nces 
 stars. '' "' "' ">« '^'^aming of the heavenly 
 
 col" eSdtttl''^ ^'?"- ■•" ""'^'^ -^ 
 Signified to his^'attendStslotrre^^TC'T' ^'^^^'""^' 
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 leaning on the table, and his left hand resting on tlie hilt of 
 his sword, which, in seating himself, he had unconsciously 
 placed between his knees. The grace and loveliness of the 
 lady had taken possession of his bosom, but the remem- 
 brance of her dignity checked the indulgence of his wishes. 
 
 " I am overawed in her presence," said he aloud to 
 himself — "the chaste rebuke of her mild religious eye 
 makes me to feel more as a worshipper than a lover — 
 Lover ! It is not a name that may be used towards her 
 by any other than the happy Salisbury— happy indeed — 
 blest in the taste of those lips." 
 
 He then started from his seat, threw his sword on the 
 table, and with long strides, sometimes drooping his head 
 till his chin almost touched his breastplate, and sometimes 
 looking aloft, walked twice or thrice across the chamber in 
 great visible perturbation. 
 
 After a season of inward controversy so spent, he re- 
 turned to the table, and pushing aside his sword, drew one 
 of the lights towards him, and sat down as with the intent 
 to write. Presently, as if moved by a sudden fancy, he 
 paused and smiled, and then called in from the ante- 
 chamber a youth, one Chaucer, who was there with his 
 other attendants, and probably the great poet of that name. 
 
 " Bring hither, Chaucer, pen, ink, and paper," said the 
 King. "I would have thee to write a madrigal for me; 
 that thou mightest make it worthy of the theme, I would 
 invoke some gracious muse to gift thee with a pen of such 
 enchantments, that where it set down sighs, the eloquence 
 of sighs should be felt by the reader ; and when it wrote 
 of love it should be with tropes and terms of such fervency as 
 would make the flinty heart even of a Saracen all humanity." 
 
 The youth was seemingly as pastoral in simplicity as a 
 shepherd boy that hath not yet made a coronal of rushes 
 for his Phillis, took his implements and, having sealed him- 
 self at the table, looked at the King, and inquired whom 
 his Highness was pleased he should address. 
 
TWO KINGS AND A LADY ,49 
 
 "One," replied the King, "write to on. who is the 
 abstract of every grace and virtue in the world e2 
 You cannot Hatter; all epithets of admiration wi I nm 
 serve to express a tuhe of such excellence. Write - 
 
 I o whom," said the youth, "to whom shall I write?" 
 
 ; I should know of what estate and condition the ladv 
 IS, answered the courtly simpleton ^ 
 
 "Of such estate," exclaimed King Edward, "that she is 
 as on the throne, and I the footstool wher; s.e tread 
 Why dost thou not write ? But thou canst not ndeed sav 
 what I wou d put into the rhyme. Thine is fi ^er poetr/ 
 1 hy pen w,ll but pr..te of nightingales and blushing rose Z.' 
 the moon and other ditty stuff. I will hiw n^ 
 about the baby Cupid /but only^ln^nU p™ 
 «rml,mg ,n a robe of fire that may not be thfown off'" ' 
 at2\?°n 1 "P^'* "'^ P^" '" Ws hand, wondering 
 
 aloud tf ''^"^''."^"^ ^'' Highness conti,;ued to say 
 
 "Th '^r™f' °"^ °f *e presence of any witness.- 
 The soldier alone may speak of war, the prisoner of 
 he dungeon, and the sick man of the pangs of death The 
 
 beneHt of fire, every gr.ef its happy opposite, and who but 
 
 a sionT" Tvitr.? '' "T °' ""= ''"^"■•^'' °f'^ 
 passion 1- With these words he went to Chaiir^r ,nH 
 
 snatching the pen from him said. " Go, leave meT' shaH 
 
 be my own rhymster." But, before the youth had we 
 
 sedately for a short time, said, "This folly would be weak 
 
 uendanr, '"? '".""' ""■p''"^'" -'^ — oning his 
 endants to unlace his mail, he soon after lay down upon 
 
 hL.Z \ ' "'^ ''""'= °f '"■' ^"deavours to compose 
 himself to sleep was rewarded with no slumber. 
 
 —John Galt, Rot/ulan. 
 
XIII 
 
 King and Rebel 
 
 IN thu year 1381, the commons of Kent and Kssux, 
 revolting against the poll-tax, marched to London. 
 The men were drawn up in West Smithfield. It had been 
 arranged that the best disposed should form the van, and 
 those over whom the leaders possessed least control should 
 lie divided into the centre and the rear. A portion of the 
 men of Kent, with a body of the men of Essex, were in 
 front, while a large body, upon whom Wat Tyler and Jack 
 Straw could place reliance, were mixed with those inclined 
 to be refractory in the centre and rear ; thus the men 
 immediately in the van were not those who were most 
 attached to Wat, but those who knew of him only by 
 report, had accepted him as a leader, because his " name 
 was great in mouths of wisest censure," and found, in this 
 instance, common report not .0 be a common liar, for his 
 conduct had been all they could have desired from one 
 through whose guidance they hoped to gain their freedom. 
 They consisted chiefly of men who were in possession of 
 small farms, and had still, although their property through 
 oppressions had been miserably caitailed, some property 
 to lose, and were more cautious in their conduct than those 
 serfs who had nothing to lose and everything to gain. 
 They stood under arms, ready to perform all that Wat Tyler 
 commanded them," for they had had evidence of his modera- 
 tion sufficient to assure them he would not counsel any 
 extreme conduct, unless their condition demanded it. As 
 he was about to quit them, he gave orders that not one 
 should stir from his place until he gave them a signal, and 
 
KING AND REBEL 
 
 151 
 
 then they were instantly to advance. Michael advanced 
 to his side, and said he would accompany him to the pres- 
 ence of the King, but Wat declined, and signified his 
 intention of going alone. 
 
 He shook hands with all heartily, and then giving his 
 horse the rein, he galloped up to the King, and stayed not 
 until his horse's head touchea the flank of Richard's. 
 
 " You are his Majesty of England," exclaimed Wat, salut- 
 ing him with a respectful obeisance. 
 
 " I am," replied the youthful King, with an affable smile ; 
 " a-'d you are Wat Tyler, the renowned smith of Kent, the 
 leader of my people against their lawful king. What is 
 your purpose in this rebellion ? " 
 Wat Tyler smiled almost in scorn, as he replied— 
 " If your Highness had been taught that you were placed 
 over the people to preserve their rights, to improve their 
 condition, to attend to their wants, and, through your 
 parliament, so legislate for their welfare, that there should 
 not be a voice through the land crying out in sorrow and 
 misery, through want and oppression, you would never have 
 put such a question to me ; but you are very young, have 
 lived a life of indolence and luxury, have never own the 
 want of a meal, or a place to lay your head in _. night to 
 sink into a wretched sleep in order to wake in the morning 
 and see starvation staring you in the face : you have nev.-r 
 felt this, and can little sympathise with those whose daily 
 portion has been the misery I have described ; but still you 
 are the King, the fountain head from whom relief alone can 
 flow. It is true you are a puppet, the emblem of royalty, 
 the image of monarchy, set up to make the people think 
 they have a King, while those by whom thou art surrounded 
 take the power from thee, and in thy name inflict the direst 
 oppression. You are the screen behind which they work 
 their villainy ; you are the mask they put up to fright us, 
 while they draw from us all our hard-earned gains, and bind 
 us with a yoke of iron ; and to them through thee, puppet 
 
152 
 
 RICHARD II 
 
 as thou art, I must address myself, that thy councillors and 
 ministers may hear and know the penalty of a continuance 
 of their vile acts." 
 
 " Audacious rebel ! " cried Sir John Newton, drawing a 
 dagger, "dare you thus address yourself to the King? ' 
 
 "Put up thy dagger, knight! "said Wat, coolly, "and 
 give thy speech only when thou art addressed " — and then 
 turned (luietly to the King, and said, pointing to the vast 
 body of the people — 
 
 " Vour Highness, see'st yonder people ' ' 
 
 " Yes, truly," replied Richard ; " wherei„re dost thou ask 
 me that ([uestion ? " 
 
 " You shall know anon,' he replied ; " there is not one 
 there > ho will not obey my law and commandment ; they 
 have all sworn their faitli and loyalty to nie, and they will 
 keep their oath to the letter.' 
 
 " I doubt it not," replied the King ; " but why dost thou 
 tell me this ? " 
 
 " Because you should see what are the results of oppres- 
 sion and misrule ! " returned Wat Tyler ; " the whole of 
 that vast body of people are thy subjects — according io the 
 law by which we are governed, they should obey thee, bo 
 true and faithful, and loyal to thee — look up to thee v-ith 
 reverence and respect— repeat thee in their prayers, and 
 couple thy name whenever spoken with blessings ; but 
 instead of this, thou hast so abused the power bestowed 
 upon thee, that they will no longer confess themselves thy 
 subjects. They refuse to be faithful and loyal to thee— 
 they speak of thee with scorn, and, instead of bein" 
 remembered in their prayers and mentioned with blessings, 
 they couple thy name with execrations and curses ; and 
 thitikest thou, if thou hadst performed the duty for which 
 the people placed thee upon the throne, they would thus 
 bear thee in their minds — they would have quitted their 
 homes to assemble thus in a body to demand their rights ? 
 King, they placed thee on the throne — " 
 
KLVr, AND REI5i:i 
 
 i.M 
 
 lliu Lord's anointed!" cxclaiinud Rirl,,rd 
 I received the crown from Cod, not from the 
 
 "I am 
 
 hau"htily ; 
 people." 
 
 „p1?"!1'" J' ''J"^^^" °^ P''''^'"'-"'''. "-'"'ch will only suit the 
 ou hT r ""^ ^"P-^'i""u=." cried Wat; "but even if 
 you had_,f even you are the Lord's anointed and re 
 ce.ved the crown from Him, the Father of al^m cies it «. J 
 g.ven you to ensure the happiness of the people, no to n 
 "-eryupon then, ; it was given you to r'e mcdy any "! 1 
 . «htch might befall them-to render them iustiJ^n.h 
 transactions with their fellow men whenev^'t K-y eded -7 
 \our omce ,s to be to your fellow men what God i to us a 1 
 a guard and a guide, a parent and a protector, and 1 eel 
 oaths you take when you assu.ne Ihe cro^; are to ha 
 effect ; hut how have those oaths been fnlfill H u 
 have the duties of your office I.een per^rLd ^rV ^ 
 m.se violated, every duty unfulfilled, and every deg?ee of 
 mjustice and rank oppression substituted." "-'^ '^"^'^^ "^ 
 'You use bold words, peasant," said the King, frowning 
 IJos hou ren,ember thou'rt in the presence of tht 
 f^mg, rebel?" cried Walworth, the mayor ^ 
 
 e, and m the hves of those who accompany me '"sad 
 
 have men, because they can no longer bear the wrongs 
 heaped upon then,, rebels : but, King'of England wS 
 niost deserves the title, thou or we"? Vou 'have 2n^ 
 prescribed to you by C.od, and those who place you in h ' 
 regal cha.r-duties you have sworn to observe nd ,erform 
 \ou scorn them, treat them as nought, run rk. Tn d"' 
 bauchery, evy imposts to support them which" v" 'e 
 people n the dust, those whom it should be your con , 
 
 t s in ' """""^ ^'""' '" ''''" "P' ''"d '"J °". as far a 
 
 . .n your power, to happiness. You rebel against eve?; 
 
 law mposed on you, and we bear your injustice voir 
 
 exactions, your injuries, your oppressLns, Zl^ '^ 
 
154 
 
 RICHARD II 
 
 \icat no longer— until we must rise up to assert the rights 
 which are ours, or die miserably ; and yet we are styled 
 rebels and traitors. Base slaves ! whose portion is to live 
 in misery and die in despair, we were wronged in every 
 form the cruelty of sordid minds could invent ; we scuk 
 redress from this gross injustice, and yet you term us rebels." 
 
 " You should have petitioned," exclaimed the King. 
 
 "Petitioned!" echoed Wat, with scorn. "So did we; 
 we sent petition after petition— every country town, village' 
 or castlewick in che kingdom ; to what effect ?— they were 
 spurned and unheeded ! We found petitioning a weak man- 
 ner o.' proceeding, and therefore we now demand redress." 
 
 "Of what do ye complain?" asked the King. 
 
 " Your Highness would have been spared that question ! " 
 exclaimed Wat, "if you would ride with me amongst 
 yonder assemblage ; the care-worn frames, the ragged gar- 
 ments, and the faces, where the iron hand of despair has 
 made its brand, would make your young heart wring with 
 agony as you perceived of what they complained. We art- 
 held as slaves, and yet we are compelled to support the 
 being, whose property we are told we are. There is not a 
 device a scheming and avaricious minister can invent, :h:a 
 is not turned into a mode of raising taxes. We pay a heavy 
 price for land ; we are held in bondage, and are liable to bu 
 removed, God knows where, at a moment's notice ; we arc 
 taxed in every way; and because every article upon which 
 an odious impost could be laid was exhausted, the monstrous 
 poll-tax was levied— a tax upon a man or woman, because 
 they cease to b« children— a tax which nothing on earth 
 could justify— a tax which was infamous in every relation— 
 a tax which even in its collecting inflicted the vilest injury. 
 The scoundrel who demanded it of my family grossly and 
 monstrously insulted the modesty of my daui,hter— my 
 only child— for which I slew him— an act of justice whicli 
 was responded to by the uprising of the whole country ; 
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 would St retain thy throne, thou n.ust make thc^ so_be 
 
 -al to t en,, and they will exceed thee in libjr.^?ty : 
 
 " Ihe pnce of land must be .duced, that they rnay be 
 ettcr able to purchase it, and receive a better .hare of what 
 hey have worked for; and no man „,ust be denied in h 
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 onger to be seen by his followers; bPt in the energv of his 
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 young K>ng, who wa, cowed by t^.e calm f,rmness he dis 
 played and the evident super.ont) of his mind, was unable 
 o preserve the d.gnif.ed haughtiness which he had hitherto 
 l.een taught ,0 assume to those who were in a station so 
 immeasurably inferior to his own, added to which, th co„ 
 tm al exctemen. he- had been w, during the proceed „gs 
 of the commons, and the alarm which the presence of so 
 enormous n body of men arrayed ;. .rms against him voud 
 na tura y c:..te, made bin, listen more patiently ,0 Wat 
 lylerthan he .vould otherwise have done, and receive hU 
 Plam speech w.th a placidity and a silence which was foreign 
 to him He had l.een tutored to promise anything and 
 everything, w.th the strict understanding that when the 
 people were dispersed :hat his charters or '• letters," as thev 
 were termed, were to be held as nothing, and i," any outcry 
 was made at the breaking of his oath, he was to have a dl 
 pensation from the Pope, upon the plea that it -as extorted 
 from n,m illegally and by force. He, therefore, curbed .he 
 " t wi h P^";^\.''"'-'r- of his temper, and' listened t 
 nat w th the feelings of on., who receives a lecture with the 
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156 
 
 RICHARC n 
 
 lecturer. A flush mounted to his broi,' at Wat's last words, 
 but he stifled his anger and said — 
 
 " My people shall have their wishes ; let them return 
 home ; their letters shall be sent to them." 
 
 "They will take them with them," said Wat, fitiietly. 
 
 " They shall do so, if they wish it," rc[ilied the Kinj^. 
 
 "They have determined to do so ! " observed Wat, " nor 
 will they separate until they h.ive them in their possession " 
 
 " I will cause a number of cleiks to make them out in 
 stantly, and the people shall have them to night," said tlu' 
 King, determined not to be the cause of delaying their de 
 parture ; too glad, on any terms, to get rid of them. 
 
 " You must also make oath to me and to them that every 
 clause granted in the charters shall be now and for evt-r 
 after carried out." 
 
 " I will ! " exclaimed the King. 
 
 "And make oath also that you will not seek from the 
 Pope any dispensation from the oath you have made to tho 
 people." 
 
 "Vile caitiff' I" exclaimed Sir John Newton, who had 
 succeeded with his followers in completely surrounding Wat ; 
 " do you doubt the King's honour ? " 
 
 "Aye!" replied Wat, brifdy, "as much as I do tliy 
 honesty." Then, turning to the King, he continued, " We 
 will not be satisfied with aught else, and if you refuse this, 
 the throne of England shall no longer be a seat for thei', 
 thy brow no longer wear the crown ; the sovereign people 
 shall " 
 
 " Base hind ! " roared Walworth, " dare you threaten the 
 King ? " 
 
 " Seize the audacious rebel ! " cried Richard, on seeing 
 himself supported by his kn'ghts. 
 
 "Faithless villain<i, dare to lay but a hand upon me," 
 
 cried Wat, "and ye " His words were arrested by a 
 
 blow from the mace of Walworth upon the temple, which 
 stunned him. The next instant. Sir John Newton gave 
 
KI.VO AND RKliEL ,57 
 
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 o a,„ed fro,n a follower .„,.. giving up',.,; . ,„ .^'u , 
 
 *tru k Uat a fr,,h,ful „;„« upon ,h, .shoulder; he had 
 ne,.her chance nor „ppor,unify for resis.ance, for ike a.ct 
 of ravennu, wolves upon a .single vicin,, the w! I mo 
 
 which he rode received several mortal thrusts, and rea in. 
 -adly up plunged forward towards the con,mons"break n, 
 
 tee, he fell and then for the rtrst time the people ",w what 
 
 thur^der. In an instant a thousand bows were l.en, and 
 wou d have .een discharg,.,, but for (ohn Hal,, who s pr,?. 
 .ng before 'l^m threw up his arms, and cried aloud - ' 
 I. was Wat ryler-s last wish and command that ^o man 
 shed blood to revenge him. Hold your hands I chaTee 
 ye, for the love of Heaven ! " ^^ 
 
 That appeal saved the King's life and that of all the 
 nobh..s with him; the people knew not how to ac, and 
 Kichard, governed by an impulse, removed his ca a, J 
 gallopms up ,0 the con.mons, cried out with a clei; rich 
 
 "Hold your iiands, n,y good people, I am your lawful 
 
 itwfrTT '■"" "T","' °"' "'"^ ""^™'-'<' ='»J in your 
 po«er? Grieve not for him who has fallen. I will be your 
 captain and leader; follow me to the fields-.he e I wil 
 grant ye all your de„,ands, and a free pardon for every 
 
 Multitudes, like great events, are to be turned and moved 
 h small things. I. was a critical moment, and nothing but 
 
 im s?o',!w7 ""'"'^'° ^^""°^''^ -^ '"e proude! 
 eeiings could have turned it to his wish ; he tu ned his 
 horses head, and the people mechanically followed him. 
 —Pierce IJoan, ir„f Tykr. 
 
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The King is 
 Long live the 
 
 XIV 
 
 Dead, 
 King! 
 
 ScE^E— H'es/mmsffr, The Jerusnkm Chamber. 
 Enter King Henry, Ci.arenck, Prince Humphrey, War- 
 wick, and others. 
 L^ HEN. Now, lords, if Ood doth give successful end 
 
 • To this debate that bleedeth at our doors, 
 We will our youth lead on to higher fields. 
 And draw no swords but what are sanctified. 
 Our navy is addressed, our power collected. 
 Our substitutes in absence well invested, 
 And everything lies level to our wish .- 
 Only, we want a little personal strength ; 
 And pause us till these rebels now afoot 
 Come underneath the yoke of government. 
 
 iVar. Both which we doubt not but your majesty 
 Shall soon enjoy. 
 
 A'. Hen. Humphrey, my son of Gloster, 
 
 Where is the prince your brother? 
 P. Humph. I think he's gone to hunt, my lord, at 
 
 Windsor. 
 K. Hen. And how accompanied ? 
 f: "l""^'': I do not know, my lord. 
 
 A. Hen. Is not his brother Thomas of Clarence with him ^ 
 P. Humph. No, my good lord ; he is in presence here 
 Liar What would my lord and father? 
 A-. Hen. Nothing but well to thee, Thomas of Clarence 
 How chance thou art not with the prince thy brother ? 
 
THE KING IS DEAD 
 
 Of mediation, after I am dead 
 
 Ketween his greatness and thy' other brethren: 
 
 N'orTor!'.°""' *!"" "°'= *"""' "°' his love, 
 
 Nor lose the good advantage of his grace 
 
 By seeming cold, or careless of his will • 
 
 tor he ,s gracious if he be observed • ' 
 
 He hath a tear for pity, and a hand 
 
 Open as day for melting charity ■ 
 
 Vet notwithstanding, being incensed, he's flint 
 
 As humorous as winter, and as sudden 
 
 •As flaws congealed in the spring of da,' 
 
 His tender t' -refore, must be well observed : 
 
 Ch.de him for faults -^and do it reverently- 
 
 When you perceive his blood inclined to mirth; 
 
 Bu , bemg moody, give him line and scope 
 
 1.11 that his passions, like a whale on ground, 
 
 ZZu f ,r"'^" "''" "°^''-«- Learn ,'his, 
 And thou Shalt prove a shelter to thy friends, 
 A noop of gold to bind thy brothers in. 
 That the united vessel of their blood 
 Mingled with venom of suggestion— 
 As, force perforce, the age will pour it in- 
 Shall never leak, though it do work as strong 
 As acomtum or rash gunpowder. 
 
 ?L! \vf °^'T' '"''" ^'"^' ^" "^"^ a"d 'ove. 
 a,f H ^ art thou notat Windsorwith h.m, Thomas 
 
 xL r^u ""' '°-'^'' ■■ '"^ '^'•"" '" London. 
 Uar^ U ith Poms, and other his continual followers. 
 
 A.id he, the noble image of my youth, 
 
 h overspread with them ; therefore, my grief 
 
 159 
 
 I'hamas, 
 
l6o 
 
 HENRY IV 
 
 Stretches itself beyond the hour of death. 
 The blood weeps from my heart when I do shape 
 In forms imaginary the unguided days 
 And rotten times that you shall look u['on 
 When I am sleeping with my ancestors. 
 Kor when his headstrong riot hath no curb, 
 When rage and hot blood are his counsellors, 
 When means and lavish manners meet together, 
 O, with what wings shall his affections fly 
 Towards fronting peril and opposed decay I 
 
 IFar. My gracious lord, you look beyond him quite. 
 The prince but studies his companions 
 Like a strange tongue : wherein, to gain the language, 
 'Tis needful that the most immodest word 
 Be looked upon and learned ; whicli once attained. 
 Your highness knows, comes to no further use 
 But to be known and hated. So, like gross terms, 
 The prince will in the perfectness of time 
 Cast off his followers ; and their memory 
 Shall as a pattern or a measure live 
 By which his grace must mete tlie lives of others, 
 Turning past evils to advantages. 
 
 K. Neil. 'Tis seldom when the bee doth leave her comb 
 In the dead carrion. 
 
 £it/er Wkstmokki.and. 
 
 Who's here ? Westmoreland ? 
 tFes/. Health to my sovereign, and new happiness 
 Added to that that I am to deliver ! 
 Prince John, your son, doth kiss your grace's hand ; 
 Mowbray, the Bishop Scroop, Hastings, and all, 
 Are brought to the correction of your law. 
 There is not now a rebel's sword unsheathed. 
 But Peace puts forth her olive everywhere. 
 The manner how this action hath been borne. 
 Here at more leisure may your highness read, 
 
THE KING IS DEAD ,6, 
 
 Wnh every course in his particular. [Gh;-,,,, p.nie, 
 
 wu u '• ° ^^"'"'°'-^l--'»J. tl'ou art a summer bird, 
 Which ever m the hauncli of winter sings 
 I'iic lifting up of day. 
 
 jS/i/er Harcourt. 
 
 Look : here's more news. 
 //ar From enemies Heaven keep your majesty ■ 
 And when they stand against you may tliey fall ' 
 As those that I am come to tell you of 
 The Karl Northumberland and the Lord Bardolpli 
 With a great power of English and of Scots, 
 Are by the sheriff of Yorkshire overthrown. 
 The manner and true order ot the fight, 
 Th^ packet, please it you, contains at llrge. [G/iu,>^' /,a,ie(. 
 
 K. m,,. And wherefore should these good news make 
 me sick ? 
 "'ill Kortune never come with both hands full, 
 But write her fair words still in foulest letters? 
 She either gives a stomach and no food,— 
 Such arc the poor, in health ; or else a feast 
 And takes away the stomach,-such are the rich 
 That have abundance, and enjoy it not. 
 I should rejoice now at this happy news • 
 And now my sight fails, and my brain is giddy ■_ 
 me ! come near me ; now I an, much ill. [&<„„„. 
 
 f. tJiimph. Comfort, your majesty ! 
 
 ,„ , ,, O my royal father.' 
 
 West. My sovereign lord, cheer up yourself, look up 
 iVar. Be patient, i,rinces ; you do know, these fits 
 Are with his higliness very ordinary. 
 Stand from him, give him air; he'll straight be well 
 
 Uar. No, no ; he cannot long hold out these pan»s 
 Ihe incessant care and labour of his mind 
 Hath wrought tlie mure that should confine it in 
 M thin, that life looks through and »ill bre.ik out 
 
I62 
 
 HENRY IV 
 
 B. Humph. The people fear me ; for they do observe 
 Unfathered heirs and loathly births of nature : 
 The seasons change their manners, as the year 
 Had found some months asleep, and leaped them over. 
 
 Clar. The river hath thrice flowed, no ebb between ; 
 And the old folk, time's doting chronicles, 
 Say, it did so a little time before 
 That our great-grandsire Edward sicked and died. 
 
 War. Speak lower, princes, for the king reruvers. 
 
 P. Humph. This apoplexy will certain be his end. 
 
 K. Hen. I pray you, take me up, and bear me hence 
 Into some other chamber : softly, pray. 
 
 [They place the King on a ted in an inner part of the room. 
 I,et there be no noise made, my gentle friends ; 
 Unless some dull and favourable hand 
 Will whisper music to my wearied spirit. 
 
 War. Call for the music in the other room. 
 
 K. Hen. Set me the crown upon my pillow here. 
 
 Clar. His eye is hollow, and he changes much. 
 
 War. Less noise, less noise ! 
 
 £nter Prince Henrv. 
 
 P. Hen. Who saw the Duke of Clarence ? 
 
 Clar. I am here, brother, full of heaviness. 
 
 P. Hen. How now ! rain within doors, and none abru.ui. 
 How doth the king ? 
 
 P. Humph. Exceeding ill. 
 
 P. Hen. Heard he the good news yut ? 
 
 Tell it him. 
 
 P. Humph. He altered much upon the hearing it. 
 
 P. Hen. If he be sick with joy, he will recover without 
 physic. 
 
 War. Not so much noise, my lords. Sweet prince, 
 speak low ; 
 T"he king, your father, is disposed to sleep. 
 
 Clar. Let us withdraw into the other room. 
 
THE KING IS DEAD 
 
 163 
 
 mr. Wiirt please your grace to go along with us ? 
 P. Hen. No ; I will sit and watch hero by the king. 
 
 {Exeunt all hut Prime W\L^\<y 
 Why doth the crown lie there upon his pillow, 
 Being so troublesome a bedfellow ? 
 polished perturbation ! golden care I 
 That keep'st the ports of slumber open wide 
 To many a watchful night I sleep with it now, 
 Yet not so sound and half so deeply sweet 
 As he whose brow with homely biggin bound 
 Snores out the watch of night. O majesty, 
 When thou dost pinch thy bearer, thou dost sit 
 Like a rich armour worn in heat of day, 
 That scalds with safety ! By his gates of breath 
 There lies a downy feather, which stirs not : 
 Did he suspire, that light and weightless down 
 Perforce must move.— My gracious lord ! my father 1— 
 This sleep is sound indeed ; this is a sleep 
 That from this golden rigol hath divorced 
 So many English kings. Thy due from me 
 Is tears and heavy sorrows of the blood, 
 Which nature, love, and filial tenderness, 
 Shall, O dear father, pay thee plenteously : 
 My due from thee is this imperial crown. 
 Which, as immediate from thy place and blood 
 Derives itself to me. Lo, here it sits,— 
 ,,,, . , „ , „ iPiittiiig it on his head 
 
 Vliich Heaven shall guard ; and puttheworld's wholestrength 
 Into one gi it arm, it shall not force 
 This lineal honour from me. This from thee 
 Will I to mine leave as 'tis left to me. [£•„, 
 
 A'. Hen. Warwick ! Gloster ! Clarence I 
 
 Reenter Warwick and the rest. 
 Oar. Doth the king call ? 
 
 What would your majesty ? how fares yourgrace? 
 
 War. 
 
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 HENRY IV 
 
 A". lien. Why did you leave me here alone, my lords ? 
 
 Clar. We left the prince, my brother here, my liege. 
 Who undertook to sit and wateh by you. 
 
 K. I[cii. The Prince of Wales? where is he? let nje sec 
 him : 
 He is not here. 
 
 War. This door is open ; he is gone this way. 
 
 P. J/iim/'/i. He came not through the chamber where we 
 stayed. 
 
 K. He^ . Where is the crown ? who took it from nn 
 pillow ? — 
 
 War. When we withdrew, my liege, we left it h 
 
 K. Hen. The prince hath ta'en it hence : go, seek him 
 out. 
 Is he so hasty, that he doth sujipose 
 My sleep my death ? — 
 l-'ind him, my Lord of Warwick ; chide him hither, 
 
 \E.xil Warwkk. 
 This part of his conjoins with my disease. 
 And helps to end me. — See, sons, what things you are ! 
 How quickly Nature falls into revolt 
 When gold becomes her object ! 
 I'or this the foolish over-careful fathers 
 Have broke their sleeps with thought, their brains with 
 
 care. 
 Their bones with industry ; for this they have 
 Engrossed and piled up the cankered heajis 
 Of strange-achieved gold ; for this they have 
 Been thoughtful to invest their soi:,~. with arts 
 And martial exercise ; when, like the bee. 
 Culling from every fiower the virtuous sweets. 
 Our thighs packed with wax, our mouths with honey, 
 We bring it to the hive, and, like the bees, 
 A-e murdered for our pains. This bitter taste 
 Yields his engrossments to the ending father. 
 
If'j 
 
 THE KING IS DEAD 
 
 Reenter Warwick 
 N'oH-, where is he that will not stay so lonj; 
 Till his fricKl sickness hath determined mu? 
 
 War. My Lord, I found the prince in the -lext ronri 
 Washing with kindly tears his gentle cheeks ; 
 ^\'ith such a deep demeanour in great sorrow', 
 That tyranny which never quaffed but blood ' 
 Would, hy beholding him, have washed his knife 
 With gentle eye-dr ,ps. He is coming hither. 
 K. Hen. But wherefore did he take away the crown ? 
 Reenter Prince Henry. 
 1.0, where he comes.— Come hither to me, Harry.— 
 Depart the chamber, leave us here alone. 
 
 [.ffj:™/// Clarence, Prince Humphrey, Lords, &- 
 P. Hen. I never thought to hear you speak again. 
 K. Hen. Thy wish was father, Harry, to that thought • 
 I stay too long by thee, I weary thee. 
 Dost thou so hunger for mine empty chair 
 That thou wilt needs invest thee with mine honours 
 Before thy hour be ripe ? O foolish youth. 
 Thou seek'st the greatness that will overwhelm thee. 
 Stay but a little ; for my cloud of dignity 
 Is held from falling with so weak a wind 
 That it. will quickly drop : my day is dim. 
 Thou hast stolen that, which, after some few hours, 
 l\'ere thine without offence ; and at my death 
 Thou hast sealed up my expectation : 
 Thy life did manifest thou lov'dst me not, 
 .■\nd thou wilt have me die assured of it. 
 Thou hid'st a thousand daggers in thy thoughts. 
 Which thou hast whetted on thy stony heart 
 To stab at half an hour of my life. 
 U'hat, canst thou not forbear me half an hour ? 
 Then get thee gone, and dig my grave thyself, 
 And bid the merry bells ring to' thine ea? 
 
166 
 
 HENRY IV 
 
 That thou art crownbd, not that I am dead. 
 
 I.et all the tears that should bedew my hearse 
 
 Jifi drops of balm to sanctify thy head : 
 
 Only compound me with forgotten dust ; 
 
 Give that which gave thee life unto the worms. 
 
 Pluck down my officers, break my decrees ; 
 
 For now a time is come to mock at form : 
 
 Harry the Fifth is crowned !— Up, vanity ! 
 
 Down, royal state ! all you sage counsellors, hence ! 
 
 And to the English court assemble now 
 
 From every region apes of idleness ! 
 
 Now, neighbour confines, purge you of your scum ! 
 
 Have you a ruffian that will swear, drink, dance, 
 
 Revel the night, rob, murder, and commit 
 
 The oldest sins the newest kind of ways, 
 
 Be happy, he will trouble you no more : 
 
 England shall double gild his treble guilt, 
 
 England shall give him office, honour, might ; 
 
 For the fifth Harry from curbed license plucks 
 
 The muzzle of restraint, and the wild dog 
 
 Shall flesh h:'- tooth in every innocent, 
 
 my poor kingdom, sick with civil blows, 
 Wnen that my care could not withhold thy riots. 
 What wilt thou do when riot is thy care ? 
 
 O, thou wilt be a wilderness again, 
 Peop'id with wolves, thy old inhabitants ! 
 P. Hen. [A'wc/;«f.] O, pardon me, my liege ! but for my 
 tears, 
 The moist impediments unto my speech, 
 
 1 had forestalled this dear and deep rebuke 
 Ere you with grief had spoke and I had heard 
 The course of it so far. There is your crown : 
 And He that wears the crown immortally 
 Long guard it yours ! If I affect it more 
 Than as your honour and as your renown, 
 
 Let me no more from this obedience rise. 
 
THE KING IS DEAD 
 
 Which my most true and inward duteous spirit 
 
 TcachLlli, this prostrate and exterior liendin;; 
 
 (lod witness ^.ith n.e, when I here came in 
 
 And found no course of breath within your majesty 
 
 How cold it struck my heart ! if I do feign, 
 
 0, let me in my present wildness die, 
 
 And never live to show the inc-edulous world 
 
 The noble change that I have purposed ! 
 
 Coming to look on you, thinking you dead, 
 
 And dead almost, my liege, to think you were, 
 
 I spake unto the crown as having sense 
 
 And thus upbraided it : 'The care on thee depending 
 
 Hath fed ui)in the body of my father ; 
 
 Therefore tl ju, best of gold, art worst of gold, 
 
 Other less fme in carat is more precious, 
 
 Preserving life in medicine potable : 
 
 But thou, most fine, most honoured, most renowned 
 
 Hast eat thy bearer up." Thus, my most royal liege' 
 
 Accusmg it, I put it on my head. 
 
 To try with it, as with an e^iemy 
 
 That had before my face murdered my father, 
 
 The quarrel of a true inheritor. 
 
 Kut if it did iv oct my blood with joy, 
 
 Or swell my thoughts to any strain of pride; 
 
 If any rebel or vain spirit of mine 
 
 Did with the least affection of a welcome 
 
 Cive entertainment to the might of it. 
 
 Let God for ever keep it from my head. 
 
 And make me as the poorest vassal is 
 
 That doth with awe and terror kneel to it ! 
 
 K. Hen. O my son, 
 God put it in thy mind to take it hence. 
 That thou might'st win the more thy father's love 
 Pleading so wisely in excuse of it. 
 Come hither, Harry : sit thou by my bed. 
 And hear, I think, the very latest counsel 
 
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1 63 
 
 HENRY IV 
 
 That ever I shall breatlie. Ood knows, my son, 
 
 Hy what Ijy-paths and indirci t crook 'd ways 
 
 I met this crown ; and I myself know wdl 
 
 Mow troublesome it sat upon my head : 
 
 To thee it shall descend with better quiet, 
 
 Hotter opinion, better confirmation ; 
 
 Kor all the soil of the achievement goi^s 
 
 \Vith me into the earth. It seemed in me 
 
 But as an honour snatched with boisterous hand. 
 
 And I had many living to upbraid 
 
 My gain of it by their assistances ; 
 
 Which daily grew to quarrel and to bloodshed, 
 
 Wounding supposM peace. All these bold fears 
 
 Thou seest with peril I have answeifcd ; 
 
 For all my reign hath been but as a .scene 
 
 Acting that argument : and now n;y death 
 
 Changes the mode ; for what in m; was purchased, 
 
 Falls upon thee in a more fairer sort ; 
 
 So thou the garland wear'st successively. 
 
 Yet, though thou stand'st more sure than I could do. 
 
 Thou art not firm enough ; since griefs are green. 
 
 And all my foes, which t' iu must make thy friends. 
 
 Have but their stings and teetli newly ta'en out ; 
 
 By whose fell workiiit I was first advanced, 
 
 And by whose power I might well lodge a fear 
 
 To be again disphaced : which to avoid, 
 
 ; cut some off, and had a purpose now 
 
 To lead out many to the Holy Land, 
 
 Lest rest and lying still might make them look 
 
 Too near unto my state. Therefore, my Harry, 
 
 Be il thy course to busy giddy minds 
 
 With foreign quarrels, that action hence borne out 
 
 May waste the memory of the former days. 
 
 More would I, but my lungs are wasted so, 
 
 'I'hat strength of speech is utterly denied me. 
 
 How I came by the crown, O Cod forgive ; 
 
THE KING IS DI'AD 1O9 
 
 Anrl prant it may wilh tht-f in true piare live I 
 
 /'. Ifeii. My (;rnci<)us liegu, 
 Vou won it, W(iru it, kupt it, gave it nic ; 
 Then plain and right nuis! my possussii.n be : 
 Which I with more than with a common pain 
 'Camst all the world will rightfully maintain. 
 
 Rnler />/■;«,■.■ John ,/Lancastfr, Wahwi. k, Lords, ami 
 
 iiUkrs. 
 
 K Ifft,. I.ook, look, I ,e comes my John of Lancaster 
 
 J.John. Health, peme, and hai)piness to my royal 
 
 father ! 
 K. Ha,. Thou bring'st me happiness and pea<...-, son 
 John ; 
 Hut health, alack, with youthful wings is flown 
 From this bare withered trunk : upon thy sight. 
 My worldly business makes a period.— 
 Where is my Lord of \\arwck? 
 
 ^y^'"- My I-ordofWarwlek' 
 
 A. Hen. Doth any name particular belong 
 Unto the lodging where I first did swoon ? 
 
 War. 'Tis called Jerusalem, my noble lord. 
 
 K. Hot. Laud be to Cod:— even there my life must 
 end. 
 It hath been prophesied to me many years, 
 1 should not die but in Jerusalem, 
 Which vainly I sui)i)o.sed the Holy Land.— 
 But bear me to that chamber ; there I'll lie ; 
 In that Jerusalem shall Harry die. ' \Exeuiil. 
 
 —William Shakkspkark, King Ihiny Jl'. 
 
XV 
 
 Agincourt 
 
 Chorus 
 
 NOW entertain conjecture of a time 
 V hen creeping murmur and the pormp dark 
 Kills th de vessel of the universe. 
 From camp to camp, through the foul WDiiib of nisht, 
 The hum of ei'her army stil'y sounds, 
 That the fixed sentinels almost receive 
 The secret whispers of each other's watch : 
 Fire answers fire, and through their paly flames 
 Kach battle sees the other's umbered face : 
 Steed threatens steed, in high and boastful neighs 
 Piercing the night's dull ear ; and from the tents 
 T!ie armourers, accomplishing the knights, 
 With busy hammers closing rivets up, 
 Give dreadful note of preparation : 
 The country cock do crow, the clocks do toll. 
 And Kk third hour of drowsy morning name. 
 I'roud of their numbers, and secure in soul, 
 Tht confident and over-lusty French 
 Do the low-rated J'-nglish play at dice ; 
 And chide tl e crii)ple tardy-gaited night 
 Who, like a foul nnd ugly witch, doth limp 
 So tediously away. The poor condenmld English, 
 Like sacrifices, by their watchful fires 
 Sit patiently and inly ruminate 
 The morning's danger ; and their gesture sad, 
 Investing lank-lean cheeks and war-worn coats, 
 Presenteth them unto the gazing moon 
 So many horrid ghosts. O, now, who will behold 
 
AGINCOURT 171 
 
 The royal captain of this ruined luiid 
 
 Wiilkiiiy from watch to watch, from lent to lent, 
 
 l,ut him cry, " I'raisu and glory on his head I " 
 
 I'or forth he Koes and visits all his host ; 
 
 Bids them good morrow with a nioili. -.t smile, 
 
 And calls them brothers, friends, and countr) men. 
 
 Upon his royal face there is no note 
 
 How dread an army hath enroundeil him; 
 
 Nor doth he dedic ate one jot of colour 
 
 Unto the weary and all-watched night. 
 
 Hut freshly looks, and overbears attaint 
 
 With cheerful semblance and sweet majesty ; 
 
 That every wretch, pining and pale before, 
 
 Beholding liim, plucks comfurt from his looks : 
 
 A largess universal, like the sun. 
 
 His liberal eye doth give to every one. 
 
 Thawing cold fear, that mean and gentle all 
 
 Behold, as may unworlhiness define, 
 
 A little touch of Harry in the night. 
 
 .0 our scene must to the battle fly ; 
 .e — O for pity !— we shall much disgrace 
 W four or five most vile and ragged foils, 
 Ri£ * ill-disposed, in brawl ridiculous. 
 The name of Agincourt. Yet sit and sec ; 
 Minding true things by what their mockeries be. [£.\i/. 
 
 Scene. TAe English Ccmp at .•txiiitvurt. 
 Enter King Hknkv, Bi.ufOKii, und Gi.ouckstkk. 
 
 A'. Hen. Gloucester, 'tis tnij that we are in great 
 danger ; 
 The greater therefore should our courage be. — 
 Good morrow, brother Bedford.— God Almighty I 
 There is some soul of goodness in things evil, 
 Would men observingly distil it out ; 
 For our bad neighbour makes js early stirrers. 
 
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172 
 
 HENRY V 
 
 Which is both healthful and good husbandry ; 
 Itesides, they are our outward consciences, 
 And preachers to us all ; admonishing 
 That we should dress us fairly for our end. 
 Thus may we gather honey from the weed, 
 And make a moral of the devil himself. 
 
 Enter KkPiNfiHAM. 
 Good morrow, old Sir Thomas Erpingham, 
 A good soft pillow for that good white head 
 Were better than a churlish turf of France. 
 
 Erp. Not so, my liege : this lodging likes me better, 
 Since I may sa> ■ Now lie I like a king." 
 
 K. [ten. 'Tis „ )od for men to love their present pains 
 Upon example ; so the spirit is eased : 
 And when the mind is iiuickened, out of doubt, 
 The organs, though defunct and dead before, 
 Break up their drowsy grave, and newly move 
 With casted slough and fresh legerity. 
 Lend me thy cloak. Sir T'homas. — IJrothers both, 
 Commend me to the princes in our camp ; 
 Do my good morrow to them, and anon 
 Desire them all to my pavilion. 
 
 Glo : We shall, my liege. 
 
 Er/>. Shall I attend your grace ? 
 
 A'. Hen. No, my good knight ; 
 
 Go with my brothers to my lords of England ; 
 I arid my bosom must debate a while. 
 And then I would no other company. 
 
 Erji. The Lord in Heaven bless thee, noble Harry ! 
 
 [S.vfK«^ Gloucester, Bedford, and Ekp[nt;h\m, 
 
 A'. Hen. ( lod-a-niercy, old heart! thou speak st cheer- 
 fully. 
 
 Enter Pistol. 
 
 Pist. Qui va At 1 
 
 K. Hen. A friend. 
 
AGINCOURT 
 
 173 
 
 Pht. Piscuss unto me ; art tlK,u officer ? 
 Or art thou base, common, and popular ? 
 A'. Hen. I am a gentleman of a company. 
 Pist. Trail'st thou the puissant pike? 
 A'. Hen. Even so. Who are you ? 
 Pist. As good a gentleman as the emperor. 
 A". Hen. Then you are a better than the king. 
 Pist. The king's a bancock, and a heart of gold, 
 .\ lad of life, an imp of fame ; 
 Of parents good, of fist most valiant : 
 I kiss his dirty shoe, and from heart-string 
 I love the lovely bully. What is thy nanfe ? 
 A'. Hen. Harry k Roi. 
 Pist. Le Roy I a Cornish name: art thou of Cornish 
 
 crew .' 
 A". Hen. No ; I am a Welshman. 
 Pist. Know'st thou Fluellen ? 
 A'. Hen, Yes. 
 
 Pist. Tell him I'll knock his leek about his pate 
 Upon Saint Davy's Day 
 
 A-. rfen. Do not you wear your dagger in your cap that 
 day, lest he knock that about yours. 
 Pist. Art thou his friend ? 
 A'. Hen. And his kinsman too. 
 Pist. The (ico for thee, then : 
 A'. Hen. I thank you : (lod be with you ! 
 Pist. My name is I'istol called. r^„y 
 
 A'. Hen. It sorts well with your fierceness. 
 
 Enter FLUtLLiix „nd (Iowlk. 
 
 G,nv. Captain Fluellen ! — 
 
 F/„. So !— in the name of Chesu Christ, speak lower — 
 It IS the greatest admiration in the universal orld, when 
 the true and auncicnt prerogatifs and laws of the wars is 
 not kept : if you would take the pains but to exannne the 
 wars of Pompey the Great, you shall find, I warrant you 
 
174 
 
 HENRY V 
 
 that there is no tiddle-taddle nor pibble-pabhle in Pompey's 
 camp ; I warrant you, you shall find the ceremonies of the 
 wars, and the cares of it, and the forms of it, and the 
 sobriety of it, and the modesty of it, to be otherwise. 
 
 Goiu. Why, the enemy is loud ; you hear him all night. 
 
 F/ii. If the enemy is an ass and a fool and a prating 
 coxcomb, is it meet, think you, that we should also, look 
 you, be an ass and a fool and a prating coxcomb?— in 
 your own conscience, now ? 
 
 Goiv. I will speak lower. 
 
 Flu. I pray you and pcseech you that you will. 
 
 [Exeunt (iOwek and Fluelm.n. 
 
 A'. Hen. Though it appear a little out ct' fashion. 
 There is nuich care and valour in this vVelshman. 
 
 Enter three soldiers, John Bates, Alexander 
 Court, and Michael Williams. 
 
 Court. Brother John Bates, is not that the inorni:i- 
 which breaks yonder ? 
 
 Bates. I think it be : but we have no groat cause to 
 desire the approach of day. 
 
 mil. We see yonder the beginning of the day, but 1 
 think we shall never see the end of it. Who goes there ? 
 
 K. Hen. A friend. 
 
 Will. Under what captain serve you ? 
 
 K. Hen. Under Sir Thomas Erpingham. 
 
 Will A good old commander and a most kind gentle- 
 man : I pray you, what thinks he of our estate ? 
 
 K. Hen. Even as men wrecked upon a sand, tliat look 
 to 1)6 washed off the next tide. 
 
 Bales. He hath not told his thought to the king ? 
 
 A". Hen. No ; nor it is not meet he should. For, thougli 
 I speak it to you, I think the king is but a man, as I am : 
 the violet smells to him as it doth to me ; the element 
 shows to him as it doth to me ; all his senses have but 
 human conditions : his ceremonies laid by, in his naked- 
 
AGINCOURT 173 
 
 ness he appear, but a man; and though his affections are 
 hgher n.ounted than ours, yet, when they stoop, they 
 s OOP wth the l,ke wing. Therefore when he sees ea on 
 
 fears, as we do, his fears out of douht, be of the same 
 -ehsh as ours are: yet, in reason, no mal, should posses! 
 
 , ,7^ u"^ »PI'<-'arance of fear, lest he, by showing it 
 
 should dishearten his army. ^ ' 
 
 BoUs. He may sliow what outward courage he will ; but 
 
 1 beheve, as cold a night as 'tis, he could wish himse f in 
 Thames up o the neck ;-and so I would he were, and J 
 by him, at all adventures, so we were quit here 
 
 Sreheis. " "' ""' ''""'"' ""y*""^- hut 
 
 B<,/,s Then I would he were here alone ; so should he 
 be sure to be ransomed, and a many poor men's lives saved 
 
 A. Jfen. I dare say you love him not so ill, to wish him 
 here alone, howsoever you speak this to feel other men^ 
 m,nds : methinks I could not die anywhere so conten.ed 
 as m the kings company,- his cause being just and his 
 quarrel honourable. ' 
 
 iVi/l. That's more than we know. 
 
 A,/„. Ay, or more than we should seek after : for we 
 know enough, ,f we know we are the king's subjects : if hi! 
 cju. be wrong, our obedience to the king wipL the crime 
 
 jm But if the cause be not good, the king hi: If 
 hatha heavy reckoning .0 make, when all those legs „d 
 arms and heads, chopped off in a battle, shall join togeth r 
 at the latter day, and cry all, " ^^'e died at such a plLe " ■ 
 ome .swearing; some crying for a surgeon; some upon 
 eir wives left per behind them , some, u^on the debts 
 tey owe; some, upon their children rawly left. I a^ 
 
 i "u "'!'" ^' "'^" "'^' ^' '" - '-'ttle ; for how 
 ™ they charitably dispose of anything, when 'blood ,^ 
 their argument? Now, if these men do not die well, it 
 
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176 
 
 HENRY V 
 
 i^ 
 
 will be a black matter for the king that led them to it ; 
 whom to disobey were against all proportion of subjection. 
 
 K. Hen So, if a son that is by his father sent about 
 merchandise do sinfully miscarry upon the sea, the iiii 
 putation of his wickedness, by your rule, shouU be imposed 
 upon his father that sent him : or u a servant, under his 
 master's command transporting a sum of money, be assciikd 
 by robbers and die in many irreconciled iniquities, you may 
 call the business of the master the author of 'he servam's 
 damnation ;— but this is not so : the king is not bound to 
 answer the particular endings of his- soldiers, the father of 
 his son, nor the master of his servant ; for they purpose not 
 their death, when they purpose their services. Kcsidus, 
 there is no king, be his cause never so spotless, if it come 
 to the arbitrement of swords, can try it out with all un- 
 spotted soldiers. Some, peradventure, have on them the 
 guilt of premeditated and contrived murder; some, of 
 beguiling virgins with the broken seals of perjury ; some 
 making the wars their bulwark, that have before gored the 
 gentle bosom of peace with pillage and robbery. Now, if 
 these men have defeated the law and outrun native punish- 
 ment, though they can outstrip men, they have no wings to 
 fly from God : war is His beadle, war is His vengeance : so 
 that here men are punished for beforebreach of the kin;;s 
 laws in now the king's quarrel: where they feared the 
 death, they have borne life a*ay ; and where they would 
 be safe, they perish. Then if they die unprovided, no 
 more is the king guilty of their damnation than he was 
 before guilty of those impieties for the which they are 
 now visited. Every subject's duty is the king's ; but every 
 subject's soul is his own. Therefore should evcy soldier 
 in the wars do as every sick man in his bed, wash every 
 mote out of his conscience : and dying so, death is to him 
 advantage ; or not dying, the time was blessedly lost where- 
 in such preparation was gained ; and in him that escapes, 
 it were not sin to think, that, making God so free an offer, 
 
AGINCOURT 
 
 1/7 
 
 He let him outlive that day to see His greatness, and to 
 teach others how they should prepare. 
 
 mil. 'Tis certain, every man that dies ill, the ill is upon 
 his own head, the king is not to answer it. 
 
 Bates. I do not desire he should answer for me ; and 
 yet I determine to fight lustilv for him. 
 
 K. Hen. I myself heard tlu king say he would not be 
 ransomed. 
 
 Will. Ay, he said so, to make us fight cheerfully ; but, 
 when our throats are cut, he may be ransomed, and we 
 ne'er the wiser. 
 
 K. tien. If I live to see it, I will never trust his word after. 
 
 Will. 'Mass, you'll pay him then. That's a perilous 
 shot out of an elder-gun, that a poor and a private dis- 
 pleasure can .0 against a monarch ! You may as well go 
 about to turn the sun to ice with fanning in his face with°a 
 peacock's feather. You'll never trust his word ader ! come, 
 'lis a foolish saying. 
 
 A'. Hen. Your reproof is something too round : I should 
 be angry with you, if the time were convenient. 
 
 Will. Let it be a quarrel between us if you live. 
 
 K. Hen. I embrace it 
 
 Will. How shall I know thee again ? 
 
 A'. Hen. Give me any gage of thine, and I will wear it in 
 my bonnet : then, if ever thou darest acknowledge it, I will 
 make it my quarrel. 
 
 Will. Here's my glove ; give me another of thine. 
 
 A'. Hen. There. 
 
 (/■///. This will I also wear in my cap: if ever tho'i 
 come to me and say, after to morrow, " This is my glove," 
 by this hand I will take thee a box on the ear. 
 
 K. Hen. If ever I live to see it, I will challenge it. 
 
 Will. Thou darest as well be hanged. 
 
 A'. Hen. Well, I will do it, though I take thee in the 
 liing's company. 
 
 Will. Keep thy word : fare thee well. 
 
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178 
 
 HENRY V 
 
 Bates. Be friends, you English fools, be friends: wc 
 have French quarrels enow, if you tould tell '.. .. to reckon. 
 . A'. Hen. Indeed, the French may lay twenty French 
 crowns to one, they will beat us ; for they bear them on 
 their shoulders ; but it is no English treason to cut Frencli 
 crowns ; and to-morrow the king himself will be a clipper. 
 
 [£.\eunt Soldiers. 
 Upon the king !— let us our lives, our souls, 
 Our debts, our careful wives. 
 Our children, and our sins, lay on the king ! 
 We must bear all. O hard condition. 
 Twin-born with greatness, subject to the breath 
 Of every fool, whose sense no more can feel 
 But his own wringing ! What infinite heart's-ease 
 Must kings neglect, that private men enjoy ! 
 And what have kings, that privates have not too, 
 Save ceremony, — save general ceremony ? 
 And what art thou, thou idol ceremony ? 
 What kind of god art thou, that sufifer'st more 
 Of mortal griefs than do thy worshippers ? 
 What are thy rents? \>hat are thy comings in? 
 O ceremony, show me but thy worth ! 
 What is thy soul of adoration ? 
 Art thou aught else but place, degree, and form, 
 Creating awe and fear in other men ? 
 Wherein thou art less happy being feared 
 Than they in fearing. 
 
 What drink'st thou oft, instead of homage sweet. 
 But poisoned flattery ? O, be sick, great greatness. 
 And bid thy ceremony give thee cure ! 
 Think'st thou the fiery fever will go out 
 With titles blown from adulation ? 
 Will it give place to flexure and low bending ? 
 Canst thou, when thou command'st the beggar's knee, 
 Command the health of it ? No, thou proud dream, 
 That play'st so subtly with a king's repose : 
 
179 
 
 AGINCOURT 
 
 I am a king that find thee ; and I know 
 
 ' Tis not the balm, the sceptre, and the ball 
 
 The sword, the mace, the crown imperial, ' 
 
 The mtertissued robe of gold and peari 
 
 The farcfed title running 'fore the king 
 
 The throne he sits on, nor the tide of pomp 
 
 That beats upon the high shore of this world 
 
 No, not all these, thrice-gorgeous ceremony, ' 
 
 Not all these, laid in bed majestical 
 
 Can sleep so soundly as the wretched slave. 
 
 Who with a body filled and vacant mind 
 
 Gets him to rest, crammed with distressful bread • 
 
 Never sees horrid night, the child of hell • ' 
 
 But, like a lackey, from the rise to set 
 
 Sweats in the eye of Phoebus, and all night 
 
 Sleeps in IJIysium ; next day, after dawn. 
 
 Doth rise and help Hyperion to his horse, 
 
 And follows so the ever-running year 
 
 With profitable labour, to his grave : ' 
 
 And, but for ceremony, such a wretch, 
 
 Winding up days with toil and nights with sleep 
 
 Had the fore-hand and vantage of a king. ' 
 
 The ilave, a member of the country's peace, 
 
 Enjoys it ; but in gross brain l.ttle wots 
 
 What watch the king keeps to maintain the peace, 
 
 U hose hours the peasant best advantages. 
 
 Enter Erpingham. 
 Erp My lord, your nobles, jealous of your absence, 
 Seek through your camp to find you. 
 
 n'Iffr „ Good old knight, 
 
 Lollect them all together at my tent : 
 I'll be before thee. 
 
 f ''■''• I shall do 't, my lord. \Exit 
 
 A. Hau {Kmeli„5.-\ O God of battles ! steel my soldiers 
 
 hearts ; / ■» 
 
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 HENRY V 
 
 Possess them not with fear ; take from them now 
 The sense of reckoning, if the opposed numbers 
 Pluck their hearts from them ! Not today, O Lord I 
 
 ! not today, think upon the fault 
 
 My father made in compassing the crown I 
 
 1 Richard's body have interred new, 
 
 And on it have bestowed more contrite tears 
 Than from it issued forced drops of blood ; 
 Five hundred poor I have in yearly pay, 
 Who twice aday their withered hands hold up 
 Toward heaven, to pardon lilood ; and I have built 
 Two chantries, where the sad and solemn priests 
 Sing still for Richaid's soul. More will I do ; 
 Though all that I can do is nothing worth, 
 Since that my penitence comes after all, 
 Imploring pardon. 
 
 Enter Gloucester. 
 
 Glou. My liege ! 
 
 A', lien. \Afoot.\ My brother Gloucester's voice I Ay ; 
 I know thy errand, I will go with thee : 
 The day, my friends, and all things stay for me. \Exeuni 
 
 Scene.— 7y« English Camp. 
 
 Enter the English host; Gloucester, Bedford, E.\f.tek. 
 Salisdurv, and Westmoreland. 
 
 Glou. Where is the king ? 
 
 Bed. The king himself is rode to view their battle. 
 
 West. Of fighting men they have full threescore thousand. 
 
 Exe. There's five to one ; besides, they all are fresh. 
 
 Sal. God's arm strike with us ! 'tis a fearful odds. 
 God b' wi' you, princes all ; I'll to my charge : 
 If we no more meet till we meet in heaven, 
 Then, joyfully, my noble Lord of Bedford, 
 My dear Lord Gloucester, and my good Lord Exeter, 
 And my kind kinsman, warriors all, adieu 1 
 
AGINCOURT 
 
 I8i 
 
 Bed. 
 
 Farewell, good Salisbury ; and good luck go with 
 thee ! 
 
 Ext. Farettcll, kind lord ; fight valiantly to-day : 
 And yet I do thee wrong to mind thee of it, 
 For thou art framed of the firm truth of valour. 
 
 \E.\it Salisbury. 
 Bed. He is as full of valour as of kindness ; 
 Princely in both. 
 
 Enter the King. 
 
 Weit. O that we now had hero 
 
 Hut one ten thousand of those men in England 
 That do no work to-day ! 
 
 A". }{en. What'3 he that wishes so ? 
 
 My cousin Westmoreland ? No, my fair cousin : 
 If we are marked to die, we are enow 
 To do our country loss ; and if to live. 
 The fewer men, the greater share of honour. 
 Cod's will ! I pray thee wish not one man more. 
 By Jove, I am not covetous for gold. 
 Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost ; 
 It yearns me not if men my garments wear; 
 Such outward things dwell not m my desires : 
 But if it be a sin to covet honour, 
 I am the most oflending soul alive. 
 No, faith, my coz, wish not a man from England : 
 God's peace ! I would not lose so great an honour 
 As one man more, methinks, would share from me, 
 For the best hope I have. O, do not wish one more I 
 Rather proclaim it, Westmoreland, through my host, 
 That he which ii.-.th no stomach to this fight. 
 Let him depart ; his passport shall be made 
 And crowns for convoy put into his pmse : 
 We would not die m that man's company 
 That fears his fellowship to die with us. 
 This day is called the feast of Crispian : 
 
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 HENRY V 
 
 He that outlives thi) day, and comes safe home, 
 
 Will stand a tip-toe when this day is named. 
 
 And rouse him at the name of Crispian. 
 
 He that shall live this day, and see old age. 
 
 Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours, 
 
 And say " To-morrow is Saint Crispian " ; 
 
 Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars, 
 
 And say " These wounds I had on Crispin's day." 
 
 Old men forget ; yet all shall be forgot, 
 
 But he'll remember with advantages 
 
 What feats he did that day ; then shall our names 
 
 Familiar in his mouth as household words, — 
 
 Harry the king, Bedford, and Exeter, 
 
 Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester, 
 
 Be in their flowing cups freshly remembered. 
 
 This story shall the good man teach his son ; 
 
 AnJ Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by. 
 
 From this day to the ending of the world, 
 
 But we in it shall be remembered ; 
 
 We few, we happy few, we band of brothers ; 
 
 For he to-day that sheds his blood with me 
 
 Shall be my brother ; be he ne'er so vile, 
 
 This day shall gentle his condition : 
 
 And gentlemen in England now a-bed 
 
 Shall think themselves accursed they were not here. 
 
 And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks 
 
 That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day. 
 
 Re-enter Salisbury 
 
 Sal. My sovereign lord, bestow yourself with speed ; 
 The French are bravely in their battles set, 
 And will with all expedience charge on us. 
 
 K. Hen. All things are ready, if our minds be so. 
 
 West. Perish the man whose mind is backward now ! 
 
 K. Hen. Thou dost not wish more help from England, 
 coz? 
 
AGINCOURT 
 
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 tt'esl. God'j will I my lieije, would you and I alone, 
 Without more help, could fight this battle out I 
 
 ,.,;*'■ u"^?' ^^''''' "°* "'°" •"'' unwished five thousand men 
 Which likes me better than to wish us one.— 
 You know your places : God be with you all I 
 
 Tucket. Enter Montjov. 
 Mont. Once more I come to know of thee, King Harry 
 If for thy ransom thou wilt now compound, ' 
 
 Before thy most assured overthrow ; 
 For certainly thou art so nsar the gulf 
 Thou needs must be englutted. Besides, in mercy, 
 The co'-stable desires thee thou wilt mind 
 Thy followers of repentance ; that their soi-lj 
 May make a peaceful and a sweet retire 
 From ofr these fields, where, wretches, their poor bodies 
 Must lie and fester. 
 
 ■*'■ ^'"- Who hath sent thee now ? 
 
 ATont. The Constable of France. 
 
 K. Hen. I pray thee, bear my former answer bark : 
 Bid them achieve me, and then sell my bones. 
 Good God ! why should they mock poor fellows thus ? 
 The man that once did sell the lion's skin 
 While the beast lived, was killed with hunting him. 
 A many of our bodies shall no doubt 
 Find native graves ; upon the which, I trust, 
 Shall wiiness live in brass of this day's work' 
 And tho?- that leave their valiant bones in France, 
 Dying !ikt 'len, though buried in your dunghills, ' 
 They shall be famed; for there the sun shall greet them, 
 And draw their honours reeking up to heaven ; 
 Leaving their earthly parts to choke your clime. 
 The smell whereof shall breed a plague in France. 
 Mark, then, abounding valour in our F^nglish, 
 That being dead, like to the bul. s grazing, ' 
 Break out into a second course of mischief, 
 
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 HENRY V 
 
 Killing in relapse of mortality. 
 
 Let me speak ptoudly :— tell the constable 
 
 We are but warriors for the working day ; 
 
 Our gayncss and our gilt are all besmirched 
 
 With rainy marching in the painful field ; 
 
 There's not a piece of feather in our host — 
 
 Ciood argument, I hope, we will not fly — 
 
 And time hath worn us into slovenry : 
 
 Dut, by the mass, our hearts are in the trim ; 
 
 And my poor soldiers tell me, yet ere night 
 
 They'll be iii fresher robes, or they will pluck 
 
 The gay new coats o'er the French soldiers' heads 
 
 And turn them out of service. If they do this, — 
 
 As, if God please, they shall,— my ransom then 
 
 Will soon be levied. Herald, save thou thy l.ibour j 
 
 Come thou no more for ransom, gentle herald : 
 
 They shall have none, I swear, but these my joints, — 
 
 Which if they have as I will leave 'em them, 
 
 Shall yield them little, tell the constable. 
 
 Mont. I shall. King Harry. And so, fare thee well : 
 Thou never shalt hear herald any more. \Exil. 
 
 K. Hen. I fear thou'lt once more come again for ransom. 
 
 Enter York. 
 York. My lord, most humbly on my knee I beg 
 The leading of the vaward. 
 
 K. Hen. Take it, brave York. Now, soldiers, march 
 away : 
 And how thou pleasest, God, dispose the day ! E.xtiint. 
 
 Scene. — Part of the Field. 
 
 Alarums. Enter Kins; Henry and forces, Exeter, 
 and others. 
 K. Hen. Well have we done, thrice valiant countrymen ; 
 But all's not done ; yet keep the French the field. 
 
 E.xe. The Uuke of York commends him to your majesly. 
 
 T 
 
AGINCOURT 
 
 i8u 
 
 K. Hen. Lives he, good unrlc ? thrice within this hour 
 I saw him clown ; thrice up again, and fiKhtiiig ; 
 From liclmut to the spur all blood he was. 
 
 £.xf. In which array, brave soldier, dmh lie lie, 
 I^irding the plain ; and by his bloody side, 
 Yoke-fellow to his honour-owing wounds, 
 The noble ICarl of Suffolk also lies. 
 SulTolk first died : and York, all hagj,'leU over, 
 Comes to him, where in gore he lay instuepcd. 
 And takes him by the beard ; kisses the gashes 
 That blocxlily did yawn upon his face ; 
 And cries aloud, "Tarry, dear cousin SuliTolk I 
 My soul shall thine keep company to heaven ; 
 Tarry, sweet soul, for mine, then fly abreast. 
 As in this glorious and wellfoughtcn field 
 We kept together in our chivalry I " 
 Upon these words I came and cheered him up ! 
 He smiled me in the face, raught me his hand. 
 And, with a feeble gripe, says " Dear my lord, 
 Coni.iend my service to my sovereign." 
 So did he turn and over SiifTolk's neck 
 He threw his wounded arm and kissed his lips : 
 And so espoused to death, with blood he sealed 
 A testament of noble-ending love. 
 The pretty and sweet manner of it forced 
 Those waters from me which I would have stopped; 
 But I had not so much of man in me. 
 And all my mother came into mine eyes 
 And gave mc up to tears. 
 
 A'. Hill. I blame you not ; 
 
 For hearing this, I must perforce compound 
 With mistful eyes, or they will issue too. — [Alarum 
 
 But, hark ! what new alarum is this same ? — 
 The French have reinforced their scattered men : — 
 Then every soldier kill his prisoners ; 
 (Jive the word through. \_F.Xiiint. 
 
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 HENRY V 
 
 Enter an English Herald. 
 K. Hen. Now, herald, — are the dead numbered ? 
 Her. Here is the number of the slaughtered French. 
 
 {Delivers a paper. 
 K. Hen. What prisoners of good sort are taken, uncle ? 
 Exe. Charles Duke of Orleans, nephew to the king ; 
 John Duke of Bourbon, and Lord Bouciqualt : 
 Of other lords and barons, knights and squires, 
 Full fifteen hundred, besides common men. 
 
 K. Hen. This note doth tell me of ten thousand French 
 That in the field lie slain : of princes, in this number, 
 And nobles bearing banners, there lie dead 
 One hundred twenty-six : added to these. 
 Of knights, esquires, and gallant gentlemen. 
 Eight thousand and four hundred ; of the which, 
 Five hundred were but yesterday dubbed knights : 
 So that, in these ten thousand they have lost, 
 There are but sixteen hundred mercenaries ; 
 The rest are princes, barons, lords, knights, squires, 
 And gentlemen of blood and quality. 
 The names of those their nobles that lie dead : 
 Charles Delabret, high constable of France, 
 Jacques of Chatillon, admiral of France ; 
 The master of the cross-bows, Lord Rambures ; 
 Great Master of France, the brave Sir Guiscard Dauphin : 
 John Duke of Alen^on ; Anthony Duke of Brabant, 
 The brother to the Duke of Burgundy ; 
 And Edward Duke of Bar : of lusty earls, 
 Grandpre and Roussi, Fauconberg and Foix, 
 Beaumont and Marie, Vaudemont and Lestrale. 
 Here was a royal fellowship of death ! 
 Where is the number of our English dead ! 
 
 [Herald presents atwther paper. 
 Edward the Duke of York, the Earl of Suffolk, 
 Sir Richard Ketly, Davy Gam, esquire ; 
 None else of name ; and of all other men 
 
AGINCOURT 187 
 
 Cut five and twenty.-O God, thy arm w,ip c c • 
 
 And not to us, but to thy arm alone, 
 
 Ascribe we all !— When, without stratag m, 
 
 But in plain shock, and even play of bL.fu'-, 
 
 Was ever known so great and little loss 
 
 On one jiart and on the other ? Take it, God 
 
 For it is only thine ! ' 
 
 -^■^^- 'Tis wonderful ! 
 
 A". //f«. Come, go we in procession to the villane : 
 And be It death proclaimed through our host 
 To boast of this, or take that praise from God 
 Which is his only. 
 
 /'/«. Is it not lawful, an please your majesty, to tell how 
 many is killed ? 
 
 Th'Ji' r'"^\ ^'T f ''"''" ' '""' ""'" "^'^ acknowledgment. 
 I liat God fought for us. 
 
 J^/'i. Yes, my conscience, he did us great goot. 
 JC. Hen. Do we all holy rites : 
 Let there be sung Non nobis and Te Deum. 
 The dead with charity enclosed in clay 
 We'll then to Calais ; and to England then ; 
 Where ne'er from France arrived more happy men. 
 
 \Exeunt. 
 Enter Chorus. 
 
 Chor. Vouchsafe to those that have not read the story 
 i liat I may prompt them : and of such as have 
 
 I humbly pray them to admit the excuse 
 
 Of time, of numbers, and due course of things, 
 
 "hich cannot in their huge and proper life 
 
 lie here presented. Now we bear the king ,' 
 
 lowards Calais : grant him there; there seen. 
 
 Heave hnn away upon your winged thoughts 
 
 Athwart the sea. Behold, the English beach 
 ales m the flood with men, with wives, and boys 
 
 \\hose shouts and claps out-voice the deep-mouthed sea 
 
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 HENRY V 
 
 Which like a mighty whiffler 'fore the king 
 Seems to prepare his way : so let him land, 
 And solemnly see him set on to London. 
 So swift a pace have thought, that even now 
 You may imagine him upon Blackheath ; 
 Where that his lords desire him to have borne 
 His bruised helmet and his bended sword 
 Before him through the city : he forbids it, 
 Being free from vainness and self-glorious pride ; 
 Giving full trophy, signal, and ostent 
 Quite from himself to Cod. But now behold, 
 In the quick forge and working-house of thought, 
 How London doth poUr out her citizens ! 
 The mayor, and all his brethren, in best sort, — 
 Like to the senators of th' antique Rome, 
 With the plebeians swarming at their heels, — 
 Go forth and fetch their conquering Ca:sai in : 
 As, by a lower but loving likelihood. 
 Were now the general of our gr.icious empress, 
 As in good time he may, from Ireland coming. 
 Bringing rebellion broached on his sword, 
 How many would the peaceful city quit. 
 To welcome him ! much more, and much more cause. 
 Did they this Harry. Now in London place him : — 
 As yet the lamentation of the French 
 Invites the King of England's stay at home ; 
 The emperor's coming in behalf of France 
 To order peace between them, and omit 
 All the occurrences, whatever chanced. 
 Till Harry's back-return again to France : 
 There must we bring him ; and myself have played 
 The interim, by remembering you — 'tis past. 
 Then brook abridgment, and your eyes advance. 
 After your thoughts, straight back again to France. [Exit. 
 William Sh.\kespeare, King Henry V. 
 
XVI 
 
 From a Prison to the Throne 
 
 O^'k" ";'?'", f"^ '" """ ™°""' "^ September, ,470, 
 W N .cholas Ahvjn, citizen, passed om of the Tower of 
 
 crtd t that worth), and excellent personage may lose in 
 certam eyes his historian is bonnd to 'confesi iZ Z 
 
 ambition. 1 become the head of his class, to rise to the 
 
 . Iw n a hope and aspiration which , , , „,uch a part of 
 1"S being, as glory to a -.varrior, or p , . ,0 a king- and 
 oiigh niore mechanically than with any sordid calcul'at n 
 or sel -seeking Alwyn repaired to his \\-are in the Chepe 
 Ihe streets when he landed, already presented a differem 
 appearance from the disorder and tumult noticeable when he 
 had before passed them. The citizens now had decided what 
 
 e rca^ef^^r'; "h' "'°"«' ""' ^''°'^^' " -">er booth 
 Z l^ °f'^' '''""""= °f ^'"*- ^'°'h of arras anj 
 
 told, were hung from the upper casements; the balconies 
 
 ere crowded with holiday gazers; the fickle populac 
 
 1 to The T f ''" '""'^-^ ""= '"'^^•' Henry,'when 
 led to the lower) were now shouting, "A A\'arwick!" 
 A Clarence! and pouring throng after throng to gaze 
 pen the army, which, with the mayor and aldermen. Iiad 
 already entered the city. Having seen to the security of 
 h.s costly goods, and praised his apprentices duly, for their 
 
 TwH n"h'?T'""'' their abstinence from joining the 
 crowd, Nicholas then repaired to the upper storey of his 
 
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 HENRY VI 
 
 house, and set forth from his casements and balcony the 
 richest stuff's he possessed. However, there was his own 
 shrewd, sarcastic smile on his firm lips, as he said to his 
 apprentices, " When these are done with, lay them carefully 
 by, against Edward of York's re-entry." 
 
 Meanwhile, preceded by trumpets, drums, and heralds, 
 the Earl of Warwick and his royal sonin-law rode into the 
 shouting city. Behind came the litter of the Duchess of 
 Clarence, attended by the Earl of Oxford, Lord Fitzhugh, 
 the Lords Stanley and Shrewsbury, Sir Robert de Lytton, 
 and a princely cortege of knights, squires, and nobles; 
 while, file upon file, rank upon rank, followed the long 
 march of the unresisted armament. 
 
 Warwick, clad in complete armour of Milan steel— save 
 the helmet, which was borne behind him by his squire- 
 mounted on his own noble Saladin, preserved upon a 
 countenance so well suited to command the admiration 
 of a populace, the same character as heretofore of manly 
 majesty and lofty frankness. But to a nearer and more 
 searching gaze than was likely to be bent upon him in 
 such an hour, the dark deep traces of care, anxiety, and 
 passion, might have been detected in the lines which now 
 thickly intersected the forehead, once so smooth and 
 furrowless; and his kingly eye, not looking, as of old, 
 right forward as he moved, cast unquiet, searching glances 
 about him and around, as he bowed his bare head from 
 side to side of the welcoming thousands. 
 
 A far greater change, to outward appearance, was visible 
 in the fair young face of the Duke of Clarence. His com- 
 plexion, usually sanguine and blooming, like his elder 
 brother's, was now little less pale than that of Richard. A 
 sullen, moody, discontented . xpression, which not all the 
 heartiness of the greetings he received could dispel, con- 
 trasted forcibly with the good-humoured laughing reckless- 
 ness, which had once drawn a " God bless him ! " from all 
 on whom rested his light-blue joyous eye. He was unarmed. 
 
FROM A PRISON TO TflE THRONE ,p, 
 
 with gold, and h i, "o Jhor 1^ T °' ^"^"^ ^'°"> '"'^ed 
 curiously carved and I ;:/", Uion?' fr''^" '^'•^- 
 plumed and jewelled ca,> hi! Z ? ^ golden spurs, his 
 enriched with pe ris and h ' 'u"'" "'"'^ '"'"''"g-' 
 
 ;-a collar o[ ::ei:us Tf Tifn T °^ ^°''^- '^^ 
 
 Ceorge; his general's tmn.) * '"■''" °f St- 
 
 i'lantagenet ban," rLor e I ^T- T^M "''^'' "'"^ "^'^ 
 head, caught the eye, of iheT , '? '^ °'" ^'' «y--'l 
 •hem on \n aspe 1, L t ^ ' °'"' "''^ "'°^'^ "^ ^i^-' 
 victory. At his eft 'ft " '""'"'^"^ °f » bloodless 
 pern.ifted, rod , ^ .^^'r ""^ ''^'^'^'"'^ "^ '"^ ^'-'s 
 
 unless appealed to ind .h ""*'"' """'"« ""^ ^ord, 
 
 reverencl'anddry":;:!;,';:;:,:"'^'^"""" '"' "'^'^ ^'>'"'"g 
 
 he had desired. ' ^ ^ ""^ ^'"•"•" '^e opportunity 
 
 i-i"t:;s^;:rr;aS;::f'v;^°"<^^^"''^'-"'^ 
 
 ^n:!ente.sUhecap.ali:!t:::-.^:;:;:--,-,uest. 
 
 the le't.^::'!f ,„::!n;:'' ^'--ce suHemy, and in 
 l<iclmdofVork,a,e sud "r .n"'"^ ""' "'^ »-' "f 
 
193 
 
 HENRY VI 
 
 volte ; and the crowd shouted again the louder at the Eatl's 
 gallant horsemanship, and Clarence's dazzling collar of 
 jewels. 
 
 While thus the procession of the victors, the nominal 
 object of all this mighty and sudden revolution — of this 
 stir and uproar — of these shining arms and flaunlinL; 
 lianners, — of this heaven or hell in the deep passions of 
 men — still remained in his prison-chamber of the Tower, a 
 true type ci the thing factions contend for ; absent, insi;;- 
 nificant, unheeded, and, save by a few of the leaders and 
 fanatical priests, absolutely forgotten. 
 
 To this solitary chamber we are now transported ; yet 
 solitary is a word of doubtful propriety; for though the 
 royal captive was alone, so far as the human species make 
 up a man's companionship and solace — though the faithful 
 gentlemen. Manning, Belle, and AUerton, had, on the news 
 of Warwick's landing, been thrust from his chamber, and 
 were now in the ranks of his new and strange defenders, 
 yet power and jealousy had not left his captivity all fi/r 
 saken. There was still the starling in its cage, and the fat, 
 asthmatic spaniel still wagged its tail at the sound of its 
 master's voice, or the rustle of his long gown. And still 
 from the ivory crucifix gleamed the sad and holy face of 
 the God — present alway — and who, by faith and patience, 
 linketh evermore grief to joy — but earth to heaven. 
 
 The august prisoner had not been so utterly cut off from 
 all knowledge of the outer life as to be ignorant of some 
 unwonted and important stir in the fortress and the city. 
 The squire who had brought him his morning meal had 
 been so agitated as to excite the captive's attention, and 
 had then owned that the Earl of Warwick had proclaimed 
 Henry King, and was on his march to London. But 
 neither the squire nor any of the officers of the Tower, 
 dared release the illustrious captive, nor even remove him 
 as yet to the state apartments vacated by Elizabeth. They 
 knew not what might be the pleasure of the stout Earl or 
 
-ROM A PRISON TO THE THRONE :„ 
 
 first co.nn,and,a he f "' '"""""y '"'-U'ining that H.nr/s 
 
 i"-y, and liS/Lrrr''';;"-^' "'■■«'" '^^^- 
 
 absented then sdves fronh," ^"''^ °' '^^"'^' "'«/ 
 
 conrtiotaTrLwdsn '■"''' ?"'" ^^^' ^^ ' ">e 
 •fe gleam ^f anns „d ^ !"" "I'"' =""" "^-' -'" 
 
 "•V"---^-'" "A Clare: ;~f ;:„';! ''^7"'^^ -^ 
 
 \'!" a strange combination ^f *" I've good Ifenry 
 
 .^nd ama.ed h^m m^ct'It" /Ses^t'' """^^^^ 
 exatement of perplexity and surprise stS f" """"""•■d 
 calm serenity of his most „.,J , '^ ^'^'^^ "«o "'e 
 
 -Pooled himself, ha^ f „l"V' "o' '" "'^'' "'■' '"" 
 driven his beautiful sou in^o.hen ''^ "'"' '<''<^''^"'^^) 
 •he affairs of life; the e ror th t d 'T'" """'' '° '"'"^' '^ 
 energy of free wi 1 and X noble ."l^ """ '^""'"''^ ""-• 
 "hy strain and strive folth;^^ "T'' °^ ^'"''^'^ ''"'>•• 
 would order all for he besi""f /;',;" ""^'^ ' ^'°d 
 'hi^ world, each, from k^ .of '^ ''""' P'"^^"^ "» '" 
 hearts, and blood, and pa "fon. /!""*' "'"' ""^"- »"" 
 Kno matterh^rhea Inlv h 7'''^''^''"'' °""^'"d; 
 n>i"ion in the race! ^ """ ^°'"' '° '^''^''"^ vvi'h the 
 
 »U seemeth but a feat 'rn ^^ °°'' """''" 
 
 -d never to be a S iS" t""^ ''"^ '^'"<^^' 
 Henry-,he lion and the lamb ' M I "f ""'^ ^'"g 
 ™no Paradise, where such ..n' '^''"''' ='"'' ""^ "^ fallen 
 foolish bird!"land with a n, °" "'''' "°' " "^^ ' 
 "^0- holy sweet":ess ihVha^e'd™"' T" "'^' ^''- 
 Paused before the casrP ZT disarmed a fiend, he 
 
 -"Foolish bi i thfuneasi'r'f ''' "^ fellow-ca^tive 
 '«ched even to hee tIou ' '"™°'' ""''°"' ^ave 
 Ihou beatest thy wings again.t the 
 
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 HENRY VI 
 
 wires— thou turnist thy bright eyes to mine restlessly. 
 Why? Pantest thou to be free, silly one, that the hawlc 
 may swoop on its defenceless prey ? Better, perhaps, the 
 cage for ihee, and the prison for thy master. Well, out 
 if thou wilt ! Here at least thou art safe I " and opening 
 the cage the starling flew to his bosom, and nestled there, 
 with its small clear voice mimicking the human sound. 
 
 " Toor Henry — poor Henry 1 Wicked men — poor 
 Henry I " 
 
 The King bowed his meek head over his favourite, and 
 the fat spaniel, jealous of the monopolised caress, came 
 waddling towards its master, with a fond whine, and 
 looked up at him with eyes that expressed more of faitli 
 and love than Edward of York, the ever wooing and evur 
 wooed, had read in the gaze of woman. 
 
 With those companions, and with thoughts growing more 
 and more composed, and rapt from all that had roused and 
 ve.xed his interest in the forenoon, Henry remained till the 
 hour had long passed for his evening meal. Surprised at 
 last by a negligence which (to do his gaolers justice) had 
 never before occurred, and finding no response to his 
 hand-bell — no attendant in the ante-room — the outer doors 
 locked as usual— but the sentinel's tread in the court 
 below hushed and still, a cold thrill for a moment shot 
 through his blood. " Was he left for hunger to do its 
 silent work?" Slowly he bent his way from the outer 
 rooms back to his chamber ; and, as he passed the case- 
 ment again, he heard, though far in the distance, through 
 the dim air of the deepening twilight, the cry of " Long live 
 King Henry ! " 
 
 This devotion without — this neglect within, was a won- 
 drous contrast ! Meanwhile, the spaniel, with that instinct 
 of fidelity which divines the wants of the master, had moved 
 snuffling and smelling round and round the chambers till it 
 stopped and scratched at a cupboard in the ante-room, and 
 then with a joyful bark flew back to the King, and taking 
 
^".OM A PRISON TO THE THRONE .,, 
 
 -a" cake, usual.; e'rved';:; '", '""'•," ^^^ "^ 'hose 
 l«en carelessly left' They suffice- "'''''"'' "^"y- ''"d 
 
 'he King, the dog, and the Sw "^f '"^'^ '°"'^' ""'' 
 to='ether. This done, hL ca' fun'r^'V''^"' •''^="^^'"""y 
 "^ cage, bade the do-, creeu ^ M ^'"'"'""'^ his bird in 
 passed on ,o his lit.le oratory with tt '";"' ''"'' "« '""; 
 samt strewed around the solemn ' '"''"' °f "oss and 
 forgot the world I Meamvhni 1\""''^''~''"'' '" P^^^r 
 had grown deserted, ^ve whe e in"' '"' '" = "'^ ^'^cL 
 gathered groups of the LLtj bu7f:rT'' ""' '^'^'^^ 
 d'sciphne in which Warwick ,7.' ""' '^"^ 'he niost part the 
 'hose stern loiterers to he v^ n "'"^ ''"^ '^'■^'"'"cd 
 'hem, and little remained to ""rd Z'"' '"'''"'''•' '"' 
 'hat a throne had been unrooted an^ ^""""^"^ ''''''"' 
 summated that eventful darTwta^tr '''°'""°" =°'^- 
 man. closely wrapped in his larJeh , """= "''" " ">" 
 
 along through the streets and 'in 'T'"' '^°'^' "^"^^ 
 -nd of his voice by the gr at fa Ih " '''^"- ''' 'h« 
 alarm; a few moments m'o e and , ITT '''""' '" 
 fortress were gathered round I in? k u '° ^"""^ 'h= 
 
 out one of the squires who u 11 *'""' 'h«e *■« singled 
 l-^le him light his s pi to hel^i!!'^"'^"'' "-^V- -^ 
 that chamber Henry rose frlm h \ ''"'"'^"- ^^ '" 
 hroad red light of a torch fl- u '""""- «^' ^^ the 
 
 ■^-hold; h^ uL7t ?; tr^f '-■^^'"^'"^'"^^ 
 f PS. the spaniel uttered a lol ™w, i "'''^^''^'^hing foot 
 the door opened, and the to wi ', ^^"^ ^Parkling,- 
 
 -d -sed'aloft'sot^'i rg I'reTew ''7' ''. ""= ^'>"'-- 
 he whole chamber, brou-^ht into ^ " ''™1^ "sh' over 
 haughty countenance of the Ea..f"vr:^'^ 'he dark and 
 
 --r:Li^rr^™"''^^^"i-''«h.edthe 
 
 -"ished. Ki ,n "ker a,Td''"K°" ""^ '=''''^' ^"'' <!"-'< V 
 
 -^.htof.va;.c^-:;-^^^^a.^:W 
 
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196 
 
 HENRY VI 
 
 « few paces, with one liand uplifted in adjuration or (.>ni- 
 ninnd, while with the other he veiled his eyes — whriinr 
 that this startled movement came from the weakness (ji 
 bodily nerves, much shattered by sickness and conrinenient, 
 or from the sudden emotions called forth hy the nspeit uf 
 one who had wrought him calamities so dire. Hut tli. 
 craven's terror in the presence of a livinj; foe, was, with :ii; 
 his meekness, all his holy abhorrence of wrath ami warfnn, 
 as unknown to that royal heart as to the high l>l<» <l of lii. 
 Hero-sire. And so, after a brief pause, and a tlujuglit th.u 
 took the shape of prayer, not for s.ifety from peril, but fur 
 grae. i forgive the past, Henry VI. advanced to Warwii k, 
 who still stood dumb by the threshold, combating with ins 
 own mingled and turbulent emotions of pride and shaiin , 
 and said, in a voice majestic even from its very milil 
 ness— 
 
 "What tale of new w< ; nd evil hath the Karl of i^.ilis 
 bury and Warwick come lO announce to the poor captive 
 who was once a king ? " 
 
 "Forgive me! Forgiveness, Henry, my lord — Forgive- 
 ness ! " exclaimed Warwick, falling on his knee. Tlie 
 me :k reproach — the touching words — the mien and \k;i«<: 
 altered, since last beheld, from manhood into age- the 
 grey hairs and bended form of the King, went at once tn 
 that proud heart ; and as the Karl bent over the wan, thin 
 hand, resigned to his lips, a tear upon its surface out- 
 sparkled all the jewels that it wore. 
 
 " Yet no," continued the Earl (impatient as proud men 
 are to hurry from repentance to atonement, for the one is 
 of humiliation and the other of pride), — " yet no, n y liege 
 — not now do I crave thy paruon. No ; hut when begirt, 
 in the halls of thine ancestors, with the peers of England, 
 the victorious banner of St. George waving above the 
 throne which thy servant hath rebuilt — then, when the 
 trumpets are sounding thy rights without the answer of 
 a foe — then, when from shore to shore of fair England the 
 
FROM A 1'RI.S.W TO Till- THRONE ,97 
 
 i-do„ he hath no. i;':^;;^';:;^ "'""y- -'^ »•"= f- ""■■ 
 li^Fcl^i^g 'ki:S:'' ';;'- '^"" ^-^^^"'^ °' ~^' ^ 
 
 lannesthatthcSonofCo 7' "°'. """''«' trumps and 
 pattern of chari /.o Vis ^1";^','"''.''" "'""''" "'"^ 
 
 didst wronR mc— /;/• «„ c,V/ if , i.-- . , "' '"'r, ii ttiou 
 
 said-" Peace be with ,hon t . , . ^^°"^<^"< and 
 ,inn I I, 1 "'«'-thoii hast done me no real 
 
 of wll T ''"''^ '" ""•■"= "■»"' •-"' "• 'he gr en 
 parks of W ndsor; happier than in the halls of stite or i^ 
 the n,,dst of wrangling armies, ^^■hat tidings now '' ' '" 
 
 r ,£,r;:ii' '• '™^"^ 'i s n:, rt 
 
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198 
 
 HENRY VI 
 
 nnd stoopini;, lie gently ))altcd his dog, wlin krpt watch nt 
 his feet, still glaring suspiciously nt Warwick— " \Vc art- 
 both too old for the chase now ! — Will you lie seated, my 
 lord ? " 
 
 " Trust nic," said the Earl, as he obeyed the coinnianil, 
 having first set chair and footstool lor the King, who 
 listened to him with downcast eyes and his head droopint; 
 on his bosom — " trust mc, your later days, my liege, will 
 be free from the storms of your youth. All chance of 
 Edward's hostility is evpircd. Your alliance, though [ 
 seem boastful so to S|ieak — your alliance with one in 
 whom the people can confide for some skill in war, ard 
 some more profound experience of the habits and tem- 
 pers of your subjects than your former councillors coiilii 
 possess, will leave your honoured leisure free for the holy 
 meditations it affects ; and your glory, as your safely, 
 shall be the care of men who can awe this rebelliuii 
 world." 
 
 " Alliance ! " said the King, who had caught but that one 
 word. " Of what spcakcst thou, Sir ICarl ? " 
 
 " These missives will explain all, my liege. This letter 
 from my Ktdy the Queen Margaret, and this from )oiir 
 gracious son, the Prince of Wales." 
 
 "Edward! my Edward!" exclaimed the King, with ;i 
 father's burst of emotion. " Thou hast seen him then ?— 
 bears he his health well ? — is he of < hecr and heart ? " 
 
 " le is strong and fair, and full of promise, and brave as 
 his grandsire's sword." 
 
 " And knows he — knows he well, tli.it we all arc llic 
 putter's clay in the hands of God ? " 
 
 "My liege," said Warwick, embarrassed, "he li.is .is 
 riuch devotion as befits a Christian knight and a i;juilly 
 prince." 
 
 " .\h ! " sighed the King, " ye men of arms have str.iiigc 
 thoughts on these matters;" and cutting the silk of the 
 letters, he turned from the warrior. Shading his face witli 
 
PROM A PRISON TO THE THRONE ,09 
 
 Iu» hand .he Karl darted hi, keen glance on the f..,urc, 
 or .he Kmg as drawing near .0 ,h. .al.le, ,l,c | „ rod 
 
 arm wi|)ed Ihe moisture from his e)es 
 "Myi-oor Margaret, how ,hou hast su/Tere.l ' " he mur 
 
 aughty and stern „„,,,, of l,is consort. And when he- 
 ad eoncluded his son's epistie. full of the a dour of i' 
 bve and the- sprit of his youth, the King , Je"" h^s le 
 
 tS™""." "'"■"■' "■ ""' "" ■"- '- -™- s 
 
 The Karl's object, ,Hirha,.s, In seeking a meetinc wilk 
 
 ". "\" '"' ''"'•■"-■. '•'';-;l" hearken to .he reproaches he 
 .icpated ,0 receive, or say hereafter tha he I Lrd 
 
 ^d ' ,":' ■;;: h" 't '"' ^^^^ - ■- -'-id 
 
 !,«■.?"• "^ '"""''*• '" '•■•"''nuation and ex 
 lusc. bo affronted, imperilled, or to use hi. n«-„ . 
 
 ™rd,..so..^.W,.ha'd he been Tn the tn rrl^f 
 
 cnry, that h,s Intellect, which, however vigo^us n h^ 
 
 ln.cr „,oods, was liable .0 be obscured and dulled by h 
 
 -s.ons, had half confounded the gentle King wi h' h 
 
 fcrocous w,fe and stern councillors, and he hadTl oueh 
 
 t^ never could have humbled him elf to hi "2 
 
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200 
 
 HENRY VI 
 
 so far as knighthood's submission to Margaret's sex had 
 allowed him to the woman. But the sweetness of Henry's 
 manners and disposition — the saint-like dignity which he 
 had manifested throughout this painful interview, and tht- 
 touching grace and trustful generosity of his last words — 
 words which consummated the Earl's large projects of 
 ambition and revenge, had their effect upon Warwick. 
 
 " Perish your foes ! May war and storm scatter them as 
 the chaff! My liege, my royal master," continued the Earl, 
 in a deep, low, faltering voice. " Why knew I not thy 
 holy and princely heart before? Why stood so many 
 between Warwick's devotion and a King so worthy to 
 command it ? How poor, beside thy great-hearted forti- 
 tude and thy Christian heroism, seems the savage valour 
 of false Edward ! Shame upon one who can betray the 
 trust thou hast placed in him. Never will I ! never ! I 
 swear it! No ! though all England desert thee, I will stand 
 alone with my breast of mail before thy throne ! Oh, would 
 that a hundred battle-fields were yet left to prove how 
 deeply Warwick feels the forgiveness of his King I " 
 
 "Not so — not so— not so; not Ai/'/'/f-yff/rf, Warwick I " 
 said Henry. " Ask not to serve the King by shedding one 
 subject's blood." 
 
 " Your pious will be obeyed ! " replied Warwick. " \\u 
 will see if mercy can effect in others what thy pardon 
 effects in me. And now, my liege, no longer must these 
 walls confine thee. What ho, there ! " and going to the door 
 he threw it open, and agreeably to the orders he had given 
 below, all the officers left in the fortress stood crowded 
 together in the small ante-room, bareheaded, with tapers in 
 their hands, to conduct the monarch to the palace. 
 
 At the sudden sight of the Earl, these men burst forth 
 with the rude retainer's cry, " A Warwick ! a Warwick ! " 
 
 " Silence ! " thundered the Earl's deep voice. " Who 
 names the subject in the sovereign's presence ? " 
 
 The men, abashed by the reproof, bowed their heads and 
 
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FROM A PRISON TO THE THRONE .o. 
 
 endeafed. Th i.e^'n „r"ht°"°" «"' """'"''^ ""' 
 •he embers burning L n Ve'tear'"r'^"''"- 
 P.ece-all took to his thoughtfui e^e a""n aL'^fV™" 
 aspect of melanrhniu ,„^ '^ almost human 
 
 whether by^eSoTljTu' """ "'^ •^'■^<^' ™"^ed, 
 
 '0 and fro, shrilled out it, T' ' """"'"g restlessly 
 Henry !-™or He„,v° "' 'f™""'^ sentence-" Poor 
 King?" ' "«"^y'-w.cked men .--who would be a 
 
 "Thou hearcst it, WarwiVlrP" ,„-j tt 
 his head. " ^ ^^"^ Henry, shaking 
 
 -n^'tt^n^^tStL'Hl^.SV-r- 
 "Why, look you," said the k't P"'""'' '""'=• 
 
 •he bird, which settled on h si :'^:.r^ 7 k "'^"^'"^ 
 '.is heart in the narrow cag -X ' feVad'h '' '"''^" 
 forter for a caotive ■ it ;<: .1 ?^ ""^ ''ee" "<> com- 
 
 soothe us besfr^u? :dvSie^'■-LrT:i^^ -'' 
 »«(', sirrah, or I shall thmi. .u i '^' ^^ '^"" "°t 
 fondness h retoforir 'cS. itX^ ^^'^ '" % 
 
 H^"rir.::;jtir';h''V°--''^-. 
 
 Edward, where the tnh *" 'Hummated hall of 
 
 and wh;re ht 1 f e ds^Ma^r ' B H,'"^ ™>">' ^^P^'' 
 stood weeping for iov whi.rr ^u ^^'"e. ''"d Allerton, 
 •he musicLs'gTvVfonh t e^r ^ 'f'^^ ^"■-'^ ="oft 
 «^ich had gra'duall/ltf :rof„3S burH-T""^^ 
 once the Norman's national air, and Ihich th! T 
 Margaret of Anjou had re taushf ,^1 ^ """■''■<« 
 
 Haitle Hvmn of RotLO." """strels-" The 
 
 -Lord I.vtton-, Z«./ .///,, a„.^,„. 
 
XVII 
 
 King and King Maker 
 
 RAW, cold, and dismal dawned the morning of the 
 fourteenth of April, 147 1. The heavy mist still 
 covered both armies, but their hum and stir was already 
 heard through the gloaming— the neighing of steeds, and 
 the clangour of mail. Occasionally a movement of either 
 force made dim form, seeming gigantic through the vapour, 
 indistinctly isible to the antagonist army ; and there was 
 something jlnstly and unearthlike in these ominous shapes, 
 suddenly seen, and suddenly vanishing, amidst the sullen 
 atmosphere. By this time, Warwick had discovered a 
 mistake of his gunners ; for, to the right of the earl, the 
 silence of the Yorkists was still unbroken, while abruptly, 
 from the thick gloom to the left, broke the hoarse mutter 
 and low growl of the awakening war. Not a moment was 
 lost by the earl in repairing the error of the night : his 
 artillery wheeled rapidly from the right wing, and, sudden 
 as a storm of lightning, the fire from the cannon flashed 
 through the dun and heavy vapour : and not far from the 
 very spot where Hastings was marshalling the wing en- 
 trusted to his command, made a deep chasm in the serried 
 ranks. Death had begun his feast ! 
 
 At that moment, however, from the centre of the Yorkist 
 army, arose, scarcely drowned by the explosion, that deeji 
 toned shout of enthusiasm, which he who has once heard 
 it, coming, as it were, from the one heart of an armed 
 multitude, will ever recall as the most kindling and glorious 
 sound which ever quickened the pulse and thrilled the 
 
KING AND KING MAKER ^03 
 
 K;Z%Sntlo'r :?'''' ""'y "- ^'X' King 
 unadorned resr^bir fh ft^l " ' '"'""'' ''"' °"-™'- 
 at .he Tower, and the\ ulg.'of his's.rr'^ '" ^''^'^^ 
 With silver, suns, for the silver ,!,nw.u ^^'^ 'P''"^'^'' 
 his banners. His head wil h! f u '^ cognirance on all 
 
 sphere the J o'^'^c tSs^'eS'l '"t,"^^^"""- 
 Followed by his body squire w,^h V Tl """^ '° '''''"^• 
 .he lords in'his imme'da'telff his Inch" ""' 'T'' '"" 
 he passed slowly alon<r ,Z ! ^ ■ '™"'^'i^°" '" his hand, 
 deemed his vofce could be ffK"''.''"' ''^'""8 "here he 
 and lifting his handl^hl^h.fu'' ^'"^' ^^ ''^'"^d i"> 
 .hough stfll, ^hi e t sp!'" ° ''""'''T"" '^"^'"^''-- 
 •he arrowy shower, and S'the In"' '■ ""''"' ''"'^ 
 hush interrupted bv the fla htrf ° *"' ^'"'"^ '"'^ ">« 
 " Englishmen and frij^ds " said .h!" °' "? ''°""'"''^- 
 hold deeds go but few words b1 "'"""" ^'^'^'". "to 
 From Ravenspur to London I h ^°" " ""^ ''^'■ 
 
 flying from my sword, lo/altv Jh^" ""-^hed-treason 
 With but two thousand men l^th'"^ '° n,y standard. 
 I entered England-on the ^ . '^e fourteenth of March, 
 sand is my LZrZ wtlT °' i""' '''' "'°"- 
 not king, when one month "'^' ""^"> '^at I am 
 
 subjects' love " TndTe fknow ' '"°"='"'' ""'^' f™" •■- 
 yours and EnglandtrThoT ^'"'"°"'- "'=" ""^ ^"^^ " 
 -ouldruleindipiteofllw |/*""''k"' "^ "^" «ho 
 favours, and who' ITd^I^u "thltr ' ^^^^ ^'' 
 '^rds, and Commons, to be the .nnanit ""J"' °^ ^'"^' 
 one man's measureles's ambittnThe Xrl'^T °' 
 homestead to Lord \Vir«,i,.i,'o • ? ' 'orsooth, the 
 ".en and knightrof E Znd leTth' '°"!.' ^^ ^'^""- 
 prosper, and y'our P^opSlil I'SpS 'tu t ''' 
 insecure— all law struct h„.,j ,.7, "'=*PO"ecl— your lives 
 
204 
 
 EDWARD IV 
 
 lords (who would rule in the name of Lancaster) desire ? 
 To induce you to villeins and to bondsmen, as your fore- 
 fathers were to them. Ye owe freedom from the barons to 
 the just laws of my sires, your kings. Gentlemen and 
 knights, commoners and soldiers, Edward IV. upon his 
 throne will not profit by a victory more than you. This is 
 no war of dainty chivalry— it is a war of true men against 
 false. No quarter ! Spare not either knight or hildin^. 
 Warwick, forsooth, will not smite the commons. Truly not 
 
 —the rabble are his friends. I say to you " anil 
 
 Edward, pausing in the excitement and sanguinary fury of 
 his tiger nature— the soldiers, heated like himself to the 
 thirst of blood, saw his eyes sparkle, and his teeth gnash, 
 as he added in a deeper and lower, but not less audible 
 voice, "I say to you, slay all! What heel spares the 
 viper's brood ? " 
 
 "We will— we will ! " was the horrid answer, which came 
 hissing and muttered forth from morion and cap of steel. 
 
 " Hark to their bombards ! " resumed Edward. " The 
 enemy would fight from afar, for they excel us in their 
 archers and gunners. Upon them, then— hand to hand— 
 and man to man ! Advance banners — sound trumpets ! 
 Sir Oliver, my bassinet ! Soldiers, if my standard falls, 
 look for the plume upon your king's helmet ! Charge ! " 
 
 Then, with a shout wilder and louder than before, on 
 through the hail of the arrows— on through the glare of the 
 bombards — rather with a rush than in a march, --dvanced 
 Edward's centre against the array of Somerset. But from a 
 part of the encampment where the circumvallation seemed 
 strongest, a small body of men moved not with the general 
 body. 
 
 To the left of the churchyard of Hadley, at this day, the 
 visitor may notice a low wall ; on the other side of that wall 
 is a garden, then but a rude eminence on Gladsmoor Heath. 
 On that spot a troop in complete armour, upon destriers 
 oawing impatiently, surrounded a man upon a sorry palfrey, 
 
KING AND XING MAKER 
 
 205 
 and in a gown of blue-the rolnnr ^f 
 'ude,-,hat man was Henrv thl q ?^ 'V^ ^"'^ °' '"^'- 
 -ood Knar Bungey. "'s fLt „ '" e 1" '!;— P«ce 
 incantations, that the mists h^ h , c *'"''='">> muttering 
 protected the York^ts from ,h " ^T"!'^' "'«' -^-ch had 
 1-t, to the confusion of 'he foe """"'"" '""'• '"'«'" ^^ 
 
 We must now rapidly survev ih^ ^■ 
 army under Warwick In Zlju, ^'^P"'"'""' of the 
 was intrusted to the Earl of n r , """^' '""^ <:ommand 
 Montagu. The former,!^ ed the '"f '"' ''"'i^'^ °f 
 was stationed in the van the h» '""''^ °^ "'*'" ^'^'^'on. 
 habit-surrounded by a st '„ 'hlT' ■"""i""^ '° "''' "^"'" 
 
 =. prodigious number of sSasat'T*" """''^'"^ """^ 
 at the rear, and directedlhenc? K .''■'^'■"''"'P-''^'"^'"^^ 
 
 ■movement. In th s wTnf 2* ' " °"^'''' ""= S'^"«^"l 
 castrian. Jealous of V^ anTo^; """"" ^"^ ^- 
 generalship of Montagu, feausesh^ri'. TT""^ '° "''^ 
 hero, Oxford. In thf mid sn^t!. "I'' ^^ '^''' f^'°""te 
 .he bowmen, with ago dl/tnKf 't' '''""^''* "^^ 
 under the Duke of SoLrs ' • a„d thi, h' " """ '"""■ 
 principally Lancastrian, and shared th ^'"°" "''° ^'' 
 soldiery. The left wina '^ J^'''°"'y "f Oxford's 
 
 ™lc's'yeoman% nrretS'f '" ''" """'' °' '^»- 
 Ouke of Exete^ conJoimrwS, he^ E^a^T'l. '' '"^ 
 armies kept a considerable bind in ™'"'^' ^"'^ 
 
 besides this resource, had eSd^rh"' '"' "'""'■^''• 
 body of picked aicers whom T T. ' °*" retainers a 
 'he outskirts of a «^od IhaJ then , ''j.''''""^ P'^^^d ■" 
 Park to the column that now . "^"^ ^™"' ^™"''"" 
 
 Barne^onthehigh^tLrror^HeTad" '"^'r °' 
 last-mentioned archers ^whpr. » ^ ^ guarded these 
 
 horsemen) by stronrtin h T"^ '" '~"' '° Edward's 
 opening as wouH Iw one ^ ' ''"'"^ °"'^ ^"^^ ''n 
 and defending by a trmTdab e HnTy:-: "T '° P"^"' 
 opening left for communication and .oL ""™" 
 
 '^f"ge in case of need. These d1" . ' '° ' P''"^ °f 
 "^^^ dispositions made, and ere 
 
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206 
 
 EDWARD IV 
 
 yet Edward had advan. .;d on Somerset, the earl rode to 
 the front of the wing under his special command, and, 
 agreeably to the custom of the times, observed by his royal 
 foe, harangued the troops. Here were placed those who 
 loved him as a father, and venerated him as something 
 superior to mortal man— here, the retainers who had grown 
 up with him from his childhood— who had followed him to 
 his first fields of war— who had lived under the shelter of 
 his many castles, and fed in that rude equality of a more 
 primeval age, which he lo d still to maintain at his lavisli 
 board. And now Lord Warwiclc's coal-black steed halted, 
 motionless, in the van. His squire behind bore his helmet, 
 overshauowed by the eagle of Mouthermer, the out- 
 stretched wings of which spread wide into sable plumes : 
 and as the earl's noble face turned full and calm upon the 
 bristling lines, there arose not the vulgar uproar that greeted 
 the aspect of the young Edward. By one of those strange 
 sympathies which pass through multitudes, and seize them 
 with a common feeling, the whole body of those adoring 
 vassals became suddenly aware of the change which a year 
 had made in the face of their chief and father. They 
 saw the grey flakes in his Jove-like curls— the furrows in 
 that lofty brow— the hollows in that brunzed and manly 
 visage, which had seemed to their rude admiration to wear 
 the stamp of the twofold Divinity— Beneficence and Valour. 
 A thrill of tenderness and awe shot through the veins of 
 every one— tears of devotion rushed into many a hardy 
 eye. Ho— there was not the ruthless captain addressing his 
 hireling butchers, it was the chief and father rallying 
 gratitude, and love, and reverence, to the crisis of his 
 stormy fate. 
 
 " My friends, my followers, and my children," said the 
 earl, " the field we have entered is one from which there is 
 no retreat ; here must your leader conquer, or here die. It 
 is not a parchment pedigree— it is not a name, derived from 
 the ashes of dead men, that make the only charter of a 
 
KING AND KING MAKER 
 
 207 
 
 king. We Englishmen were but slave, if i„ • • 
 and sceptre to a mortal lilce our elv, ' «""?8 """n 
 return the kingly virtues. Be'et oToM, "- "°' '" 
 
 the reign of Henry VI was o^ J ' '^^"'^ <=°"nsellors, 
 realm endangered MinTL" "''"' ""'' ""= ^^'^ of the 
 but the disasters of my coun^v nTf ' '"""'"' '° ""= S^''^'. 
 the race of York Fn -hn^ ^,. ? ^"- ' ''^<^™ed that in 
 
 '"-^- What S ,'"!, -r^rt :r 7e "''=m ''f ''^'"-^ 
 l.r.nce dissolved in luxurious viceT-a n„l T, I ''"°"- ^ 
 mm.ons and blood-suckers TZ , '"^ 'i'^g'^ded by 
 
 veyor,and a land 6^27/^'^^^""/"^' '' ""' 
 know not all ■ God m.l, . ' """^ '""• «"t ye 
 
 hearths were po£d-ouTwr^^ ''-r.h man's altar-o 
 as harlots-and lecL Tu^d h," 'r^'''"^ "'"^ ^''-'-'^d 
 
 ^'•""Idbefastasthe ;fla ' .tVort' u^ ''"^'^ '"^'^ 
 trusted Ea„ard and was not decdved V "'" '"" 
 
 knightly liar stands inarms w th the weiitrof""" -"^ """ 
 '"s soul. In his father's town Irv , ' ^^''"'y °" 
 
 took, three short weeks i, c" °^°'^' y^ ^"o. that he 
 King Henry. And now K nT H • "'"'' °' '^'^'y '° 
 
 King Henr/s hoircrown ut"f hf r. "• "u" ''^'"''' """ 
 calls he Us? VVha nami h^ 'T'""^''^-''"''°"' 
 Edward gave the ;rL:,^r;f a "b""" ' """="' '"' "'•"? 
 him. He proved a base a fnll ^ *"'"■ ""'^ ^ '^"^d 
 king, and I forsook him ■^.f '„%'''"""°"'' ""'^ ^ "uel 
 lands so serve kings when'thevVe "'"'^ '" "" f^- 
 
 against a cruel and Itorc ons ' '^""'^ ' ^' "ght 
 
 cannot sanctify a black heT vTfiT' "'°'' "^""^ "''"^ 
 Henry, the mee'k andte god y-'yVf, Z TX"" ^''"^ 
 ''"t for his young and nriLi ^ , ' ^°'^"" "'"n^. 
 
 Henry of AgiLurVX'oldmVt::,'^ \^r'^'"'<^ °f 
 face, and who, I know has th^r . , ' ^^' "'^' Zero's 
 noble soul-y; figh" f"; ftefrl '/''"'' """ ^°>'=" ''"^ 
 honour of your :.omen for wW .°' '°" '''"'^' '°' '^e 
 cause-for 'justice Tnd' m r^^^f^: l:;;;,^ '"- ^"y ^'n,'. 
 -es against corruption in ^li\l™^,:;^, ^-^^^ 
 
308 
 
 EDWARD IV 
 
 scaffold, falsehood in a ruler's lips, and shameless harlotry 
 in the councils of ruthless power. Thu order I have ever 
 given in war, I give now ;— we war against the leaders of 
 evil, not again?* »he hapless tools— we war against our 
 oppressors, noi against our misguided brethren. Strike 
 down every plumed crest, but when the strife is over spare 
 every common man ! Hark ! while I speak, I hear the 
 march of your foe! Up standards !— blow trumpets! 
 And now, as I brace my bassinet, may God grant us all a 
 glorious victory, or a glorious grave. On, my merry men ! 
 show these London loons the stout hearts of Warwickshire 
 and Yorkshire. On, my merry men ! A Warwick ! a 
 Warwick ! " 
 
 As he ended, he swuni, lightly over his head the tenible 
 battle-axe which had smitten down, as the grass before the 
 reaper, the chivalry of many a field ; and ere the last blast 
 of the trumpets died, the troops of Warwick and of 
 Gloucester met, and mingled hand to hand. 
 
 Although the earl had, on discovering the position of the 
 enemy, moved some of his artillery from his right wing, yet 
 there still lay the great number and strength of his force. 
 And, there, therefore, Montagu, rolling iroop on troop to 
 the aid of Oxford, pressed so overpoweungly upon the 
 soldiers under Hastings, that the battle very soon wore a 
 most unfavourable aspect for the Yorkists. It seemed, in- 
 deed, that the success which had always hitherto attended 
 the military movements of Montagu, was destined for a 
 crowning triumph. Stationed, as we have said, in the rear, 
 with his light-armed squires, upon fleet steeds, around him, 
 he moved the springs of the battle with the calm sagacity 
 which at that moment r- chief in either an.iy possessed. 
 Hastings was thoroughly ..t-flanked, and, though his men 
 fought with great valour, they could not resist the weight of 
 superior numbers. 
 
 In the midst of the carnage in the centre, Edward reined 
 in his steed, as he heard the cry of victory in the gale— 
 
KING AND KING MAKER ,09 
 
 Humphrey ,,LliJrbid'h~,^;'fi,J;.h"'' "r''"''' ^" 
 left him; and row ere ,>„r f i7 ^'-■'' *•"" "'«" "e 
 
 chanced Vo"l.d;arirwe t T "'" **=" ''"'"^"''a. hath 
 
 -break Somerl Se on '"' "u' '''""••■"'^"' °"' °"' 
 earl ! " "' ' °"' °"' '° 'he heart of the rebel 
 
 in con plete mai impet "u. o th " °' ""'""^'^ '^'"^ 
 'hey slaughtered a^ry" ode InH^.^""' "' ""= '"'"""y^ 
 by corpses and streims „f W !, I ""^ *"' """'"•■J 
 all. was^dwardtmsef wh°t . """^ ^"^ •■^"^'^' °' 
 drew his knotty ml^e f omt ", \ "f '^'^""^' ""'^ '"^ 
 to all who attemmed to ^,ln h "^ ^""= "''^die-bow, woe 
 hehnet or leaVhefn cap ierT """'• ^''"" "'"«= ^'^-' 
 
 So~ threw"hi::s':'l/Tn"r":r'"t. '" '"" 
 Edward and his cavalrv h, 1 j ^'"^ '"*'•'"" 
 
 lines for his foosoldles'thef T ','^"' "^^^^h the 
 retrieved. It was no r'^iH """ °' ""^ '''"y ""« half 
 
 ■hat he desi d to effec?"^ waTtr^' S'""' ='"'' ^'=^'°^^''- 
 There, rooted in the v ;; Jdlt of '^ '' '" '"' °'"' °' ""• 
 
 army seemed o reel .Lf', ^"'' "'^ """''= of Warwick's 
 
 'hro^hitsii-L tL ;irrid^ '"="'r"'« ^^p 
 
 maelstrom ™""'' '""^ 'hasm in a 
 
 b^i..« comiosed o "knilu and"""'°'^ "' ''"'' «'>"' 
 Knights ana squ.res specially singled 
 
310 
 
 EDWARD IV 
 
 out for the sword, fought with the pride of disdainful gentle- 
 men and the fury of desperate soldiers— finding it impos- 
 sible to lure back the fugitives, hewed their own way ihrougli 
 Oxford's ranks, to the centre, where they brought fresh aid 
 to the terrible arm of Edward. 
 
 The mist still continued so thick that Montagu was un- 
 able to discern the general prospects of the field. But cahn 
 and resolute in his post, amidst the arrows which • 'lirliil 
 round him and often struck, blunted, nj^ainst his Milan 
 mail, the marquis received the reports i! his ^idcs-de camp 
 (may that modern word be i)ardiini;,t ■; as one after one 
 they emerged through the fog to his side. 
 
 " Well," he said, as one of these messengers now spurred 
 to the spot, " we have beaten off Hastings and his liiro- 
 lings ; but I see ot 'the Silver Star' of Lord Oxford's 
 banner." 
 
 " Lord O :iord, my lord, has followed the enemy he 
 routed tj 'he farthest verge of the heath." 
 
 " SairiLS help us ! Is Oxford thus headstrong? He will 
 ruin all if he be decoyed from the field ! Ride back, sir : 
 Yet— hold!" as another of the aides-de-camp appeaad. 
 • What news from Lord Warwick's wing ? " 
 
 "Sore beset, bold marquis. Gloucester's line seems 
 countless ; it already outflanks the earl. The duke hinistU 
 seems inspired by hell ! Twice has his slight arm br.ivcd 
 even the earl's battle-axe, which spared the boy but siiiule 
 to the dust his comrades ! " 
 
 " Well, and what of the centre, sir ? " as a third form now 
 arrived. 
 
 " There rages Edward in person. He hath pierced into 
 the midst. But Somerset still holds on gallantly ! " 
 Montagu turned to the first aide-de camp. 
 "Ride, sir! Quick! This to Oxford — No pursuit I 
 Bid him haste, with all his men, to the left wing, and smite 
 Gloucester in the rear. Ride, ride— for life and victory! 
 If he come but in time, the day is ours ! " 
 
KING WD KINO M.\k|.;k 
 
 21 I 
 
 drawn off our main furcc of callry wchave«in ""' 
 
 .Ke hillock it It ^; i;°':™?rrr "^■^"""'^' 
 
 position, the.lren«th ofXh„!.ll * '', '''' " ''''"''" 
 
 with Gloucester, "he duk.^oonl,''rr" '"""'' """^^"^ 
 
 manteline he wore over his nnil fK» ■ ■ 
 
 -tlingly cf^r- 3 a:V llrl'EA"^'^ '""^ 
 uttering its sharo war rrv "r ™ evermore 
 
 Down liththeTeberdo^nr "'""'" '° "'^ ""^'-S''" 
 But still the untiring might of Warwick Hpfi,.H ,h 
 
EDWARD IV 
 
 Protected from arrow and lance by a coat of steel, the long 
 chaffron or pike which projected from its barbed frontal 
 dropped with gore as it scoured along. No line of men, 
 however serried, could resist the charge of that horse and 
 horseman. And vain even Gloucester's dauntless presence 
 and thrilling battle-cry, when the stout earl was seen loom- 
 ing through the vapour, and his cheerful shout was heard, 
 " My merry men, fight on ! " 
 
 For a third time, Gloucester, spurring forth from his 
 recoiling and shrinking followers, bending low over his 
 saddle-bow, covered by his shield, and with the tenth lance 
 (his favourite weapon, because the one in which skill best 
 supplied strength) he had borne that day, launched himself 
 upon the vast bulk of his tremendous foe. With that 
 dogged energy— that rapid calculation, which made the 
 basis of his character, and which ever clove through all 
 obstacles at the one that, if destroyed, destroyed the rest,— 
 in that, his first great battle, as in his last at Bosworth, he 
 singled out the leader, and rushed upon the giant as the 
 mastiff on the horns and dewlap of the bull. Warwick, in 
 the broad space which his arm had made around him in the 
 carnage, reined in as he saw the foe, and recognised thu 
 grizzly cognizance and scarlet mantle of his godson. And 
 even in that moment, with all his heated blood and his re- 
 membered wrong, and his imminent peril, his generous and 
 lion heart felt a glow of admiration at the valour of the boy 
 he had trained to arms— of the son of the beloved York. 
 " His fit! f - little thought," muttered the earl, " that that 
 arm thoi. '.vin glory against his old friend's life ! " And 
 as the hai.-uttered word died on his lips, the well-poised 
 lance of Gloucester struck full upon his bassinet, and, des- 
 pite the earl's horsemanship and his strength, made him 
 reel in his saddle, while the prince shot by, and sutliknly 
 wheeling round, cast away the shivered lance, and assailed 
 him sword in hand. 
 
 " Back, Richard - boy, back ! " said the earl, in a voice 
 
KING AND KING MAKER 2,3 
 
 that sounded hollow through his helmet-" U i. n , 
 
 thee that my wrongs call fo'r blood-^ats on'" °' "'""' 
 
 the better heard -"On ,i, <; ,j f.' ""^ ""S'" ^le 
 
 me against mine own brother's breast wprH ? u "^ 
 
 barriertoan illustrious future Th^ ^' '''^=''' "^y 
 
 to another ! I smke the a;h.T , ■ ^"™ "^^ ^'"'S'"'^^ 
 
 onandsparenotT-fo he whoh sT'" '"'' '"''^- '"^^ 
 
 J/ 1 ui ueieac. — Ktuti df;fend thv<!i.i p 1 " 
 
 szrd'^is^sriiHr--- 
 
 •he band on either side cle bo Ctd .nTthe^'v'' 
 grew fierce and general But «in V v. ^.' ^ ""''''' 
 
 out the earl and stilMh. , R'-^hard's sword singled 
 
 own upon Lane cd JrusHT '" """' ''^^" ^'^ 
 «e, feU Milwate .0 the ear^h H ^' °"' =*°°P °f "^e 
 
 Parr; and^heserhree ""''', '''"'^'^ '''=" ^'^ Thomas 
 Gloucester nd the earl r^d'T''"' •'' '"""'^^ '^'-■'-- 
 Marmaduke, while the arl «Lr '""1 ""■^'^'^ "J^"" 
 ■he midst o the hostUe hne h 7 """"^' '^''^^^'^ '"'" 
 and left. '"'• "''""'' '''^^""^d to 'he right 
 
EDWARD IV 
 
 
 " On ! my merry men, on ! " rang once more tlirough ilic 
 heavy air. " They give way— the London tailors— on ! " 
 and on dashed, with their joyous cry, the merry men of 
 Yorkshire and Warwick, the warrior-yeomen ! Separated 
 thus from his great foe, Gloucester, after unhorsing Marma- 
 duke, galloped off to sustain that part of his following 
 which began to waver and retreat before the rush of War- 
 wick and his chivalry. 
 
 This, in truth, was the regiment recruited from the 
 loyalty of London, and little accustomed, we trow, were 
 the worthy heroes of Cockaigne to the discipline of arms, 
 nor trained to that stubborn resistance which makes, under 
 skilful leaders, the tj^glish peasants the most enduring 
 soldiery that the world has known since the day when the 
 Roman sentinel perished amidst the falling columns and 
 lava floods, rather than, though society itself dissolved, 
 forsake his post unbidden. "St. Thomas defend us!" 
 muttered a worthy tailor, who, in the flush of his valour, 
 when safe in the Chepe, had consented to bear the rank of 
 lieutenant — "it is not reasonable to expect men of pith 
 and substance to be crushed into jellies, and carved into 
 subtleties by horse-hoofs and pole-uxes. Right about face ! 
 Flyl" — and throwing down his sword and shield, the 
 lieutenant fairly took to his heels as he saw the charging 
 column, headed by the raven steed of Warwick, come giant- 
 like through the fog. The terror of one man is con- 
 tagious, and the I^ondoners actually turned their backs, 
 when Nicholas Alwyn cried, in his shrill voice and northern 
 accent, " Out on you ! What will the girls say of us in 
 Eastgate and the Chepe ?— Hurrah for the bold hearts of 
 London !— Round me, stout 'prentices ! let the boys shame 
 the men 1 This shaft for Cockaigne ! " And as the troop 
 turned irresolute, and Alwyn's arrow left his bow, they saw 
 a horseman by the side of Warwick reel in his saddle and 
 fall at once to the earth, and so great evidently was the 
 rank of the fallen man, that even Warwick reined in, and 
 
KING AND KING MAKER 2,5 
 
 the charge halted midway in its carrnr u 
 
 R.,f tK. u I nurrah for London Town ' " 
 
 hi wT !'"'',;''^/°g' continued still so dense and mirk 
 
 round him were well con te^ ? X,', I u \'°''^' ^""^ "''^f' 
 'he weary slaughter '''^ '''"''"' "^"^ P^"^^ f™™ 
 
 -1? Feebler'i'nTfelV" "' '"'^'''"'^"'" ^ " "^ "'--'^ "° 
 
 here ana berI\hfnofehH ?""'"''"^ " '' «'-'=■ ''"'' 
 *..««./"« ^ °'^ ''"'^ '^■'^"eed into "Gloucester to 
 
2l6 
 
 EDWARD IV 
 
 Farther off rose, mingled and blent together, the oppos- 
 ing shouts— "A Montagu — a Montagu!" — "Strike for 
 D'Eyncourt and King Edward ! " — " A Say — a Say ! " 
 
 " Ha ! " said Edward thoughtfully, " bold Gloucester 
 fails —Montagu is bearing on to Warwick's aid — Say and 
 D'Eyncourt stop his path. Our doom looks dark ! Ride, 
 Hastings — ride ; retrieve thy laurels, and bring up the 
 reserve under Clarence. But harkye, leave not his sidu— 
 he may desert again ! Ho ! ho ! Again, ' Gloucester to 
 the rescue ! ' Ah ! how lustily sounds the cry of ' Warwick'! 
 By the flaming sword of St. Michael we wil: slacken that 
 haughty shout, or be evermore dumb ourself, ere the day 
 be an hour nearer to the eternal judgment ! " 
 
 Deliberately, Edward rebraced his helm, and settled him- 
 self in his saddle, and with his knights riding close each to 
 each, that they might not lose themselves in the darkness, 
 regained his infantry, and led them on to the quarter where 
 the war now raged fiercest, round the black steed of War- 
 wick and the blood-red manteline of the fiery Richard. 
 
 It was now scarcely eight in the morning, though the 
 battle had endured three hours ; and, as yet, victory so 
 inclined to the earl that nought but some dire mischance 
 could turn the scale. Montagu had cut his way to Warwick ; 
 Somerset had re-established his array. The fresh vigour 
 brought by the earl's reserve had well-nigh completed his 
 advantage over Gloucester's wing. The new infantry under 
 Hilyard, the unexhausted riders under Sir John Coniers and 
 his knightly compeers, were dealing fearful havoc, as they 
 cleared the plain ; and Gloucester, fighting inch by inch, no 
 longer outnumbering, but outnumbered, was driven nearer 
 and nearer towards the town, when suddenly a pale, sickly, 
 and ghost-like ray of sunshine, rather resembling the watery 
 gleam of a waning moon than the radiance of the Lord ol 
 Light, broke through the mists, and showed to the earis 
 e.igcr troops the banner and badges of a new array hurry- 
 ing to the spot. " Behold," cried the young Lord Fitihugh, 
 
KING AND KING MAKER 2,7 
 
 -bill and pike lance InHK^: '"'^' ' ^P°" 'hem 
 .hem, and c'otZdayf '""'• '"^' ''"'^ ''°'" ^J'°" 
 
 The same fatal error was shared by HilvarH ,c 
 sight of the advancing troop with their 1 ' "^ "^"S*" 
 He gave the word, and ev^^ylw "ft Sin^'T^K" 
 same moment, as both hor,/»nH T 7 "^f ""8- At the 
 
 fo^the mom;„tary beam L^^hefLrihe'h'^ ''"'''' f 
 two forces mingled in thp <:„M ^ ''^'"'^"' ">« 
 
 con«ic,asuddrandht:btc;T'i^"^' ^ ^^.^ 
 resounded from either band T J , .■'.'^"'■'""-^'■'■''^<'« / " 
 
 returning from the pursut had I eVtl ■ ta1.rfor Ed ^'':.'' 
 cognizance of the sun V,;.„^ mistaKen for Edward's 
 
 and when the error was detected ""V'r^'''"''"^ ^"-"d, 
 had deserted to the oe in ' '.="=\ ''^''^^^d 'he other 
 Warwick, and there Oxford and h'""' "?"' *^°"'='8" ^"^ 
 
 of snow nLt . P°" ^ '°"'"^ '^^' ^""'^'^d his plume 
 
 "I xaasnngs to the on s aught 1 " Fr^sh ,„ j 
 for glory and for blood came on „. ''^'J'' ''"^pantrng 
 reserve: from author,?; T ^'"^ Edward's large 
 
 Yorkist kSts where th '''"'' °' '''' '''<^ 'P'""'" '^^ 
 ^ore, toll t'h'em^tVt-Sr:? trrt:^;'"^" 
 
 2er'D'E7:rt'°and^r--'^^^«--^^^^^^^ 
 sword, and Sav^knotld '"' '""^ ^^'^^'^"'^ "loody 
 
2l8 
 
 EDWARD IV 
 
 helmet bruised and dinted, but the boar's teeth still gnash- 
 ing wrath and horror from the grisly crest. But direst anil 
 most hateful of all in the eyes of the yet undaunted earl, 
 thither, plainly visible, riding scarcely a yard before him, 
 with the cognizance of Clare wrought on his gay mantle, 
 and in all the pomp and bravery of a holiday suit, came the 
 perjured Clarence. Conflict now it could scarce be called : 
 as well might the Dane have rolled back the sea from his 
 footstool as Warwick and his disordered troop (often anil 
 aye dazzled here by Oxford's star, there by Kdward's sun, 
 dealing random blows against each other) have resisted the 
 general whirl and torrent of the surrounding foe. To add 
 to the rout, Somerset and the onguard of his wing had been 
 marching towards the earl at the very time that the cry of 
 " treason " had struck their ears, and Edward's charge was 
 made : these men, nearly all I^ncastrians, and ever doubt- 
 ing Montagu, if not Warwick, with the example of Clarence 
 and the Archbishop of York fresh before them, lost heart 
 at once— Somerset himself headed the flight of his force. 
 
 " All is lost 1 " said Montagu, as side by side with War 
 wick the brothers fronted the foe, and for one moment 
 stayed the rush. 
 
 " Not yet," returned the earl ; " a band of my northern 
 archers still guard yon wood— I know them — they will 
 fight to the last gasp ! Thither, then, with what men we 
 may. You so marshal our soldiers, and I will make good 
 the retreat. Where is Sir Marmaduke Nevile ? " 
 "Here!" 
 
 " Horsed again, young cousin I— I give thee a perilous 
 commission. Take the path down the hill; the mists 
 thicken in the hollows, and may hide thee. Overtake 
 Somerset— he hath fled westward, and tell him, from me, 
 if he can yet rally but one troop of horse— but one— and 
 charge Edward suddenly in the rear, he will yet redeem all. 
 If he refuse, the ruin of his king, and the slaughter of the 
 brave men he deserts, be on his head ! Swift, — d tout hridi. 
 
KING AND KING MAKER 3,9 
 
 As the knight vanished, Warwick turnerl tn K,c 
 
 ,r:e°Se"trk'"t"^,^' "-'■ >---'^-:or :!:- 
 
 Z^iZJ^l^?:^'" "-'« "-"• ^^--g". to th. 
 
 ™-:°Srsr-::^S^---'hrr^.e.n 
 
 ^ "■ iiic lines, ana in serried order rptrpifoH f„ .u 
 outskirts of the wood, Warwick -ind h,, h T r ■ "''' 
 
 he penetrated into the very centre of Fd varH r.'' '"°"'^' 
 literally felhng to the earth a, before h'm th ''"f '' 
 byh,sbatt,e.a.e Lord Cro.welSte' re^ubteTS 
 
 iu:i:^-L!xrz:rirt^^" 
 
 penetrated even to Edward hTn^self' .It !^ '""' ^' 
 ^in,. standard-bearer, unhorsin^Sin^;,':! tt h^™ 
 
 Thus charging and retreating, driving back wfth ^ 
 
EDWARD IV 
 
 charge, farther and farther the mighty multitude hounding 
 on to the lion's death, this great chief and his devoted 
 knights, though terribly reduced in number, succeeded at 
 last in covering Montagu's skilful retreat ; and when they 
 gained the outskirts of the wood, and dashed through the 
 narrow opening between the barricades, the Yorkshire 
 archers approved their lord's trust, and, shouting, as to a 
 marriage feast, hailed his coming. 
 
 But few, alas ! of his fellow-horsemen had survived that 
 marvellous enterprise of valour and despair. Of the fifty 
 knights who had shared its perils, eleven only gained the 
 wood ; and, though in this number the most eminent (save 
 Sir John Coniers, either slain or fled) might be found— 
 their horses, more exposed than themselves, were for the 
 most part wounded and unfit for further service. At this 
 time the sun again, and suddenly as before, broke forth— 
 not now with a feeble glimmer, but a broad and almost a 
 cheerful beam, which sufficed to give a fuller view than the 
 day had yet afforded of the state and prospects of the field. 
 To the right and to the left, what remained of the cavalry 
 of Warwick were seen flying fast — gone the lances of Ox- 
 ford, the bills of Somerset. Exeter, pierced by the shaft of 
 Alwyn, was lying cold and insensible, remote from the 
 contest, and deserted even by his squires. 
 
 In front of the archers, and such men as Montagu had 
 saved from the sword, halted the immense and murmuring 
 multitude of Edward, their thousand banners glittering in 
 the sudden sun ; for, as Edward beheld the last wrecks of 
 his foe, stationed near the covert, his desire of jonsuninia- 
 ting victory and revenge made him cautious, and, fearing 
 an ambush, he had abruptly halted. 
 
 When the scanty followers of the earl thus beheld the 
 immense force arrayed fo" their destruction, and saw the 
 extent of their danger and their loss — here the handful, 
 there the multitude— a simultaneous exclamation of terror 
 and dismay brokt from their ranks. 
 
KING AND KING MAKER j,, 
 
 Ji"* '° '°°' ■'"■ """ "•""•■«'■ "« *. «.,! 
 
 11. old ma ob.,,d „„, H. can,. „„ ,„ „„,:,,, .^ 
 fell on bis knew b«ide his s.i„up "^»icli. and 
 
 " ivf > n ^ answered by a general acclamation 
 "Mark Forester speaks well," said Montagu "n 
 
 »- i : »d .trth.,,?:, Sir. "■ '»'- 
 
 Ivnights and sirs," said the earl H,c~ 
 partially raising his visor as he tu ned to TheT'' "' 
 
 sprang from his steed, Montagu the fir , • f-"' ":."'«'! 
 
 r.d'T^;Htr,ti"r;,r"- 
 
333 
 
 EDWARD IV 
 
 Marmaduke has gone to rally noble Somerset and his 
 riders — if we make good our defence, one little hour— the 
 (oc may be yet smitten in the rear, and the day retrieved ' 
 Courage and heart then ! " Here the earl lifted his visor 
 to the farthest bar, and showed his cheerful face—" Is this 
 the face of a man who thinks all hope is gont ? " 
 
 In this interval, the sudden sunshine revealed to Kin^ 
 Henry, where he stood, the dispersion of his friends. '1 u 
 the rear of the palisades, which protected the spot where 
 he was placed, already grouped the " lookers-on, and no 
 fighters," as the chronicler words it, who, as the guns 
 slackened, ventured forth to learn the news, and who now, 
 filling the churchyard of Hadley, strove hard to catch a 
 peep of Henry the saint, or of Bungey the sorcerer. Min 
 gled with these, gleamed the robes of the tymbestercs, 
 pressing nearer and nearer to the harriers, as wolves, in the 
 instinct of blood, come nearer and nearer round the circliiig 
 watch-fire of some northern travellers. 
 
 The fated king turned his face from the field, and his 
 eyes were fixed upon the tower of the church behind. And 
 while he so gazed, the knoll from the belfry began solemnly 
 to chime. It was now near the hour of the Sabbath 
 prayers, and amidst horror and carnage, still the holy cus- 
 tom was not suspended. 
 
 " Hark !" said the king mournfully — "That chime sum- 
 mons many a soul to God ! " 
 
 While thus the scene on the eminence of Hadley, 
 Edward, surrounded by Hastings, Gloucester, and his 
 principal captains, took advantage of the unexpected sun- 
 shine to scan the foe and its position, with the eye of his 
 intuitive genius for all that can slaughter man. "This 
 day," he said, " brings no victory, assures no crown, if War- 
 wick escape alive. To you, Lovell and Ratcliffe, I intrust 
 two hundred knights ; your sole care— the head of the rebel 
 earl!" 
 
 " And Montagu ? " said Ratcliffe. 
 
KING AND KING MAKER j^^ 
 
 .0 himself; Mnc^ew"^°H' ""''.^'""'='8"-" he muttered 
 Kive I S, an. ,h ""'"8'=''- ""d therefore him I can for- 
 
 And a few minutes afterwards Warwiclr n„^ k- 
 •wo parties of horse leave the mairh^ r """ '"* 
 
 hand, one the left-foMowed by on^^Tr ^"' "'"= "S"" 
 wh,ch they protected and th. K * ^'="«=hments of pikes, 
 
 ^.ow,, an/sladi,;l\rarrh t:S7cL^"r dT^''' 
 
 not been idleTth: L .^h "'^" ""'' *"' ''™"'" had 
 greater P<^^ S^'^^Z^Zf'^''' '^' P'-'«'' '"e 
 
 men c meon wLwi.r?"""'' '"" "'""""Vinous deaths- 
 fcnther on h,"' S rest dZ'"? d" 'V'°"' ""' °- 
 mounted, his visor shf f u °' '''°'"' ''°°^- dis- 
 
 son,e of^h':^„rh:d"b;wati^k•stdr°""^ r'^- 
 
 mail from the destrier', 7,.;.!^ u amoved the 
 
 lieved from the weShLseer^rd ' " '^' "°^'' ■>"'"""• ^'^- 
 save where the rh^„, fT *' ""^''''austed as its rider; 
 
 ''.de,notahatwastred /.'' '^'P'^^'"^'' '^ 8'°W 
 ists heard its firrvsnn? ' ""J^ """ ""'^""^ "' ""e Vork 
 figure of horse Indhn/' "'^>'™°^-d ^-'owly on. This 
 amidst the h le band fT;* ''°°^ P^^'inently forth. 
 
 side, wl!ie d J''Be;hrew meT"' m'"« ''^ ^'"^"""^'^ 
 W'd had asked fnV ^' ^ *°'"'* ""her King Ed- 
 
 earl's 1" ^ ^°' """' °"" head, than that gfllant 
 
224 
 
 EDWARD rV 
 
 "Tush, youth," said the inexorable RatcliHc— "I "re 
 not by wliat steps tlic ladder of mine ambition may 1)0 
 
 made ! " 
 
 While they were thus speaking, Warwick, turnuig to 
 Montagu and his knights, said— 
 
 " Our sole hope is in the courage of our men. And, as 
 at Touton, when I gave the throne to yon false man, I 
 slew, with my own hand, my noble Maloch, to show that 
 on that spot 1 would win or die, and by that sacrifice so 
 fired the soldiers that we turned the day— so now -oh, 
 gentlemen, in another hour ye would jeer me, for my hand 
 fails : this hand that the poor beast hath so often fed from '. 
 Saladin, last of thy race, serve me now in death as m life. 
 Not for my sake, oh noblest steed that ever bore a knight- 
 not for mine this offering 1 " ■ i 
 He kissed the destrier on his frontal, and Saladm, as if 
 conscious of the coming blow, bent his proud crest humbly, 
 and licked his lord's steel-clad hand. So associated to 
 gether had \xcn horse and horseman, that had it been a 
 human sacrifice, the bystanders could not have been more- 
 moved. And when, covering the charger's eyes with one 
 hand, the earl's dagger descended, bright and rapid -a 
 groan went through the ranks. But the effect was unspealc 
 able ! The men knew at once that to them, and ihuni 
 alone, their lord entrusted his fortunes and his life— the) 
 were nerved to more than mortal daring. No escape for 
 Warwick- why, then, in Warwick's person they lived and 
 died ! Upon foe as upon friend, the sacrifice produced all 
 that could tend to strengthen the last refuge of despair. 
 Even Edward, where he rode in the van, beheld and knew 
 the meaning of the deed. Victorious Touton rushed back 
 upon his memory with a thrill of strange terror and re- 
 morse. . , 
 " He will die as he has lived," said Gloucester, with ad- 
 miration. " If I live for such a field, God grant me such a 
 death!" 
 
KING AND KING MAKER 3,5 
 
 A. the words left the duke's lip,, ,nd Warwick, one foot 
 on his dumb fri.nds corpse, gave the mandate, a murderous 
 dibcharj-e fro„i th. archers in the covert, rattled against the 
 hneuf the \orkists, and the foe. still advancing, stepped 
 over a hundred corpses to the conflict. Despite the vast 
 nrci, nc.cr-.nce of numbers, the skill of Warwick's archer^ 
 the strenKth of his position, the obstacle to the cav.lry 
 M.ade by tlu barricades, rendered the attack perilous in tl,o 
 extreme. I ut ,he orders of Kd,var<l were prompt ar.d 
 vigorous. He cared not for the w«,e of life, and ,s on. 
 rank fell, another rushed on. High before the lummdrs 
 stood Montagu, Warwick, and the rest of that indMnituUe 
 chivalry, the Hower of the ancient Norman he,o,.,n. As 
 .dly beat the waves upon a rock as the ranks of lvi«:ml 
 upon that serned from of steel. The sun still shuiu- in 
 heaven, and still Kdwards conquest was unassured. Na. 
 If .Marmaduke could yet bring back the troops of Somerset 
 upon the rear of the foe, Montagu and the earl fdt that the 
 victory n,,ght be for then,. And often the earl paused, .0 
 ear en for the cry of " Somerset " on the gale, ami often 
 Montagu raised h,s visor to look for the banners and the 
 spc-ars of the Lancastrian duke. And ever, as the earl lis 
 tened and Montagu scanned the field, larger and larger 
 seemed to spread the armament of Edward. The regiment 
 which boasted the stubborn energy of Alwyn was now ,n 
 movement and encouraged by the young .Saxons hardi- 
 hood, the Londoners marched on, unawed by the massacre 
 of their predecessors. But Alwyn, av„i<ling the quarter de- 
 fcmled by the knights, defiled a litde towards the left 
 where his quick eye, inured to the northern fogs, had de- 
 tected the weakness of the barricade in the spot where Hil- 
 yard was stationed; and this pa.ss Alwyn (discarding the 
 bow) resolved to attempt at the [ -int of the pike— the 
 weapon answering to our modern bayonet. Ihe first rush 
 Which he headed was so impetuous as to effect an entry 
 Ihe weight of the numbers behind urged on the foremost 
 
226 
 
 EDWARD IV 
 
 and Hilyard had not sufficient space for the sweep of th ; 
 two-handed sword which had done good work that day. 
 While here the conflict became fierce and doubtful, the 
 right wing led by D'Eyncourt had pierced the wood, and, 
 surprised to discover no ambush, fell upon the archers in 
 the rear. The scene was now inexpressibly terrific ; cries 
 and groans, and the ineffable roar and yell of human 
 passion resounded demon-like through the shade of the 
 leafless trees. And at this moment, the provident and 
 rapid generalship of Edward had moved up one of his 
 heavy bombards. Warwick and Montagu, and most of the 
 knights, were called from the barricades to aid the archers 
 thus assailed behind, but an instant before that defence was 
 shattered into air by the explosion of the bombard. In 
 another minute horse and foot rushed through the opening. 
 And amidst all the din was heard the voice of Edv/ard, 
 " Strike ! and spare not ; we win the day ! " " We win the 
 day ! — victory ! — victory ! " repeated the troops behind ; 
 rank caught the sound from rank — and file from " -it 
 reached the captive Henry, and he paused in prayc ; it 
 reached the ruthless friar, and he gave the sign to the hire 
 ling at his shoulder ; it reached the priest as he entered, un 
 moved, the church of Hadley. And the bell, changing its 
 note into a quicker and sweeter chime, invited the living to 
 prepare for death, and the soul to rise above the cruelty, and 
 the falsehood, and the pleasure, and the pomp, and the 
 wisdom, and the glory of the world ! And suddenly, as the 
 chime ceased, there was heard, from the eminence hard by, 
 a shriek of agony — a female shriek — drowned by the riiin 
 of a bombard in the field below. 
 
 On pressed the Yorkists through the pass forced by 
 Alwyn. 
 
 "Yield thee, stout fellow," said the bold trader to Hil 
 yard, whose dogged energy, resembling his own, moved his 
 admiration, and in whom, by the accent in which Robin 
 called his men, he recognised a north countryman :— 
 
KING AND KING MAKER 227 
 
 "Yield, and I will see that thou goest safe in life and limb 
 —look round— ye are beaten." 
 
 " Fool ! " answered Hilyard, setting his teeth-" the Peo- 
 pie are never beaten ! " 
 
 And as the words left his lips, the shot from the recharged 
 bombard shattered him piecemeal. 
 
 "On for London and the crown I" cried Alwyn— "the 
 citizens are the people ! " 
 
 R,f r'i^'' ""!!• !'"'°"^'' "'^ general crowd of the Yorkists, 
 Ratcliffe, and Lovell, at the head of their appointed 
 knights, galloped forward to accomplish their crowning 
 mission. ° 
 
 Behind the column which still commemorates "the great 
 battle of that day, stretches now a trilateral patch of 
 pasture land, which faces a small house. At that time this 
 ^pace wa. rough forest ground, and where now, in the 
 hedge, rise two small trees, types of the diminutive offspring 
 of our niggard and ignoble civilisation, rose then two huee 
 oaks, coeval with the warriors of the Norman Conquest. 
 They grew close together, yet, though their roots interlaced 
 -though their branches mingled, one had not taken nour 
 .shment from the other. They stood, eiiual in height and 
 grandeur, the twin giants of the wood. Before these trees 
 whose ample trunks protected them from the falchions in 
 the rear, Warwick and Montagu took their last post In 
 ront rose, literally, mounds of the slain, whether of foe or 
 friend ; for round the two brothers to the last had gathered 
 the brunt of war, and they towered now, almost solitary in 
 valours sublime despair, amidst the wrecks of battle and 
 ag.-imst the irresistible march of fate. As side by side' they 
 had gained this spot, and the vulgar assailants drew back 
 leaving the bodies of the dead their last defence from' 
 death, they turned their visors to each other, as for one 
 latest farewell on earth. 
 
 "Forgive me, Richard," said Montairu-" for,;ive me 
 thy death i-had I not so blindly believe! in Claix„Le's 
 
228 
 
 EDWARD IV 
 
 fatal order, the savage Edward had never passed alive 
 through the pass of Pontefract." 
 
 " Blame not thyself," replied Warwick. " We are but 
 the instruments of a wiser Will. God assoil thee, brother 
 mine. We leave this world to tyranny and vice. Christ 
 receive our souls ! " 
 
 For a moment their hands clasped, and then all was 
 grim silence. 
 
 Wide and far, behind and before, in the gleam of the 
 sun, stretched the victorious armament, and that breathing- 
 pause sufficed to show the grandeur of their resistance — the 
 grandest of all spectacles, even in its hopeless extremity - 
 the defiance of brave hearts to the brute force of the M.m 
 Where they stood they were visible to thou-sands, but not 
 a man stirred against them. The memory of Warwick's 
 past achievements —the consciousness iirf r i Seats tSsat da\ 
 — all the splendour of his fortunes and his name, macli 
 the mean fear to strike, and the brave ashamj^d to nuir»; ; 
 The gallant D'Eyncourt sprung from his steed, and aii 
 vanccd to the spot. His followers did the same. 
 
 "Yield, my lords— yield ! Ye have done all th.it nun 
 could do." 
 
 " Yield, Montagu," whispered Warwick. " Edward ran 
 harm not thee. Life has sweets ; so they s.iy, at least." 
 
 "Not with power and glory gone We yield not. Sir 
 Knight," answered the marquis, m a calm tone. 
 
 " Then die, and make room for the new men whom y<- 
 so have scorned ! " exclaimed a fierce voice, and Ratclifff. 
 who had neared the spot, dismounted, and hallooed on hi^ 
 bloodhounds. 
 
 Seven points might the shadow have traversed on tin 
 dial, and, before Warwick's axe and Montagu's sworil 
 seven souls had gone to judgment. In that brief crisi-. 
 amidst the general torpor and stupefaction and awe of the 
 bystanders, round one little spot centred still a war 
 
 But numbers rushed on numbers, as the fury of conflict 
 
EP • " ! r (B 
 
KING AND KING MAKER 229 
 
 urged on tbe lukewarin \jt . 
 
 -^Varwick cove rd™m ^tlT T, ''=""" '" "^^ ''"«« 
 resoun<led on theearltTtrl ^■~'' '''^"'^""^ '-"«=« 
 
 .lea„,ed round .heToL^'T "? l^.^r ^-'^^'f '"^^^ 
 cry was heard •—over fl,„ , '""^'"ss .-a si,wjltar«ous 
 
 .-s into the shadow of :h"-^f ''r''""' '^"""^^ "''■ 
 
 fallen foes ,n .iln t '' ^LT l"'"'' :~P'=»eci the 
 -th h,s own hanT:he earl's rw';""-'- '" ""'^"''•^'^ 
 moment by the air ZT ■ '^""""^ f""" » 
 
 n>oved,heLsed,:,^rret:re«::rth:""^''; "r ""^ 
 
 and the armed crowd r>^niZ ^'''•' '"""^axe, 
 
 soul, d,n,ly conscourand aT , '" '""'" ""' '"*= ^^^''^ 
 
 - -e^r stn^n-rtttloXraTrd '""^ 
 geance— to more I'^ml,. •'"'^ ^en- 
 
 -e.e,ast.o:r:n=^Ll^-^---- 
 
 ■Anml-A^nt'l^.ar'^r^rd'''^ ^ '"'^'""«'^- 
 w..'. these words the Z^l^^^^i^j;;': " ''"' 
 .ts mother earth-the lace set ZJ , "™"'>' °" 
 
 face of a soldier should J'^.^f, "av"^:""' " *^ 
 worthr of a brave life. ''''^'- "*=^'' ''»' l^- 
 
 "So," muttered the Hart ^„^ 
 conscious of the throng " "'r'"^' '^'""^<=^"^'. ""■ 
 
 And overthisd>ad ; 't'ma'l':" 'r^ ^r """"'^ "' ''""■ 
 Happy, i,encef„rth, " l^^'ca^ !,: "" ""^ ?'^''^ ''^'^"• 
 fawn, and smile'" w < , '^ ' '""^ scheme, and 
 
 ;'-p.endi:dL,mir!a::'^;ir:ir'""r^^^'^ 
 
 have been r,.,„r u . , ' ^*" reproof, -" Ye 
 
 Hc«se Of YoTis Stv ^'^'^''\""'' «<^-'-- The 
 "ol- foes Sound ^^ ^ ?""«'' '° have spared such 
 rnv T ■;,° ""1 '^"'I'ets ! Fall ,„ file! VVav there 
 "»> • i^mg I.dward co„,es ! Long live the KiJ'i " 
 
 -Lord I-vtton, /,„/„/ ^^^ ^^^^^^^ 
 
XVIII 
 
 The Young Princes 
 
 Scene. — London. A Room in the Palare. 
 
 Enler the Archbishop of York, the young Duke of York, 
 Queen Elizabeth, and the Duchess of Vokk. 
 
 yj RCH. Last night, I hear, they lay at Northamptuii , 
 ■^ At Stony-Stratford will they be to-night : 
 To-morrow, or next day, they will be here. 
 
 Duch. I long with all my heart to s<e the prince : 
 I hope he is much grown since last I saw him. 
 
 Q. Eliz. But I hear, no ; they say my son of York 
 Hath almost overta'en him in his growth. 
 
 York. Ay, mother ; but I would not have it so. 
 
 Duck. Why, my young cousin, it is good to grow. 
 
 York. Grandam, one night, as we did sit at supper, 
 My uncle Rivers talked how I did grow 
 More than my brother : " Ay," quoth my uncle Closter, 
 " Small herbs have grace, great weeds do grow .ipace : " 
 And since, methinks, I would not grow so fast. 
 Because .sweet flowers are slow, and weeds make haste. 
 
 Duch. Good faith, good faith, the saying did not hiiUl 
 In him that did object the same to thee : 
 He was the wretched'st thing when he was ; oung. 
 So long a-growing and so leisurely. 
 That, if his rule were true, he should be gracious. 
 
 Arch. Why, madam, so, no doubt, he is. 
 
 Duch. I hope lie is ; Init yet let mothers doubt. 
 
 York. Now, by my troth, if I had been remeniberi-i! 
 
THE YOUNG PRINCES 
 
 2?,I 
 
 York. 
 Duch. 
 
 York. 
 
 I could have given my uncle's grace a flout, 
 Tojouch h,s growth nearer than he .ouchei n,ine. 
 
 Zk M ' "^l P''">' ^°'''' J P'i'hee, let me hear it 
 
 Thawte co^r* "'' "^ ""^ """^'^ «->^ ^° f''^' 
 1 hat he could gnaw a crust at two hours old • 
 
 i was full two years ere I could get a too°h 
 <.randam, this would have been a biting jest 
 O-^h. I pnthee, pretty York, who told thee this ? 
 Ijrandam, his nurse. 
 ^His nurse, why, she was dead ere thou wert 
 
 O Fli. " 'T'\ "°' f''"' ^ °"'"" '«» «ho told me 
 
 Arfk at!"'T ^"J ^ -«" '°- ^"" -^ '0° ^hr-d. 
 
 G A//, plh T' "" "°' -^"^^ ^^''^ '''^ ^hild. 
 (,/. £//.. 1 itchers have ears. 
 
 AnA. Here comes a messenger. 
 
 £tibr a Messenger. 
 
 y. /;//:. How doth the prince = 
 
 health. ^^'•"' ■"^'^^"•. ''"d in 
 
 ^wA. VVhat is thy news then? 
 
 ^«^/i. Who hath committed ihem ? 
 
 Gloster and Buckingham ^'"^ '"'S^'y Dukes 
 
 Q.Eliz. r- u 
 
 J/,cr TK„ r „ , ""■ "''»' offence ? 
 
 Wh r ! '"'" °^''" ^ =""• I have disclosed • 
 h orf „hat these nobles were committed ' 
 
 is all unknown to me, my gracious lady. 
 
 Th. , '^^'"''' ^ ^^^ "'« ''''^"'■a" of our house 1 
 
 The ,ger now hath seized the gentle hind ; 
 In^ultuig tyranny begins to jet 
 
232 
 
 EDWARD V 
 
 Upon the innocent and awclcss throne : — 
 Welcome, destruction, blood, and massaCK I 
 I see, as in a map, the end of 'll. 
 
 Duch. Accursed and unquiet wrai^gling ilays. 
 How many of you have mint eyes beheld ! 
 My husband lost his life to get the crown ; 
 And often up and down ray sons were tossed. 
 For me to joy and weep tl .;ain and loss : 
 And being seated, and dinnestic broils 
 Clean over-blown, thtm 'ves the cowiucrors. 
 Make war upon themse!\es ; brother to broth* r, 
 Blood to blood, self against self : O, preixvsterous 
 And frantic outrage, end thy damned spleen ; 
 Or let me die, to look on death no rmve ! 
 
 Q F.liz. Come, come, my boy ; we will to sanctuary. — 
 Madam, farewell. 
 
 Duch Stay, I will go with you. 
 
 Q. Eliz. You have no cause. 
 
 Arch. My gracious lady, go ; 
 
 .\nd thither boar your treasure and your goods. 
 For my part, I'll resign unto your grace 
 The seal 1 keep ; ai>d so Ix-'tide to me 
 As well I tender you and all of yours I 
 Come, I'll conduct you to the sanctuary. \ExeuHl. 
 
 Scene. — London. A Street. 
 
 The tmmftti sound. Enter tlu young Prince, the Dtika of 
 CiLOSTKR and Buckingham, Cardinal Bolkciiii.u, 
 Catesbv, and others. 
 
 Buck. Welcome, sweet prince, to London, to your cham- 
 ber. 
 
 Glo. Welcome, dear cousin, my thoughts' sovereign : 
 The weary way liath made you melancholy. 
 
 rrince. No, uncle ; but our crosses on the way 
 Have made it tedious, wearisome, and heavy : 
 
THE YOUNG PRINCHS 
 
 333 
 
 I want more uncles here to welcome me. 
 
 Nor more can you distinguish of a man ' 
 Ihan of h,s outward show, which. God he know^ 
 Wdon, or never jumpeth with th^ he.-.rt ^ 
 
 I hose uncles which you want were dangerous 
 Vour grace attended to their sugared wo'rd^ ' 
 But looked not on the poison of their hear, . 
 
 It" 'co'IT '"^'V' ^™"' '"^' '»'- f-nds , 
 
 none " ""^ '"'" ""'^ '^'-''^ ' "ut they were 
 
 C/". My Lord, the mayor of London comes ,0 greet you. 
 ^'"■"- '*' ^-'/ ^/«.«.. «,</ ,},> ,,„■„. 
 
 HHought my .^l^^^^l^^'Zj^^^ '^^^ >- ^"■ 
 «ould long ere this have met us on the way • 
 F. what a slug is Hastings, that he come not 
 To tell us whether they will come or no 1 
 ^-^. And, in good time, here comes the sweating lord. 
 £»/er Lord H,\STiN(;.s 
 
 -"^Ki™;i^— ir- 
 m. ot he-s ! Lord rardmal, will your orace 
 Persuade the queen .0 send the Duk of Yo k 
 Lmoh.sprmcely brother presently.? 
 I s^.e deny. -Lord Hastings, go with him 
 And from her jealous arms pluck him pe Lee 
 
334 
 
 EDWARD V 
 
 Card. My Lord of Buckingham, if my weak oratory 
 Can from his mother win the Duke of York, 
 Expect him here ; but if she be obdurate 
 To mild entreaties, God in heaven forbid 
 We should infringe the holy privilege 
 Of blessed sanctuary ! not for all this land 
 Would I be guilty of so deep a sin. 
 
 Buck. You are too senseless-obstinate, my lord, 
 Too ceremonious and traditional : 
 Weigh it but with the grossness of this age, 
 You break not sanctuary in seizing him. 
 The benefit thereof is always granted 
 To those whose dealings have deserved the place. 
 And those who have the wit to claim the place ; 
 This prince hath neither claimed it nor deserved it ; 
 Therefore, in mine opinion, cannot have it : 
 Then, taking him from thence that is not there, 
 You break no privilege nor charter there. 
 Oft have I heard of sanctuary men ; 
 But sanctuary children ne'er till now. 
 
 Card. My lord, you shall o'errulc my mind for once. 
 Conic on, Lord Hastings, will you go with me ? 
 Ihst. I go, my lord. 
 
 Prince. Good lords, make all the speedy haste you may. 
 \ExeuiU Cardinal and HAsu.M.a. 
 Say, uncle Gloster, if our brother come. 
 Where shall we sojourn till our corojiation ? 
 
 Glo. Where it seems best unto your royal self. 
 If I may counsel you, some day or two 
 Your highness shall repose you at the Tower ; 
 Then where you please anl shall be thought most fit 
 Kor your best health and recreation. 
 
 Prince. I do not like the Tower, of any place. 
 Did Julius Caesar build that place, my lord ? 
 
 Bud. He did, my gracious lord, begin that place; 
 Which, since, succeeding ages have re-editied. 
 
THE YOUNG PRI.VCES 
 
 ajj 
 
 Pnicf. Is it upon record, or else rr,«,rtert 
 
 A^ 'were reta led to all posterity *" 
 
 tv'en to the gcncrnl all-ending dly 
 
 «/". MW.] So wise ,o young, they say, do ne'er live 
 A/'w. What say you, uncle? 
 
 I morali/e two meanings in one word 
 
 IV .,''"'u' '''•"" J"''"' ^•'=»»' wa^ i" famous man • 
 " i.h what his valour did enrich his wit" "' 
 
 H,sw„ set down to make his valour live: 
 Je.lh makes no conquest of this .„nc|ueror ■ 
 
 or now he hves in fame, though not !n,ife.L 
 III . you w|,at, my .ousin Buckingham.- 
 A/rf. U hat, my gracious lord? 
 'r„u-,. An if Hive until I he a man, 
 
 II «;in our ancient right in Franc, agi, 
 Or d,e a soldier, as I lived a king. ^ ' 
 
 f;J^i «'- summers lightly ,.ave a forward 
 
 Bxck. No., in good time, here comes the Uuke of 
 
 j;o..ehed!;i'r':;ig^rCe^5:H::-r 
 
 "h^ch by h,s death hath lost much maje:;* 
 
 S. Z T °'" ""^'"' "-""^ Lord of York ? 
 ;i '"'^"'' you, gentle uncle. O, my lord. 
 
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 EDWARD V 
 
 York. 
 Gh. 
 York. 
 Glo. 
 
 You said that idle weeds are fast in growth : 
 The prince my brother liath outgrown me far. 
 Glo. He hath, my lord. 
 
 And therefore is he idle ? 
 O, my fair cousin, I must not say so. 
 
 Then is he more beholding to you than I. 
 He may command me as my sovereign ; 
 But you have power in me as in a kinsman. 
 York. I pray you, uncle, give me this dagger. 
 Glo. My dagger, little cousin ? with all my heart. 
 Prince. A beggar, brother? 
 York. Of my kind uncle, that I know will give ; 
 Being but a toy, which is no grief to give. 
 
 Glo. A greater gift than that I'll give my cousin. 
 York. A greater gift I O, that's the sword to it. 
 Glo. Ay, gentle cousin, were it light enough. 
 York. O, then, I see, you'll part but with light gifts ; 
 In weightier things you'll say a beggar nay. 
 Glo. It is too heavy for your grace to wear. 
 York. I weigh it liglitly, were it heavier. 
 Glo. What, would you have my weapon, little lord ? 
 York. I would, that I might thank you as you call me 
 Glo. How ? 
 York. Little. 
 
 Prince. My Lord of York will stili be cross m talk ; 
 Uncle, your grace knows how to bear with him. 
 
 York. You mean, to bear me, not to bear with me : 
 Uncle, my brother mocks both you and me : 
 Because that I am little, like an ape. 
 He thinks that you should bear me on your shoulders. 
 Buck. [Aside to Hastings.] With what a sharp provided 
 wit he reasons ! 
 To mitigate the scorn he gives his uncle, 
 He prettily and aptly taunts himself : 
 So cunning and so young is wonderful. 
 
 Glo. My lord, will 't please you pass along ! 
 
THE YOUNG PRIXCES 
 
 Myselfand my good cousin Buckingham 
 
 «.v.,;:ir.i£';!--' •'■•■'■"■■"■ 
 
 ,''"'■. I f^=" no uncles dead. 
 ^Z'^- Nor none that hve, I hope. 
 
 •^'"■'5. Think you mv inrH .i ■ >■ , """'('atksi;v. 
 
 ;!;asnotineensedV.rsS;S'^'^"'''«^--^ 
 
 rojaunt and .corn you thus opproislyp 
 ^'o. No doubt, no douiit ■ V> -,■ ^ 
 
 «old. quicic. ingenious, ttVd,'^aabr'°" "°>' ^ 
 
 •n>ou Vt swl^'a ^ ;;V:|;^r '■""^^' ^^'^'-^y- 
 ■^-^-oselytoconcearC.SS'.'"'"'^"'' 
 hou know'st our reasons urged uoon th 
 
 --.instaSt^;L^-sfr-"H 
 
 *'"*■ What thint' I ^ ^S'""'' l^'™- 
 "''^Z:- Well th.n Hastmgs doth. 
 
 237 
 
238 
 
 EDWARD V 
 
 How he doth stand affected to our purpose ; 
 And summon him to-morrow to the lower, 
 To sit about the coronation. 
 If thou dost find him tractable to us, 
 Encourage him, and show him all our reasons ; 
 If he be leaden, icy-cold, unwilling, ^ 
 
 Be thou so too ; and so break off your ta..c, 
 And give us notice of his inclination : 
 For we to morrow hold divided councils. 
 Wherein thyself shalt highly be employed. 
 
 Gh. Commend me to Lord William : leli him, Catesbj, 
 His ancient knot of dangerous adversaries 
 To-morrow are let blood at Pomfret Castle ; 
 And bid my friend, for joy of this good news. 
 Give Mistress Shore one gentle kiss the more. 
 
 Buck. Good Catesby, go, effect this busmess soundly 
 Cate My good lords both, with all the heed I can. 
 Gh. Shall we hear from you. Catesby, ere we sleep ? 
 Cate. You shall, my lord. 
 Glo. At Crosby Place, there shall you fil^;;^''^^^-^^^^. 
 
 Buck. Now, my lord, what shall we do, if we perceive 
 Lord Hastings will not yield to our complots ? 
 
 Gh Chop off his head, man-somewhat we will do .- 
 .\nd, look, when 1 am king, claim thou of me 
 The earldom of Hereford, and the mov.-bles 
 Whereof the king my brother stood possessed.^ 
 
 Buck I'll claim that promise at your grace s hands. 
 
 Gh And look to have it yielded with all kindness. 
 Come, let us sup betimes, that afterwards 
 We may digest our complots in some form. L^^" 
 
 Scene.— yl Room in the Palace. 
 Enter Tvkrel. 
 Tyr The tyrannous and bloody deed is done,- 
 The most arch act of piteous massacre 
 
THE YOUNG I'KlXCliS 
 
 Thai ever yet this land was guilty of. 
 n.shton and Forrest, whom I did suborn 
 lo do this ruthless piece of butchery, 
 Although they were fleshed villains, bloody do.s 
 1 clfng with tenderness and kind compassion 
 Vepfke two children in their deaths'^sad story. 
 
 "Thus th s"" -"^1"°"' "'^' "°" '^^"'^-^ '"'- " = 
 U-Ihinth. '• '' ^'""'''' "girdling one another 
 n.thm their innocent alabaster arms : 
 
 heir lips were four red roses on a stalk, 
 
 Whilst Dighton thus told on: "We smothered 
 rhe most replenished sweet work of nature 
 I hat from the prime creation e'er she framed." 
 Hence both are gone with conscience and remorse ; 
 They could not speak ; and so I left them both, 
 To brmg this tidings to the bloody king — 
 And here he comes. 
 
 ^afer King Richard. 
 
 K Rirh V AT^ ^" ''"'''"'• '"J' sovereign liege ! 
 K.Ruh K„,d Tyrrei, am I happy in thy news f 
 iy. If to have done the thing you gave in chirrr^ 
 
 Beget your happiness, be happy then ^' 
 
 tor it is done. 
 
 ^ "^"t ..•. ^"^ '^''^" "'°" =«^ 'hem dead ? 
 Tyr. I did, my lord. 
 
 p r I he chaplain of the Tower lia.h buried them ■ 
 But where, to s.iy the truth, I do not know 
 
 -\\1LL1A.\I SHAKKSPtARE, King Kuhard III. 
 
 239 
 
XIX 
 
 The end of the 
 Plan' ^enets 
 
 AFTER a long series of civil dissension— after main 
 battles, whoso issue invol«:d the fate of thousand,-, 
 after the destruction of nearly all the linghsh nobility .;i 
 the contest between the two Roses, the decisive battle ol 
 Bosworth Field was fought on the 22 nd of August, 1415 
 whose result was to entwine, as it was called, the white anl 
 red symbols of rivalship, and to restore peace to this uii 
 happy country. 
 
 The day had been sunny and warm : as the evcnin;; 
 closed in a west wind rose, bringing along troops of fl.Lry 
 clouds, golden at sunset, and then dun and grey, veilmt; 
 with pervious networK the many stars. Three horsemen r,t 
 this hour passed through the open country between Hiii. k- 
 ley and Welford in Leicestershire. It was broad day who 
 they descended from the elevation on which the former 
 stands, and the villagers crowded to ga.e upon the fugitive. 
 and to guess, from the ensigns they bore, to which party ih. 
 belonged, while the warders from the near castle hastened 
 out to stop them, thus to carry favour with the conqueror, 
 a design wholly baffled. The good steeds of the kn.gh s- 
 for such their golden spurs attested them to be-bore h. 
 fast and far along the Roman road, which still exists m 
 those parts to shame our modern builders. It was dusk 
 when, turning from the direct route to avoid entering \U- 
 -ord. they reached a ford of the Avon. Hitherto siknc. 
 
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 l-et us name some rendezvous where, if we esca,, v ' 
 
 ...dins -.,, „,„ ,4„ ; „,;?';„";°'"- " ' "~"' ■» 
 
 Low f r the Eirf of Ith '" 'h'"' "r'^^^' "" "^ 1'— ^ 
 r ti.e i.arl of Richmond is inclined to mcrcv " 
 
 I knew the Earl when a mere youth, Sir Humphrey 
 
242 
 
 RICHARD III 
 
 Stafford," said the foremost rider, " and heard more of him 
 when I visited Brittany, at the time of King Louis' death, 
 two years ago. Wlien mercy knocks at his heart, suspicion 
 and avarice give her a rough reception. We must fly 
 beyond sea, unless we can make further stand. More of 
 this when we meet again. Where shall that be ? " 
 
 " I have many friends near Colchester," re,.!ied the eUkr 
 Stafford, "and St. Mary boasts nn asylum there which .1 
 crowned head would not dare violate. Thence, if all else 
 fail, we can pass with ease to the Low Countries." 
 
 " In sanctuary at Colchester— I n'M not fail you. God 
 bless and preserve you the while ! " 
 
 The noble, as he said these words, put spurs to his horse, 
 and without looking back crossed the stream, and turning 
 on the skirts of a copse was soon out of sight of his com- 
 panions. He rode all night, cheering his steed with hand 
 and voice ; looking angrily at the early dawning east, whii :li 
 soon cast from her cloudless brow the dimness of night 
 Yet the morning air was grateful to his heated cheeks. It 
 was a perfect summer's morn. The wheat, golden from ripe- 
 ness, swayed gracefully to the light breeze; the slender 
 oaks shook their small bells in the air with ceaseless 
 motion ; the birds twittering, alighted from the fulllcaved 
 crees, scattering dew-drops from the branches. With 'he 
 earliest dawn the cavalier entered a forest, traversing its 
 depths with the hesitation of one unacijuainted with the 
 country, and looked freiiuently at the sky, to be directed 
 by the position of the glowing eist. A path more worn 
 than the one he had hitherto followed now presented itself, 
 leading into the heart of the wood. He hesitated for a few 
 seconds, and then, with a word of cheer to his horse, pur- 
 sued his way "ito the embowering thicket. After a short 
 space the path narrowed, the meeting branches of the trocs 
 impeded him, and the sudden angle it made from tlie 
 course he wished to follow ser- 'd to peri)le.v him still lur 
 ther; but as he vented his impatience by hearty Catholic 
 
THE EXD OF THE PL^VXTACEXETS .43 
 
 service a. it. al.a " "^he hi t o^t 1 '"""'" ''" '"'"" 
 
 own heart, for he had not ta^.,.,1 f? 1 "- "^"^ 
 
 the previous day The,, "'"' ""= """"'"8 "f 
 
 refreshment and re .ose h1 ■ '"'■•"' '"'"'"^ "f 
 
 -Mhenthro.;^:„.,S?~,"-|^in^;;^n..,. 
 
 a near adjoining hm s ood i„ th \" "■""■-' ^'''^'"^' ^'"^ 
 emblems of peafe and security "' "' "" "^'^^"• 
 
 I he cavalier tied his horse to a tree ,nH . . , 
 chapel. A venerable Mri,.=, _, ' "^ entered the 
 
 one old worn „ colo "d 7/ "'""« "" "'■^''" '-^^ ^ 
 d.lige„tly employed S MS^'-l-he T"', t'"^ ^'^-^ 
 the ne«ly risen sun streamed through ,h '^ "^' °' 
 
 -ting the chequered shaS J'7i;^ ^l jrro:t' 
 op[)osite wa . The rh:.n„i .. "■"'-e work on the 
 
 was .ept exquisite!; cet' the Lc™'':V"'^^ '^"' " 
 altar also were richer than was usullanTT'''T" "'"''= 
 decked with clusters of fio,^rs ch.eflr '' ' "!'""'' ""^ 
 roses. No high praise, ind e 'j' ^ "oT!" H °'-"'''^ 
 of the Virgin of the Annuncil.Ton o" '^ h/ ' '"""''= 
 
 -,andtha:s:;:i;SSyrv2t:^ 
 ^:srr ^:ir 't^?7^"-" ^^^"^ 
 
 fromhishead placed i 17 <^;^-"-"--nted casque 
 
 all) on the bare earth H '^^f^,' ""^ ^"'^^ "'''''"^'■ 
 a..d slaughter:rd h • su"V'lS,rr^'''H'H "^ '""^ 
 "'otive for thanksgiving; so that ifh s '^'''V'P^'^''" 
 
 soldier's "Ave" still ,^ T u '" "^'"""^ ''' "'^^^ 
 
 sincerity ' " " ""^ "^'= '"'=^'' "' favour and 
 
344 
 
 RICHARD III 
 
 Had he been less occupied by his own feelings, he miyh; 
 have remarked the many glances Ihe priest cast on him, 
 who dishonoured his learning and piety by freiiuent mistakes 
 of language, as his ihoUHhts wandered from his breviary, to 
 observe with deep attention his unexpected visitor. At 
 length the service ended ; the old dame rose f'oni \\>t 
 knees, and satisfied her curiosity, which she had excited liy 
 nii.ny a look askance, by a full and long gaze on the 
 cavalier. His liewn armour, t(jrn cloak, and, unscnnly fur 
 the sacred spot, the dread stains on his garments and I'.ands 
 were all minutelv scanned. i-.~ir did his personal appear- 
 ance escape remark. His stature was tail, his person well 
 knit, showing him to be a man of about thirty years of age 
 His features were finely moulded, his grey eyes full of fire, 
 his step had the dignity of rank, and his look expressed 
 chivalrour, courage and frankness, 'ihe good woman liail 
 not been long engaged in surveying the stranger, when lur 
 pastor beckoned her to retire, and himself advanced, reply 
 ing to the soldier's salute with a benedicite, and then hastily 
 enquiring if he came from the field. 
 
 " Even so, Father," said the cavalier ; " I come from tlie 
 Held of the bloody harvest. Has any intell.:< i.;e of it 
 travelled hither so speedily? If so, I must have wv.ndereii 
 from the right road, and am not so far on my journey as 1 
 hoped." 
 
 " I have only heard that a battle was expec'ed," said tlu 
 priest, " and your appearance tells me that it is over. '1 ht 
 fortunes, nay, perhaps the life, of a dear friend are involved 
 in its issue, and I fear that it is adverse— for you fly from 
 pursuit, and iiicthinks, though stained with dust and blood, 
 that emblem on your breast is the White Rose." 
 
 The warrior looked on the old man, whose dignity and 
 language were at variance with his lowly destination ; he 
 looked partly in wonder, and partly to assure himself of Ins 
 questioner's sincerity. " You are weary, Sir Knight," added 
 the monk whose e,xperienced eyes had g'anced to the golden 
 
THE EXD OF THE I'LANTAnENETS 245 
 
 .purs of his .isitant ; "come to mv hermitaRc, there to n-r 
 take of such refreshment as I can bes.o.. \Vh n ,"ur rems.' 
 IS ended, I w, 1, by confidence on my part, n,eri yours ' 
 llns mv,ta,.on was ti... of worldly iour Csy, ra her than 
 
 he rus.,c welcome of a recluse monk. " he caV, he 
 .Lanked hnn cordially, addin«, that he „,u.s. first "o J 
 food and water for his horse, and ,h ,t af.erwar.ls h wo k> 
 gratefully accept his host's i„vita,ion. The old man 
 cmered w,th the spirit of a soldier into his quest's anv'y 
 for h,s steed, and assisted in i-urveyinj- ,0 its wants, inura ,at 
 mj, hm.sell meanwhile with its master, by discover^^nrlnd 
 ..ra,su,gsc,entincally its points of beaut •/ The poor ^nial 
 
 owed okens of over fatigue, yet still he did'rot refu^ 
 'ns food, and the cavalier n.arked with joy tha- his e^e 
 gre-; brighter and his knees firmer after feeding ^ 
 
 1 hey then entered the cottage. "Sir lOiiJht," said the 
 n,o„k mofonmg to ..he table now spread for the repasj " 
 
 Z^JTm" '" °'^"' '"' ^ '"''''" -" "°' d-dai^ its 
 ■ncgreness. My w.ne I may praise, as being the produce 
 
 ocaMons hke the present, and rejoice that your stren.-th 
 ».ii „. recruited by it." ' s'r'-noin 
 
 Urcad, fruits, cheese, and a flagon of the wine, which 
 .n.nted the giver's eulo.ium, composed the fugitive^ break 
 fast, whose fatigue required cordial and repose' As he was 
 occupied by his re,.ast, his host eyed him with ^v'dli 
 
 ■f h inttr'^v'r; '""ii '° """""" '-' - '"e suS 
 
 "I do." 
 
 ■' you fought for the White Rose, and you fly J " 
 1 fought for the While Rose till it was struck to the 
 LT"'Few V '^■"? '" '^"^" """ ^'^ ^■'^■^^ no'^nity al' d 
 
346 
 
 RICHARD III 
 
 Deep grief clouded the old m->.n's rountcnan c, hui 
 accustomed to suMiu his feelings, as one on whom, btiriK 
 stricken by an overwhelming misery, all subsiiiuenl dis 
 asters fall blunted, he continued with greater calmn. .s 
 " Pardon mc, noble gentleman, if I appear to ask an milis 
 creet question. You are of lordly bearing, and prol),ilily 
 filled a place near the royal person. Did you hear, on tlv 
 night before last, aught of the arrival of a str.inger youth at 
 the King's tent ? " 
 
 The knight eyed the old man with a quirk glance, .i-k 
 ing in his turn, " Are you, then, the foster father of Kin- 
 Richard's son ? " 
 
 " Did you see my boy ? " cried the priest. " Did his father 
 acknowledge him ? -Where is he now?— did he enter the 
 ranks to fight and fall for his (arent ? " 
 
 "On the night of vhich you speak," said the stranger. 
 evading the immediate question, " the King placed his son . 
 hand in mine, as I vowed to protect and guard him if 
 ill befell our party, as it has befallen." 
 
 "Surely some presentiment of evil haunted the King's 
 
 mind." 
 
 " I do believe it ; for his manner was solemn and affirt 
 ing. He bade the youth remember that he was a 
 Plantagenet, and spoke proudly of the lineage from wlii( h 
 he sprung. The young esquire listened intently, looking at 
 his father with such an ingenuous and thoughtful expression, 
 that he won my heart to love him." 
 
 " Now bless thee. Sir Knight, whoever thou art, for this 
 praise of my poor Edmund ! I pray you, hasten to tell me 
 what more passed." 
 
 The cavalier continued his account ; but his manner was 
 serious, as if die conclusion of his tale would afflict his 
 auditor. He related how, on quitting the royal teiu, he 
 had led Edmund I'lantagenet to his own, there to conver-c 
 with him awhile, thebetier to learn whether his bearing ami 
 speech showed promise of future merit. King Ricliard 
 
I 
 
mSV PLAMAliENKT ASKING TO l.K Al I.OWKI) TO FU.in 
 
 HIS FAIHER K 
 
 INC. KILllAUl) III. 
 
 [A 247- 
 
THE END OF THE PLANTAGENETS 247 
 
 had enjoined his son to return to his seclusion early on the 
 followmg morn.ng; but as soon as he entered L con 
 
 gathered n h>s eyes, and his voice was broken by the 
 fervour of h,s desire. The noble was „,oved by hi 
 en reafes, and promised to grant his request, if it did no 
 nnhtate agamst his honour and allegiance. "I, is fo 
 honour that I speak," said Plantagenet ; "I am older h 
 years than m seemmg, for already I number twenty sum- 
 mers; and sp,te of my boyish look I am familiar with mar- 
 t.al exerctses, and the glorious promise of war. Let me 
 draw my sword for my father to-morrow-let me, a. you! 
 s.de prove myself a worthy descendant of the eonnuerors 
 o, Jrance ! Who will fight for King Richard with g " 
 courage, fidehty, and devotion, than his acknowledged and 
 duteous son?" The cavalier yielded to his noblf yearn 
 ■ngs. Clothed m armour he entered the ranks, and hovered 
 a protectmgangel, near his parent duringthe bloody contest' 
 And now, as h,s venerable guardian watched with trem^ 
 
 I rtaleTnTn '"""''"''^"^ °f h'-^ Suest while he told 
 
 hi ale and he stranger, with bitter regret, was about .0 
 re^e that he had seen Plantagenet felled'to 'the ground b^ 
 battle-axe, quick steps, and then a knocking, were heard at 
 he cottage door The stranger started on his feet, and pu 
 
 he monk' T "T"' ""' '"'''«'^' ^""'^ """"-»'ed 
 the monks face, as the very youth of whom they spoke 
 Edmund Plantagenet, rushed into the apartment Hi 
 ^0 ed garments and heated brow spoke of travel and 
 atgue wh.le h,s countenance wore an expression of wild- 
 es and even of horror. He started when he saw the 
 
 "Thnnl' r ".5 Tu^' '^=°S"''^'=d him as his new friend. 
 
 Tha k God !" he cned, "that you, my dear lord, have 
 no. a len mto the hand.s of the sacrilegious usurper ! It is 
 ^y father's spmt that has saved you for his son's sake thi 
 I may not be utterly abandoned and an orphan." 
 
 «.th milder accost he bent his knee to his holyguardian, 
 
248 
 
 RICHARD III 
 
 and then turned to answer the cavalier's questions of how- 
 he liad escaped death from the blow lie had received, and 
 what new events had occurred since he had quitted tlie 
 field early on the preceding day? — while the monk 
 chid him for his disobedience to his father's commands, m 
 having mingled with the fray. The eyes of Plantagenet 
 flashed fire at this reproach. " Could I know that my 
 father's crown and life," he exclaimed impetuously, "de- 
 pended on the comKit, and not bring to his aid my weak 
 arm ? God of Heaven ! had there been five hundred as 
 true as I, we might all have fallen round him : but never, 
 never, should I have seen the sight which last night I saw 
 —nor heard the sounds I last night heard ! " 
 
 The youth covered his face with his hands, and the boil- 
 ing tears trickled between his fingers. " Tell me," cried 
 the noble, " what has happened ?— and swiftly tell me, for 1 
 loiter here too long." 
 
 Almost suffocated by emotion, Plantagenet related, that 
 when he recovered from the trance into which the fearful 
 blow he had received had thrown him, the Earl's camp- 
 followers were busy among the slain ; and that he had seen 
 the body of King Richard- of his father— thrown half 
 naked across a mule, thus to be borne to be exposed to tlie 
 public gaze and mockery in Leicester, where, but the day 
 before, he had ridden with the royal crown on his head, the 
 acknowledged sovereign of England. And that crown, 
 base ill-bartered bauble, having been found in the tent by 
 Lord Stanley, he had brought and placed on Richmond's 
 head, while the soldiers, with one acclaim, hailed hnii 
 Henry the Seventh, King of England. 
 
 The last words more than the others, for the death of his 
 royal master was already known to him, moved the knight :- 
 "This is the end of our hopes!" he cried; "and I am 
 then too late ? Farewell, my friends ! Plantagenet, I shall 
 never forget my oath to the King." 
 
 —Mary W. Shei.ley, Perkin Warbick. 
 
XX 
 
 A Last Stand for the 
 White Rose 
 
 -de. da,, H is di^cuu .o^e;.- hS: o '^r:: 1" 
 
 a«. The peasantry, scattered and dependent on the 
 
 regal coffer.!?" .^/ l,,^-^ ""'' ^^mngs into the 
 
 " ' We are many— ihey are few.' " 
 
 Sl/HenrhT"^''™'" "''P''^' '""^ »-"-ed arms- to 
 ^ e r com "''T '"''"'' '° °PP°-> '-Iwarks of'h s 
 
 ;s.7,:' ,r "? "■"• '"'-- ■"' ■» •' i s 
 
 I 
 
25° 
 
 HENRY VII 
 
 youth. When Fitzwater, Stanley, and their numerous 
 fellowconspirators and fellow-victims sided with the Duke 
 of York, nearly all England entertained a timid belief in his 
 identity with King Edward's lost son- but those times 
 were changed. Many were glad to soothe their consciences 
 by declaring him an impostor ; many so desired to curry 
 favour with Henry; a still greater number either feared U. 
 say their thou-ht, or were averse to disturb the tranquillity 
 of their country by a contest which could benefit one man 
 alone and which must entail on them another war like 
 that so lately ended. Abroad, in France, Burgundy, and 
 Scotland, the Prince might be discountenanced from 
 political motives ; but he was treated with respect, and 
 spoken of as being the man he named himself. In England 
 it was otherwise -contempt followed hard upon fear, giving 
 birth to derision, the best weapon against the unhappy, 
 which Henry well knew how to wield. He had two 
 motives in this-one was, that by affixing disgrace and 
 scorn to his adversary, he took away the glitter of his cause, 
 and deterred the young and ambitious from any desire to 
 share in his oblo<iuy. The other was a feeling deeper 
 rooted in his mind-an intense hatred of the House of 
 York— an exultation in its overthrow and disgrace-a 
 gloating over every circumstance that blotted it with 
 ignominy. If Richard had really been an impostor, Henry 
 had not used half the pains to stigmatise him as low-born- 
 to blast his pride with nicknames, nor ha looked forward 
 with the joy he now did, to having him in his power-to 
 the degradation— the mortal stain of infamy he intended 
 to taint him with for ever. 
 
 Secure in power, fearless of the result, Henry heard 
 with unfeigned joy that his young rival had landed in 
 England, and was advancing into the interior of the island 
 at the head of the Cornish insurgents. This was in 
 the year 1497. I'he King himself announced the rising to 
 his nobles. Laughing, he said, "I have tidings for you, 
 
A LAST STAND FOR THE WHITE ROSE .5, 
 
 good city of Fx.ter flh, u " "°" ""y '">*'-■' °vcr our 
 dissonance" • '"'"« ""= '^°""' burghers with their 
 
 olT''''' ^"' "■'"- -o'"" victor," said Lord 
 
 Kin;""j::^:s:L;r'?:::^r -"-"■" replied the 
 
 underground ,*e'K:^/iT'\': ;:: ^"^ ^ ^^S. or sink 
 
 merry fellows, who love newtnisk and 'T'"'"""' °^ "" 
 
 " Please my liege "slid fll r ^''""^'' '""""""'S" 
 
 Kxeter be hlS"^, X,'''-" j^- "- ^ stone ^^ 
 m; self will gati,er in In , ll ,. *' ''''"'' "'^ f"'!'" and 
 
 -. we .ayVese^y'r "Ja^ S ::rT '^ " ^""""^ ^" 
 
 "«e it so, my lord " reol^cd v "-''■'■""• 
 
 dispatch. We oursd •,./?■ ' "^' ""'* ""^ good 
 
 harm .0 all we m"v tr. 'h "". '""^ ^ =" "^'^'' ^^'^ 'ess 
 AWe all.'i:.nr, ke Cil'r ''^^'^. "s'-d eu.bers. 
 -h that he partake our hosSitr"'^^ " " "'^ ''-"' 
 
 -^.e, min^^ll^ ^^^l: 'T' ''''"^^^ ^ ""<= '-st be 
 
 u-.k ' '^ '° "'•'•■'I "ith as I list " 
 
 n.th even more care than he out in ,h 
 ^rmy, he ordered that the 111 of ' h "'" ,'""='"'"g ^is 
 of England should be .uard"d evl "'^^°"""-•™ ^^'>~ast 
 had its garrison, which^pern itd noVl'^^' "^''"^ ""•''«'-" 
 -^ any .0 land wi.hou t " fri estt v'° ,""' "^ '" "■■'' 
 
252 
 
 HENRY VII 
 
 " Give me your benison, good Bess," said the Monarch 
 to his queen, with unwonted gaiety of manner ; " with day- 
 light I depart on the ungentle errand of encountering your 
 brother Perkin." 
 
 Elizabeth, not less timid than she had ever been, was 
 alarmed by his show of mirth, and by this appellation bestowed 
 on one she knew to be so near of kin. She did not under- 
 stand Henry's policy. She felt that no such army as had 
 now gathered together to support Richard could endanger 
 Henry's reign ; I she feared for Richard, for her ill-fated 
 brother, who had now entered the net, for whom she felt 
 assured there was no escape. Trembling at her own 
 boldness, she answered the King, " Whoever he may be, 
 you will not destroy him in cold blood ? " 
 
 " You would have me spare the impostor ? " as'Ked 
 He iry. " Spare him who claims your son's throne ? Hy 
 Our Lady of Walsingham, the maternal virtues of the 
 daughter of York deserve high praise." 
 
 Elizabeth, dreading more to offend, horror-struck at the 
 idea that her husband should shed her brother's blood, 
 burst into tears. 
 
 " Silly girl," said Henry, " I am not angry ; nay, more, 
 I grant your prayer. Perkin, if not slain by a chance 
 blow, shall live. My word is passed ; trust to it : I 
 neither inquire nor care whether he be the godson or the 
 base brat of the libertine Edward. In either case, my 
 revenge stoops not so low as his paltry life ; does this 
 content you ? " 
 
 " May the saints bless your Grace," said Elizabeth, " you 
 have eased my every fear." 
 
 " Remember then that you prove no ingrate," continued 
 the King, " no dupe of report, no traducer of your chil- 
 dren's birth. Betray no interest in the knave's downfall, 
 save as he i- my enemy. If you display any emotion tli.it 
 awakens a douirt, that this canker rose be aught in your eyes 
 except a base pretender— if you mark any feeling but stern 
 
A LAST STAND FOR THE WHITE ROSE .,, 
 
 fall 
 
 contempt for one so vile-tremble Vf 
 
 -•>;-; and his blood I. X^,e V"^^-^"<^= '" 
 
 Magnanimous I'rince!" (hou-ht Kh- . , • 
 scorn, when he had left her- th/ •'■'''' '" '''■'^■' 
 fear ! My poor Richardljou; sis^ J?"" T'^' ^'- 
 ;^ finely taught by this Earl's son nl "*■■,"' '^''"«'""' 
 let him do his worst : the Queen of P r",""" ^''"'- ""^" 
 slave; if Henry can bind ^1!. , "^'''""' '^ '">' q-'fe n 
 
 enemy." ^ """""''^ '="d at the malice of his 
 
 He arrived beforf Fxete/a th V ','"^'°'" '" '"'' •=>"• 
 ™n. All the discomenLd ,L c. n '"'''" "'°"^""'' 
 i"i"ed him. Some o^hse were vT "-"' "'''""''"' 
 ".en-at-armswho repined a tpeac:. 'ch Ir.^"""' ^ ""^ 
 oppress-d men, roused bv 1 ,, n/ , ^' "^ "'"''^ "eed)', 
 but not so hardy as the kern o" IreTaJ"!;.?' f"""'^' 
 many, they were valiant; Exeter 17! "' ""^^ "'"^ 
 
 pared for defence and f ,..» ""garrisoned, unpre- 
 
 assault he migh 'posse hi:'.''"'!'''''^ ''''•' ""y^udden 
 intent he did'not'a lowV ^^^^^^^^^^ "'"h "- 
 
 once set on for the atUck endT '^ '° ^'^P"^^' ''« »t 
 -alls; unaided by an^fit L ll™"'"*'' '" '''^^'^ "'^ '°% 
 of a single scaling ILd'hrr'' ^^^^^<^')' Possessed 
 
 foiled btt no, va^ni- h . trhtrr^' "'"^ '""■ 
 P"i:e, for three rinv.= tk u ' **^s set upon this 
 
 warlike eng ne he e;er,eH\- ""P°'^"^-d °f artillery or Iny 
 he contrived 'ud: ntc "erv't"'"'"' '°"^ '" '''" '^e city ; 
 i^-^^ers himself, 1 1 S Mm:!; f"^^' "'^ "'^"'^^ '^^ 
 ""'eiing, encouraging leading h ''^^"" everywhere, 
 
 to the assault When h^ f^ his troops again and again 
 -de an attempTon he' S:! '""Vf ■"'P-gnab.e he 
 
 -.ala^eopenin;?^-----^-^ 
 
i?iA 
 
 HENRY VII 
 
 fe.irful of the ravages this untamed multitude might coniniit, 
 wore true to tliomsulvcs ; they resisted fire l)y fire, keeping 
 iil> a fierce hlazc within, till with piles of brick and ruhhiNli 
 they had blocked the passage. Richard saw his last hope- 
 fail. " This is not the work of the burghers," he cried, 
 "a soldier's skill is here." 
 
 "True as my old yard measure!" cried Heron. "It 
 was but last night that my cousin, the liarl of Devon, 
 clambered into the city ; he came to the northern wall, 
 where Skelton keeps watch ; when my valiant 'ailor hcanl 
 the noise, he ran to look for Master Trereif , who, poor 
 fellow, lies cold within the moat. 'I'he citizens heard and 
 answered my cousin the Earl's call ; but they were too 
 frightened to let light through the keyhole of a postern ; 
 and his lordship, Uod save him ! was obliged to climb the 
 battlements." 
 
 " Climb the battlements, nobli- Captain ? " said Richard ; 
 " that is, a ladder was let down ? " 
 
 " It was a stone ladder he si.aled, my liege," snid Heron ; 
 "your Grace may walk up the same. It will s<. ce budge, 
 seeing that it is the old part of the wall itself." 
 " Who knows more of this? " asked the Prince. 
 " I saw the whole," said Skelton. " Thai is the end. 
 Master Trereife was dead for the nonce, so I came back to 
 lead my men to the fray. Tliere was the Earl, perchuil like 
 a crow, on the bouyhs of an old thorn-bush, that grows at 
 the top of the wall. Surely he must have torn his cloak, for 
 the place is thick with all manner of weeds, and rough 
 stones, and brambles. But more than his broad-cloth got 
 a hole; for Clini of Tregotliius handled his bow, and let Hy 
 a cloth-yard shaft, which was sticking in his shoulder as 
 he got down the other side." 
 
 While the tailor talked, Richard was proceeding hastily 
 to the spot. It looked tranquil. The ola crumbling wall 
 was green with rank grass and tangled weeds. He drew 
 nearer, and then a whole shower of arrows was discharged 
 
A LAST STAND FOR THE WHITE ROSE .,, 
 
 unhurt; l.u. Kdm.ia „h ^T ~'a ""'T'' ^^^"^'^''J 
 arrow i„ his side : he fell Th,! ^ "'^'^' '''«'*''-''' "" 
 "f.l.e advance of King Hen y a thT '7"'/'^'"»- -"'"e 
 army. *■ "''"'^>' "' "'e head of a formidable 
 
 Plantagenet's woimd was dressed • i, i 
 danger, and quire disal.led ht " m/ 'Tf'V''''"' °' 
 swear to preserve you in saferv ri, ■ » * "'''^"' f^""""' 
 must leave you." ""^">^' ^°"»'"- '^aid Richard ; "J 
 
 ;; Do you retreat? "asked Edmund 
 
 . «-hard proceeded .ow.Sstn:'''r,r'':' . 
 '" "PPearance an advance, hi ; ill- success h"^^ .? ""' '"'"^ 
 report of the large force 'IreaHv I u '" ''''"''"• »"d 
 Sir John Cheney. K ^^ Ws r r^'^.' '"''''"■"^' ">-" ^y 
 discouraged his'Vollowe "a" 'o ?""''^^'-". "'"d - far 
 of many-so that of the seve" ZTTuV"' ''""•'™ 
 i'evonshire, he retained bTt thr "1 h ''"''''''■'" '" 
 launton. These consisted of ,h ^" " "'™' "^ar 
 
 sents, Cornishmen who h.H !""""' ^"'^^ °f in^ur- 
 
 and who, partTy 'n a;ec,o„rTh'^':''°/"'" '° ^>^^^' 
 -tural stubbornness, "woe to d '^,"''"' l«"ly from 
 
 f^ll"«s! rusty rapiers a„d r^' '" ' ""*■ ^'"'>' 
 
 ^■".ef arms; a' few'had bows 0.^77 """"^ "^'^ "-■> 
 """"'er their ponderous tools' in .1 ^ ^"^' ' " ^''" ^^^'^'^ 
 P-^ to be us'ed now Tn s" ^ '"^'Xr "v "" h" ""'' "^ 
 P'-iyed at once their unmnrti i 'j '^">' '^'^^^ dis- 
 
 Inallthesemigr^eTXlH '"^ P°^«'y-'"cken state 
 foot, not wholly destLt^ of ar^ " f'" °' '^^^"^ hundred 
 were not less at fau t 1/ «"d d„eip|ine. The horse 
 
 one hundred toS,ym'o,ted"tV'? ''"" ''^'^ ^''-' 
 f-^-n.lydisgracing'i~3s''''''"'' '"'""'' '"" '- 
 
 ■■-."iredallRichard'senergyofpurposetoholdhim 
 
356 
 
 HEXRY VII 
 
 
 back from despair. The bitter sense of dcgratlation visiteil 
 him in spite of every cITort. Had he ever niailu one of the 
 chivalry of France and llurgundy ? Had he run a tilt willi 
 James of Scotland, or grasped in knightly brotherhood tlie 
 mailed hand of Sir Patrick Hamilton ? And were these his 
 comrades ? unwashed artificers ; ragged and rude peasants ; 
 vulgartongued traders? He felt " in disgrace with fortune 
 and men's eyes " ; and now to obtain pardon for them, tn 
 send them back skaithless to their own homes, was his chief 
 desire, even to the juying of their safety with his own down- 
 fall. 
 
 After a two days' march he arrived near Taunton. On 
 reconnoitring the town, its position and weakness gave him 
 hope that he might carry it, even with his sorry soldiery. 
 To check these thoughts, tidings came that Sir John 
 Cheney was in close neighbourhood, and Henry himself 
 advancing with a chosen body of .Tien. On the evening ol 
 their arrival before the town, a detachment of the enemy 
 entered it, cutting off the last hope of Richard. 
 
 The next morning it became evident that the crisis of his 
 fortunes was at hand. The whole country teemed *ith 
 soldiery. As the troops poured towards a common centre, 
 the array and order of a battle field becanie apparent in 
 their operations. A battle, between a very myriad of 
 golden-spurred knights, armed at all points, and the naked 
 inhabitants of Richard's camp ! call it rather a harvest ; there 
 were the reapers, here the bending corn. When in the 
 north Richard wept over the devastation of the land, he 
 felt that a word of his could counteract the harm — but now, 
 his challenge had proved an airy dagger — substancelcss- 
 his resolve to encounter his foe, bringing the unarmed 
 against these iron-suited warriors, giew in his eyes into jirc- 
 meditated murder : his heart heaved in his overcharged 
 breast. To add bitterness to his thoughts there were his 
 companions — O'Water brave in despair ; Astley pale with 
 fear for his l.i'd ; Heron foolish in his unmeaning boastinj; 
 
A LAST STAND FOR TF:E WH.TE ROSE „; 
 
 wl.is,«rc.d terror to hi, hl^r ' '" ""-' """" »'"' voice " ...a, 
 
 '■-dy devotion, the overflowTng of .h^'ud'' ""","?' °' 
 always afrecing. „,e, „„ ,, /.^^'.J^';^ "^., n.an y hear,, 
 
 nr he was generous and kind. Of .The ^.7'" "'r'^''' 
 life, when before I'«,.tpr .« . ^'"' ••xi-osed his 
 
 »hen dismayeThe had lr;VT""'''''"'^"« "'^"' ' 
 comforted thL nor did . le ™ .L ■" f^'Tf^ "" '""^ 
 camp follower uninterred ; fo one o rI' °V''^'"«"-»' 
 'Sties was a quick svm^Jhl JT,. ^^"^^ character 
 ence for all ^hatbor.h h'a^e of nl' ''"t"' •''"'' '^ '-"" 
 q-lities rendered hi,n det .' J Z i "'• T'J'^ '"""^ 
 a severe sense of his dutie, tow 'rdslh '''"''^ '""' *'"' 
 insight into their feelings husinrr ' '"'' " "^""'"^ 
 
 disquietude tha, agitated him ^ ^"^ '" '"•«"''^'' ""e 
 
 Towards eveninir lie u.^., ,i ■ , . 
 
 ^asconfusedh/tl'';- s"a:,Lr:V?'-,f' '"'' "^ 
 fortunes assumed. By the cor p. V ^ '^'^'^^ ">=" ^is 
 
 tended from alinlokiZ^^ >T'"^'' *■" ""° *'■»' 
 inhabitant of courts a cLah! ' h ", ^ '""« ''-" ""= 
 
 renowned for his pr;wesT hid nlr°"'"''' '" ""^ ''^8^«=«^. 
 near him : no, one of h , "'"^ "oble-born partisan 
 
 W been used to det~ir ""■"?■ '° "'^"^ "e 
 'he.sense of right and^:ti'^„::,»f°'"'^^^ 
 possessed, to be a beacon lieh, i.K ''^'•"•' "»'' ■''" he 
 
 •^ou.nds depended upo-hf I /.';.:,tdh'""' ''""' 
 save? '^ ""'° )^' had he power to 
 
 •i^tSr;^^[^:::;trr ''-'"« •'ismedi. 
 
 '"uation and proceedings of Jh '"P"'' °^ 'he 
 
 '^»n these unUugh "' „°t kt'"'? ^ ^'■'^"-''> '-''" 
 "riousoperations Asif on' " ,^' "'^""'"8 "f 'he 
 -'^.eandpowerJ-;-i----;n. 
 
258 
 
 HENRY VI 1 
 
 and was aware how incapable he was to co|>c wiili iIm r 
 numlKirs and fiirie. At last Astk'y annmini-LMl tlii.' am 
 \al of two men : one was a I'lcniint!, known to Ri. hard 
 as one of l^layne's tnen, but the fellow was slupi.ll; 
 drunk; the other was an Ennlisli [wasant. " I'lcase >.mr 
 worship," he said, " I am tills man's guide, and must ai t 
 as his interpreter besides ; nothing would serve the spun, y 
 fellow, but he must swallow ale at every tavern on tlu' 
 way." 
 
 "Speak, then," said Richard; "what is the purport of 
 his journey ? " 
 
 "Please you. Sir, lasi night three hundred of them came 
 right pop upon us afore we were aware ; sore afraid llay 
 made us with their tall iron-shafted poles, steel caps, and 
 short swords, calling each one for bread and beer." 
 
 " Do you mean," cried the Prince, his eye brighten:.!;; as 
 he spoke, "that three hundred men, sold'. .., armed like 
 yonder fellow, are landed in England ? " 
 
 So the countryman averred; an" ''it even now they 
 were but at the distance of tweni iles from Riclurd- 
 encampment. They were still adva. iig, when the report 
 was spread that the Prince's forces w c dispersed, hinrscli 
 taken prisoner. The rustic drew from me I'leming's poch-' 
 a letter in French, signed by Schwartz, a son of him who fell 
 at Stoke, a : -ii in high favour with the 1 Jdy Margaret o' 
 Burgundy. It said how he had been dispatc hed by lur 
 (■race to his succour ; how intelligence of the large army nl 
 Henry, and his defeat, had so terrified his men that ilu} 
 refused to proceed, nay, by the next morning would lak. 
 their way back to Poole, where they had landed, unlo^ 
 Richard himself came to reassure them and to lead tlui.i 
 on. Every word of the letter lighted up to forgotten juy 
 young Richa-d's elastic spirit. With these men to aid him, 
 giving weight and respectability to his powers, he mieht 
 hope to enfor e the conditions of his challenge. All must 
 be decided on the morrow : that very hour he would sei 
 
A LAST STAXD FOR THE WHITE ROSE ,35 
 
 .l.c-ir leader, had ord 7" .?he,> "'''''' '." ''''"'^' 
 
 come. Ilasiily eiLe v R^ '"-' empty l,„ur.,,|a,., ,„|j ^„ 
 "^'"Ji e-^tC-rly, Richard announced the arnu,i „f 
 tli.se {.erman mercenaries ; he directed !,.„; . ' 
 
 Inm, that with some show of »«.,<,„'? '". ".^""'I'"")' 
 l-"selfto Schwartz. ThT- cam, : ^ nm L' IT'' ' T""' 
 
 -turn, m a L'f ."e of r T '"'"^^■'"^ '"= ■""^' 
 
 '0 succour an,l save th..,,. Th s wt Ri^ r r t """, """""^ 
 ", mounte.1 on his uood stee, 1 > T^ ' ''■"' "'""Kht, 
 dim heath toward, Ve"l' ""^ "'' ""^ "'"^ ""«»' "'« 
 Some miles to the east of V.-r^^;! .1. 
 
 Now the moon silvered the tr^B. ,„^ 
 
 I 
 
26o HENRY VII 
 
 straggling moontieam fell on something bright amid tlic 
 bushes, and a deeii voire cried, " Jack of the Wynd, if lli.,u 
 canst not get to thicker cover, pUick darnels to cover thnt 
 cursed steel cap of thine." 
 
 " Hush ! " repeated another lower voice. " Your Irawlin- 
 is worse than his headpiece ; you outroar the wind. \ii>.\ 
 high the moon is, and our friends not come; he will lie 
 here before them." 
 " Hark ! a bell ! " 
 
 " Matins, by the Fiend ! may /le seize that double tong\R'il 
 knave I I much suspect Master Frion ; I know him of 
 old." 
 
 "He cannot mar us now, though it be he who mude 
 this ambushment." 
 
 " Oh, by your leave ! he has the trick of it, and could 
 spring a mine in the broadest way ; he can turn, and twl^l, 
 and show more faces than a die. He laughed this morn- 
 I know the laugh— there is mischii-f in 't." 
 " But, your Worship, now, what can he do ? " 
 " Do ! darken the moon ; set these trees alive and danc- 
 ing ; do ! so play the Will o' the Wisp that the King sli.ill 
 be on Pendennis and the Duke at Greenwich, and each 
 fancy he is within bowshot of the other ; do ! ask the Devil 
 what is in his compact, for he is but the Merry Andrew of 
 Doctor Frion. Hush ! " 
 
 " It is he," said the other speaker. 
 A breathless pause ensued ; the wind swept through the 
 trees— another sound — its monotonous recurrence showed 
 that it was a dashing waterfall— and yet again it grew louder. 
 " It is he." 
 
 " No, Gad's mercy, it comes westward— close, my merry 
 fellows,' close, and mind the word! close, for we have hut 
 half our number, and yet he may escape." 
 
 Again the scene sank into silence and darkness ; such 
 silence as is nature's own, whose- voice is ever musical : such 
 darkness as the embowering trees and vast island-clouds 
 
A LAST STAND FOR THE WHITE ROSE 261 
 
 made, dimming and drinking up the radiance of tlie 
 moon. 
 
 The stillness was broken by the tramp of horses drawing 
 n.ar, men's voices mingled with the clatter, and now several 
 cavahers entered the defile ; they rode in some disorder 
 ai.d so straggling, that it was probable that many of their 
 party lagged far behind ; the principal horseman had reached 
 midway the ravine, when suddenly a tree, with all its growth 
 of green and tangled boughs, fell right across the path • the 
 clatter of the fall deafened the screech which accompanied 
 It, for one rider was overthrown ; it was succeeded by a 
 flight of arrows from concealed archers. " Ride for your 
 lives," cried Richard : but his path was crossed by si.x 
 horsemen, while, starting from the coppice, a band of near 
 forty men engaged with the van of his troop, who tried to 
 wheel about : some escaped, most fell. With his sword 
 drawn, the Prince rushed at his foremost enemy; it was a 
 mortal struggle, for life and liberty, for hatred and revenge 
 Richard was the better swordsman, but his horse was blown 
 and half sunk upon his haunches when pressed closely by 
 the adversary. Richard saw his danger, and yet his advan- 
 tage, for his foe, over-eager to press him down, forgot the 
 «ard ; he rose on his stirrups, and grasped his sword with 
 both hands, when a blow from behind, a coward's blow 
 rom a battle-axe, struck him ; it was repeated, and he fell 
 lifeless on the earth. 
 
 Sickness, and faintness, and throbbing pain were the first 
 tokens of hfe that visited his still failing sense; sight and 
 the power of motion seemed to have deserted him but 
 memory reviving told him that he was a prisoner. Moments 
 were stretched to ages while he strove to collect his sensa- 
 hons ; still it was night ; the view of fields and uplands and 
 of the varied moonlit sky, grew upon his languid senses ; he 
 «as still on horseback, bound to tliu animal, and supported 
 on either side by men. As liis movements communicated 
 lis returning strength, one of these fellows rode to impart 
 
363 
 
 HENRY VII 
 
 the tidings to their leader, while the other stayed to guide 
 his horse; the word "gallop:" was called aloud, and lie 
 was urged along at full speed, while the sudden motion 
 almost threw him back into his swoon. 
 
 Dawn, which at first seemed to add to the dimness and 
 indistinctness of the landscape, struggling through the 
 clouds and paling the moon, slowly stole upon them. The 
 Prince became sufficiently alive to make observations ; \v. 
 and his fellow-prisoners were five in number only, tluir 
 guards were ten; foremost among them was Sir Rolicrt 
 Clifford, whom in whatever guise he could not mistake. 
 
 yi-.inwhile they threaded many a green pathway, ami, 
 after another hour's ride, arrived at the opening of a wide 
 gras.sy dell; a deer, "a stag of ten," leapt from his ferny 
 bed and bounded away ; a herd of timid fawns, just visihli- 
 in the distance, hurried into the tliicket ; while many a bin! 
 flew from the near sprays. Here the party halted ; first 
 they unbitted their steeds, and then dismounted tlie 
 prisoners, binding them for security's sake to a tree. 
 Richard was spared this degradation, for still he was a prince 
 in ClifTord's eyes; and his extreme physical weakness, 
 caused by his blow, made even the close watching him 
 superfluous. He was lifted from his horse, and placed 
 upon the turf, and there left. While some of his guards 
 went to seek and slay their repast, others led their animals 
 to a brook, which murmured near : all were variously and 
 busily employed. Clifi'ord alone remained ; he called for 
 water ; evidently he was more weary than he chose to tnvii ; 
 he took off his casque : his features were ghastly ; there was 
 a red streak upon his brow, whic!i was knit as if to endur- 
 ance, and his lips were white and quivering. Never h.id 
 crime visited with such torment ill-fated man ; he looked a 
 Cain after the murder ; the Abel he had killed was his own 
 fair fame— the ancestral honour of his race. How cii.in^'ed 
 from when Richard last saw him, but two years before ; his 
 hair was nearly grey, his eyes hollow, his cheeks fallen in ; 
 
A LAST STAND FOR THE WHITE ROSE .63 
 
 yet, though thiM to emanation, he had lost that delicacy 
 and elegance of feature that had charaKeri^ed him A mos 
 -thout reflection, forgetting his own position in p h, fu 
 
 smile, which he meant to h.Idliu'' r", '^ '.!"""^' 
 Unued Richard, "while th, vrt'ctned ^ ^"Z 
 on the ponu of taunting thee as a coward, of d fy n, .hl 
 mortal combat; hut thou art miserable, and broken 
 hearted, and no match for me " uroken- 
 
 Clifford-s eyes glared, his hand was upon his swords 
 ^ .he recollected h„„self, replying, ■• You cannot provoke 
 me, Sir; you are my prisoner." 
 
 .ha;i%ri:iri;:^xrTrs'^r^^"' 
 
 an^ of a hundred other ma:; rron.ft. ^ u" 'TcoT 
 
 The weakness of the prince gave a melancholy softness 
 his voice and manner ; the deep pity he felt for h s fa len 
 fnend imparted a seraphic expression ,0 h s c ea ole" 
 countenance. Clifl-ord writhed with pain ChS Z 
 though not quick to feel for other! wafnl' . J "'''"■ 
 
 ;-ess f.r himself: and ho:tr.;;r;^rl:::: 
 
 Srr "'■'' '° individuals, whose show of f! , L: 
 Injuries ! Cliffoi -ished to answer-io go awa-'-ho u-n= 
 
 Vet, Clifford, son of a noble father, spare yourself this 
 
364 
 
 HENRY VII 
 
 crowning sin. I have heard from travelled men, that n. 
 Heathenesse the unbaptized miscreant is true to him who.c 
 hospitality he has shared. There was a time when my 
 -yes brightened when I saw you ; when the name of Rob)ii 
 was a benediction to me. You have changed it for the 
 direst curse. Yours are no common crimes. horemo»t i!i 
 the chronicles, your name will stand as .-< type and symbol 
 of ingratitude and treason, written with the blood of tiu- 
 water and Stanley. But this is not all. The young and 
 defenceless you destroy; you have stood with uplifted 
 dagger over the couch of a sleeping man." 
 
 Clifford had fostered the belief that this vilest act of his 
 life, to which he had been driven rather by fierce revunge 
 than hope of reward, was a secret. A m. lent before; he 
 had advanced with hasty and furious glances towards his 
 enemy. Scarcely had the words passed York's lips, thai. 
 a kind of paralysis came over him. His knees kiiotked 
 together : his arms fell nerveless to his side. 
 
 " Oh, man ! " continued York, " arouse thy sleeping f.uul- 
 ties. Bid the fiend who tortures thee, Avaunt ! Even .i'i», 
 at the word, he feels his power over thy miserable .oul 
 waver. By Him who died on the Cross, I conjure h; ;. to 
 leave thee. Say thou ' amen ' to my abjuration, and he de- 
 parts. Cast off the huge burthen of guilt : deliver thy soul 
 into the care of holy men. As thy first act, depart this spot ; 
 leave me. It is I who command— Richard of York, thy 
 sovereign. Begone ! or, kneeling at my feet, seek the grace 
 thou hast so dearly forfeited." 
 
 For a moment it almost seemed as if the wretched nun 
 were about 10 obey; but at the moment his groom came 
 from the spring, where he had been watering his horse. 
 The sight of another human being, to witness his degrad.i 
 tion, awoke him to phrensy. He called aloud, " How iio», 
 Sirrah ! Why unbit Dragon ? ISring him here. I ">"« 
 begone." 
 
 " He can't carry your honour a mile," said the fellow. 
 
A LAST STAND FOR THE U-,nT. ROSE .65 
 
 vaulted on his horse hi, H. '^ '•"'°"^'--" Clifford 
 bloodshot, nap; n. t f ?^ ''"^' "'^ ^^^ "^'d -"d 
 
 we to I ?' '^^iSi " J'^<^ "- f -d„nt, "and what are 
 
 both their works "Mo el" "'/"■"'' ''^''^'■"' "^ '° ^o 
 nuke Richard t b^I " ''"'?^:'y *>" '"""'^^'^d, "Hold 
 .ave „,e gold ,n F,a„ tr X^^ t^'" ""' ' .""L ""^ 
 Knigbt. and I a poor servitor " '' '°" ""'' " ''^"^d 
 
 ^S:'iS X^rf^ -^T "°'"' °^ "-^'"« - Ch^ 
 banner of the White Rose o."'- ' '""" ""''"'^ "'^ 
 saw him flying th^oufh h. f " ^^' ^reat when he 
 
 cl..sheve,ied\fi f ,1', ";;', -'^ ""— « -end and 
 
 hand, while the ^elriedannnf, '" '" '^"^ «™""^''' 
 
 his head, snorting w h fea No r"'" '° '"'"'' """^^ "" 
 tlie Prince flew to hi . ^ '"°'"'"' ^"^ '" '^'^ '"^t. 
 Heron and O'Wa er hadT"1" T '^P'""^" ^''^^'d; 
 which he posseLed h'ntJlf HeTo "' '^"^ ^^"'^ "' 
 
 iayhischiefstrength,a dmvat at'hon ■"" r'" """' 
 with the desire of lit.ertv and If ! ? '" " ^'^y' '^""^ 
 axes, and stood aC l^u'"',T """'^ ''^'^ "^ ''^"'- 
 'orun; but findin. hL' flft '?■""' "'"^'-' ''^^^^ >"■&■>'• 
 and arrows and betook h T '°'""^' '"^ ^^'^"^^^ a bow 
 behind a tree wh e L nf V° ' '"""'' '"'' '"^ (""" 
 
 hi--.er, unari^d. T^ 'Z'rfl^'''"'''' ^'^''^^'^ 
 chiefly in a heap and these 7TT.° '^''" ^"'"^ "'"'^ 
 prisoners, were ^sdess to th.t '^ ''V^' unfranchised 
 groom, ,vio stood insni ? "'^"^ ^^ Clifford's 
 
 aparley co.^rced. T^^el tSl ™^^' ^'°°'^' 
 he told him that the whole coTm "^ '° ■'"'"""'■ 
 
 hi"., his way back to h.^armylX'thT's '" """ ='^""^' 
 guarded. What then could he do? ' '"' "'"'^ 
 
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366 
 
 HENRY VII 
 
 '• Die ■ arms and at liberty. Stand back, sirs ; what 
 would you do with me ? Your guilty captain has deserted 
 you ; is there one of your number who will raise his 
 accursed weapon against a King and a Knight ? " 
 
 Clym of the Lyn, and another outlawed forester (ClifTord 
 in mustering a troop had gathered together all manner ul 
 wild companions) now appeared dragging m a fat buck 
 Clym grinned wlien he saw the altered state of things ; 
 "Come, my men," he said, "it is not for us to fight kiiii; 
 Henry's battles ; the more majesties there be in England, 
 the merrier for us, I trow ; and the wider and freer tlic 
 range of the King of the New Forest. Put up your rapiers, 
 and let us feast lil<e brethren ; ye may fall to with your 
 weapons afterwards. Or, if it please your (Irace to trust to 
 me, I will lead you where none of the king's men will 
 
 follow." , 1 .u 
 
 "Wilt thou guide me back to Taunton? askul the 
 
 Prince 
 
 " Not for my cap full of rose nobles," replied the outlaw ; 
 " the way is beset : and trust me your worshiii's men are 
 scattered far and wide ere this. You are a tall fellow, ami 
 I should ill like to sec you in their gripe. Be one of us . 
 you shall be King of the Greenwood-shade ; and a merrier, 
 freer monarch than he who lives at Westminster." 
 
 But he addressed himself to retrace his steps to Taunton, 
 Sanctuary and refuge from death-oh ! how he trampled on 
 the slavish thought. Death was to him a word, a shadow, 
 a phantom to deride and scorn, not an enemy to grapple 
 with- disgrace was his abhorred foe, and him he thus 
 overthrew. His resolves, inspired by disdain of permitting 
 one taint to blemish his career, were not the expedients oi 
 prudence, but the headlong exploit of daring youth. 1 he 
 iron must indeed have entered our souls, and we be tamed 
 from dear, youthful freedom to age's humble concessions to 
 necessity, before we can bow our head '" --"f "">7' ^™: 
 at the shafts as they rankle in our flesh, and calmly feel Iha., 
 
A LAST STAND KOR THE ,„,„e ROSE , - 
 
 ststtrr •■"•■""■''■- --.- 
 
 sanctuary, Sir Hugh I „,"^^' 'T ">= "'°n»--nt they left 
 ''"-'y- B« even'the s":^ s,';*''' '° "-« guarded' h,^' 
 rather was Richard theenfl ^'*'' ^"''8°' 'his duty • 
 o"ard. Richard i, wa?«f " °^ ""' j""'"«>'. <han h^s' 
 Richard who first ^nrtrhL'e""" '"'"^'^ "-"""Ki 
 "■ >>?''<-■ of ,11-weath.r, r j"„ed e,e Tr'''"'^" ■ -ho 
 '"••ar thuir bourne, the a,,! ,, , '> ''^'''>- ^s they drew 
 fence's ear; he ^asla:" iTit^h 'T"" ""' -- "- 
 '» h,m except by Henry's written nrJ^,"' "''' ^'"'^ "PP'ied 
 •'s a galling spur • for h Proclamations. It acted 
 
 of -derstandfng'sytiST?'- ,*'•''> >°""''' '"wJ 
 '™"'d put to flight the m f"'°'"^' 'h»' his presence 
 
 »,hich .is rival Ldttrrht"?' '"' "^ '■"--"" 
 "bscure his nobility. """^ '" "'^' his truth and 
 
 After three days th.-v Hr 
 
 ^.^•ids,thefloweryVd;;1r,,::::J-"r- '''' ^""''"'^ 
 rom a rising firound they looked ,? l'' ""'"" '^"'"■d- 
 
 ' wn,and the vacant moor Ee h'" "''■ ^'"' °^ 'he 
 R'^hard halted, saying, ".Sir Knl, , "'"f '''"^ «'°od. 
 -Jo you seek your K^' . ' \"f' ' ' '''" ^"^it you here 
 '0 purchase with drops of il T." '"'■^"'■-'^y''«crifice. 
 »f-y poor followers' ll^,™^:;' "'-^ 'he baser tide 
 ""; ^'aflbld ; let the h/, ,^"^ "" "'ore -bid him rear 
 
 f 'he topmkst hough oftr '""'"" "'^' -^■' '° "p 
 *e desp,sed l.vcs of n^/tho^!""- , The price I ask, is 
 
 ;^re incapable of n,erito"'of'i;„ u'' '""^ ^"''<^ ^''• 
 -hi-ak i^,^ n^ygrdUrCVar '"''''' 
 '• 'f pledge of this be deni ^ t ™ Prepared to 
 
 »-=-a sword, and will sell my life /'l ' f " '"^ ^^^e. I 
 
 
268 
 
 HENRV VII 
 
 possession of his rival's person, The Prince had, dunns 
 their three days' companionship, gained great power ovet 
 him • he felt that he was in trutli the son of Edward tlic 
 Fourth, a man he had never loved (for Sir Hugh was a 
 Lancastrian), but one whom he had feared and obeyed a- 
 his sovereign. How could he put slavish force upon In^. 
 gallant offspring ? He hesitated, till the I'rince demanded. 
 " Wherefore delay-is there aught else that you desire ? 
 
 "You pledge your knightly word," said Sir Hugh, "not 
 to desert this spot ? " 
 
 " Else wherefore am I here ?— this is idle. Yet, so to 
 content you, 1 swear by my vow made under the walls of 
 Granada, by our Lady, and by the blessed Samts, I w.ll 
 abide here." 
 
 The knight rode into the town with his followers, leaving 
 young Richard impatient for the hour that was to deliver 
 him to servitude. 
 
 Sir Hugh first sought Lord Uawbeny, requesting him m 
 obtain for him instant audience of the King. "lb- 
 Grace," said the noble, " is at vespers, or about to attend 
 them." 
 
 "I dare not wait till they are said," replied Luttrel, wiv. 
 every minute felt the burthen of responsibility weighin- 
 heavier on him. 
 
 " Nor I interrupt his Majesty— even now he enters the 
 
 church." 
 
 In haste Sir Hugh crossed the street ; and, as the King 
 took the holy water from the chalice, he knelt before him. 
 The few words he spoke painted Henry's face w.'h exultin; 
 Madness. " We thank ti.ee, good Sir Hugh," he said, "and 
 will make our thanks apparent. By the mass, thou h.i-t 
 deserved well of us this day ! Where hast thou besto«ed 
 our counterfeit ? " , 
 
 " Please your Majesty, he awaits your Highness accci'- 
 tance of his conditions without the eastern gate." 
 " You have placed strong guard over him ? " 
 
hen.i,ng a stern gUnce „„ h s e l£ t? '""""'•' '^"'»' ■ 
 he co„„nanded Lord Well, h?* ■""™""' ""e-^sengcT, 
 
 forceamltose/zethisDuke of 1 '"''° '"^'^ » "^°"^ 
 •^' he was, interfered: dr ve Cv " ''•■'^■'' ^'^ ""«". tfmid 
 ^"J f-rof what might ensue he 7!^" ^°' '"'' P^-o-er, 
 s..|.ula.i„n. Henry looked o'' h, V° '"^""=' ^'°^''' 
 "•'>uly, Cousin, I have vaunted n •T'"' ''™^"' "'^" "id. 
 I^'t not the blood of the mi |"on , ' "'"""" ™'"i"«' i «o 
 S.T r,uttrer.s llulce Perkin sheT "' ''''" °" ■'•'"rels, nor 
 
 oohsh as himself, and need 1 ch rr '"'""''^ "' =>» 
 
 '>- life is safe, but brin. h,m Ze T^' '^'" ''''" "'=" 
 ^nd limitation., do tl s° Ze l/ ' k^"" "'""■" °"^ ''■^^d 
 our Heavenly Father «; Hi l^: Jul ' ''"' "^"" '"-'< 
 accompany our cousin and thin ^ ™'"-''"- Sir Hugh, 
 Pl-se you. We have ^o plasureT'' '"" ^'' ""'"'" '' 
 
 ■'•hus duped, even bv h ^°"' P"''^"<^<^" 
 
 "ute of Yo'rk became I pnsZ ''' d T""- ''""'' -'P'"'' "- 
 -d yielding hhnself an ea'sH "^t rr"/ "" ''^ "^^-^^ 
 '-''ce, thrice, as he availed ^h/ , ^""^ """^- "'"^e, 
 "ossed his mind, not to y ,,'"'":". °^ ^-«-'. 't had 
 remen,ber that he was now 1 ^""^ P'^'^S'^''' "^"t to 
 wuld soon be in other's thrTll . ''"'', ""^""'■ained, and 
 i"S thought, the deed of ;ms~ 'V^" 'T'''' '" '^' ^^P"- 
 '» whose idea, now his llpZ'Z': " vT °' "''^ ''f^' 
 turned ! "^ P°^^ "'^^ -iccomplished, he fondly 
 
 ''*or^rifr-~-nc„ed Within those 
 »:»^ ^..aware, as is the ca e ^ nv n '°'"' "^'•^^"■-'ce, he 
 ™^«nistances and adjufc " 1/ P°''''°"' '''''' "'hose 
 
 "'fly he had fallen. ^HetaJT^ ""^^^-nted, how 
 
 
370 
 
 HENRY VII 
 
 impalpable but adamantine walls-chains hung upon hi. 
 limbs, not the less heavy, because the iron pierced h.s soul 
 rather than his flesh. He had been a free man ; h.s mm- 
 was attended with love and respect, and his aspec com- 
 manded the obedience of men. Now, the very appellaf o„ 
 liiven to him was a mortal insult ; a stranger seemed to 1.,- 
 spoken to when he was addressed, and yet he must answer. 
 He wns never .-rlone ; and night was the sole susper,s,on 
 from the insulting curiosity of the crowd. He must fort^io 
 himself; grow an impostor in his own eyes ; take on h.m 
 the shameful name of Perkin ■. all which native hon.n.r, 
 and memory of his Princess bride, made tr- bly .Mnging. 
 —Mary W. Sheli.kv : J^eriin Wi-vOeck. 
 

 TA aro 
 
XXI 
 
 The Trial and Execution of Sir 
 Thomas More 
 
 Bess, ,0 DanctX IZZT' ''" "" "^ -■ -'h 
 «ay from the ToweMo \V « ^ '° '"^^ '•^'"''" "" his 
 
 come at him flZtVlTbT: "I""' ^^' ™'"''^ -' 
 ga.e our very hearts aJavafr^.K ■""'"'"'' °" » '"-•"'^h to 
 
 in a coarse woollen .!"«„, " " "'"' '''' '^°-"- ^rap, 
 '"■wonted support whenli;;; t 1!^ °" " '""^; 'vhich 
 
 ^^ouider anaVt;': To" '';ooit*'t'r '^" r" -"^ 
 
 h" eyes were see l.linded, I think she ™,nH ^ ^"*"' "'""^h 
 His face was calm, but Jrave Is h ""' '"' •"">■ 
 
 and s,„i,ed in his old flkT T' """^ '" ""^ "°-''. 
 
 ■^^ -<'o- With 2 St o"^k' h^";!^"^^" T '--'^^ 
 
 "x^.^t ...y casement, but'saw a, „, col '"■^' '" 
 
 ;;.;;.r'Pa.hecb.^,,„^ J-_^-^n.^^^^ 
 
 "-^'..eofpoorSyttrs''^''^ ""^'^ "'^ ^^ ^-'' - 
 
 ^-^"-'Cct.:"'^~,--^e longest .er 
 ""triage. Second hi" ■ ■ ' "'""'°" "" 'he ,: ng's 
 
 ::-^es.;:::;^;:;;^--:t;:;^:r--'---o; 
 
 ---edge his grace. supremacy;'^u.S'^;SS 
 
272 
 
 HENRY VIII 
 
 
 deniall of it, and thereby willing to deprive the King of his 
 dignity and title. 
 
 When the reading of this was over, the Lord Chancellor 
 sayth, "Ye see how grievou^lie you have offended the Kin^; 
 his Grace, but and yet he is soe mercifulle, as that if ye will 
 lay aside your obstinacie, and change your opinion, wc 
 hope ye may yet obtayn pardon." 
 
 Father makes answer . . . and at sounde of his 
 
 deare voyce alle men hold their lireaths ; . . . " Most 
 
 noble Lords, I have great cause to thank your Honours for 
 
 this your courtesie . . . but I pray Ai.MiOHTV God I may 
 
 continue in the mind I'm in, through his grace, until death.' 
 
 They coulde not make goode their accusation agayii^i 
 
 him. 'Twas onlie on the last count he could be made out 
 
 a traitor, and proof of 't bad they none ; how coulde they 
 
 have? He shoukle have beetle accquitted out of hand, 
 
 'steade of which, his bitter enemy my Lord Chancellor 
 
 called on him for his defence. Will sayth there was a 
 
 generall murmur or sigh ran through the court, l^'atlier, 
 
 however, answered the bidding by beginning to expresse his 
 
 hope that the effect of long imprisonment mighte not 
 
 have beene such upon his mind and body, as to impair his 
 
 power of rightlie meeting alle the charges agaynst him . . . 
 
 when, turning faint with long standing, ho staggered and 
 
 loosed hold of his staff, whereon he was accorded a seat. 
 
 'Twas but a moment's weakness of the body, and he then 
 
 proceeded frankly to avow his having always opposed tlit 
 
 King's marriage to his grace himself, which he was soe l.ir 
 
 from thinking high treason, that he shoulde rather have 
 
 deemed it treachery to have witliholden his opinion from 
 
 his sovereign King when solicited by him for his couiiscll. 
 
 His letters to the good Bishop he proved to have been 
 
 harmlesse. Touching his declining to give his opinion, 
 
 when askt, concerning the supremacy, he alleged lliere 
 
 coulde be noe transgression in holding his peace thereon, 
 
 God only being cognizant of our thoughts. 
 
SIR THOMAS MORE 
 
 273 
 
 f-^^ted he l,acl never spoken w ' "'' '^'''■'^«'^' ^e pr-.- 
 anie man. "'""•" ^'"'''^ "S^inst the law unto 
 
 SoiSlo/^,::^^^--;.:;;! -."..When up .arts the 
 i^ sworn, and give eviden e of I /^"""' '" "" """"• 
 ■"e Tower, falLie addt, , ' Var '"T """ '''"""-■^ '" 
 ^yng "No parliament -ould t '"'' "''" °" '"^ 
 
 ^houide not be God' Ftl I , T ' ^'^ "'•^' ''"^^ 
 'ou'de they make the kin., "'f'^, ""T"^' "^o more 
 I marvell the «roum n,'^?'^'^ °f"^'-' -church." 
 
 ''Hskhe made an^r ' ' I ' T';:L"r " '"'^ ^^'^•- '-"" 
 regarded not an oath ye knnl n T"' "'>' ''°'''^'*' ^ho 
 "owat this bar. And f the T I "'"^"^ "°' '^-"^ 
 '>-e just taken, be true he , I ?"'' >-°"' '^'^- R-''. 
 
 -'-race. Ingoori'Mnir"^^-^^-^-^^- 
 0^ your perjurie than „,y peri, Vn ' , "J ""''" '°">' 
 l«ng together in one parish '""' ' """"^ ^"•'^1' 
 
 conversation from your'-o h up"" T"7 "' ''' ^'^ 
 " Paineth me to tell ye wl "I T, f""'"" '° ""-■■ '>"'! 
 =»S"e, a great dicer d ^ „ ":: '"''t '"^' ''»'" "^ Vour 
 ""■■"dahle fame either therfn ', "°' °f ^ni- con,- 
 
 »'h.ch ye have belon/ed Is i '" m ''^™'^'^' ">'^ I"" '" 
 '-dship.,,that the secrets of mr;'^'""'"'°"''° >-'■ 
 »'N which I never woulde r .X t^ '°""'"^ '"■-■ 
 '"'■•de, either to the Kin^V ' ', ""-' ''^'"'^ once 
 
 >-. ."y honourall. ^ fj^ H^o'ITH' "" '° ^"''•' -^^ 
 '^'-ed out in private par.ef Ivit^ ITk^^:: '""^ "^""V 
 
 'i:?°rt:'^rt---t .,nt.ne.er. 
 J y retired, and presentlie returned with a 
 
 i 
 
274 
 
 HENR': VIII 
 
 verdict of guilty ; for lliey knew what the King's Grace 
 woulde have 'em doe in tliat case. 
 
 Up starts my Lord Audley ;— commi ices pronouncing 
 Judgment, when — 
 
 " My Lord," says Father, " in my time, the custom in 
 these cases was ever to asl< tlie prisoner before sentence, 
 whether he coulde give anie reason why judgment shoulde 
 not proceed agaynst him." 
 
 My Lord, in some confusion, puts the que.stion. 
 
 And then came the frightful sentence. 
 
 Yes, yes, my soul, I know ; there were saints of old sawn 
 asunder. Men of whom the world was not worthy. 
 
 . . . Then he spake unto 'em his mind; and b.ide bis 
 judges and accusers farewell ; hoping that like as St. Paul 
 was present and consenting unto St. Stephen's death, and 
 yet both were now holy Saints in Heaven, soe he and they 
 might speedilie meet there, joint heirs of everlasting 
 salvation. 
 
 Meantime, poor Bess and Cecilie, spent with grief and 
 long waiting, were forct to be carried home by Heron, or 
 ever Father returned to his prison. Was 't less feeling, or 
 more strength of body, enabled me to bide at the Tower 
 Wharf witli Dancey ? God knoweth. They brought liim 
 back by water ; my poor sisters must have passed him. 
 . . . The first thing I saw was the axe, turned zeilk 
 i/s edge towards him— my first note of his sentence. 1 
 forct my way through the crowd . . . some one laid 
 a cold hand on my arm ; 'twas poor Patteson, soe changed 
 I scarce knew him, with a rosary of gooseberries he kept 
 running through his fingers. He sayth, " Bide your time. 
 Mistress Meg ; when he comes past, I'll make a passage 
 for ye ; . . . Oh, Brother, Brother ! what ailed thee 
 to refuse the oath ? I've taken it ! " In another moment, 
 "Now, Mistress, new!" and flinging his arms right and 
 left, made a breach 'lirough which I darted, fearlesse ot 
 bills and halberds, ai'd did cast mine arms about Fathers 
 
SIR THOMAS MORE 
 
 neck. He cries, 
 
 -'75 
 
 thougl 
 
 1 our VI 
 
 % 'Mcf,'!"and 
 
 ^iess thee, bless thee 
 
 souls shouldc grow 
 
 h';'.."';^" ^.'° »-P -d bre! 
 
 'lugs me to h 
 together. He sayth, 
 
 mil as 
 
 ber, though I die 
 
 tnuugh, enougli, my ch^ 
 
 my child; 
 
 ■ak mine heart? Re 
 
 >vho coufde have r3 „ "°' "'"""' "''^ -"^olGoo, 
 best; therefore posse T r-""'"^' '^'''"^' '' ''»-''■' 
 ^lle for ,„e, thus'and thus '" '^'"'"^'^- ^'^^ "^en, 
 
 Dancey's arms, the Guard, '.u ' . V'""'^ ^^"^ '"^ ^^''^ '"to 
 could not thus iL^S of h 7 '"'= "^^''''"8' •"" I 
 "'inute's pause did n, t ^°' ''"^'' ^ =°'=. ^fter a 
 
 Dancey, c^^c lo^Fat :^^4™ "'"' '^"^'^ ^^^ f™- 
 onme,andmadenau ewhti? ', '="'^" ""^^ ''^'^ P'""'^ 
 time there were hr"edlo "^^ "P"" ''''^ "'^'=''. This 
 
 and the big , rs Tl' , ■ ' ^^ ^"^ °" ^" •^'^" ''^^^ 
 
 not deny m;',rrS:pf'T^:;''~-;thou.,t 
 once loosened my arms " rJ v! "° ' ^'"^ "' 
 
 '"^ ^ayth with a la t ki T n' ''""= ''"^ »■'"' >-°"." 
 
 •'>en thereof I"' he V . J"™' "' ^^™'- ''"d the 
 
 -d-.thsoo:ssi<:::t:r'r::^:r:ss,r''"f^p- 
 
 expectuig a beatific vision ■ nnH T' t °'' "P' '''"o« 
 
 h^'s gont., and I hav" noe m„r '" ' '"" ^'°"' ^«^>'". 
 -yself agayn i„ m ne o.n cLX "" "'" "" ' ''"^ 
 my hands. chamber, my sisters chafing 
 
 Alle s over now *i . 
 
 )et I live Thpr. ■ ■ ^^ '■'' '^°'" "'^'fe worst, and 
 
 cw The'S:::crs.r;heV™'^^' ^'-''^' --^^ ^^^ 
 :::niS:;;;r-'--«onedsi„;-";-;:i 
 
 Ur. Clement hath beene with ns «„ft. u 
 2;;;^ -bridegroom to ^'ie/:i'':--|:^ 
 
276 
 
 HENRY VlII 
 
 Rupert stoode it alU out. Perfect love- casicth out fear« 
 See did his. 
 
 ♦ »■*♦♦ 
 
 My most precious treasure is this dearc billet, writ will, 
 a coal ; the last thing he sett his hand to, wherein 1r- 
 sayth, " I n,-ver liked your manner towards me better tlun 
 when you kissed nie last." 
 
 They have let -us bury his poor m.angled trunk ; but, as 
 sure as there's a sun in Heaven, I'll have his head! -be- 
 fore another sun hath risen, too. If wise men won t speed 
 me I'll e'en content me with a fool. 
 
 I doe think men, for the most part, be cowards m their 
 hearts . . . moral cow rds. Here and there, we 
 find one like Father, and like Socrates, and like . . • 
 this and that one, I mind not theire names just now ; bul 
 in the main, methinketh they lack the moral courage ..I 
 women. Maybe, I'm unjust to 'em just now, being cf.st. 
 
 I lay down, but my heart was waking. Soon after tin- 
 first cock crew, I hearde a pebble cast agaynst my lattice, 
 knew the signall, rose, dressed, stole softlie down and Id 
 myself out. I knew the touch of the poor fool's finger.; 
 his teeth were chattering, 'twixt cold and tear, yet lie 
 lauRht aneath his breath as he caught my arm and draggea 
 me after him, whispering, "Fool and fayr Lady wi . 
 cheat 'em yet." At the stairs lay a wherry with a couple 
 of boatmen, and one of 'em stepping up to me, < i.t.v 
 "Alas, for ruth, .Mistress Meg, what is't ye do ? An -mJ 
 to go on this err.nid?" I sayd, " I shall be mad if I goe 
 not, and succeed, too— put me in, and push off.' 
 
 We went down the river (luietlie enow— at length reicli 
 I ondon Bridge Stairs. Patteson, starting up, says, " U^^: 
 veall as ye ure," and springs aland and runneth up to iHe 
 bridge Anon, returns, and sayth, "Now, Mistress, alle> 
 
SIR THOMAS MORE 
 
 ^n:!;^r:i?i"'^ -■■ ■ ■ • ->"-h.-i.;i:.: 
 
 Nor lookt I up till aneath the brid"e-<'ite wh.n .■ 
 upward a fearsome look, I beheld "thrd^rk::,,:':^ 
 the ghastly yet precious relic- and fnlln 
 ...our did «.rin« tf.y hands aid 'e/cSnf^/la:"':;,: ^l 
 head hath la.„ full manie a ,i„,e in n>y lap vo'u kil'c 'on 
 wouldu God it lay there now ! " When o' „HH , ' 
 ;he pole tremhle and sway towarr^ ^ :;,■:: 
 
 forth my apron, I did in an extasy of gladness Xa"^ 
 horror, catch its burthen as it fell. Patt'^son, thudde'r „g 
 
 Mistress? Lets speed away with our theft, for fools and 
 he,r treasures are soon parted; but I think m.t tl^ fol 
 low hard after us. neither, for there are well-wishes o us 
 on the lirKlge, I'll put ye into the bo:tt and then 7L Go, 
 speed ye. Lady, with your burthen." ^' 
 
 -Miss M.VNMxo : JfouscholU of Sir riioma, AUr,. 
 
 ■m 
 
XXII 
 
 A Poor Man's Rebellion 
 
 WE came out on the brow of a hill, which command, d 
 a pretty wide stretch of flat country. The dark sky 
 suddenly kindled into a lurid red, and the bright flanu> 
 rose from a distant city in the direction of Norwich. It wu, 
 the year 1549, and the men of Norfolk were in rebellion. 
 
 "There's your town," said Lamech ironically. ' Vt'} 
 safe you'd be there, my lad, with your pretty sister and pui 
 of money. Mighty safe under mob law. Shall we go and 
 see how it works ? " . 
 
 "No" said I, with a shudder, and turning in anoili. : 
 direction. " I can guess pretty well ; and 1 need to t'.et „„ 
 a coffin for my dead father, and to hie home as soon a^ 1 
 may to my disconsolate, unprotected sister.'" 
 
 So, without another word, we sped down the hill to a 
 village that lay at its base. Twas now late ; but folk m 
 towns and hamlets get not to bed so soon as them that live- 
 removed ; we had gone to rest at sundown, and the rubl.cr^ 
 might have come upon us a couple of hours afterwaru. 
 There were lights yet in a few houses. I found the man 
 who made coffins, and told him what I wanted. He 
 listened greedily to my story of the murder, and told me he 
 had a shell ready to hand that would fit my father, bo a, 
 it was a light one, I took it up with a sad heart. Just then 
 a man on horseback dashed up to the door. 
 
 " They're playing old gooseberry at Norwich, cries he 
 " Why, they've set it afire, haven't they ? " says Lamech. 
 "No "says he, "that's a farm and some out builair,„> 
 
A I'OOK 
 
 lieuvfcn this and tliat I 
 
 MANS REBELLION 
 
 270 
 
 I left it, 11 
 
 likely; for tl 
 
 'ioii"h 
 
 mt Norwich wasn't in fla 
 
 It may he 1 
 
 hy th 
 
 inics wht- 
 
 ■n 
 
 and his men 
 
 (|ulckly I 
 
 "•■y'ri-- as drunk as drunk 
 
 I's time-nothing i„„rc. 
 
 surprised the tow 
 
 <~an he. 'Ihe 'l 
 
 n at ni 
 
 ightfall, 
 
 anner 
 
 , ■ assault, and are now"i;;ds'';f "7 "f""' "'"''^ " 
 "'nyor's house, he and his nickori 1 ' '^''"'■'"'"fe' '" 'he 
 
 running in the mayor's ce ar 1 I T ' '""'"^ ""-■ ''''"'^ 
 «'f -rve it out to then : ; , ,";,: ;"« •'"; "'•^>-- hin,. 
 fest of the insurgents are ,Z. * cup-hearer. The 
 
 l;ouse of which=:^ht^,'T^ :';::;;;» '"■•"e .own, every 
 ■l>'"g.s they throw out of windo , a^ P'- """ '"""""'^^ "^ 
 Vcm ne'er saw su.h a see e in ' ■'"'"''' '" ""•" '"''''■ 
 children serean,i„. „en s!^ ^'T ''f'=-»"">^'n crying, 
 'H)h,mygood;;ek V H : [:^:;^™''"8' f-> ««'>.inV' 
 ^•airhead, where she was tar gaM "h" n"'"-"'"'""'^' 
 'ome here next, I suppose DiLn o : "'^'^"^''^ 
 
 .i'e'^S'r:::rH:^;;"-'^'--'-ohave 
 
 "hereon a eouple of childre7in bed , ""' '-"^'"S' 
 
 'l>e midst of whieh I depart 'd w>h'=""" '" "^ '°°' '" 
 Lameeh still persisting inZ "'^' ™' ^'"''^•'" ' 
 
 "%"«. he said,' end :'e 1 hanTl '""■ 'k""""^' '^^' '^ 
 as I that the weight on mv hnt ' '"" ^^ ^""^ '' ««" 
 heart. ^ "^ '''"='' "'^^ "o'hing to that on my 
 
 •ho ill news, Some were at h • I '" ^'^ ^^"^ "^^ 
 
 J- I rememher a^ ,;;[: ^o t.':;!; S""" ^ T'- 
 '"'' -«^ 'hat the Tanner'Jn,en ^e'fo^ToVs'mgii-r 
 
 aeon his mother 
 
 Hevlm, the barley- mow! 
 Sheep are feeding, all of a 
 
 gavehimacuffon thehead 
 
 saymg — 
 
 
 tf. 
 
 '-' t j 
 
 III 
 
28o 
 
 EDWAKD VI 
 
 "You naughty varlet, let me henr you sing that song 
 again, if you dare! Slieep are feuc'.inj, quotha! W-.^ 
 shall soon have neither sheep nor barley, an' Master Ket 
 carries it at this rate ; and then what will come of the 
 country ? " 
 
 "Thou seest, lad," says Lamech, as we went aloiif;, 
 " that Diccon's wife's first impulse was to be o(T to the hills 
 at the bare rumour of the approach of these rebels that call 
 themselves the feopk and the people's friends. She fcU 
 there was no security in towns or villages, under mob law, 
 poor wretch; just as you feel there's none in the lone- 
 forest. Woe unto the land where the householder is no 
 longer lord of his own fireside." 
 
 Well, Mother Mumblegrace was verily and indeed a 
 
 friend in need ; as I had been to her, so was she to mc : 
 
 helped me to shroud him as neat as possible, and lay him 
 
 in the shell, with a i)late of salt on his breast, and a spri- 
 
 of rosemary in his hand ; a dead man could not have 
 
 looked more comfortable, which has always been a consol.i 
 
 tion to me. And she sent Audrey to bed, and kept an eyt- 
 
 to Master Frar.cis (who, however, did not relish her near 
 
 as well as a nurse, but took thinRs as they came, M-ry 
 
 patient, and h-id a lesson in that hut, I fancy, about Imw 
 
 poor people live, and how they feci, and how they haw tn 
 
 snother their feelings, and how they are kind to one 
 
 another, that has lasted all his life). Poor Audrey, spent 
 
 with grief, was heavy to slumber. 1 just peeped in on hir. 
 
 and saw her, like the poor overworn disciples, sleepnig for 
 
 sorrow. In the morning she arose, wondrous refreshed. 
 
 washed her face, smoothed her hair, like the good patrortli 
 
 Joseph, and came forth with her grief locked up in her 
 
 deep heart, to sot about the common offices of life. .\n(l 
 
 so we went on for a day or two, till the Sabbath whereon 
 
 my father was buried ; when a few old neighbours came to 
 
 help carry him to the grave. And one of 'em told me that 
 
 Ket had been carryi'ig it proudly ever since the ukins 
 
A POOR MAN'S REBELLION ,8, 
 
 •^-K. in answer to hi ';;•; ":':;^';;'" O"^' -^-l .-a. -he 
 --cl-e upon). ,ud ,.^ :^" ,'^;/;;;''" («hi..l. wo «... 
 and l„s fellows should be redr .. u"" "'"''''^""s of him 
 
 •-•I'^'ed by his suc,:escs ,nd r '^°"'^^'''' "'" T''"ner, 
 '-■■'•-.°f taking ,,,,,,:,;: 3^ --S-K<.t "f .IK. original 
 - eas.ly, and refused to subn, f u," T"', '" '" ^^"■■^'''-•'' 
 >*•''•-" a b.,,1 fellow |,e must Int ll t""'' ^°"' 'ad'*. 
 
 .'^"Od could he hope to " ^in ' ?" ,"; '"" ' ^°' "'''at 
 '•- ^rly p.^ J to'C" hS;t ilT'"*^" '"=" «- -' 
 
 ''■»no,'wiu'!Tho''ugifle'td'':;"'-r' :'"'' ^^^ ■"•^-if"'. 
 
 '"<'k .neasures to put down ] '""'^ '° '"^'^ °ver us 
 
 ''and; the sooner done then, '"-""'"" "'■"■ " strong 
 So the Marquis of No«h ""''^"""' '" "«-- -"d. ^ 
 
 Lord ^Ventwot ancT d ""o;;' '"^^°^'' ■'^'-"'^■'^'. -"y 
 advanced upon the inL; , ^iX'"^ ^-f ''-S'.ts 
 "lueh was too .small a ,l°iZ ^''" ''""^red horse, 
 
 fan auxiliary ba^^^ :f'",: ^^ V"1 "'" '""^ ^"'"-' 
 "•em, though wiil, „o smalMoss io th : '""■''^ '^''''''"^'^ 
 encounter, I am not m^l ml m'""'"'™^ ' and in this 
 •he bear.ward, was knol-H " '° ''^ "'■•'' "'X old foe, 
 ^ -d blood,\nd tee , "T "'■•'■ ""■'■"« 'hus 
 Pnsoners, pM that was bad 'n '" " 8«"d many 
 
 threatened to ensue, -iti;"'";- T .""' '"" '""'='> -^•'' 
 ^ent against then, with six U,o n,, '? °^ ^^'""''^'^ '™^ "°'v 
 ••o-e, accompanied by LodU^il M ""' '''''" '^""'^^'^'^ 
 "^any other valiant nobltml d"" 7' "-"' ^°"-'^' ^"^ 
 fame. When the Karl cT." n "^ '""'"" °' "•^" -' and 
 herald ,0 offer free pardon 1 ,r' ^"'^ "'"P- ">« sent a 
 but lay down thei ar s ^Nol^Vr^r'^ '^ "^^^ -°"'d 
 f""er than this ? See how Ket ', f "' '=°"''^ '^'^ "'erci- 
 
 -X^n::ri'd'r?--^o= 
 
28a 
 
 EDWARD VI 
 
 
 ofTer of nicri)- ; reckoning absurdly on tliiir conqucrini; 
 this <:onsideral)le force as they li.ui tliu inferior one, ;ii M 
 urged not to give in by Kct, who feared for his own hfe. 
 So the two opposing partit •, drew up over against tacli 
 other in l)altle array; and Ket placed in the front line 
 of his army all the prisoneis he had taken, that they might 
 fall at the first fire. , 
 
 Hut th. next I did hear of them was, that Ket s army 
 had lain ilown their arms on the personal remonstrame 
 of the l'.arl of Warwick, who, at the hazard of his life, rode 
 up within speaking distance of their lines, and mildly 
 remonstrated with them on their ^edition, and offered them 
 mercy if they would lay down their arms and give up their 
 ringleaders. So the next minute Master Ket found himself 
 on horseback, strapped round the waist to one of the l-^arls 
 troopers, his hands tied to his sides, and his feet tied 
 together under the horse ; ; id in this guise he was taken 
 off to Norwich Castle, where he lodged that night, and wa^ 
 hanged the next morning. A few other impenitent rm- 
 leaders were hanged on the Reformation Oak, the reM 
 quietly dispersed : most of them tired of their lawl.- 
 courses, and glad to reuirn to work ; and the country on, e 
 more rejoiced in safety and quiet. 
 —Miss Mannino ; J,uk ami the Tniiiiei- of llyniomlh.im 
 
nil 
 
 XXIII 
 •^ Fight for the Grown 
 
 •enTcI round '.he Toweo't::,"" 'y^' *"'^" '-» 
 «as ,har, under cover of dlkn ,"' ""-' '''"" "' ^"^^'^^ 
 
 "f men ,„ IX-p.^'whe!:'" 'T'''' ''"^ ''^■'-'•n-n.s 
 Admiral Uinterawaied, he ■ l\"t""' ^'"'"•-•"Jed l.y 
 "'«" 'o cross the rive in W„, J'^' ""^ ^'' '"">■ »-^ 
 >:-t .Sn,i,hneld; « ij s fS"'' ''"•^'^- ''"d proceed ,o 
 ;l.e larger vessel, i ^t ' Jrtir ™"'"' "'^ "'^ '" 
 ")U was eo auemp. a passa Z i '"7 ""^ '^^ ''d-- 
 
 It was then arranged ,hT.u '-'""'"" ^'■''S<>- 
 
 '«o hours befornir:' Vf T^ '"""" "^'-' •"■-- 
 simultaneously at three' dim.? . "'■" '° ''>-' '"^^•'"'•^d 
 
 'Heattention of its d enjS^Trr",™ " '° '"^•"^' 
 '"^assigned the Itras Moum . . l""^ """^^'^ ^"^'^y 
 •'-ramparts; to the Tjeo/sW ,'l '>■"""""' =•"«'•= °f 
 'he southern fortincafons and t U ' '^'""'' ''^°^" ""^ 
 
 '"■•^ fortress. If the .ttark ?' "'°"*''"' defences of 
 
 '-^cJcTsweretoconcen" 1^';°7'' '''"''''''">' 'he three 
 of the Bloody ToCr '^'" ^"^'^'^^ before the gateway 
 
 •n-«h they movJra oi. Sh tTT''' '""^ ^^' -'• 
 ^e heard by the sokhe,^ on the "'°'' '•■•■'""■°"' "^'•■y 
 
 "--p-"-o.ed,:;eH:^:::r;^jt-;r 
 
 
2S4 
 
 MARY 
 
 •irrordingly, thoiigh it was the opinion of many that tlic 
 rcbds had Ijoatcn a retreat. 
 
 At midniglit, Wjal prciuruil to cross l.imdon Bridge. 
 Aware that the drawhrid^'-'* "<■""■' i^"' •'"■'> '''*" '' ""^ 
 barricaded, and strongly defended he pn.vided himself 
 with planks and ropes, and issuing' inslruclioiis to his men, 
 set forward. 'I'hey were allowed to proceed without moles 
 totion to the first drawl)rid;,;e, but here a sharp fire was 
 opened upon them In spite of this, Wyat sueteeded in 
 laying; down a plank, and, at the head of a do/en men, 
 crossed it. Dislodging; their o|iponen(s, several other 
 planks were laid down, and the p.iss.ige being rendered 
 secure, the whole party crossed, and carried over their 
 anniiunition in safety. 
 
 The repoit of the atl.ick soon readied the city guard. 
 Drums were beaten, trumpets sounded, and shouts lieanl 
 in every direction. While tliis was passing, a well contested 
 figlit took pl.ace ,at the barricades in tlie centre of lli- 
 bridge, between their defenders and the insurgents. Havm; 
 broken down these obstacles, Wyat drove all before him. 
 Still .another and wider chasm lay between him and the 
 Middlesex shore. In front of it, the assailed party made 
 a desperate stand ; but their resistance was unavailing.;. 
 Many were precipitated into the yawning gulf, and 
 drowned ; while others threw down then r: r,s, . . ' be- 
 sought mercy. 
 
 On the farther side of the chasm, a formidable arra; "i 
 soldiery oiiposed the progress of the rebel army, and a 
 piece of ordnance did terrible execution amongst iheiii. 
 Two planks were hewn asunder as soon as they were thru>I 
 across the abyss ; but the moment the third was laid down, 
 Wyat dushed across it, and drove back two men «:tli 
 hatchets in their hands who were about to sever it. He 
 was followed by half a dozen soldiers. In this instainc, 
 his fiery courage had well-nigh proved fatal to him ; for no 
 sooner had the small band crossed it, than the plank was 
 
A M(;ilT FOR TUE C,«,WN ,«-, 
 
 "Icllowcountrjnitn," he shdui.,! "i 
 not your cnen.y. I«,uM,l,i, ' ' ""' >""' f"'^"''- 
 
 oppression. \,,., ou, , n>, o" V",' '""' ""^''•'""' -'' 
 are upholding Span, d K^ " '"^ ''"" ""I"-' '"-■ Vou 
 "-« for Engl,';.! and hher.y." '"'""^""—""^' ' -, fi^hf 
 
 Ihese few words, voti/ernt..,! ■.k.i u 
 stand n,,„ns. his o^J:^:^:^^^^;-^'^'^^ %:'^^'-'"^ 
 «■" the royahst leaders sh nue " f '"■"'^- '" 
 
 -no..opishsupre„,a,, *„„i;:,::>;^ .^'""'■"■PofSpain 
 Amid thrs tuniiih il„. ,„ 
 
 «hdis„,ay.heSo::.o rf^errr -r 
 
 'hu,r,.xer,ions; and plac ng e'. rd 1,"""' ^"'""'''•■'' 
 crossed then,, and 11,.; ,„ !,t, ^slmn >■',',"" '''' «""' 
 
 a>lvantage he had Knned V.^, I'ollow,,,;; „,, ,he 
 
 remainder of his iroops and a I '"?"' "^ "'^■ 
 
 wl.ich was safely aecon'pl.shed ' '""" ""' '^'''"' 
 
 4a;!;rrhi'';:t;::i';"'-'-^--heekedhya 
 '■-'-^.andas^iS.::: ,:— i^h'!;^'^"'."^ 
 
 were worsted with severe loss \Z J ""•■ --oyahsts 
 
 as;d, asarn,s and horses iv!:!""!,':'""'-'" ""'^"' 
 and retreated to the Tower hril! , ' "'''■' ""^^l'"'' 
 d^^at and of the sucei:';^;:;;;;''^ "™-^ '- - 
 
 -SrTtSrj'ts^f?"""^"''-'-^^ 
 
 •heir property • but WW ?.* "' ™' ""= security of 
 l"""<i!r !.rri'ot:dCa'p,mB:V'" ;'■"'" '"^ •"■-■" ''- 
 ^'•■ief should be done'th V /•' '"°t""'"« ">"' "° >"'- 
 
 way. the insurgents nl^ :;":':::"'""• '" "-'' 
 ' "'""■'"' luflher interruption, 
 
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2S6 
 
 MARY 
 
 to Cornhill, where Wyat marshalled his forces, distributwl 
 rations of meat and liquors among them, and awaited the 
 appointed time for his attack upon the Tower. 
 
 Within the fortress all was consternation. The extra- 
 ordinary success which had hitherto attended Wyat well 
 nigh paralysed the Queen's party. The council again uracil 
 Mary to escape privately, but she peremptorily refused, and 
 forbade the subject to be mentioned again, on pain of her 
 severest displeasure. Some of the more timid then ven- 
 tured to advise that she should assent to Wyat's terms - 
 that Renard should be given up, and the match with the 
 Prince of Spain abandoned. " I will sooner abandon my 
 crown," rejoined Mary. Her courage never for one instiiin 
 forsook her, and her spirit and resolution sustained the 
 wavering minds of her adherents. 
 
 Long before this, Suffolk and Dudley had reached Dept- 
 ford. As agreed, the Duke and his detachment embarked 
 on board Winter's squadron, while the otliers were trans- 
 ported across the river in smaller boats. At Poplar, Dudley 
 ordered his men to nail together a number of stout bo.ird^ 
 to serve as rafts. These were fastened with ropes to such 
 horses as they could procure, and on reaching I'.ast Smitli 
 field were unharnessed and held in readiness, until the 
 signal of attack should be given. Besides the rafts, two or 
 three wherries had been brought up from the river, .md 
 several long scaling-ladders provided. 
 
 Dudley's detachment consisted of about a thousand men, 
 archers and arquebussiers, all of whom were well armed and 
 eager for the attack. As yet, all was involved in profound 
 darkness, and so far as they could judge, no suspicion of 
 their presence was entertained by those within the fortress. 
 
 Scouts were despatched towards the postern gate, a 
 fortification terminating the city wall, and situated at ik' 
 north side of the moat ; and from one of them, who liad 
 contrived to scramble along the edge of the fosse, it was 
 a.scertaincd that a detachment of Sir Thomas Wyat's party 
 
A FIGHT FOR THE CROW^ ,^^ 
 
 r;::r';,r'""^'"°"^-'"-'"^ — on Of surpnsin. 
 
 '"d passed beneath rhemoTbuMr,''™"^' '^'■"•" '- 
 " would be Slopped indu. H h •''"■"^ '^'-■"•■"'"y 'hat 
 
 A" at once, a bite o 1 ^, f"" '° '•''^""^"" "'<= 'dea 
 
 fortress, ,n the direction of T'' ""' "' ""-' ^""'h of the 
 
 "-eroarof arti,ler,.ar,h shlpird' V"^ '""°^'^-'' "^^ 
 accompanied by the beatlL IfT "'''"«•-■ "^ ^"'^"»^. 
 
 °f '7-pets. the clash ^of Ltd?' "; '°,"' ''™^'"« 
 sounds. '' °' swords, and other martial 
 
 »a^"ing"o"n S^siS'S th"' ""^ ^'■"""^' "^ -^-"" 
 
 'l>eir rafts on the water and n\T,'' ""'^ "^ '••"""-''cd 
 
 poles. The noise th!; n I'b ^'' ''T '"=™" '^''h '""8 
 
 '-'s. The alarm was in atlv "' """ '" ""= ^-"' 
 
 fire was opened upon th~'^ 17-;''"' " '"'"^"'^''"^ 
 of the Brass Mount as ve ,""'"' ^"'^ "-'"^^^^te 
 
 western line of rampart's "' ^"'" "'^ '^^^"=™ "nd 
 
 3itg'rth?:Lu:asr.:^r?T'°" °^ -^---^ 
 
 -"lis were, and stiH are of 'h "'^ ''"'^^^^' ^"^ "« 
 it was so well fo,. ified that it """''"''^ ""'^^"'--- -^ 
 "able. Notwithstanding thsmTr "'"'^'' " """-«■ 
 ™ain object of the present la'? T'"": " ^"'"""^ '^- 
 fire from the besiled Dudt k""'" " ^'""S'>tcrous 
 
 -nondeley, who carried his ft 'dard '""''' """ C'>°'- 
 «ving his sword above hshn' '' ""'" ^''''^' '"'d, 
 Mount, and urged his me ' o Th ' a's" V""" "'''' 
 no encouragement ; but in som.H ^^^^ "'^'"'^'^ 
 
 ^-o«ers of arrows dischar«ed hv fh'^'"' u'''°''"'^<^ ^'^ '"^ 
 ">e sides of the moat and ,1 ^ "''"'" ^'='"°"^d =« 
 ^"ssiers, succeeded M 1 '°""'"' "■■" °^ "''^ '''^'i"'^- 
 1»« of'ti.e eastern ran ' '"^- '"'^'^'^''-s against that 
 bastion. ''"'''"'' '"mediately adjoining the 
 
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 MARY 
 
 These were instantly covered with men, who mountci!, 
 sword in hand, but were attacked and hurled backwards hy 
 the besieged. Another ladder was soon il-nted against th-. 
 Brass Mount, while two more were reared against tht 
 northern ramparts opposite the postern gate, which had 
 been stormed and taken by Wyat's party, several of wliom 
 were descending the banks of the moat, and firing upon the 
 fortress, assisted by three culverins placed in a temporary 
 battery composed of large baskets filled with sand. 
 
 All this had not been executed without severe loss on 
 the part of the insurgents. Several of the rafts were 
 swamped, and their occupants, embarrassed by the weiglu 
 of their arms, drowned. One of the ladders plant.a 
 against the northern battlements was hurled backward with 
 its living load ; and such was the vigour and determination 
 of the besiefcd, that none of the assailants could set a foot 
 on the ramparts. 
 
 Considerable execution, however, was done by tlic 
 showers of arrows from archers, as well as by the discharges 
 of the arquebussiers. But success did not, as yet, declare 
 itself for either side. Constantly repulsed, the insurgents 
 still resolutely returned to the charge ; and though num- 
 bers fell from the ladders, others were instantly found to 
 take their place. 
 
 Seeing how matters stood, and aware that some desperate 
 effort must be made, Dudley, who had hitherto watched the 
 progress of the fight from the moat, exposing himsclt to 
 the full fire of the batteries, resolved to ascend the ladder 
 placed against the Brass Mount. Cholmondeley agreed to 
 follow him ; amid the cheers of the assailants and the 
 unrelaxing fire of the besieged, the boat was run in to the 
 side of the bastion. 
 
 At this juncture, a loud explosion, succeeded by a tre- 
 mendous shout, was heard at the south side of the fortress^ 
 For a brief space both royalists and insurgents ceased 
 fighting ; and, taking advantage of the pause, Dudley swidly 
 
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 mourned the ladder, and, reaching the summit, shouted, 
 
 (■od save Queen Jane ! " 
 
 "God save Queen Jane!" echoed Cholmondeley, who 
 was close behmd him. "Cod save (,.ueen Jane^- he 
 reixated, waving the banner. 
 
 The cry was reiterated from below, and the firing recom- 
 menced more furiously than ever. 
 
 It was rumoured among Dudley's men, and the report 
 stimulated their ardour, that the Duke of Suffolk had taken 
 St Ihomass IWer. This, I,owever, was not the case. 
 
 squadron under the command of Admiral Winter, accom- 
 panied by a number of galleys and wherries, made its way 
 lowly ,0 the Tower. Owir^ to the necessary delay, the 
 ide had turned, and the larger vessels had to be towed up 
 the river by the smaller craft. 
 
 On their arrival they were immediately perceived by the 
 sentinels, who openeda fire upon them, which was instantly 
 returned. Ihis was the commencement of the siege, and 
 served as the signal to Dudley, and likewise to \Vyat of 
 whose movements it will be necessary to speak hereafter 
 Before the squadron came up, the Duke of Suffolk em- 
 
 !r '"-..f /"'''" ^""''''' ""<^- "^^-''Panied by several 
 wherries filled with soldiers, contrived, by keeping close 
 under the wall of the wharf, to effect a landing, ni percei ed 
 at >he stairs. Taken by surprise, the guard feM an easy 
 prey to their assailants, who, seizing the cannon placed 
 there, turned them against the fortress. 
 
 Wliile this was passing, several boats landed their crews 
 t the eastern end of the wharf, and many others speeded 
 "wards .t from all quarters. In a short time, it was crowded 
 b the insurgents; and notwithstanding the tremendous 
 fre kept up against them from the whole line of battle- 
 ments -rom Traitor's Tower-and from all the fortifica- 
 tions withm shot, they resolutely maintained their ground 
 
 Directing the attack in person, and exposing hin.self to 
 
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 MARY 
 
 every danger, the Duke of SufTolk displayed the utmosi 
 coolness and courage. The tight raged furiously on both 
 sides. Several boats, and one of the larger vessels, wcic 
 sunk by the guns of the batteries, and the ranks of the in 
 surgents were greatly thinned. Still there was no symptom 
 of irresolution exhibited ; nor did they relax for a moment 
 in their efforts. 
 
 Scaling-ladders were placed against the walls of Traitor-, 
 Tower, and crowded with climbers, wliile a gun-boat entered 
 the dark arch beneath it, and its crew commenced battering 
 with axes, halberds, and poles, against the portcullis and 
 water-gate. Another party had taken possession ot the 
 buildings opposite the By-ward Tower, and were trying to 
 reach the dri\wbridge, which, it is almost needless to say, 
 was raised. Added to these, a strong body of Essex men, 
 having congregated at Limchouse, approached the fortress 
 by St. Catherine's and the lane leading to the Flemish 
 church, and were striving to force the Iron Gate and the 
 eastern outlet of the wharf. 
 
 At this juncture, an occurrence took place, which, while 
 it disheartened the besieged, tend-d greatly to animate the 
 assailing party. At the south-west corner of the wharf 
 stood a row of small habitations separating it from Petty 
 Wales. One of these was presently observed to be on fire, 
 and the flames rapidly spread to the others. Shortly after- 
 wards, a tremendous explosion took place. A building was 
 blown up, and the fiery fragments tossed into the river and 
 moat ; while across the blazing ruins, with loud shouts, 
 rushed a party of men from the troops under Sir Thomas 
 Wyat. 
 
 This was the explosion that reached the ears of Dudley 
 and his band. Rushing to the assistance of their friends, 
 the new-comers seemed determined to carryall before them. 
 and such was the effect of their sudden appearance, tliat the 
 besieged for a moment gave way, and a small body of the 
 insurgents gained a footing on the roof of Traitor's Tower. 
 
A FIGHT FOR THE CROWN 20, 
 
 But the nc« moment the royalists rallied, drove off their 
 ^ssa„a„t.,, and the light continued as ol.s.inatdy as '-fo 
 
 ruddv lilr f ^^'"'^'"'^""'-■'^ °f 'hose who beheld it. The 
 ervin jt 7°u "" "''"" ^^ "^^ ''"™-g "ouses, and 
 
 inkn^ r '^ "■' ''" ^«^^>^-'he armed boatsLhe 
 
 ough fearful >merest_nor did the roar of the cannon the 
 ash of arms, the shouts and cheers of the con,batan"s a uj 
 the groans of the wounded, detract from its effect 
 
 evceirr^h '" """"n' "^"^' "•''"^''' "^""^h unwitnessed, 
 vctpt by those actually concerned in it, equalled if no 
 
 w'th "' '" ''^°"" P°""- '''' -s'a 'conflic; unde 
 t Thomas's Tower. It had been already mentioned 
 
 hr,L r ';■ """"T^ ^ ^""■''°^'' '^''^ penetrated beneath 
 U, ar h leadmg to Traitor's Tower, where they endeavoured 
 
 W le the ""''"". '' ''''' '"''''''"'' '° '=«■'-"'' ='" '^"'""'' 
 a.sed, and the Watergate opened; and the men, supposing- 
 their own party had gained possession of the orX ion 
 above them, dashed forward. ■orimcation 
 
 They were speedily undeceived. Before they reached 
 he steps, a number of armed figures, some of whom bore 
 h ='PP^"f,°' *h.le a thundern>g splash behind told 
 
 trl "v ?"" "^^ """"^ ■« '^°-' - - 'o -t off their 
 a eat. Nothmg remamed but to sell their lives as dearly 
 « they could. Quarter was neither asked nor granted 
 ome leaped overboard, and tried, sword in hand fofcrce 
 
 h gunner discharged a falconet planted at the prow of 
 the boat, occasioning fearful havoc among their opponents 
 
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 But this availed nothing. They were driven back, and 
 their assailants, pursuing them into the recesses of the arcli, 
 put them to death. The light of the few torches th,it 
 illumined the scene, fell upon figures fearfully struggling, 
 while the arches rang with the reports of musketry, groans, 
 and curses. In a short time all was still and dark as here- 
 tofore. But when the Watergate was afterwards opened, 
 fourteen mangled corpses floated out to the Thames. 
 
 While the siege was thus vigorously carried on, on the 
 north and south, the western side of the fortress was not 
 neglected. Remaining at Comhill for some hours, Wyal 
 divided his forces into two detachments, and conimitti.il 
 one to Captain Bret, wh"m he directed to proceed to the 
 upper part of Tower Hill, along Lombard Street, Fenchurch 
 Street, and "fower Street, and to place his men within the 
 churchyard of All-Hallows, Barking, and at the rear of the 
 scaffold on Tower Hill ; while with the other he himself 
 marched down Gracechurch Street, along Thames Street, 
 taking up a position before the Bulwark Gate. 
 
 As soon as he had reached this point, and arranged his 
 men, he rode off to Bret, and ordered a party, commanded 
 by Captain Cobham, to attack the postern-gate, as before 
 related. Bret was to hold himself in readiness to march 
 down to the Bulwark Gate, or to attack the Leg Mount, a 
 bastion at the north-west angle of the fortress, . 'rresiionding 
 (though of somewhat smaller size) with the Brass Mount, 
 as he should receive instructions. 
 
 Having issued these directions, Wyat rode back to his 
 troops — he was now mounted, as were several of his officers, 
 on the steeds captured in the recent skirmish with the Earl 
 of Pembroke— and commanded them to remain perfectly 
 quiet till Admiral Winter's squadron should arrive off the 
 Tower. His injunctions were strictly obeyed, and such per- 
 fect silence was observed, that though his men were drawn 
 up within a few yards of the fortress, they were not dis- 
 covered by the sentinels. 
 
A FICriT FOR THE CROWN ,,3 
 
 descr,bed as protecting the lesser moat, atti L thel^ 
 battled gate«-ay fronting the Lion's Tou'er w.^h ,he L 
 tion of joming Suffolk's party on the whar^ ZV , Tu 
 
 Hitherto, complete success had attended his efforts • and 
 'f he had passed the fortification he was nnnrl, ' 
 all probability he would have been mister o?thT'' '" 
 Nothing doubting this he urged his ..eTZ.tt S^is 
 le, ode Bret, and behind then,, at a short distance came 
 CaptamKncvet, and two other leaders, likewise on Ce 
 
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204 ^'^'*^' 
 
 As they arrived within a few paces of the By-ward Tower 
 three tremendous personages issued from it, and oppose, 
 their further progress. They were equipped m corslets o 
 pohshed steel and morions ; and two of them were ar.n« 
 with bucklers and enormous maces, while the third w.eUU.l 
 a partizan of e-iual size. These, it is almost needless t<, 
 state, were the three giants Og, Gog, and Magog. The bearer 
 of the partizan wrs Gog. Behind them came their diminu 
 live attendant Xit. 
 
 Like his gigantic companions, Xit was fully armed m n 
 steel corslet, cuisses, and gauntlets. His head was sh. 1 
 tercd by a helmet, shaded by an immense plume of featlurs 
 which, being considerably too large for him, almost eclips., 
 his features. He was furthermore provided with a sword 
 almost as long as himself, and a buckler ^ . , , 
 
 These four personages were intimately associated with the 
 Tower. The three giants regarded an attack upon it as .in 
 attack upon themselves personally, and the dwarf was alw.iys 
 in attendance upon the three brothers. 
 
 At the sight of the giants, the flying royalists rallied, and 
 a fierce but ineffectual struggle took place. During it, lir.t 
 was dismounted and thrown into the moat. Urged by their 
 leader, the insurgents pressed furiously forward. But tlie 
 giants presented an impassable barrier. Og plied his m.ice 
 with as much zeal as he did the clubs when he enacted 
 the part of the Tower at Courtenay's masque, and with f.ir 
 more terrible effect. All avoided the sweep of his arm. 
 
 Not content with dealing blows, he dashed among the 
 retreating foe, and hurled some dozen of them into tlie 
 moat His prowess excited universal terror and astonish- 
 ment. Nor was Gog much behind him. Wherever his 
 partizan descended, a foe fell beneath its weight ; and as 
 he was incessantly whirling it over his head, and bringing 
 it down, a space was speedily cleared before hini. 
 
 Seeing the havoc occasioned by the gigantic breil.ren, 
 and finding that they completely checked his further a-l- 
 
A FIGfIT FOR Tfn-: CROWN jp,, 
 
 "Vield you, Sir Thomas Wyat " cried Ar,„n„ u- 
 
 i*:;:.X,^— ™s£^-- 
 "^^S■;:1■i,;r,S3s,^™"- 
 Throughout the whole of the sit«,. .1,.. „„„ 
 
 e .Hf » ^ T""^'' ^^"y ''""^' ""d hastily arraying 
 
 'odgings, Ut sLTL 's^He; y'ediLS'-"'^?''^ 
 -unee-hall. surrounded .y ar„.d"l'Srn giv ^ 
 
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39^ 
 
 MARY 
 
 them instructions, and despatching messages to the officers 
 in command of the difTertnt fortifications. 
 
 At the (iueen's api)earance, the old kniijht would haxu 
 flung himself at her feet, but she motioned him not to hcc 1 
 her, and contented hersell with saying, as each messenser 
 departeu, "Tell my soldiers that I will share iheir dansur. 
 I will visit every fortification in turn, and I doubt not I 
 shall find its defenders at their posts. No courageous 
 action shall pass unre.iuited ; and a I will severely punish 
 these rebels, so I will reward those who signalise them 
 selves in their defeat. Bid them fight for their queen - 
 for the daughter of the Eighth Henry, whose august spirit 
 is abroad to watch over and direct them. He who brings 
 me Wyat's head shall receive knighthood at my hands, 
 together with the traitor's forfeited estates. Let this l,u 
 proclaimed. And now fight— and valiantly-for you figlit 
 for the truth." 
 
 Charged with animating addresses like these, the soldiers 
 hurried to their various leaders. The consecjuence may he 
 easily imagined. Aware that they were under the iiii 
 mediate eye of their ivereign, and anticipating her comin- 
 each moment, the ,en, eager to distingush themselves, 
 fought with the ut , ,st ardour; and such was the loyalty 
 awakened by Ma.y's energy and spirit, that even thosc 
 secretly inclined towards the opposite party, of whom there 
 were not a few, did not care to avow their real sentmients. 
 While Mary remained in the lieutenant's lodgings, word 
 was biought that the fortress was ittackcd on all sides, and 
 the thunder of the ordnance now resounding from the 
 V hole line of ramparts, and answered by tlie guns of the 
 besiegers, confirmed the statement. As she heard these 
 tidings, and listened to the fearful tumult without, l>er 
 whole countenance underwent a change ; and those vU 
 remembered her kingly sire, rr-cognised his most tcrril>l.' 
 expression, and felt the same awe they had formerly ex- 
 perienced in his presence. 
 
A FIGHT PuK THE CROWN ,,; 
 
 '''«y»'.all find. .l,ou«l .h"; '. ? "'"'-■ "•"'""'■ «"' 
 
 'hey have no fcx.bl. and f-^mt.rH ''"'"''" '" '''''" *""•, 
 Wield a sword ; but I w I lanT^ "nWfe'oni^. J ,,,„„„ 
 
 Henry Bcdinjifuld .aj 1 ■'' """"•" ^l'" '^"n- Sir 
 
 "« final. ,.,r thj £ "rh, ""'"-■" '™"' "'^•- '"«1 'hey 
 
 'erms with the rebel l-t.II 7 "u"'"^' ' ^"' '"''''e no 
 
 Show then, no m--.^ttVTV''''''' "'"' "■^•■' 
 
 onger regard thel as ube-ridr"',"""'^' ' "" 
 foes. Deal with then, as iuch . .' ', "' »' ■■'''-"^- 
 
 .h,s for.ress-fo, by Go^'T^^J''/""'^ ^- ^-■'l "ot 
 
 '^:: ;^^'--" post, Sir fC;/""" """ y-'d "■ 
 'e./'"T£-SJ';--;;^f"ess.".pi,.d«,,^„,. 
 
 ™;andheis„,osttrL ra::^:';,;"-^ '" '"- 
 \ «"" not quit the fortificaHnn ,K ""^ W"ents. 
 
 »hall succeed me if I hUf-- "" ™^ ''f«- «"' who 
 
 so^SdSS." v'o^tf?" ."«- >- Win «.. f,„ 
 
 ■■■y preserve. Go to you '""'h'-':' ''^ "•^•"'-•" '° '' ' 
 «o. and nght for your /„ ri', itt': "" I' '" '"^ "--• 
 Catholic faith which we boh f' ""^ '''' '^c holy 
 'hese rebels-these he^Mcs tc^, ."' "'"'"''• "'^ *''-'' 
 
 ave tarried here too bngl LeadT D "' '"""'='^- " ^'>- 
 -d.vo,ced cannon sunnnonTou bence /"". ""' '"^" y°" 
 hose cnes ? To your post sir ,„ "-' ^"" '''^^f '» 
 
 -''■ S'^yi-^headdcTas tU^hr'' " ,'"' '""' ^°- 
 ^''- "I ".cant not this T ' „ f ™^ ^''""' '" obey 
 yo" will bear with n,e. Go ? '"• "^'^^''''^'y- J''^' 
 
 -;^.'°da Success bf':;,tb';:r";;^-^r'"'.'-e 
 
 "ctor,, ur we meet no more." ' '■''^' ^°^n as 
 
298 
 
 MARY 
 
 "We shall meet ere daybreak," replied the knighl. 
 And quitting the presence, he hurried to the By-ward 
 Tower. 
 
 " In case fate declares itself against your liiglmcss, and 
 the insurgents win the fortress," observed Kenard, " I can 
 convey ••■m beyond their reach. I am acquainted with a 
 subterj-anean passage communicating with the farther sid. 
 of the moat, and have stationed a trusty guard at \h 
 entrance." 
 
 " In the event your excellency anticipates," relumed 
 Mary sternly, " but which I am assured will never occur, 1 
 will not fly. While one stone of that citadel stands u|iuii 
 another it shall never be surrendered : and while life 
 remains to her, Mary of Kngland will never desert it. In 
 your next despatch to the prince your master, tell him lii-. 
 proposed consort proved herself worthy— in resolution, at 
 least— of the alliance." 
 
 "I will report your intrepid conduct to the prir.re,' 
 replied Renard. " Hut I would, for his sake, if not f»r 
 your own, gracious madam, that you would not furtlier 
 expose yourself." 
 
 "To the ramparts 1" cried Mary, disregarding him. 
 "Let those follow me who are not afraid to face these 
 traitors." 
 
 Quitting the entrance-hall, she mounted a broad stair 
 case of carded oak, ai.d traversing a long gallery, entenv! a 
 passage leading to the Uell Tower, a fortification standiiii; 
 on the west of the lieutenant's lodgings, and connected 
 with them. The room to which the passage brought her, 
 situated on the upper story, and now used as part of the 
 domestic offices of the governor, was crowded with soldiers, 
 busily employed in active defensive preparations. Sonic 
 were discharging their calivers through the loopholes ai 
 the besiegers, while others were carrying ammunition to the 
 roof of the building. 
 
 Addressing a few words of encouragement to them, aiitl 
 
1 
 
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 1 ■' 
 
 II 
 
 i. 
 
QDF.EN MARY AND OARDliNER ON THE BATTLEMENTS. 
 
 [A 299 
 
A FIGHT FOR THE CROAVN ,,, 
 
 ^™t^he'^::r' SLrir"^' ^" officer,oconduc, 
 ^t^ance would be S ^ nffl '"'''r^' "'=" ^-'-»- 
 f">ergcdfromthelowa L d °'"''^ "'^'-J'^d. As she 
 
 ='de of the n,oat burst Jo «!""''!. °" "'^ °Pl'°^i'e 
 •conflagration, while it revealed IT' "."" "'^ '''§''' °f ""= 
 ^nd their plan of attack rtie, T'' °' ''" ^"'^""^^ 
 7- perilous, inasmuch a 'th - 'J"""'"" '"""'"^ly 
 observation. Directed by the outsTl '" '° «^"^-' 
 discovered the occasion of he cH^ ''^""S"-' 'i'^^'^'h 
 homas Wyat, who was engaged uh^e" ' '''"'' "'""S'' ^ir 
 ^"y dtrecting the assault on "he Bu 'LtT™'"' '" P^''""" 
 h.s men to cease firing in that o,f r ^ ^'"'' ^""""^nded 
 wholly disregarded, fnd evmr'h'n; ' '"J""«'°n^ were 
 - ts close to the Queen Seric!,? T""" ""^ ''^«'- 
 earnestly entreated her to ret r b^/'r^'' '''"''''''^ 
 refused, and continued her co„r. , '""^ Peremptorily 
 beset her-ever and anon n,, '' '^"^^^ "' '^ "° danger 
 
 "f 'he besiegers, or'o eneour^r^nd" T' ""^ "'°--"" 
 Before she reached the BeaXi t"'" ""'' °''" "^^"■ 
 '•«e was carried, and the triumph l^T' ""= «"'«'-" 
 
 surgents drew from her an exdaZ/u°"'' °f "^^ '"- 
 "It is but a smnll !^ "°" °f '''«'='• anger 
 
 -arked the oLT ".-htrX'^'"^^;. ^^ "'Shness," 
 
 " Small as it is sir " reiJ ^ u '''^^'^">' repulsed." 
 Have lost the rich'elt^- Tfrol t^"""' "^ -""^ -'her 
 fned so much. Lookr ^^^ ""^" 'han they had 
 before the Lion's Gate ThJ ^ "' ^""^"'"S 'ogether • 
 -■'h ^Wge-hammSrbatter ' :ms"'""f""« '■S-"^' i' 
 
 ""hear the din of the r bTo" ! """^ °'^'' ^"g'"«'- 
 ■^"dsee- other troops are advanHn",'^ '" ""'^ '"■"""• 
 '»nners and -hite'^cZltZZV^ '^'" ''''■ ^^ '^eir 
 ":ned-bands, headed by Bret H ' "" "'^ London 
 y""- He who will brinTh- " ™"''°""'' 'he 
 
 'hall have whatever he asks ^rr'n"! '"' °' "''V'^. 
 ■ -ai, Ood s death ! they have 
 
300 
 
 MARY 
 
 forced the Lion's Gate— they drive all before them. 
 Recreants ! why do you not dispute it inch by inch, and 
 you may regain what you have lost ? Confusion I Wyal 
 and his rebel band press onward, and the others fiy. They 
 pass through the Middle Tower. Ah ! that shout, those 
 fearful cries I They put my faithful subjects to the sword. 
 They are in posses iion of the Middle Tower, and direct 
 its guns on the By-ward Tower. Wyat and his band are 
 on the bridge. They press forward, the others t. 'eat. 
 Retreat ! ah, caitiffs, cowards that you are, you mus, fight 
 now, if you have a spark of loyalty left. They fly. They 
 have neither loyalty nor valour. Where is Bedingfeld ?— 
 where is my lieutenant ? — why does he not sally forth upon 
 thum ? If I'were there, I would myself lead the attack." 
 
 "Your majesty's desires are fulfilled," remarked the 
 officer ; " a sally is made by a party from the gate ; the 
 rebels are checked." 
 
 " I see it I " exclaimed the Queen joyfully—" but what 
 valiant men are they who thus turn the tide ? Ah ! I 
 know them now, they are my famous giants— my loyal 
 warders ! Look how the rebel ranks are cleared by the 
 sweep of their mighty arms. Brave yeomen ! you have 
 fought as no belted knights have hitherto fought, and have 
 proved the truth of your royal descent. Ah ! Wyat is 
 down. Slay him I spare him not, brave giant ! his lands, 
 his title are yours. Heaven's curse upon him, the traitor 
 has escaped ! I can bear this no longer," she added, turn- 
 ing to her conductor. " Lead on : I would see what they 
 are doing elsewhere." 
 
 The command was obeyed, but the officer had not 
 proceeded many yards when a shot struck him, and he fell 
 mortally wounded at the Queen's feet. 
 
 "I fear you are hurt, sir," said Mary anxiously. 
 " To death, madam," gasped the officer. " I should not 
 care to die, had I lived to sec you victorious. When all 
 others were clamouring for the usurper, Jane, my voice was 
 
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 and now my last shout 
 
 raised for you, my rightful Queen; 
 shall be for you." 
 
 proceeded torLl'.'rrfificatn"'^""^''"'"'^ "'-"• ^'^ 
 
 The main attacks of the besieeers n« 1,, 1 
 stated, were directeri ,„ *: 5 ' ' ''^^" P''=^'0"sly 
 
 Thomas's Towe and thfp "!f ""''' ^^°""'. «' 
 and north-wesTe™ "alar, ^'T^ ^-ver-the western 
 
 large bastio„:rsprir;r."ht"Lf m' """"- 
 con,paratively unmolested' tIIIJIT T'' '"'"*^ 
 roof of the Devilin T„, , ?^ ^ " l'°si"on on the 
 
 angleof hebali JTm "' """'^'^ ""-■ "°"h-west 
 the'fortress!and th" Wew ''"^r'T'''"'^'' '"° ^'^^^ "^ 
 sublime. On the left the hi .' u""'' ^'' ''"'^^ '"^ 
 
 or highly comts;^:irs;'i:ri^'r^'"^ 
 
 measure, consumed, cast a red n„H , T' , ^'■^^' 
 
 temporary batteries placed before thln , ^ °'" "'^ 
 
 Of arrows whi.zed 'hrough th It sZ h ',?' ''""'' 
 
 stationed on the banks of the mo^t- and k '. '" 
 
 having been placed teainst th^ ' """""^ '^'^'i'^'- 
 -..ng party ''had IbS a' 00 -nTand r"' °^ '^^ 
 
 hand-to-hand with the besieged eC r 7 ^"^'^"' 
 
 this tumultuous roar was hltfrf . T , '"^ ''"°"' """^ 
 
 ;.lence, Mary proceede'd to thHnt Tower aTortl^r, '" 
 »bout nu,ety feet nearer the scene of strife He'e .h^ 
 
 11 I 
 
302 
 
 MARY 
 
 alarmina intelligence was brought her that Lord Guilford 
 nudley^as in possession of the Brass Mount, and that 
 other advantages had been gained by the insurgents m 
 that quarter. The fight raged so fiercely it was added, 
 that it would be tempting Providence in her majesty to 
 proceed farther. Yielding, at length, to the sol.ctat.ons of 
 her attendants, Mary descended from the wa Is, and shaped 
 her course towards the White Tower ; wh.le Renard, by 
 her command, hastened to the Martin 'lower (now the 
 Ter-l Tower) to ascertain how matters stood. His hrbt 
 .•ep was to ascend the roof of this structure, which, stand- 
 ing immediately behind the Brass Mount, completely 
 
 overlooked it. , . j i 
 
 It must be borne in mind that the lower .s surrounded 
 
 by a double line of defences, and that the ballium vtall and 
 
 its fortifications are much loftier than the outer ranmarts^ 
 
 Renard found the roof of the Martin Tower thronged wth 
 
 soldiers, who were bringing their guns to bear upon, he 
 
 present possessors of the Brass Mount. They were ass.s ed 
 
 in their efforts to dislodge then, by the occupants o the 
 
 Brick Tower and the Constable Tower ; and notwithstand 
 
 ing the advantage gained by the insurgents they sustamed 
 
 severe loss from the constant fire d.rected against th.n. 
 
 Renard's glance sought out Lord Guilford Dudley ; and 
 
 ^L a few moments' search, guided by the shouts, he 
 
 uerceived him with Cholmondeley driving a party ol 
 
 royalists before him down the steps leading to the eastern 
 
 ramparts. Here he was concealed from view, and p^ 
 
 tected by the roofs of a range of habitations from the guns 
 
 on the ballium wall. , , 
 
 A few moments afterwards, intelligence was conveyed 
 the soldiers on the Broad Arrow Tower to those on tl.e 
 constable Tower, and thence from fort fication to fort, c. 
 tion, that Dudley having broken mto one of the hous 
 covering the ramparts, was descending with his forces inu, 
 the eastern ward. 
 
A FIGHT FOR THE CROWN 303 
 
 Renard saw that not a moment was to be lost. Order- 
 
 himsc. f at the head of a body of men, and hurrying down 
 asp,ral stone s.a.rcase, which brought him ,0 a subterranean 
 Cham) _r unlocked a door in it, and traversing with light 
 nmg softness a long narrow passage, speedily reached 
 another vaulted room. At first no outlet was percenhbl! 
 bu snatc mgatorch from oneof his band. Renard tT hed' 
 a knob of ,ron >n the wall, and a stone dropping from it, 
 place discovered a flight of steps, up which "ey mounted 
 Ihese brought them to a wider passage, terminated by a 
 strong door clamped with iron, and forming a small sally. 
 
 ,Zn T7VT.'^^ '"''''" ""'^' " "«'« 'o'-er down 
 than Lord Gmlford Dudley and his party had gained 
 admittance to it. Commanding his men to obey his in 
 junctions .mphcitly, Renard flung open the sally-port, and 
 dashed through it at their head. 
 
 Dudley was pressing forward in the direction of the Iron 
 Gate when Renard appeared. Both parties were pretty 
 equally matched m point of number, though neither leader 
 could boast more than twenty followers. Still, multitudes 
 were hastenmg to them from every quarter. A detachment 
 of royalists were issuing from a portal near the Salt Tower 
 >vh, e a host of insurgents were breaking thron ', the house 
 lately forced by Lord Guilford Dudley, and 1, rying to his 
 
 By the light of the torches, Dudley recognised Renard 
 and uttering a shout of exultation, advanced to the attack 
 
 As soon as it was known to the insurgents that the ab- 
 horred Spanish ambassador was before'them. wi h one 
 
 eadJMd not":' "'^'V"="'°"^ "^^'"^' '""' ""^ '^ '^ei 
 'eade. had not interposed, would have inevitably slain him 
 
 Uave him to me," cried Dudley, "and I will delive; 
 
 heXTLr "'\"^'"'^' ''"'"'■" "Fellow-soldts" 
 he added, addressing Renard's companions, "will you ficht 
 for Spain, for the Inquisition, for the idolatries of Ro^ 
 
304 
 
 MARY 
 
 when swords are drawn for your country— and for the 
 Reformed rehgion ? We have come to free you from the 
 yoke under which you labour. Join us, and fight for your 
 liberties, your laws— for the Gospel, and for Queen Jane." 
 
 " Ay, fight for Jane and the Gospel ! " shouted Cholmon- 
 deley. " Down with Renard and the See of Rome. No 
 Spanish match !— no Inquisition ! " 
 
 "Who are you fighting for? Who is your leader?" 
 continued Dudley:— "a base Spanish traitor. Who are 
 you fighting against ?— Englishmen, your friends, your 
 countrymen, your brothers— members of the same faith, of 
 the same family." 
 
 This last appeal proved effectual. Most of the royalists 
 went ovier to the insurgents, shouting, "No Spanish 
 match !— no Inquisition I Down with Renard I " 
 
 " Ay, down with Renard 1 " cried Dudley. " I will no 
 longer oppose your just vengeance. Slay him, and we will 
 fix his head upon a spear. It will serve to strike terror into 
 our enemies." 
 
 Even in this extremity, Renard's constitutional bravery 
 did not desert him ; and, quickly retreating, he placed his 
 back against the wall. The few faithful followers who 
 stood by him, endeavoured to defend him, but they were 
 soon slain, and he could only oppose his single sword 
 against the array of partizans and spikes raised against him. 
 His destruction appeared inevitable, and he had already 
 given himself up for lost, when a rescue arrived. 
 
 The detachment of soldiers, headed by Sir Thomas 
 Brydges, already described as issuing from the gate near 
 the Salt Tower, seeing a skirmish taking place, hurried 
 forward, and reached the scene of strife just in time to save 
 the ambassador, whose assailants were compelled to quit 
 him to wield their weapons in their own defence. Thus 
 set free, Renard sprung like a tiger upon his foes, and, 
 aided by the new-comers, occasioned fearful havoc among 
 them. But his deadliest fury was directed against those 
 
A FIGHT FOR THE CROWN 305 
 
 who had deserted him n„H u. 
 he could reach mhZl'^^^'a """'"' "°"^ "' '^em whom 
 
 Lord Guilford Dudley anH h- 
 d.gies of valour. The former ^^"''"■'« P^^^Wed pre 
 Kenard. but such was the o„f '"'^ '""' ''«"°« 'o reach 
 was constantly foiled nhrDurnn"" T"'^ '""•■""« he 
 -- in vain to contend Xf such '^■"^"'' ^^^'"S " 
 'hath,s men would be speedHy cuMn '"''"'" '"^^' ''"'^ 
 captured, he gave the word fn . P"'''''''' ''"^ himself 
 
 north-east angle of he ward "^r' ='"'',«^'^ '-"ds the 
 'hem; but such was theToL .?\T'""' ^'"'^d after 
 'hat they could not ovet ' h '."^ '"^'"^^^ '='". 
 ■neffectually attempted'o check tie;. "" '"" '""gs''^'^ 
 »ld.ers on the walls above did no/. P™"''-'"' =""" 'he 
 for fear of injuring the7own '° '"' """" "-em, 
 
 passed the Martin Towe and w'^"^'- '" ""'' "''^ '^e^ 
 ';-r when a large d^'tiLroTT;""^ '""^ ^'"^^ 
 advancing towards them. '"'"'"^ ""« ^^een 
 
 " Long live Queen Tan? I " ,1, 
 
 responde'dl::oSr """'■ ''"'' ^^"^ '° '"e rebels.-" 
 
 «»cape; and the royalist oL !h T °<"' "'^ P°^''hility of 
 now able to mark Tern °" "^V"""""""' ^^ove bein. 
 •"e- Bythis I'r:^"^:";/; '^--'"ing fire upon 
 »g'e of the wall, and h" voS of T7 ""' '"'-<* '' 
 heard crying-." Cut them in Ice/- . ""'''''^'"1" *- 
 'he.r leader. Take him alive " ' Spare no one but 
 
 " VoXVetr^irmltLtr^'" ^''°'-"^e,ey- 
 1^^' -rvice from yo I^ I "i""'"'"' '"' ' '^'^''" °- 
 ^'^.r -e. I will n'ot survive defeat ""■''" °' '^'"^ '^^-. 
 
 .-^:>sS----™^de^^^;^or 
 
306 
 
 MARY 
 
 " No," replied Dudley, " I will not run the risk of being 
 placed again in Mary's power. Obey my last injunctions. 
 Should you escape, fly to Jane. You know where to find 
 her. Bid her to embark instantly for France, and say her 
 husband with his last breath blessed her." 
 
 But at this moment he was interrupted by Cholmondeley, 
 who pointed out an open door in the ramparts opposite 
 them. Eagerly availing himself of the chance, Dudley 
 called to his men to follow him, and dashed through it, 
 uncertain whither it led, hut determined to sell his life 
 dearly. The doorway admitted them into a low vaulted 
 chamber, in which were two or three soldiers and a stand 
 of arms and ammunition. The men fled at their approach 
 along a dark, narrow passage, and endeavoured to fasten 
 an inner door, but the others were too close upon them to 
 permit it. As Dudley and his band advanced, they found 
 themselves at the foot of a short flight of steps, and rush- 
 ing up them, entered a semi-circular passage about six feet 
 wide, with a vaulted roof, and deep embrasures in the walls 
 in which cannon were planted. It was, in fact, the case- 
 ment of the Brass Mount. By the side of the cannon 
 stood the gunners, and the passage was filled with smoke. 
 Alarmed by the cries of their companions, and the shouts 
 of Dudley and his band, these men, who were in utter 
 ignorance of what had passed, except that they had been 
 made aware that the summit of the bastion was carried, 
 l.rew down their arms, and sued for rjuarter. 
 
 "You shall have it, friends," cried Dudley, "provided 
 you will fight for Que' i Jane." 
 
 "Agreed!" replu he gunners. "Long live Qiutn 
 Jane." 
 
 "Stand by me," returned Dudley, "and these stuul >*.il'> 
 shall either prove our safeguard or our tomb." 
 
 The guniwrs then saw how matters stood, but they 'koW 
 not retract, and they awaited a favourable a|\>ortuni<v to 
 turn against their new masters. 
 
A FIGHT FOR THR CROWN 307 
 
 his injunctions .0 the so 1^. L ,".' "T""' """'^ ''P'^'^'^ 
 ^."1 on no account to :£^^^: ^f^^:;: ^'^ '^ Po...,, 
 
 •-■nibrasure in which it was n^ . "' Z"^"''"''' ""' of th.. 
 ■"g i' against .h i fe ' Bu ' r'"'\""--'^ "^ "°""- 
 accomplished, the attack. '■''^""-' "^'^ ™"ld ''<-' 
 
 l-dofthe^teps uXXnTdt Jl'""' '" "'^' 
 some time; and the roylliT ,■ I ""^ P"^^ ^"^ 
 
 junction., of Rc.n-.rd Z, '"''^''■"' ''''^'"^■"' '» the in- 
 only his captur^ The aid r'";'^"^' ""''"'• '"" -"«'>' 
 -veapons, with the r ports of1,or T*-' t" '^e clash'of 
 "he wounded and dyin,' The i ,"""' ""-' «™'^"^ »' 
 'K'came slippery with blood. S ill DuH^'T"' k""'''" '''°" 
 AH at once he staggered and t ^ u'*' '''*" '"'' «™""rf- 
 him from behind by one of fh '""'^ ''"" '''^^•" dealt 
 
 '0 approach him unawares '""""'' '^''° ''^'^ '^''"'"vcd 
 
 flyrif'youT::;".; jr-"' '° "^^ -^l-- -'«nisl. m, and 
 
 •"^^^^t:rt"t::r::r^-r:"'^'^'-'^ 
 
 he expires!- ' ' ^'■'" '""' '° 'he Queen before 
 
 .S'rS^eXr^r^ J^--. upwards. 
 d'^K the cannon, and forcing hlelf.h "'^l^'^'^'-'i <o 
 d.pM f.m the d.., heigh^ -rthe'if '^^ ^^^""^^ 
 
 »"^l high mass was bdnr'n ^^ '^■''^''""■•■'""y '"""-inated, 
 
3o8 
 
 MARY 
 
 lated to produce a strong cflect on the feelings. There, 
 all was strife and clamour; the air, filled with smoke, was 
 almost stifling ; and such places as were nut lighted up by 
 the blaze of the conflagration or the flashing of the ordnance 
 and musciuetry, were buried in profound gloom. Here, all 
 was light, odour, serenity, sanctity. Without, fierce bands 
 were engaged in deadly fight — nothing was heard but the 
 clash of arms, the thunder of cannon, llie shouts of thi- 
 victorious, the groans of the dying. Within, holy men were 
 celebrating their religious rites, undisturbed by the terrible 
 struggle around them, and apparently unconscious of it : 
 tapers shone from every ])illar ; the atmo-iphere was heavy 
 with incense ; and the choral hymn mingled with the 
 scarce heard roar of cannon. Mary was so affected by the 
 scene, that for the first time she appeared moved. Her 
 bosom heaved, and a tear started to her eye. 
 
 " How peaceful is the holy place," she observed tu 
 Gardiner, " and what a contrast it presents to the scene 
 we have just quitted ! I could almost wish that Heaven 
 had destined me to the cloister instead of to the throne, 
 that I might pass my days in the exercise of my religion." 
 
 " Heaven has destined you to be the restorer and de- 
 fender of our religion, madam," replied Gardiner. " Had 
 you not been called to the high station you occupy, the 
 Catholic worship, so long discontinued in these holy wails, 
 would not now be celebrated. To you we owe its restora- 
 tion ; — to you we must owe its continuance." 
 
 As Mary advanced to the altar, the anthem ceased, and 
 silence prevailed throughout the sacred structure. Pros- 
 trating herself, she prayed for a few moments fervently, and 
 in an audible voice. She then arose, and observed to 
 Gardiner, "I feel so much comforted that I am assun 
 Heaven will support me and our holy religion." 
 
 As she spoke, solemn music resounded through the 
 chapel, the anthem was again chanted, and the ptii.'>ts 
 resumed their holy rites. With a heart strengthened and 
 
A Fro„T FOR Tr,E cRo^v.v 30, 
 
 chamber. «"'">^' Proceeded to the council. 
 
 M;'_"gertakeort,,i,|,4,;,";'^^^;r hm,-or .lull j ,„,, 
 
 ■'^fe:^^;:,?x^Zd'XTn"^' "^'^' '^-^•^"^"y- 
 
 " " «-n. better .„ behead h,n, "^ ',f' " '"" "« /«•" 
 
 "I do not think SO' repl J "°"'' "^'°'""' '*'^"''^''- 
 
 ^oved to .so„,e place of trfel^''- " ''" '""• ^ re- 
 
 '•^-^l^hS^nt John's ChnU"^ ""'"""-' ''""«™" 
 
 death/I'ay DuXy! ' "''' '"™'" ^""^ '"«'">", is speedy 
 " I'herefore I will «„. 
 
 't-,rr"p-^ni^;:::,^f?"^''^rar, ..,, 
 
 Ah ! exclaimed Dudlev " r i, J 
 And as these words were nr ' ""'"^^^ ^"■" 
 --d^, and would have Zen' ir,h"'''' "' ^^'^"^'^ "-k" 
 ""gilt him. ^"' " 'he attendants had not 
 
 HeSsISl!^' ^P^-' M-«er a lahou," observed 
 
 He IS not dead," rei,li«i \t 
 -o„ld not grieve m . R^^I' ^ ^'"^ 'f he were so, it 
 have commanded " '""' ■ ='"'' do >v,ih him as I 
 
 •'f^'r':::^™'^^^'^-"'^'^^ inanimate body or 
 
 -^h^^C^Stl^rl^'V^ ^-" "•- 'he 
 
 "i«=«enger arrived, withT/dinT .. ^"" •^'"'"'' '^hen a 
 
 l«en gained-Sir H ^' "'^' """'h" 'success had 
 
 Hu.ry jernmgham having encountered 
 
3»o 
 
 MARY 
 
 tlie detarhnient under the Duke of i 
 
 ueii. iiu.'...- — - -- f Suffolk, and driven Ihcm 
 
 l«ck"to' their vessels, was about to assist tlir !',arl of IVni 
 broke and Sir Henry IlediiiKfH I .n a .ally u|.wii Sir Thomas 
 Wyat's party. 'I'his news so enf banted Mary, that she took 
 a valuable ring from her finr-^r, Jnd presented it to the 
 messenger, saying-" I will doubl. tl.y fee, good fellow, 
 if thou wilt bring mc word that Wvat is slam, and his 
 traitorous band utterly routed." 
 
 Scarcely had the messenger departed, when another 
 api>cared. He brought word that several vessels had arrived 
 „fr the Tower, and attacked the squadron under the com- 
 mand of Admiral Winter; that all the vessels, with the 
 exception of one, on board which the Duke of Suffolk had 
 taken refuge, had struck ; and that her majesty might now 
 feel assured of a speedy conquest. 
 
 At this news, Mary immediately fell on her knees, anil 
 cried—" I thank Thee, O Lord ! not that Thou hast voucli 
 safed me a victory over my enemies, but that Thou hast 
 enabled me to triumph over Thine." 
 
 "The next tidings your highness receives will be thit 
 the siege is raised," observed Renard, as the Queen arose : 
 "and, with your permission, I will be the messenger t» 
 
 " Be it so," replied Mary. " I would now gladly be alone. 
 
 As Renard issued from the principal entrance of the 
 White Tower, and was about to cross the Green, he per- 
 ceived a small group collected before Saint Peter's Chapil, 
 and at once guessing its meaning he hastened towards u. 
 It was just beginning to grow light, and objects could In.' 
 imperfectly distinguished. As Renard drew nigh, he per 
 ceived a circle formed round a soldier whose breastplate, 
 doublet, and ruff had been removed, and who was kneeling 
 with his arms crossed upon his breast beside a billet uf 
 wood Near him, on the left, stood Mauger, with his axe 
 upon his shoul.l.-r, and on the riglU, Gardiner, holding a 
 crucifix towards him, .ind earnestly entreating him to die m 
 
A FIGHT FOR TfrE CROWN 3,, 
 
 the faith of Rome ; promising h 
 complete remission of his 
 
 lim, in caseof conipli.inrc 
 
 , liiit I 
 
 'ins. Kret, for he it 
 
 w^is, made 
 
 ) answer, 
 his lips, ,0 be mut....ng a pni;.; fZ'^rT"""' °' 
 
 wth™o, , .""'.''"'-■'r'' "'-•'^'"ioner performed his task 
 
 b.n,liL C^ 1L ', '"-T "'"? "' «"'^y ''"rdcn.and 
 Tow. T; •' • ''"'■^ " """"'l "-e lly.ward 
 
 'h..flockiro'ni Xit amfV "'"'''"« "" •''^--' 
 
 broke and Bedingfel.I, as the n..^^^, 1 I:!""'; ' h 
 «'th a large force to make a .ally up^n th ■ ■ ..;'''': '' 
 »iKnal was given by renewed firing from ti- /, .;? ' *"■' 
 holes of the Middle Tower. Wyat. wl ■ d .,;'"'■' 
 Je gateway of that fortification, and had dra ■" ^.^ , , 
 
 e a tack" tTh """" '' "°" "•^^""-^ "' '"ei- i '.„Tt, 
 ne attack. At this moment the portcullis of th^ k j 
 
 shock was trenSdous For'^H °' ""-" '"'"'"'' '"" "'^ 
 peareddoub r B,r;h "•''"'" '""" ""= ^'=^"" "p- 
 
 ^nd discipline of the O^L'"*"™' """"""' ''«'" """• 
 
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 "-^ most fiercely he was S" foun^Te^rgh^^ 
 
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 Bedingfcld, and failing in reaching him, cut his way to 
 the Earl of Pembroke, whom he engaged and would have 
 slain, if Og had not driven him off with his exterminating 
 mace. The tremendous prowess of the gigantic brethren, 
 indeed, contributed in no slight degree to the speedy ter- 
 mination of the fight. Their blows were resistless, and 
 struck such terror into their opponents, that a retreat was 
 soon begun, whicli Wyat found it impossible to check. 
 Gnashing his teetli with anger, and uttering ejaculations of 
 rage, he was compelled to follow his flying forces. His 
 anger was vented again.st Gog. He aimed a terrible blow 
 at him, and cut through his partizan, but his sword shivered 
 against bis morion. A momentary rally was attempted in 
 the court between the Lion's Gate and the Bulwark Gate ; 
 but the insurgents were speedily driven out. On reaching 
 Tower Hill, Wyat succeeded in checking them ; and though 
 he could not compel them to maintain their ground, he 
 end • ■ ured, with a faithful band, to cover the retreat of 
 the main body to London Bridge. Perceiving his aim, 
 Pembroke sent off a detachment under Bedingfeld, by 
 Tower Street, to intercept the front ranks while he attacked 
 the rear. But Wyat beat off his assailants, made a rapid 
 retreat down Thames Street, and after a skirmish with Bed- 
 ingfe'd at the entrance of the bridge, in which he gained .i 
 decided advantage, contrived to get his troops safely across 
 it, with much less loss than might have been anticipated. 
 Nor was this all. He destroyed the planks which had 
 afforded him passage, and took his measures so well and so 
 expeditiously on the Southwark side, that Pembroke hesi- 
 tated to cross the bridge and attack him. 
 
 The Tower, however, was delivered from its assailants. 
 The three giants pursued the flying foe to the Bulwark ( . le, 
 and then returned to the Middle Tower, which was yet 
 occupied by a number of Wyat's party, and summoned thciii 
 to surrender. The command was refused, unless accom 
 panied by a pardon. The giants said nothing more, bii' 
 
A FIGHT KOR THE CROWN 3,3 
 
 'he door on the left of h.'"'"' ""^ ^"^"ed it aga" st' 
 Wows sufficed to b t i oZr7Z- ^ '"' '""'" ^ " 
 o-er chamber, they ascX th. '^>' "° ""' -'">'" 'he 
 heir progress up which "as om,o7:;1'"''' ''""' '^""--'^ 
 'he insurgents. Magog pushed ' ''"' '■"'^«"'--c(uaIly, bJ 
 
 dnvng his foes from fteprstf, n,T' '""^ » hugebult 
 ''here a short but furious enco ' "''^'''' 'h« ^oo/; 
 
 «'gant,c brethren fought back t? h ",^'' """^ ''''"•■'-'• The 
 •devastation among their foef,'',,''tf- '""[committed such 
 
 parent." ''^ ^"""g^ 'he msults offered lo ,he!r 
 
 'he pursuit of"'t'hf'i'eb"s'"\f'"""''=''^ '''"'d ^«"rned fron, 
 »<i conveyed, by h.^ect'^ rtr'""''" ''" '-- 'aS 
 '"s. Exerting himself to th' 1' ''"^"^P"' "^ 'he for- 
 '"ge body of men in the worT th h ' ""^ '-''"P'''>''.« a 
 d.fl-erent defences of the forrr^ ''""''■'S^^ d°"e to the 
 
 holies of the slain .hi? rthT^;''^'^'''',^ ^^P^'-". 'he 
 as secure as before. '^ '"'"'■ ^"<i all rendered 
 
XXIV 
 
 How the Spanish Armada 
 was Defeated 
 
 ASl'UDENT of men would have found few noblei 
 companies on whom to exercise his discernment, 
 than lie might liave seen in the little terrace bowling-green 
 behind the Pelican Inn, Plymouth, on the afternoon of the 
 nmeteenth of July, 1588. Chatting in groups, or lounniii;; 
 over the low wall which commanded a view of the Sound and 
 the shipping far below, was gathered almost every notable 
 man of the Plymouth fleet, the whole fosse comilaliis of 
 " England's forgotten worthies." The Armada has been 
 scattered by a storm. Lord Howard has been out to look 
 for it, as far as the Spanish coast ; but the wind has shifted 
 to the south, and fearing lest the Dons should pass him, 
 he has returned to Plymouth, uncertain whether the Armad.i 
 will come after all or not. Slip on for a while, like Prince 
 Hal, the drawer's apron ; come in through the rose-clad 
 door which opens from the tavern, witli a tray of long 
 necked Dutrh glasses, and a silver tankard of wine, and 
 look round you at the gallant captains, who are waiting for 
 the Spanish Armada, as lions in their lair might wait h< 
 the passing herd 'A deer. 
 
 See those five ulking earnestly, in the centre of a ring, 
 which longs to overhear, and yet is too respectful m 
 approach close. Those soft long eyes and pointed cliin 
 you recognise already ;— they are Walter Raleigh's, 'rin 
 fair young m.iii in the flame-coloured doublet, whose arm i> 
 round Kaleighs neck, is Lord Sheffield ; opposite thcni 
 
THE SPANISH ARMADA 
 
 Howard of KlHnghan i^ tiV'T^'' '"? '■"^•' ^-"-'^ 
 of the ^a:wv//. /I '",''"'"•■" ■'^'■'"hwcll, captain 
 
 p'ainMres.u ,na;(:::-,::r;S,;;:,,:'':;,^;-"--'^>-. 
 
 hands behind hi.s jjact U !.■ ° '"'•' ■'''"'■ -'nd 
 
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 short square face th,. hr ^ , ^ '"=^'' '^""'■'s. 'he 
 
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 yet the whole fi...re .„d ™ ,' "''"'■"' ^''"""I' "^ '»■•'" ■ 
 determ,nation, seC-e,s,„; '■" ""' '" '"'""^les. 
 
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 comJ::^«Sy:',h'^,'" ^--r-^^-^'^-' -~. 
 
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 ^■nce,inaga,:of j d:.,r",""' '^"V^'^ "-'' -" 
 fogged visage see J ;■;., '^ "•;;;" '"'f°' "'-harr, 
 
 [cadger's fur; and as he ZosZL\ ^'""" °' 
 
 ■-h a broad Devon t^^n. !L "'^r "" ''''''' '"'^^ 
 ■Innk your wme, Francis n'rak ' '■°" " '""""^ '" 
 
 >o- presence, .y lid " t 'l L"";,^? -t.^-savin,. 
 laughs, and b,ds Drake ™ ■ „h , ^ '" ' •^'^"""' ""'' 
 Hawkins, Admird oHlL , .""^ '"^ '""^- ^ f"^ John 
 
 -amen, if Z^'^ ' .,r'"h ' " "-', '''"^^'='' "^ P'>''"-"' 
 ■""ch what iTlZ. t\ " "''■'"' ''"" ^'^">' 
 
 ™™tion that o-dav' r ' ™'"'""'' "" ^'^"h; not tu 
 ha-iuken 1 .lt'4':;"''rV?' ^" ^""ageddon ilght 
 -d made i.in/o ^ , ;;; "' "'^ "^"^' ''"'"-d -e-e, 
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 ELIZABETH 
 
 that bench, smoking tobacco from long silver pipes and 
 l)y them are I'enton and Withringtoii, who have both tned 
 I.) follow 1 )rake's path round the world, and failed, thou^li 
 by no fault of iheir own. Tile man who pledges them 
 better luck next time, is C.eorge fenner, known to "the 
 seven Portugals," Leicester's [xrt, and captain of the galleon 
 which Elizabeth bought of him. That short, prim man in 
 the huge yellow ruff, with sharp chin, nnnute unperial, and 
 self-satisfied smile, is Richard Hawkins, the Complete 
 Seaman, Admiral John's hereafter famous and hapless son. 
 The elder who is talking with him is his good uncle 
 William, whose monument still stands, or should stand, 
 in Deptford Church ; for Admiral John set it up there but 
 one year after this tinn- ■, and on it record how he was, " .\ 
 worshipper of the true religion, an especial benefactor oi 
 poor sailors, a most just arbiter in most difficult causes, 
 and of a singular faith, piety, and prudence." That, and 
 the fact that he got creditably through som*- sharp w->rk at 
 Porto Rico, is all I know of William Hawkins : but it you 
 or I, reader, can have as much or half as much said "f 
 us when we liave to follow him, we shall have no reason 
 to complain. 
 
 There is John Drake, Sir Francis' brother, ancestor .if 
 the present stocK of Drakes ; and there is George, his 
 nephew, a man not overwise, who has been round tin; 
 world, and then- is Captain Barker of Bristol, brother nf 
 the hapless Andrew Barker who found John Oxenham » 
 guns, and, owing to a mutiny among hi« men, perish.d hy 
 the Spaniards in Honduras, twelve years ago. Barker is 
 now captain of tin- / ictory; one of the Queen's best ships. 
 
 But who is the aged ma<n who sits upon a bench, against 
 the Minny south \rall of tlie tavern, his long white bcar-l 
 flowiii.u almost to ws waist, his hands upon his knees, hi.- 
 [jalsied iiead moving »lowly from side to side, to catch the 
 scraps o*' discourse of tli. passing captains? His great- 
 grandchild a little maid cif si.\, has laid her curly head upon 
 
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 with all hi. .rias.., Lh "^ ''""■ ^'^^""S » dra^t-r 
 " I'lie Armada, your worship-the Somiarri ■ l.,„ 
 
 i. o wint, within a :our-mi.c (rf me, In, » ^„er." 
 
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 ELIZABETH 
 
 " Sirrah," said Lord Howard, " is this no fetch, to cheat 
 us out of your pardon for these piracies of yours ? " 
 
 " You'll find out for yourself before nightfall, my Lord 
 High Admiral. All Jack Fleming says is, that this is a poor 
 sort of an answer to a man who has put his own neck m 
 the halter for the sake of his country." 
 
 "Perhaps it is," said Lord Howard. "And after all, 
 gentlemen, what can this man gain by a lie, which muit be 
 discovered ere a day is over, except a more certain han^- 
 
 "Very true, your Lordship," said Hawkins, mollified. 
 " Come here, Jack Fleming— what wilt drain, man ? Hii> 
 pocras or Alicant, Sack or John Barleycorn, and a pledg. 
 to thy repentance and amendment of life." 
 
 " Admiral Hawkins, Admiral Hawkins, this is no tirBc for 
 
 drinking." 
 
 "Why not, then, my Lord? Good news should be 
 welcomed with good wine. Frank, send down to thu 
 sexton, and set the bells a-ringing to cheer up all honcrf 
 hearts. Why, my Lord, if it were not for the gravity of my 
 office, I could dance a galliard for joy ! " 
 
 " Well, you may dance, Port Admral : but I must go ami 
 plan, but God give to all captains such a heart as yours 
 
 this day ! " , , 
 
 "And God give all generals such a head as yours. 
 Come, Frank Drake, we'll play the game out before wc 
 move. It will be two good days before we shall be fit to 
 tackle them, so an odd half-hour don't matter." 
 
 "I must command the help of your counsel, Vu. 
 Admiral," said Lord Charles, turning to Drake. 
 
 " And it's this, my good Lord," said Drake, looking u|i. 
 as he aimed his bowl. " They'll come soon enough for us 
 to show them sport, and yet slow enough for us to be rea.l) : 
 so let no man hurry himself. And as example is belt, r 
 than precept, here goes. ' 
 
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 own men, nobody'll find nothing in such a scrimmage an 
 "ha" Bye, bye. Unde Martin. We'm go.ng to blow the 
 I )ons up now in earnest.' 
 
 And now began that great sea-fight which was todetermme 
 whether foixry and dcspotis.n, or ITotestant.sm and 
 Treedoin, were the law which God had appomted for the 
 l.alf of Europe, and the whole of future America. 
 
 t°s a twelve days' epic, worthy, not of dull prose, 
 but of the thunderroll of Homer's verse: but having 
 ,0 tell it, I must do my best, rather usmg, where 
 I can. the words of contemporary authors than my 
 
 """The Lor4 High Admirall of England, sending a pin 
 nace before, called the Defiance, denounced war by dis- 
 charging her ordnance: and presently approachmg w.th.n 
 musquet-shot, with much thundering out of h.s own sh.p, 
 atlled the ArkrovaltWias the Triumph), first set upon th^ 
 MmtLl's, as he thought, of the Spaniards (but .t was 
 Alfonso de Leon's ship). Soon after, Drake, Hawkms a^ul 
 Frobisher played stoutly with the.r ordnance on O-e hmd- 
 most squadron, which was commanded by Recalde. 1 - 
 Spaniards soon discover the superior " mmbleness of i,. 
 Vnglish ships" ; and Recalde's squadron, findmg th.it they 
 a;e gettin, more than they give, in spite of his endeavours 
 hurry forward to join the rest of the fleet. Medma t 
 Admiral, finding his ships scattering f.ist, gathers then, n:to 
 a half-moon ; and the Armada tries to keep solemn way for 
 ward, like a stately herd of bulTaloes, who march on across 
 the prairie, disdaining to notice the wolves which snarl 
 around their track. But in vain. These are no woh. _ 
 but cunning hunters, swiftly horsed, and keenly armed, .i"<l 
 who will " shamefully shuffle " (to use Drake's own expres- 
 "onUhat vast herd from the Lizard to Portland, Irom 
 Portland to Calais Roads ; and who, even in this short two 
 hours' fight, have made many a Spaniard question th. 
 boasted invincibleness of this Armada. 
 
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 ing their place to hoard her ; hut this is stoutly refused. 
 They have " come out to figlit, and not to plunder ; so let the 
 nearest ship to her have her luck without grudging." They 
 pass on, and the men pull long faces when they see the 
 galleon snapped up by their next neiglibour, and towed off 
 to Weymouth, where she pioves to be the ship of Miguel 
 d'Oquenda, the Vicj-Admiral, which they saw last night, 
 all but blown up by some desperate Netherland gunner, 
 who, being " misused," was minded to pay olT old scores on 
 his tryants. 
 
 And so ends the second day ; while the Portland rises 
 higher and clearer every hour. The next morning finds 
 them off the island. Will they try Portsmouth, though 
 they have spared Plymouth ? The wind has shifted to 
 the north, and blows clear and cool off the white-wallod 
 downs of Weymouth Bay. The Spaniards turn and face 
 the English. They must mean to stand off and on until 
 tlie wind shall change, and then to try for the Needles. At 
 least, they shall have some work to do before they round 
 Purbeck Isle. 
 
 The English go to the westward again : but it is only to 
 return on the opposite tack ; and now begms a series of 
 manoeuvres, each fleet trying to get the wind of the other ; 
 but the struggle does not last long, and ere noon the 
 English fleet have slipped close-hauled between the Armada 
 and the land, and are coming down upon them right before 
 the wind. 
 
 And now begins a fight most fierce and fell. " And fight 
 they did confusedly, and with variable fortunes ; while, on 
 the one hand, the English manfully rescued the ships of 
 London, which were hemmed in by the Spaniards ; and, 
 on the other side, the Spaniards as stoutly delivered 
 Recalde, being in danger." Never was heard such thun- 
 dering of ordnance on both sides, which notwithstanding 
 from the Spaniards flew for the most part over the English 
 without harm. Only Cock, an Englishman (whom Prince 
 
THE SPANISH ARMADA 3.3 
 
 !•- 'he English ships, leing fa ' U '"r""" ^"'P "' "is. 
 
 enemy with marvellous agili"y. and r !'''!f: ^"'"S^'^ 'he 
 broadsides, flew forth present' fn, If discharged their 
 their shot directly, without "L, ^\'^''P' ^"^ '^^^lled 
 
 -ieldy Spanish sLipl" .."'. '"^' "' ."^"^^ fe-eat and un- 
 bloody skirmish of all "(though 12' 'i"""'' ^'■'"""^ ^^^ 
 capture of a great Venetian anrt^ °^ ^' " '""'^' '» '"e 
 
 whichtheLordAdmirarghti famish""" ""'^^ "'" 
 and seeing one of his captains afi?ff. ^nemici' fleet, 
 who fought the seven CitatH^ ?"" by ^'ame, he 
 George, what doest thou IvSt o'u tT'f "-''' '« 
 ho,.e and opinion conceived of hie? xvl I!"""'" "^ 
 "e now?' With which words he k .°" '"°'''"'" 
 
 Proached, and did the part ollnl., r'"^ '"''™"'^' "P" 
 ■ndeed, did all the rest " ""''""' "P'ai" "; as, 
 
 N.ght falls upon the floating volcano • »„H 
 'hem far past Purbeck with X r^"° ' ^"^ morning finds 
 ahead; and I-uringfo't^S ^Nh, '''='' "' *"^-'»'"- 
 join the gallant chase S'o ^ '''' ''"'' ""^^ «hip, ,0 
 «"ed out at their own e"^"'"'"^"'-'" -"^els 
 England Mhe Lord oxford™' ''.°"' "'^ '^'''^-'^y of 
 '-d, Pallavicin. to 'at; r", "^'' ''"'^ ^■"'"''-■ 
 .■"any another honourable name .'af;'' ' ""' ^'""'' ="d 
 ""mortal fame and honour JZL k ° '^ '" "'^'''> *here 
 staked her chivalry i„ "hat ,21? """"•" S'"'" ''»' 
 
 "f Arragon or CasLe burhasllt 'T ' ,"°* " "°^'^ "ouse 
 ^hall n,ourn the loss of o , and , ' -^^ "' " '°"~'"<^ 
 "■easure their strength once'for .n^"^' ' 8<-'"'>«"'en will 
 Spain. Lord Howard has sent f'°""^' 'he cavaliers of 
 I -'smouth for ammunition but. """n ''«'" "^" '"'° 
 "'Sht, for the wind falU de^d 11 7 !'" '^""^ '^""" 'o- 
 fleets drift helpless «'th, he i;i ^ evening the two 
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 ELIZABETH 
 
 glassy sea again. But «hat day is this ? Tlic twenty-fifih, 
 St. James's day, sacred to the patron saint of Spain. Shall 
 nothing be attempted in his honour by those whose fore- 
 fathers have so often seen him with their bodily eyes, 
 charging in their van upon his snow-white steed, and scatter- 
 ing I'aynims with celestial lance? He might have sunt 
 Ihem, certainly, a favouring breeze ; perhaps he only means 
 to try their faith ; at least the galleys shall attack; and in 
 their van three of the great galliasses (the fourth lies half- 
 crippled among the fleet) thrash the sea to foam with three 
 hundred oars apiece ; and see, not St. James leading them 
 to victory, but Lord Howard's Triumph, his brclh'jr's Li«„, 
 Southwell's Elizabeth Jonos, Lord Sheffield's Bear, Barkers 
 VictorM, and Ceotge tenner's Leicester, towed stoutly out, to 
 meet them with such salvoes of chain-shot, smashing oars, 
 and cutting rigging, that had not the wind sprung up again 
 toward noon, and the Spanish fleet come up to rescue lliein, 
 they had shared the fate of Valdez and the Biscayan. Ami 
 now the fight becomes general. Frobisher beats dowit the 
 Spanish Admiral's mainmast; and, attacked himself by 
 Mexia and Recalde, is rescued by Lord Howard ; who, 
 nimself endangered in his turn, is rescued m his turn ; 
 " while after that day " (so sickened were they of the hngHsli 
 nunnery), "no galliasse would adventure to fight." 
 " And so, with variable fortune, the fight thunders on the 
 livelong afternoon, beneath the virgin cliffs of Freshwater; 
 while myriad seafowl rise screamm.g up from every led|;e, 
 and spot with their black wings the snow-white wall of chalk ; 
 and the lone shepherd hurries down the slopes above tu 
 peer over the dizzy edge, and forgets the wheatear flultern,? 
 in his snare, while he gazes trembling upon glimpses of tall 
 masts and gorgeous flags, piercing at times the league- 
 broad veil of sulphur-smoke which welters far below 
 
 So fares St. James's day, as Baal's did on Carmel in old 
 time, " Either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is on a 
 journey ; or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awakcU. 
 
THE SPANISH ARMADA ... 
 
 haVb"' t'hroSl'::- \' '-''•'' "^ "^^ --•«--'' ^.s vcarie, 
 laa uLtn tnat ot bnglish cannon : and the Armnrfi " „„i, 
 
 ■ns ..self into a roundel," will fight no ntot Tut '.i the 
 best of us way to Calais, where perhaps the Gu scV fact on 
 'Z^T: ^•^-^'^ 1-- -'iy 'o assL then,?and ■. en :" 
 
 anrbn'^'hl^Ir^K"' ''"'""" Hal.," which follows clear 
 and bright out of the south-south-west, glide forward the 
 ^•0 great fJcets past Brighton Cliffs and I each; He d 
 Has mgs and Dungeness. Is it a battle or a triumph ? 
 
 and after Lord I hon,as Howard, Lord Sheffield, Townsend 
 nd l.,ob,sher have received at his hands that Lnighthood 
 
 u. majcst), that his "old woman will hardly know hHr..,.lf 
 again, when folks call her My I ady " ''"^ 
 
 musk'tee'Tnd'" ""^ """' """ "'"'^ "'"■ '•'''-■•-■" -d 
 musketeers, and every countryman and groom who can 
 
 ward r;^t ''■'^ ""' ^^'"'"^ ^"'^ ^''-■«-' -arching et 
 short r; '"'°"^ '" '^'"'' '°»-"d^ 'he Dover 
 
 '.hore^ And not with them alone. From manv a m^le 
 
 -and come down women and children, and agc^' folk in 
 waggons to jom their feeble shouts, and prayers which a e 
 not feebe, to that great cry of mingled faith and fea whL 
 ascends to the throne of God from the spectators of BrS! 
 
 I n^ H^"" 'fr T- ''■''" <^""8^^ '" "°' over yet, though 
 wni no^^r "' '•:.'' """^ '""" ^''^^haven that th- Guises 
 w I not stir against Kngland, and Seymour and Winter have 
 eft heir post of observation on the Flemish shores to make 
 up the number of the fleet to an hundred and for y sTil 
 larger, slightly, than that of the Spanish fleet but of t^ 
 n.ore than half the tonnage, or oL third the numblr of 
 
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326 
 
 ELIZABETH 
 
 men. The Spaniards are dispirited and battered, but un- 
 broken still ; and as they slide to their anchorage in Calais 
 Roads on the Saturday evening of that most memoral)le 
 week, all prudent men know well that England's hour is 
 come, and that the bells which will call all Christendom to 
 church upon the morrow morn, will be either the death- 
 knell or the triumphal peal of the Reformed faith through- 
 out the world. 
 
 A solemn day that Sabbath must have been m country 
 and in town. ." nd many a light-hearted coward, doubtless, 
 who had scol . (as many did) at the notion of the Armadas 
 coming, because he dare not face the thought, gave himself 
 up to abject fear, " as he now plainly saw and heard that of 
 which before he would not be persuaded." And many a 
 brave man, too, as he knelt beside his wife and daughters, 
 felt his heart sink to the very pavement, at the thought of 
 what those beloved ones might be enduring a few short days 
 hence, from a profligate and fanatical soldiery, or from the 
 more deliberate fiendishness of the Inquisition. The 
 massacre of St. Bartholomew, the fires of Smiihfield, the 
 immolation of the Moors, the extermination of the West 
 Indians, the fantastic horrors of the I'iedmontese persecu- 
 tion, which make unreadable the too truthful pages of 
 Morland,— these were the spectres, which, not as now, 
 dim and distant through the mist of centuries, but recent, 
 bleeding from still gaping wounds, flitted before the eyes 
 of every Englishman, and filled his brain and heart w.ili 
 
 fire. 
 
 He knew full well the fate in store for huii and his. Une 
 false step, and the unspeakable doom which, not two gener- 
 ations afterwards, befell the Lutherans of Magdeburg, would 
 have befallen every town from London to Carlisle. All 
 knew the hazard, as they prayed that day, and many a day 
 before and after, throughout England and the Nether- 
 lands. And none knew it better than She who was the guid- 
 ing spirit of that devoted land, and the especial mark of the 
 
THE SPANISH ARMADA 
 
 i. h.,,,*,, „„* ,i,„,,. „ .j'sr:, trrs 
 
 craft which can follow the<i,. n,n,l i p , , *^ 
 
 better than .heir own floa, ^ • ^'.^f IrT''" 
 
 l;eMof^va.er,oo.pa.stSt;S:';;:r;!::^S;: 
 
 ■n Hamault, m order to make all sure in his INmhcl t ! 
 point lav. ,,„ „,, K, ,„„ . " "'J'' " " • "orfi 
 
 make experience of it, effects L n \ u ^""""""^ '» 
 «- of Oi.„.,e the thnfro'f ti: CaTd aX ■'': 
 
 '.ke a hear robbed of her whelms " ^ "^ •""•• 
 
 ii 
 
 l!fl _ 
 j 
 
 III 
 
ELIZABETH 
 
 been carrying it out so l)usily all that Sunday long, that by 
 two o'clock on the Monday morning, eight firo-ships " be- 
 smeared with wildfire, brimstone, pitch, and resin, and all 
 their ordnance charged with bullets and with stones," are 
 stealing down the wind straight for the Spanish fleet, guided 
 by two valiant men of Devon, Young and I'rowse. (Let 
 their names live long in the land !) The ships arc fired, 
 the men of Devon steal back, and in a moment more the 
 heaven is red with glare from Dover Clilfs to Gravelines 
 Tower ; and weary hearted IJulgian boois far away inland, 
 ])lundered and dragooned for many a hia--ous year, leap 
 from their beds, and fancy (and not so far wongly either) 
 that the day of judgment is come at last, to end their woes, 
 and hurl down vengeance on their tyrants. 
 
 And then breaks forth one of those disgraceful panics, 
 which so often follow overweening presumption ; and 
 shrieks, oaths, prayers, and reproaches, make night hideous. 
 There are those, too, on board who recollect well enough 
 Jenebelli's fire-ships at Antwerp three years before, and 
 the wreck which they made of Parma's bridge across the 
 Scheldt. If these should be like them ! And cutting all 
 cables, hoisting any sails, the Invincible Armada goes 
 lumbering wildly out to sea, every ship foul of her neigh- 
 bour. 
 
 The largest of the four galliasses loses her rudder, and 
 drifts helpless to and fro, hindering and confusing The 
 duke having (so the Siianiards say) weighed his anchor 
 deliberately instead of leaving it behind him, runs in again 
 after a while, and fires a signal for return : but his truant 
 sheep are deaf to the shepherd's pipe, and, swe.i.rir;g antl 
 praying by turns, he runs up Channel towards Gravelines, 
 picking up stragglei . on his way, who are struggling as ihey 
 best can among the flats and shallows: but Drake and 
 Fennel have arrived as soon as he. When Monday's sun 
 rises on the quaint old castle and r uddy dykes of Cravi-- 
 lines town, the thunder of the cannon recommences, and is 
 
Tlin SPAMSH ARMADA 
 
 not hushed till 
 
 320 
 
 "gilt. Drake 
 
 Hollanders f^r'nu , ,.:« alT" "'','>' '"°^''='"'"« 
 flotilla free t., i„i, ,u ' ' '' '"' '"'"'' ••""' his 
 
 across .X.7nrh Sa::::^ '" ■'^" ^'' ^-•^'^'' -^^^^^^^ 
 
 «i.h"aii'his:nu:dr:'?;i^'' "'""• "'" '■'"•■^^ "p f--'--' 
 fleet CO,, up' d :;;;::';:""' "r '" "~^ "••^ '"-'■^'' 
 
 them, the 1. vo', ^ ip^iavel "' '"'""•'■" "" J""' 
 .M.O r. hours i:^:i-—--iS.«niar. 
 
 upon' the 2ri re ;",::•„ "^(^j"'^'^ .^'""''«' »'"^'- 
 Prestcn, the future hero of ?,■''•"' ' ''"'^ '^"'P^ 
 into submission, hile "fleet of l'"^>"' '^P°""'iins her 
 on and help, as JackaU m Jiu theS ""' '"'""""^ '°°^ 
 
 cr"„:Stnh^i--;j"^:p.;^^.a 
 
 the thickest of the £u "'«'' •'^''"'-al glides stately into 
 
 wil^:;,:i^:;i^,;:' ^"'-.'^— ^'-nty ships 
 
 ^utwehavrd'ashad i:::,;:^^.°'•''^^'""'■-<^- 
 >»-'ed. Now or nfZr '""=V '" '"^P'^tion of utter 
 
 H'e worS'tte r:^ "^ : ^ .'"f ">■ -"''''."^ '- ended, 
 pieces now; and in ushes ' 'T ""?' """^ "'^'" '" 
 broadsides through an „ ' f u ''"P" '° '"^''^'^ ''^' 
 "sometimes not a „,k.' ™",°^ "'' "'"'"J'-'" ""''■■^. 
 again to relo d .^d 4e T ' •''-""^er," and then on! 
 ' "'"^ S'^e place meanwhile to another. 
 
330 
 
 ELIZABETH 
 
 The smaller are fighting with all sails set ; the few larger, 
 who, once in, are careless about coming out again, fight 
 with topsails loose, and their main and foreyards close 
 down on deck, to prevent being boarded. The duke 
 Onuenda, an ' Recaldc, having with much ado got clear of 
 the shallows, bear the brunt of the fight to seaward ; but 
 in val:-.. The day goes against them more and more, as it 
 runs on. Seymour and Winter have battered the great 
 S,„i J'/ii///' into a wreck ; her m.-ists are gone by the 
 Iraard ; I'imeiitelli in the San iU.lthm' comc>s up to take 
 the mastiffs off the fainting bull, .-ind finds them fasten o.i 
 him instead ; but the Kvangelist, thoucjh smaller, is stouter 
 than the Deacon, and ci all the shot poured in'o him, not 
 twenty "lackt lim thorough." His masts are tottering; 
 but sinic or strike he will not. 
 
 "Go ahead, and pound his tough hide, Leigh,' roars 
 Drake off the poop of his ship, while he ha^nmers away at 
 one of the great gaUasses. " What right has he to keep us 
 
 all waiting ? " , ,^ , i 
 
 Amyas Leigh slips in as best he can between Drake and 
 Winter ■ as he passes he shouts to his ancient enemy— 
 
 "We are with you, sir ; all friends today ! " and slipping 
 round n'inter's bows, he pours his broadside into thos- of 
 the San Mallhnv, and then glides on to reload ; but .1 . 
 to return. For, not a pistol shot to leeward, worried by 
 three or four small craft, lies an immense galleon ; and on 
 lur poop-can he believe his eyes for joy?-the maiden 
 and the wheel whicr. he has sought so long ! 
 
 "There he is!" shouts Amyas, springing to the star- 
 board side of the ship. The men, too, have already caviylit 
 sight , f that hated sign ; a cheer of fury bursts from every 
 
 throat. 
 
 "Steady, men!" says Amyas in a suppressed voiie. 
 " Noi a shot ! Reload, and be ready ; I must speak witli 
 him first"; and silent as the grave, amid the infernal dm, 
 the Vingeance glides up to the Spaniard's quarter. 
 
TliE SPANISH ARMADA 
 
 3'M 
 
 the roar. ^ "" ""'''■■" "««'"»- '""J "nd clear am,d 
 
 He has not called in val i fv,,i 
 ever, the tall, mail-cla n .,1 \ u J " ''""' K"^'^^''' " 
 
 I'oop-ailing,\wen,; ,et • ove A '"■ '!'"'" "" "•■"" '"« 
 through his vizor- ^"''""" ^ead, and shouts 
 
 S££BB^p^s:; 
 
 a traitor and a ravisher and Ju ^ ' I"'"'^'--""' )"ii 
 »amt Mary gives me grace" ^ "' ^^ ''"^J-a™, if 
 
 thro'igh the ste 
 
 ■ni-works 
 
33, ELIZABETH 
 
 of the Spaniard ; and then l,e sails onward, while her halH 
 go humming harmlessly thnnigh his rmging. 
 " Half an hour has passed of wild noise and fury , ihrce 
 tin,es has the r.«,.-..».r, as a dolphin nnghl, sailed clean 
 round and round the .SV«.. CalHarh,.,, pouring ,n broadside 
 after broadside, till the guns are leaping to the Jcck- beams 
 with their own heat, and the ^l'--"'-"'- "™ ' ", :^, 
 spotted in a hundred places. And yet, so high has b.e 
 h , fire in return, and so strong the deck defemxs of lla 
 ,V«,.„«.-.thatafew spars broken and '- - 'hreyne,, 
 wounded by musketry, are all her loss. . 1 "« f^ ' 
 Spaniard endures, magnificent as ever; it is the 1». le o 
 the thresher and the whale; the end .s certain, but the 
 
 "'^ct'lllpyou,Captainl.eigh?" asked Lord Heiuy 
 Seyino r a he passes within oar's length of him to at.a. 
 a ship ahead. "The 6V,« Matlhav has had his dinner, ai.d 
 isgone on to Medina to ask for a digestive to it. 
 
 " I thank your lordship : but this is my private qu„rr. I, 
 of which I spoke. liut if your lordship could lend nu- 
 
 *"" Wo";iurthat I could ! But so, I fear, says every olh.r 
 Beiillcman in the fleet." 
 
 A puff of wind clears away the sulphureous veil fo a 
 moment; the sea is dear of ships towards the land ; the 
 sS fleet are moving again up Channel, Medina bnn,. 
 frup the rear; only some two miles to their right ban , 
 he vas hu 1 of the San Philip is drifting up the shore wi. 
 he 71 and somewhat nearer the .S«« Maill.n. is hard a 
 work at her pumps. They can see the white stream of 
 water Dourins down her side. 
 
 "Go in, iny Lord, and have the pair," shouts Amyas 
 "No sir! Forward is a Seymour's cry. We will U,.^ 
 then; t.', pay the Vlushingers' expenses." And on wen 
 \Z Hei'iry- and on shore went the .S-.,« Ph.l.f' a- Ost.n 
 ; be plundered by the Flushingers ; while the .S..- 
 
THE SI'.WISM ARMADA 22^ 
 
 UuMnr. whose ra,,,ai„. " „„ , haul, nn.raj;.." had rcA.scI 
 t" s. Y h,„„,|f M,d h,s Kc„,l..„un ,m h.,..r.l .M..di„a'H shi.^ 
 «c..u .lundcMMK -...seraMy i,,,,, .hc- hun^rv .non.hs of t 1. 
 am ..,or \ a.ukrducss ami four olh.T vah..„t Dutchnun, 
 ., like ,.ru,l.m nun of Hollan.l, ,„, .riv.d to keep the- 
 galleon afloat till they had .•„,|„ie.d her, and then "hunu ui, 
 ..r .ann,, „, ,1,. ^reat ■ hur.h of L.-yde., I,ein« of '.uh 
 a length, that .ein^ fastened I. ,he roof, it rea, hed unto 
 tne very gioujid." 
 
 Hut in Ih.. meanwhile, long ere the ,nn had set, con.e, 
 down the darkness of the thunder st..rm, attrarted, as to 
 a vokanos n.outh, -o that vast n.ass of sulphur-sn.oke 
 vhieh cloaks the St.. .or n.any a mile ; and heaven's artil. 
 lery al.,.ve makes answer to man's below. Um still, through 
 Mnoke and ram, Amyas clinKs to his prey. .Sh . too ha, 
 seen the northward movement of ,he S|«nish feet, and 
 sets her topsails; An.yas calls to U • „,en to lire high, and 
 cripple her nggmg: 1„„ i„ v.nn : ' three or four helated 
 galle.y.s havn.g forced their way l. last over the shallows 
 come flaslung and sputteri..,g up to the combatants, and 
 take Ins hre off the galleon. Amyas grinds his t .eth, and 
 would faui nustle mto the thick of the press o more 
 1" spite of the galleys' beaks. 
 
 _ ■' .Most heroical captain," says Gary, pulling a long face; 
 II wedo, we are stove and sunk in live minutes; not to 
 ""■iUion that\eo says he has not twenty rounds of great 
 cartridge lelt." * 
 
 So, surely and silent, the r,».fe.w,, sheers off, but keeps 
 as near as she can to the little s<|uadron, all through the 
 "■Kilt of ram and thunder which follows. Next morning 
 he sun rises on a clear sky, with a strong west-north-wes^ 
 .ree/.e, and all hearts are asking what the day will bring 
 
 They are long past Dunkirk now; the Cerman Ocean 
 IS opening before them. The Spaniards, sorely battered, 
 and lessened in numbers, have, during the night, regained 
 
334 ELIZABETH 
 
 some sort of order. The English hang on their skirts a 
 mile or two behind. They have no ammunition, and must 
 wait for mere. To Amyas's great disgust, the S/a. Catha- 
 rina has rejoined her fellows during the night. 
 
 " Never mind," says Gary ; " she can neither dive nor 
 
 fly, and as long as she is above water, we What is 
 
 the Admiral about ? " 
 
 He is signalling Lord Henry Seymour and his squadron. 
 Soon they tack, and come down the wind for the coast of 
 Flanders. Parma must be blockaded still; and the Hol- 
 landers are likely to be too busy with their plunder to do it 
 effectually. Suddenly there is a stir in the Spanish fleet. 
 Medma and the rearmost ships turn upon the Englisii. 
 What can it mean ? Will they offer battle once more ? If 
 so, it were best to get out of their way, for we have nolb' ig 
 wherewith to i^ght them. So the English lie close to the 
 wind. They will let them pass, and return to th< ir old 
 tactic of following and harassing. 
 
 " Good-bye to Seymour," says Car}', " if he is caught 
 between them and Parma's flotilla. They are going to 
 Dunkirk." 
 
 " Impossible ! They will not have water enough to reach 
 his light craft. Here comes a big ship right upon us ! Cive 
 him all you have left, lads ; and if he will fight us, lay him 
 alongside, and die boarding." 
 
 They gave him what they had, and hulled him with every 
 shot ; but his huge side stood silent as the grave. He had 
 not wherewithal to return the compliment. 
 
 " As I live, he is cutting loose the foot of his mainsail ! 
 the villain means to run." 
 
 " There go the rest of them 1 Victoria ! " shouted Gary, 
 as one after another, every Spaniard set all the sail he 
 could. 
 
 There was silence for a few minutes throughout the 
 English fleet ; and then cheer upon cheer of triumph rent 
 the skies. It was over. The Spaniard had refused battle. 
 
THE SPANISH ARMADA 335 
 
 tlK^sIl^llf'"' ""'' "If'''' """^ P'"'''"^ ^°«""-d toward 
 
 name andT" 1 .'' '""'""'^'^ ^"'"''^ '-'I -»' -4 
 us name, and England was saved. 
 
 " But he will never get there, sir," said old Yen who h .d 
 come upon deck to murmur his Nunc I.on,inc^ andkue u on 
 thats,ght beyond all human faith or hope /«' NY-vc ncC 
 »m he weather the Flanders shore against such rb^e"e a 
 .scommg up look to the eye of the wind, sir, Ind.ee 
 how the Lord is fighting for His people ' " 
 
 Yes, down it came, fresher and stiffer every minute out 
 of the grey north-west, as it does so often after a "hind" r 
 
 Cll A f "f •^''" '° "'' '"e" -'i «'"'e u nd the 
 
 Claro Aqudone," till the Spaniards were fain to take in all 
 
 spare canvas, and lie-to as best they could; whUe t e 
 
 gI hann"' 7'-'"- '■"' '^''""' ''" "•-' -"ich ™s in 
 Ood s hands and not in theirs. 
 
 "They will be all ashore on Zealand before the after 
 -on- murmured Amyas ; "and I have lost my labour > 
 OMor powder, powder, powder ! to go in and finish it Lt 
 
 " Oh, sir," said Yeo, "don't murmur against the I nrH in 
 
 " Could we not borrow powder from Drake there ' " 
 Look at the sea, sir ! " 
 
 attemm '1^^ "' T ""' ^'" '™ ^""«'' f- -V »"ch 
 wh "^r ^^^^P''"'^'■'^^ "'^"^'^d and neared the fatal dunes 
 «h,, h frmged the shore for many a dreary mile; and Anwa 
 ad to watt weary hours, growling like a dog who hasTad 
 the bone snatched out of his mouth, till the day wore on 
 when, behold, the wind began to fall as rapidly a, Zd 
 nsen. A savage joy rose in Amyas's heart ^ ''"">'«' 
 
 " Ihey are safe ! safe for us ! Who will go and ben us 
 powder? A caruidge here and a eartridg! there?-anv 
 thing to set to iv.vrk again ! " ' 
 
 Cary volunteered, and returned in a couple of hours with 
 
 !'H',il!:l 
 
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336 
 
 ELIZABETH 
 
 some quantity; but he was on hoard again only just i^ 
 time, for the south-wester had recovered the mastery of he 
 skies, and Spaniards and EngUsh were movng "^^ay .• ''" 
 this time northward. Whither "ow? fo Scotland? 
 Amyas knew not, and cared not, provided he was in the 
 comiiany of Don Guzman de Soto. 
 
 The Armada was defeated, and Lngland saved, l.ut 
 such great undertakings seldom end ^^"1^1^']^ "!'"■''!; 
 dramatic explosion of fireworks, through which the dev 1 
 arises in full roar to drag Dr. Vaustus for ever into the 
 flaming pit. On the contrary, the dcvil stands by his ser- 
 vants to the last, and tries to bring off his shattered force, 
 with drums beating and colours fiy.ng ; and, if possible, to 
 lull his enemies into supposing that the light is ended, long 
 before it really is half over. All which the good i. -rd 
 Howard of Effingham knew well, and knew, too, ll .. 
 Medina had one last card to play, and that was the fihul 
 affection of that dutiful and chivalrous son, James of Sc-ot- 
 land. True, he had promised faith to Elizabeth ; but that 
 was no reason why he should keep it. He hac been 
 hankering and dabbling after Spam for years past, font. 
 absolutism was dear to his inmost soul ; and Queen Eliza- 
 beth had had to warn him, scold him, call him a liar, for so 
 doing ; so the Armada might still find shelter and provisi.n, 
 in the Firth of Forth. But whether Lord Howard knew or 
 not, Medina did not know, that Elizabeth had played her 
 card cunningly, in the shape of one of those appeals to th. 
 purse, which, to James's dying day, overweighed all others 
 save appeals to his vanity. "The title of a dukedom in 
 England, a yearly pension of ^5,ooo a guard at the 
 Queen's charge, and other matters" (probably more hound. 
 and deer), had steeled the heart of the King of Scots and 
 sealed the Firth of Forth. Nevertheless, as I say, Lord 
 Howard, like the rest of Elizabeth's heroes, trusted James 
 iust as much as James trusted others ; and therefore thought 
 good to escort the Armada until it was safely past the 
 
THE SPANISH ARMADA 337 
 
 domains of that most chivalrous and truthful Solomon. ])ut 
 on the 4th of August, his fears, such as they were, were 
 laid to rest. The Spaniards left the Scottish coast and 
 sailed away for Norway ; and the game was played out, and 
 the end was come, as the end of such matters generally 
 comes, by gradual decay, petty disaster, and mistake: till 
 the snow mountam, instead of being blown tragically and 
 heroically to atoms, melts helplessly and ,,itiably away. 
 Yes, as the medals struck on the occasion said, " It came 
 
 ward like a herd of frightened deer, past the Orkneys and 
 Shetlands, catching up a few hapless fishermen as guides • 
 past the coast of Norway, there, too, refused water and food 
 by the brave descendants of the Vikings; and on north- 
 ward ever towards the lonely Faroes, and the everlasting 
 dawn wh:ch heralds round the Pole the midnight sun 
 
 1 heir water is failing ; the cattle must go overboard : and 
 the wild northern sea echoes to the shrieks of drowning 
 horses. They must homeward at least, somehow, each as 
 best he can. Let them meet again at Cape Kinisterre, if 
 indeed they ever meet. Medina Sidonia, with some five- 
 and-twenty of the soundest and best victualled ships, will 
 lead the way, and leave the rest to their fate. He is soon 
 out of sight; and forty more, the only remnant of that 
 mighty host, come wandering wearily behind, hoping to 
 make the south-west coast of Ireland, and have help, or at 
 least, fresh water there, from their fellow Romanists. Alas 
 for them ! — 
 
 " Make Thou their way dark and slippery, 
 And follow Ihcm up ever wilh Tliy storm." 
 
 For now comes up from the Atlantic, gale on gale; and few 
 of that hapless remnant reached the shores of Spain. 
 
 And where are Amyas and the Vengeance all this while ? 
 
 At the fifty-seventh degree of latitude, the English fleet, 
 finding themselves growing short of provision, and having 
 
338 
 
 ELIZABETFI 
 
 been long since out of powder and ball, turn southward 
 toward home, " thinking it best to leave the Spaniard to 
 those uncouth and boisterous northern seas." A few pin- 
 naces are still sent onward to watch their course ; and the 
 English fleet, caught in the same storms which scattered 
 the Spaniards, " with great danger and industry reached 
 Harwich port, and there provide themselves of victuals anl 
 ammunition," in case the Spaniards should return ; but 
 there is no need for that caution. Parma, indeed, who 
 cannot believe that the idol at Halle, after all his compli- 
 ments to it, will play him so scurvy a trick, will watch for 
 weeks on Dunkirk dunes, hoping against ho|ie for the 
 iVrmada's return, casting anchors, and spinning rigging to 
 rejxiir their losses. 
 
 ' " But lang lang may his ladies sit. 
 With their fans intill their hand, 
 Before they see Sir Patricia Spcns 
 Come sailing to the land." 
 
 The Armada is iiway on the other side of Scotland, and 
 Amyas is following in its wake. 
 
 For when the Lord High Admiral determined to return, 
 Amyas asked leave to follow the Spaniard ; and asked, to(j, 
 of Sir John Hawkins, who happened to be at hand, such 
 ammunition and provision as could be afforded him, 
 promising to repay the same like an honest man, out of his 
 plunder if he lived, out of his estate if he died ; lodging for 
 that purpose bills in the hands of Sir John, who as a man 
 of business, took them, and put them in his pocKet among 
 the thimbles, string, and tobacco ; after which Amyas, calling 
 his men together, reminded them once more of the story uf 
 the Rose of Torridge and Don Guzman de Soto, and then 
 asked: 
 
 " Men of Bideford, will you follow me ? There will be 
 plunder for those who love plunder ; revenge for those who 
 love revenge ; and for all of us (for we all love honour) the 
 
THE SPANISH ARMADA 
 
 330 
 
 rest; how «hen \h.din.,- . ' , = '''■'"^"'^'J '^V "i^' 
 bdund, they n" e u "tnl "" ''' ""-' ''"'''""1 »'"-l« 
 
 the midst of th Sn „ ."V ? "' """''' ''>' "'"-'"'g '" '. 
 Medina; ho A!:^:^ .^ ,^ '--- '- -aping wi,h 
 .o windward out into e ocea, ' ZlT 1" '""" ""' '"^' 
 past the Orkneys, and dol h. V^ '^"" '" "'" ^"""'. 
 Cupe U'rath and "wis how th"' ""^ '^''■"'■''. '-«-" 
 ready to mutiny hecau e \n '^^"""S'^' hands were 
 
 .«stL.o™thr:;XH:r:^^,trsit^r^,T 
 wards, witi, „,ore t^.^ ^^'oS';::::^^^^''^';-- ^'^^- 
 
 >vest coast of Ireland; how Jot t ' '"'"'''' °" '^' 
 certain " Hebridean Scots" oSkye ^^ ,7"' "•V'"''-' '" 
 in an unknown tongue, fough wi^h hi^' "^'fV""'"S '""' 
 embraced hin. and "his' me, .^"h^ 7 'l'^ ,"" ' ""' 
 were not much more decently clad nn ^I" °"' ""'^ 
 
 ;- "Id friends of Cahfornia Vo 'he " "il:,^'':;'"'^''' "'f" 
 lettmg them pick the bones of a ,-re!fV. .""•'" ^^ 
 
 going on shore upon Islvl Vf''^ ^ '^""'an which was 
 
 •0 repay them T he whl '' !'"" '"' f '""'^ <^"""gl> 
 again by refusin- to la ^^^'l' '"'' "'^^'^^'^ '^em 
 wrecks on e Mu o^Ca^ Ve ^ h " '"" "''' '^'"'^ 
 
 i--Hed to smugg^:^': -jt: <;;;:•; KU^5 
 
 p. 
 
340 
 
 ELIZABETH 
 
 white, which the v.ild people called Raghary, but Cary 
 christened it " the drowned magpie " ; how the .S'/,/. 
 Catharina was near lost on the Isle of Man, and then put 
 into ("astleton (where the Manxmen slew a whole hoat's- 
 crew with their arrows), and then put out again, when 
 Amyas fought with her a whole day, and shot away her 
 mainyard ; how the Spaniard blundered down the coast of 
 Wales, not knowing whither he went ; how they were b.)lli 
 nearly lost on Holyhead, nd again on Bardsey Island ; how 
 they got on a lee shore in Cardigan Hay, before a heavy 
 westerly gale, and the Sta. Catharina ran aground on Sam 
 David, one of those strange subaqueous pebble-dykes which 
 are said to be the remnants of the lost land of (Iwalior, de- 
 stroyed by the carelessness of Prince Seithenin the drunkard, 
 at whose nome each loyal Welshman spits ; how she got off 
 again at the rising of the tide, and fought with Amyas a 
 fourth time ; how the wind changed, and she got round St. 
 David's Head ; — these, and many more moving incidents 
 of this eventful voyage, I must pass over without details, 
 and go on to the end ; for it is time that the end should 
 come. 
 
 It was now the sixteenth d' y of the chase. They had 
 seen, the evening before, St. David's Head, and then the 
 Welsh coast round Milford Haven, looming out black and 
 sharp before the blaze of the inland thunderstorm ; and it 
 had lightened all round them during the fore part of tlie 
 night, upon a light south-western breeze. 
 
 In vain they had strained their eyes through the darkness. 
 to catch, by the fitful glare of the flashes, the tall masts of 
 the Spaniard. Of one thing at least they were certain, that 
 with the wind as it was, she could not have gone far to the 
 westward ; and to attempt to pass t.iem again, and go 
 northward, was more than she dare do. She was probably 
 lying-to ahead of them, perhaps between them and the 
 land; and wh>,r!, a little after midnigh' the wind chopiied 
 up to the west, and blew stiffly till daybreak, they felt sure 
 
THE SPANISH ARMADA 
 
 Amyas paced the sloppy deck fretfully and Hercely He 
 knew that the Spaniard could not escape; bu he cursed 
 every moment which lingered between hm anr.h^r 
 great reveng. which blackened all his soul fhemen^t: 
 sulk,ly about the deck, and whistled for a Id -Te sai 
 flapped ,dly against the masts ; and the ship meduXo 
 ;-. troughs of the sea, til. her yard-arms "almost J.^^ 
 
 .o::J^t:;^j;i;Xr- ^- """- -ethmg 
 Of ;S!"trdTr ''- ^'"''' ' ''- '■-' -•" -■''^ -- 
 
 thZMoa" ''" '•'""' '"^'"'^ '"^'''•" ^'' Cary, "and 
 " So much the better," said Amyas. " It may roar till ir 
 
 the cfoud anH t' ,?"""''" '^''' ^'^^^^ " 0"« ''« of 
 'ne Cloud, and we should see him " 
 
 "To wind,v-ard of us, as likely as not," said Amyas 
 
 AnTh i ^ days, and not sent this through him yet r " 
 And he shook his sword impatiently ^ ' 
 
 So the morning wore away, without a sign of Hying thine 
 ""t even, passing gull; and the black mdancholy^of the 
 
343 
 
 ELIZABETH 
 
 heaven renoctcd itself in the black melancholy of Ar.iyas. 
 Was he to lose his prey after all ? The thought made him 
 shudder with rage and disappointment. It was intolerable. 
 Anything but that. 
 
 " No, God 1 " he cried, " let me but once feel this ni his 
 accursed he.irt, and then— strike me dead, if Thou wilt ! " 
 
 "The Lord have mercy on us," cried John lirimble- 
 coiiibe. " What have you said ? " 
 
 " What is that to you, sir ? There, they are piping to 
 dinner. Co down. I shall not come." 
 
 And Jack went down, and talked in a half-terrified win- 
 per of Amyas's ominous words. 
 
 All thought that they portended some bad luck, except 
 old Yeo. 
 
 " Well, Sir John," said he, " and why not ? What better 
 
 cin the Lord do for a man, than take him home when he 
 
 has done his work ? Our captaMi is wilful and spiteful, and 
 
 must needs kill his man himself; while for me, I don't care 
 
 how the Don goes, provided he does go. 1 owe him no 
 
 grudge, nor any man. May the Lord give him repentance, 
 
 and forgive him all his sins : but if I could but see him 
 
 once safe ashore, as he may be ere nightfall, on the Mortc 
 
 stone or the back of Lundy, I would say, ' Lord, now 
 
 lettest Thou Thy servant depart in peace,' even if it were 
 
 the lightning which was sent to fetch me." 
 
 " But, Master Yeo, a sudden death ? " 
 
 "And why not a sudden death. Sir John? Even fools 
 
 long for a short life and a merry one, and shall not the 
 
 Lord's people pray for a short death and a merry one ? I.ft 
 
 it come as it will to old Yeo. Hark ! there's the captain s 
 
 voice ! " . 
 
 " Here she is ! " thundered Amyas from the deck ; and in 
 an instant all were scrambling up the hatchway as fast as 
 the frantic rolling of the ship would let them. 
 
 Yes. There she was. The cloud had lifted suddenly, 
 and to the south a ragged bore of blue sky let a long stream 
 
THE SPANISH ARMADA 343 
 
 of sunshine down on her tall masts and stately liiill as she 
 lay rolling sonic four or five miles to the eastward; but as 
 for land, none was to be s^jen. 
 
 " There she is ; and here we are," sai<l Cary ; " but where 
 IS Here ? and where is there ? How is the tide, master ? " 
 
 " Runiiing up Channel by this time, sir." 
 
 "What matters the tide?" said Aniyas, devouring the 
 snip with terrible and cold blue eyes. "Can't we get at 
 her ? " 
 
 " Not unless some one jumps out and shoves behind," 
 said Cary. " I shall down again and finish that mackerel, 
 if this roll has not chucked it to the cockroaches under the 
 table." 
 
 "Uon't jest. Will! I can't stand i,." said Amyas, ir ^ 
 voice which <iuivered so much that Cary looked at him. 
 His whole frame was trembling like aii aspen. Cary took 
 his arm, and drew him aside. 
 
 " Dear old lad," said he, as they leaned over the bul- 
 warks, " what is this? You are not yourself, and have not 
 been these four days." 
 
 "No. I am not Amyas Leigh. I am my brother's 
 avenger. Do not rea.son with me. Will : when it is ovur I 
 shall be merry old Amyas again," and he passed his hard 
 over his brow. 
 
 " Do you believe," said he, after a moment, " that men 
 can be possessed by devils?" 
 
 "The Hible says so." 
 
 " If my cause were not a just one, I should fancy I had 
 a devil in me. My throat and heart are as hot as the pit. 
 Would to God it were done, for done it must be ! Now 
 go.- 
 
 Cary went away with a shudder. As he passed down the 
 hatchway he looked back. Amyas had got the hone out of 
 his pocket, and was whetting away again at his sword-edge, 
 as if there was some dreadful doom on him, to whet, and 
 whet for ever. 
 
344 
 
 ELIZABETH 
 
 The weary day wore on. The strip of blue sky was 
 curtained over again, and all was dismal as Ijcforc, though 
 it grew sultrier every moment ; and now and then a distant 
 mutter shook the air to westward. Nothing could be done 
 to lessen the distance between the ships, for the Vinxeitme 
 had had all her boats carried away but one, and that was 
 much too small to tow her : and while the men went dcwn 
 again to finish dinner, Amyas worked on at his sword, look- 
 ing up every now and then suddenly at the Spaniard, as if 
 to satisfy himself th.it it was not a vision which hud 
 vanished. 
 
 About two Yeo came up to him. 
 
 " lie is ours .safely now, sir. The tide has been runnii\g 
 to the eastward for this two hours." 
 
 " Safe as a fox in a trap. Satan himself cannot take him 
 from us I " 
 
 " But God may," said Brimblecombe simpl). 
 
 "Who spoke to you, sir? If I thought that He 
 
 There comes the thunder at last ; " 
 
 And as he spoke, an angry growl from the westward 
 heavens seemed to answer his wild words, and rolled and 
 loudened nearer and nearer, till right over their heads it 
 crashed against some cloud-cliff far above, and all was still. 
 Each man looked in the other's face : but Amyas was 
 unmoved. 
 
 "The storm is coming," said he, "and the wind in it. 
 It will be Eastward-ho now, for once, my merry men all ! " 
 " Eastward-ho never brought us luck," said Jack in an 
 undertone to Gary. But by this time all eyes were turned 
 to the north-west, where a black line along the hox'um 
 began to define the boundary of sea and air, till now all 
 dim in mist. 
 
 " There comes the breeze." 
 " And there the storm, too." 
 
 And with that strangely accelerating pace which some 
 storms seem to possess, the thunder, which had been growl- 
 
THE SPANISH ARMADA 
 
 345 
 
 iriR slow iiiul hclilom fur awuy, now raim |Kal on |kmI .iIcmik 
 the cloudy floor ulmvc llicir hcaiN, 
 
 "Hcru roniLS the brcc/u. Round with tliu yards, or w<; 
 shall he taken ahark." 
 
 'I'hc yards creaked round, the si>a grew rri^p aromul 
 them ; the hot air swipt their cheiks, tiKhtencd every ro|H', 
 f'Hed every sail. Lent her over. A eheer hurst from the 
 nen as the hehi) went up, and they staKKered away hefore 
 the wind, right down upon the Siianiard, who lay still Im;- 
 calmed. 
 
 " 'I'herc is more behind, Amyas," said Cary. " Shall wc 
 not shorten sail a little ? " 
 
 " No. Hold on every stitch," said Amyas. " Give me 
 the helm, man. Boatswain, pi|)c away to clear for fight." 
 
 It was done, and in ten minutes the men were all at 
 quarters, while the thunder rolled louder and loudc. over- 
 head, and the breeze fresncned fast. 
 " The dog has it now. There he goes ! " said Cary. 
 " Right before the wind. He has no liking to face us." 
 " He is running into the jaws of destruction," siiid Veo. 
 "An hour n'ore will send him either right up the Channel, 
 or smack on shore somewhere." 
 
 " There ! he has put his helm down. I wonder if he 
 sees land ? " 
 
 " He is like a March hare beat out of his country," said 
 Cary, " and don't know whither to run ne.\t." 
 
 Cary was right. In ten minutes more the Spaniard fell 
 off again, and went away dead down wind, while the 
 Vengeance gained on him fast. After two hours more, the 
 four miles had diminished to one, while the lightning 
 flashed nearer and nearer as the storm came up ; and from 
 the vast mouth of a black cloud-arch poured so fierce a 
 breeze that Amyas yielded unwillingly to hints which were 
 growing into open murmurs, and bade shorten sail. 
 
 On they rushed with scarcely lessened speed, the black 
 arch following fast, curtained by c" -ey sheet of pour- 
 
346 
 
 ni.IZAHETH 
 
 inn '■""< Ix-fon' wliii-li llic water was Imiliii^ in a lonp whili 
 line ; while every tiKinienl hehind the watery veil, a keen 
 blue s|>ark leapt clown intu the sea, ur darted /ig/ai{ thri>iiKh 
 the rain. 
 
 " We shall have it now, and with u vengeance ; this will 
 try your taekle, master,*' said (.'ary. 
 
 'I'iie fiinctiona.y answered with u shni);, an<l turned up 
 the collar of his rough fr(xk, as the first drops flew stingin){ 
 round his ears. Another minute and the squall burst full 
 upon them, in rain, whieh cut like li il — hail which lashed 
 the sea into froth, and wind whieli whi'led off the hc.ids of 
 the surges, and swept the waters into one white seething 
 waste. And above them, and behind them, and Iwfore 
 them, the lightning leapt and ran, da/.^ling and blinding, 
 while the deep roar of the thunder was changed to shai; 
 ear-piercing cracks. 
 
 "Ijet the arms anil aniniun'Mon under cover, i"-^ Mien 
 below with you all, " shouted Aniyas frotn the helii 
 
 " And heat the pokers in the galley fire," said . i, " to 
 be ready if the ruin puts our linstocks out. I liopi ,'ou II 
 let nie stay on deck, sir, in case " 
 
 " I must have some one, and who better than you ? Cui 
 you see the chase ? " 
 
 No ; she was wrapped in the grey whirlwind. She might 
 be within half a mile of them, for aught they could have 
 seen of her. 
 
 And now Amyas and his old liegeman were alone. 
 Neither spoke ; each knew the other's thoughts, anil kmw 
 that they were his own. The sciuall blew fiercer and fit r< it, 
 the rain poured heavier and hiavier. Where was llie 
 Spaniard ? 
 
 " If he has laid-to, we may overshoot him, sir ! " 
 
 " If he has tried to lay-to. he will not have a sail left in 
 the bolt-rope? ^ or j)erhaps a mast on deck. I know the 
 stiff-nL-ckedne.is of those Spanish tubs. Hurrah I there lie 
 is, right on our larboard bow 1 " 
 
THE SPANISH ARMADA 347 
 
 There she was indcd, t»„ n.uskct shots off. sla-erinir 
 »««y with . anvas ,,,li, and Hying. »'-'eo<-">'K 
 
 "He has lH..en Iryinu to hull, sir, and cauifhl a l.uffet ' 
 said Yeo. ru .b.n« his han.ls. " What shall w^o^owf" " 
 
 and^r„u!T: ••■• " " "^'"^ "^'-' ""I""'"' -i'^he,, 
 da^l's^. "' '"' ""^"^ "'""-■■ '■"'' '■ •>- "- 'i«h.nin« 
 
 On they swept, gaining fast on the S,«niard. 
 in .en",!it. """ "'' """ '" •^"""'" ' '^'^ -" «'" •- -r 
 
 dui^'whiirv' "'k "''•:?*''"' "' " '*""• J""'"'^'^ ""-• helm 
 Uo,>n, vthile \eo shouted to the men below. 
 
 -She swung round. The masts bent like whip, crack 
 .vent the foresail like a cannon. ^Vha, mat.erT \v ^ , 
 
 Icr, and above her, a huge dark ba, k rose d-ough the 
 dense ha,l, and mingled with the clouds; and a its foot 
 l.la.ner every moment, pillars and spouts of leaping foam. 
 Hhatisit, Morte? Hartland.'" 
 
 It might be anything for thirty miles. 
 
 "I^undy!" said Yeo. "The south end! I see the 
 head of . , Shatter in the breakers - Hard a-port y", and 
 tet her close-hauled as you can, and the Lord may have 
 mercy on us still ! Look at the S|)aniard ! " 
 
 Yes, look at the Spaniard ! 
 
 .r?r!!, "T'' l^^ '""''• "' '^'^ broached-to, the wall of 
 trimte sloped down from the clouds toward an isolated 
 
 lund,^.H"^ ^'"7 '"° ^'""^""^ f*^^' '" ''^'Sht. Then a 
 acre hT K ™'""« ^'''^"' "P°" ^ »""'«^" 'helf, 
 then amtd a colunm of salt smoke, the Shutter, like a huge 
 WaU lang, rose waiting for its prey; and between the 
 
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348 
 
 ELIZABETH 
 
 Shutter and the land, the great galleon loomed dimly 
 through the storm. 
 
 He, too, had seen his danger, and tried to broach-to 
 But his clumsy mass refused to obey the helm ; he struggled 
 a moment, half hid in foam ; fell away aga.n, and rushed 
 
 upon his doom. 
 
 " I ost 1 lost ! lost ! " cried Amyas madly, and throwmg 
 up his hands, let go the tiller. Yco caught it just m time. 
 
 " l-ir ! sir 1 What are you at ? We shall clear the rock 
 
 vet " 
 
 "Yes!" shouted Amyas in his frenzy; "but he will 
 
 "^Another minute. The galleon gave a sudden jar, and 
 stopped. Then one long heave and bound, as .f to tree 
 herself. And then her bows lighted clean upon the Shutter 
 An awful silence fell on every English soul. They heard 
 not the roaring of wind and surge ; they saw not the blind- 
 ing flashes of the lightning; but they heard «"« long ear- 
 piercing wail to every saint in heaven rise from five hundred 
 human throats; they saw the mighty sh.p heel over from 
 the wind, and sweep headlong down the cataract of he 
 race, plunging her yards into the foam, and showmg Ikt 
 whole black side even to her keel, till she rolled clean over, 
 and vanished for ever and ever. , , . ., 
 
 "Shame!" cried Amyas, hurling his sword far mto the 
 sea, "to lose my right, my right ! when it was m my very 
 urasp ! Unmerciful ! " . . 
 
 A crack which rent the sky, and made the granite n,,;; 
 and quiver; a bright world of flame, and then a blank uf 
 utter darkness, against which stood out, glowing red-hot, 
 every mast, and sail, and rock, and Salvation Yeo as he 
 stood just in front of Amyas, the tiller m his hand. All 
 ted-hot, transfigured into fire; and behind, the black, back 
 ni'-ht —Charles Kingslev, IVestzmrd Lo. 
 
XXV 
 
 The King he would 
 a Hunting go 
 
 " l\/r ^ ^"''"'^'" ™d Lord Glenvarloch to Linklater, the 
 
 iVJL Scotch cook of his Majesty, "can you inform me 
 which way I shall most readily get to the sight and speech 
 of the King ? " 
 
 " To the sight of him readily enough," said Linklater ; 
 " he is galloping about these alleys, to see them strike the 
 hart, to get him an appetite for a nooning— and that re- 
 minds me I should be in the kitchen. To the speech of 
 the King you will not come so easily, unless you could 
 either meet him alone, which rarely chances, or wait for him 
 among the crowd that go to see him alight. And now, 
 farewell, my lord, and God speed !— if I could do more for 
 you, I would offer it." 
 
 "You have done enough, perhaps, to endanger yourself," 
 said Lord Glenvarloch. " I pray you to be gone, and leave 
 me to my fate." 
 
 The honest cook lingered, but a nearer burst of the horns 
 apprized him that there was no time to lose ; and actjuaint- 
 ing Nigel that he would leave the postern-door on the latch 
 to secure his retreat in that direction, he bade God bless 
 him, and farewell. 
 
 In the kindness of this humble countryman, flowing 
 partly from national partiality, partly from a sense of long- 
 remembered benefits, which had been scarce thought on by 
 those who had bestowed them. Lord Glenvarloch thought 
 he saw the last touch of sympathy which he was to receive 
 
350 
 
 JAMES I 
 
 in this cold and courtly region, and felt that he must now 
 be sufficient to himself, or be utterly lost. 
 
 He traversed more than one alley, guided by the sounds 
 of the chase, and met several of the inferior attendants 
 upon the King's sport, who regarded him only as one of the 
 spectators who were sometimes permitted to enter the Park 
 by the concurrence of the officers about the Court. Still 
 there was no appearance of James, or any of his principal 
 courtiers, and Nigel began to think whether, at the risk of 
 incurring disgrace similar to that which had attended other 
 similar attempts to approach the King, he should not repair 
 to the Palace-gate, in order to address the King on his 
 return, when Fortune presented him the opportunity of 
 doing so, in her own way. 
 
 He was in one of those long walks by which the Park 
 was traversed, when he heard, first a distant rustling, then 
 the rapid approach of hoofs shaking the firm earth on which 
 he stood ; then a distant halloo, warned by which he stood 
 up by the side of the avenue, leaving free room for tht 
 passage of the chase. The stag, reeling, covered with foam, 
 and blackened with sweat, his nostrils expanded as he 
 gasped for breath, made a shift to come up as far as where 
 Nigel stood, and, without turning to bay, was there pulled 
 down by two tall greyhounds of the breed still used by the 
 hardy deer-stalkers of the Scottish Highlands, but which 
 has been long unknown in England. One dog struck at 
 the buck's throat, another dashed his sharp nose and fangs 
 I might almost say, into the animal's bowels. It would 
 have been natural for Lord Glenvarloch, himself persecuted 
 as if by hunters, to have thought upon the occasion like the 
 melancholy Jacques ; but habit is a strange matter, and I 
 fear that his feelings on the occasion were rather those of 
 the practised huntsman than of the moralist. He had no 
 time, however, to indulge them, for mark what befell. 
 
 A single horseman followed the chase, upon a steed so 
 thoroughly subjected to the rein, that it obeyed the touch 
 
THE KING HE WOULD A HUNTING GO 33, 
 
 '■" his demi-pique addle ZT ^ ' "'"'"•• ^'^="^d deep 
 
 -^e ral,ingX.:i;Ut^;rrr "'t'' V 
 fe.ir or hesitation miL-ht m. t"e rider, without either 
 
 which he rodtwhichtvenrr "'"'"""^'^^ ">e speed at 
 of the chase, seldl 'erceeded hreT;' ""'"'"'"« '^"'^''"'"^ 
 horse keeping his haunts ndrh^":;;:;^ ^ ^^"''P'''''' 
 forward beyond the managed pi "of the T '"''"""8 
 -curity with which he chost to pro^ecu to ^n t'hT'r '''"'^ 
 ite, and, n the ordimrv r,»^ c u . '"'^ '^*™"''- 
 
 n.ent, as well " ,^ re" of hT' "' '''"'""''' ™"- 
 James. No attend t tas^'w .^'S' inT^'^' ■ ^^'^^ 
 often a nice strain of flattery to per n^the^' '• "'"' 
 —e he had outridden anListS'all'^^rX^: 
 
 to the Braes of Balwhither !_Haud m t' "•"''" 
 called out to Ni^el withn.u , * ""' "'^"' he 
 
 '/'«..), which was the onlv, hint ' T"' ^''"'"■""' '^^ 
 .hat he could willing yentet snTf'!:'' '" " "^^'^ 
 -.h great satisfacti' ^i al the tSt^of .r".";"''''^ 
 rut an end at once to its struggleralS a" oni .s'"^'" '"' 
 
 l-ord Clenvarloch, who knew w^ll ,h ■, , 
 '1- occasion demanJed, hung the b do? r k"'^"''",'' 
 
 -:::^St:Lrr'"'^"-"-^"-^"^°- 
 «intha^S--.^-trs^: 
 
352 
 
 JAMES I 
 
 sport to observe anything else, drew his cotiUau down the 
 breast of thd animal, secundum artem ; and, having made a 
 cross cut, so as to ascertain the depth of the fat upon the 
 chest, exclaimed, in a sort of rapture, "Three inches of white 
 fat on the brisket !- prime — prime — as I am a crowned 
 sinner — and deil ane o' the lazy loons in but mysell ! Seven 
 — aught — aaght tines on the antlers. By C — d, a hart of 
 aught tines, and the first of the season ! Bash and Baltic, 
 blessings on the heart's-root of ye ! Bu -,s me, my bairns, 
 buss me." 
 
 The dogs accordingly fawned upon him, licked him \ i 
 bloody jaws, and soon put him in such a state that it nii;;lii 
 have seemed treason had been doing its full work upon his 
 anointed body. 
 
 " Bide doun, with a mischief to ye — bide doun, with a 
 wanion," cried the King, almost overturned by the obstre- 
 perous caresses of the large stag-hounds. " But ye are just 
 like ither folks, gie ye an inch and ye take an ell. — And 
 wha may ye be, friend ? " he said, now finding leisure to 
 tal;^ a nearer view of Nigel, and observing what in his first 
 emotion of silvan delight had escaped him, — " Ye are n jne 
 of oui train, man. In the name of God, what the devil are 
 ye?" 
 
 " An unfortunate man, sire," replied Nigel. 
 
 " I dare say that," answered the King snappishly, " or I 
 wad have seen naethinj of you. My lieges keep a' tlitir 
 happiness to themselves ; but let bowls row wrang wi' thuin, 
 and I am sure to hear of it." 
 
 " And to whom else can we carry our complaints hut 
 to your Majesty, who is Heaven's vicegerent over us ? " 
 answered Nigel. 
 
 " Right, man, right — very weel spoken," said the King ; 
 " but you should leave Heaven's vicegerent some quiet on 
 earth, too." 
 
 "If your Majesty will look on me " (for hitherto the King 
 had been so busy, first with the dogs, and then with tlie 
 
M- ! 
 
 i\. 
 

 KING JAMKS AT A IJISADVANTAGK. 
 
 fA 35J- 
 
THE KING HE WOULD A HUNTING GO 353 
 
 ™ hnnsulf uf an opportunity which may never again 
 
 Kins James I„oked ; his blood left his cheek thouch it 
 om.nued sta.ned with that of the anin,al wh.Vh '>•"! h 
 
 for assistance, and then exclaimed,-" Clenvarlochides ' •,, 
 sure as I was christened James Stewart. Here s a bonnv 
 spo of work, and me alone, and on foot, too ! " he added 
 bustling to get upon his horse. ne aaued, 
 
 "Forgive me that I interrupt you, mv liece " said Ni^M 
 
 c^^'H^a^^rSi^jr^Sf^inSis:: 
 
 seemly to stand cheek-for-chow confronting'u ,h t gate 
 I he deil s m them a', what can they be doing ? " 
 
 By the crown which you wear, my liege," said Ni-^el 
 
 and for which my ancestors have worthily ought Icon 
 
 pow r to t^nt T 1-™^''"'"'^'y°"'°f '^e monarch's 
 t e ,|.,n H ■ t'" """d"y "'hich he showed was not 
 
 ^V ''"° ^"Sry, desirous of secur ng his safetv -inH nf ,1,. 
 sanie time ashamed to compromise his dign ty s^ that wifh 
 
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334 
 
 JAMES I 
 
 keeps Steenie ? And, praised be his name, they are com- 
 ing — Hillo, ho — here, here— Steenie, Steenie!" 
 
 The Duke of Buckingham galloped up, followed by 
 several courtiers and attendants of the royal chase, and 
 commenced with his usual familinrity, — 
 
 " I see Fortune has graced our dear dad, as usual. — But 
 what's this ? " 
 
 "What is it? It is treason for what I ken," said the 
 King ; " and a' your wyle, Steenie. Your dear dad and 
 gossip might have been murdered, for what you care." 
 
 " Murdered ? Secure the villain ! " exclaimed the Duke. 
 " By Heaven, it is Olifaunt himself ! " 
 
 A dozen of the hunters dismounted at once, letting their 
 hors-s lun wild through the park. Some seized roughly on 
 Lc... Glenvarloch, who thought it folly to offer resistance, 
 while others busied themselves with the King. 
 
 " Are you wounded, my liege — are you wounded ? " 
 
 " Not that I ken of," said the King, in a paroxysm of liis 
 apprehension (which, by the way, might be pardoned in 
 one of so timorous a temper, and who, in his time, had 
 been exposed to so many strange attempts) — " Not that I 
 ken of — but search him — search him. I am sure I saw- 
 fire-arms under his cloak. I am sure I smelled powder — I 
 am dooms sure of that." 
 
 Lord Glenvarloch's cloak being stripped off, and \m 
 pistols discovered, a shout of wonder and of execration on 
 the supposed criminal purpose, arose from the crowd i;.;.'.' 
 thickening every moment. Not that celebrated pistol, 
 which, though resting on a bosom as gallant and as loyal 
 as Kigel's, spread such causeless alarm among knights and 
 dames at a late high solemnity — not that very pistol caused 
 more temporary consternation than was so groundlessly ex- 
 cited by the arms which were taken from Lord Glenvarloch's 
 person ; and not Mhic-Allastar-More himself could repel with 
 greater scorn and indignation the insinuations that they 
 were worn for any sinister purposes. 
 
THE KING HE WOULD A HUNTING GO 353 
 
 n-ind'lnilli;;,' ..'ts'JcT'7'''^ „I--icide-the bloody, 
 who natural? enouKh sot h °" "' T""' ' """ ""-' '^'"8. 
 which it was, or sefmed o Kr""'; TT "" ^'' °^" "f'= « 
 louder than ill the re. .'1 '' ' "'u"'' "'"^ °"'' 
 
 had enough of hin, and '^XKu'"''^ '""' ^'""-^ have 
 no bodilyLrn-id t^L,': '^""r^ '"' '" ''"" 
 'hat ye have thoroughly disarmrH t ' '^ ^^ "^ '"'« 
 
 ^^and .ene^r^rXS^^- -s^. 
 
 co™:rtK;;^a-rr^r^='^'"«^ 
 
 them i.. loyal bravado, began thercbv r n "'""'"^'""g 
 ^■xtren,e dislike which h s Malstv nn? • ,^° ,"" '° '"""' ""= 
 steel, a foible which selcd to h ' "*' '' "'^"^ 
 
 timidity, and was usua^^ ^ ^ "' "^""^tuutional as his 
 
 Ri..ioLingbl " " .r^c?"';"''': '""" '"""^-°f 
 presence beftre he y^Chc .igh'" ""'°"""'"^ '"°""-''' 
 
 some hasty and confused ^^ ^'^' """^ '"«' ''^'^'^'ved 
 
 forward, ca'me IX p' J L^oTe'"". "' """' *^' «"'"« 
 -in, and, amonU 0"'°^ n T" "°''''-™'^" ^-^ his 
 from his horse, and asL ", i ^^T- "" 'P™"g 
 wounded. ^ '-"«"'>' '^ his father were 
 
 "Not that I am sensible of Bahv ru 1 u 
 tnatter exhausted with .J, • V ^^arles, but a wee 
 assassin. Steenie fil us a r^*^ f^ ""^'"'"'"'''^'^ ""h "^e 
 is hanging a tou 'pol,er p' "^ ^"""^-'he leathern bottle 
 continued the monarcT .f. I' T *'^"' ^^^^^ Charles," 
 comfort; "O m^n T^ ' "' ''"'^ "'''<^" 'his cup ^f 
 ^ fair es'cape fTom' SaTanrblo d"' /"" ''^^'^ "^^ 
 father, for we are p^,,r MrL",. f^ '"'' °^ " 'i^" 
 
 is tne, black c.oth^tuldtvTte^frHnrr'. ''°= 
 tiry een scarce I " ^ "^ England, and 
 
 t 
 
356 
 
 JAMES I 
 
 h 
 
 And at the very idea of the general grief whirh must 
 have attended his death, the good-natured monarch cried 
 heartily himself. 
 
 "Is this possible?" said Charles sternly, for his pride 
 was hurt at his father's demeanour on the one hand, while, 
 on the other, he felt the resentment of a son and a subject 
 at the supposed attempt on the King's life. " Let some 
 one speak who has seen what happened — My Lord of 
 Buckingham ! " 
 
 " I cannot say, my lord," replied the Duke, " that I s,iw 
 any actual violence offered to his Majesty, else I -houlu 
 have avenged him on the spot." 
 
 " You would have done wrong, then, in your zeal, 
 George," answered the I'rince ; " such offenders were better 
 left to be dealt with by the laws. But was the villain not 
 struggling with his Majesty ? " 
 
 " I cannot term it so, my lord," said the Duke, who, wit'n 
 many faults, would have disdained an untruth ; " he scmed 
 to desire to detain his Majesty, who, on the contrary, ap- 
 peared to wish to mount his horse ; but they have found 
 pistols on his person, contrary to the proclamation, and, 
 as it proves to be Nigel Olifaunt, of whose ungoverned dis- 
 position your Royal Highness has seen some samples, we 
 seem to be justified in apprehending the worst." 
 
 " Nigel Olifaunt ! " said the Prince ; " can that unhappy 
 man so soon have engaged in a new trespass ? Let w sue 
 those pistols." 
 
 "Ye are not so unwise as to meddle with such sn;i()- 
 haunces. Baby Charles ? " said James. " Do not give him 
 them, Steenie — I command you on your allegiance ! They 
 may go off of their own accord, whilk often befalls. You 
 will do it, then ? Saw ever man sic wilful bairns as we are 
 cumbered with ! Havena we guardsmen and soldiers enow, 
 but you must unload the weapons yoursell — you, the heir 
 of our body and dignities, and sae mony men around that 
 are paid for venturing life in our cause ? " 
 
THE KING HE WOULD A HUNTIN'O CO 3,; 
 
 But without rcimrdinif ln.< r.ti, . 
 Charles, with theVfna ; Sh'cr'"'"''''"''^- ''"■"- 
 tnfles, a, well a:; matter, of co^ ^''"'«-'^"'*^^ him in 
 loading the pistol, w h hi, own "'h'''"^'"' ^'"'"''''^ '" """ 
 « th which Lh wa chagL Th' "J ')" "r"" ''""^" 
 w-e held up in astonishment at ' h"" "'/'' """"'^ 
 supposed to have been intended ''\^°""' "f Ihe crime 
 presumed so narrow ' '"' ""= "^"fX-" *hich wa, 
 
 to Sard' "" '-' ''"''" « --^ ■• "e now caln.l, desired 
 
 of rendering yourself p o ju i^^ if r"' ''"''■ '-'-1 
 clamation, you are here found n^ r ''"" °^ ""-' I>^"- 
 Majesty's presence, and armed wih 1'"^: ^""""-'^ ™ "'» 
 "May it please yo" ,1T "" ""'""f"' ^---apons." 
 
 unhappy'weapon or ■mT'owrdT' '''"''' "'^"''^ '"«= 
 hours since they were n^c^^rv T' '"'' ""' ^'"■'^ ^-^ 
 others." ntctssary 10 protect the lives of 
 
 " iJoubtless, my lord," answered .1,,. d • 
 and unmoved, "your late modTof ,i ! /;'T' '"" ^'"'" 
 mh whom you have lived have „ "^ ""-" =''™<-''"« 
 
 scenes and weapons of vio^^ceButl: ■'°" '""''"''^ '*■'"■ 
 are to plead your cause." " ""' '° "'o you 
 
 " Hear me, hear me, noble Prince 1 " said M' , 
 Hear me! You-even you yourself Z '^"^ "'8"'^- 
 to be heard, and in vain " ^ourself-may one day ask 
 
 conl!Jri"^lS; ''"" ''-S'«"y-"how am I to 
 
 ^e:^":"'i,^^:;tr''j^«p^-e...yet.o 
 
 audienre." P"^ '°' Pa"ent and favourable 
 
 '^7i;y;5^S:<:r:!lft:^^r"^ His head wi^ 
 aud,ence to you, could it avLuou P T"" '"l"'' ^"^"^ 
 - -., We win ourselves Jlc into y"oLrs?" "''" 
 
338 
 
 JAMES 1 
 
 "Ay ay," answered the King, "he hath made opttlhlio 
 ad Casarm ; we will interrogate CJlcnvarloch.des ourhclves, 
 time and place fitting ; and. in the meanwhile, have h.m 
 and his weapon away, for I am weary of the sight of 
 
 'in" consequence of directions hastily given, Nigel was 
 accordingly removed from the presence, where, however, 
 his words had not altogether fallen to the ground. Ihis 
 is a most strange matter, Cleorge," said the Prince to the 
 favourite; "this gentleman hath a good countenance, a 
 happy presence, and much calm firmness in his look and 
 speech I cannot think he would attempt a crime so 
 desperate and useless." „ 
 
 "I profess neither love nor favour to the young man, 
 answered Buckingham, whose high-spirited ambition bore 
 always an open character ; "but I cannot but agree with 
 your Highness, that our dear gossip hath been something 
 hasty in apprehending personal danger from him. 
 
 "By my saul, Steenie, ye are not b. uc. to say »o 1 sau 
 the KinK. " Do I not ken the smell of pouther, think >u 
 Who else nosed out the Fifth of November, save our ro).l 
 selves? Cecil, and Suffolk, and all of them were at fault 
 Ifke^e mony mongrel tikes, when I puzzled it uu ; and 
 ,;tw^e that I cannot smell pouther ? Why, 'sblood. man, 
 Joannes Barclaius thought my ingine was in some mea»un 
 nspiration, and terms his history of the plot &»«/<-/.// 
 M.S parricidii; and Spondanus, m like manner, sai.h 
 of us, Dimnitus evasil." 
 
 "The land was happy in your Majesty's escape, said the 
 Duke of Buckingham, "and not less in the quick wit whid. 
 tracked that labyrinth of treason by so fine and almost in- 
 visible a clew." , 
 " Saul, man, Steenie, ye are right 1 There are few youtl, 
 have sic true judgment as you respecting the wisdom o 
 their elders ; and as for this fause, traitorous sma.k, I d"uW 
 he is a hawk of the same nest. Saw yc not LOi.iLt.mis 
 
THE KING HE WOULD A HUNTING GO 339 
 
 papistical about him ? Let them look that he bear, not a 
 crucihx. or somo sic Roman trinket alwut him " 
 
 " It wouM ill become me t attempt the exculpation of 
 
 h„ unhappy man,', aid I.orU DalKarno, "considering the 
 
 he.gl.t of l„s pr, .cnt attempt, which ha, made all true 
 
 men, blood curdle .n their veins. Yet I cannot avoid 
 
 nt n a„n(. with all due subnmsion to His Majesty's in- 
 
 alhble judgn.ent, .n justice to one who showed himself 
 
 rmerly only my enemy, though he now displays himself 
 
 n much blacker colours, that this Olifaunl always api^'ared 
 
 t" m<. more as a Puritan than as a I'apist " ' l"' " 
 
 _^ "Ah, l)alKarno art thou there, man?" said the KinL-. 
 
 And ye behoved to keep back, too, and leave us to our 
 
 <"vn natural strength and the care of Providence, when we 
 
 «ere m grips with the villain ! " 
 
 "Providence, may it please your most Grnrious Majesty 
 would not fail to aid. in such a strait, the care of hrl^ 
 weepmg kingdoms," said F^ord Ualgarno 
 
 "Surely, man, surely," r.plicl (he King, "but a si«ht 
 "your father, with his long whinyard, wotid have be t a 
 I'lthe matter a short while syne ; and in future we wiU 
 aid the ends of Providence in our favour, by keying nea 
 us .wo stout beefeaters of the guard. And so this'o^^fau 
 ^ a I'untan ?-not the l.ss like to be a Papist, for all that 
 lor extremities meet, as the scholiast proveth. There are' 
 as I have proved in my book, Puritans of papistical prin! 
 nples-it IS just a new tout on an auld horn." 
 
 Here the King was reminded by the Prince, who dreaded 
 perhaps that he was going to recite the whole B„s^^. 
 Jh.o„, that It would be best to move towards the PalacT 
 and consider what was to be done for satisf)ing the i.ubli^' 
 nnnd, in whom the morning's adventure was liktly t',' vci . 
 "Ud, speculation. As they entered the gate of the Palace 
 a female bowed and presented a paper, which the King 
 
 r -l^ ' ^'f'Z ' '^ '°" "^ S^^"^"' "'™^' " ""« his Sid. 
 P'^ket. The Prince expressed some curiosity to know its 
 
36o 
 
 JAMES I 
 
 contents. "The valet in waiting will tell you them," said 
 the King, " when I strip off my cassock. D'ye think, 
 Baby, that I can read all that is thrust into my hands ? 
 See to me, man,"— (he pointed to the pockets of his great 
 trunk breeches, wliich were stuffed with papers)—" We are 
 like an ass— that we should so speak— stooping betwixt two 
 burdens. Ay, ay, Asinus 'or/is aaumliens inter termiiws, as 
 the Vulgate hath it— Ay, ay, Vidi terrain quod esset optima, 
 et suppomi humerum ad portandiim, et factus sum trilmlis 
 serviens—1 saw this land of England, and became an over- 
 burdened king thereof." 
 
 " You are indeed well loaded, my dear dad and gossip," 
 said the Duke of Buckingham, receiving the papers which 
 King James emptied out of his pockets. 
 
 " Ay, ay," continued the monarch ; " take them to you 
 per aversionem, bairns— the one pouch stuffed with petitions, 
 t'other with pasquinadoes ; a fine time we have on't. On 
 my conscience, I believe the tale of Cadmus was hiero- 
 glyphical, and that the dragon's teeth whilk he sowed wore 
 the letters he invented. Ye are laughing. Baby Charlus ? 
 Mind what I say. When I came here first frae our ain 
 country, where the men are as rude as the weather, by my 
 conscience, England was a bieldy bit; one would hav^ 
 thought the King had little to do but to walk by quiut 
 waters, per aquam refectionis. But, I kenna how or why, 
 the place is sair changed— read chat libel upon us and on 
 our regimen. The dragon's teeth are sown, Baby Charles ; 
 I pray God they bearna their armed harvest in your day, 
 if I suld not live to see it. God forbid I should, for there 
 will be an awful day's kemping at the shearing of tliem." 
 
 " I sliall know how to stifle the crop in the blade,— h.a, 
 George?" said the Prince, turning to the favourite witli a 
 look expressive of some contempt for his father's appru- 
 hensions, and full of confidence in the superior firnuicss 
 and decision of his own counsels. 
 
 While this discourse was passing, Nigi i, in c'.iarge of a 
 
THE KING HE WOULD A HUNTING GO 361 
 
 pursuivant-at-arm, v.-.s pushed and dragged through the 
 small town, M the in.h,; -.ants of which, having' been 
 alarmed by t ,e r.port of . . attack on the King's life, now 
 pressed forwi -d lo se,; the .upposed traitor. 
 
 He had no -...ne io. :...r.arks, being placed in a boat with 
 the pursuivant and two yeomen of the guard, and rowed 
 up the river as fast as the arms of six stout watermen could 
 pull against the tide. They passed the groves of masts 
 which even then astonished the stranger with the extended 
 commerce of London, and now approached those low and 
 blackened walls of curtain and bastion, which exhibit here 
 and there a piece of ordnance, and here and there a solitary 
 semmel under arms, but have otherwise so little of the 
 military terrors of a citadel. A projecting low-browed arch 
 which had loured over many an innocent and many a guilty 
 head in similar circumstances, now spread its dark frowns 
 over that of Nigel. The boat was put close up to the broad 
 steps against which the tide was lapping its lazy wave. The 
 warder on duty looked from the wicket, and spoke to the 
 pursuivant in whispers. In a few minutes the Lieutenant 
 of the Tower appeared, received, and granted an acknow 
 ledgment for the body of Nigel, Lord Glenvarloch. 
 
 —Sir W. Scott, Tlie Fortunes of Ni^cl. 
 
f 
 
 XXVI 
 
 The Highlanders to the Rescue 
 of their King 
 
 WHOEVER saw one morning in the year 1644 the 
 Castle of Darnlinvarach, beheld a busy and a 
 
 gallant sight. 
 
 Various Chiefs, arriving with their different retinues, 
 which, notwithstanding their numbers, formed no more 
 than their usual e(iuipage and body-guard upon occasions 
 of solemnity, s.iluted the lord of the castle and each other 
 with overflowing kindness, or with haughty and distant 
 politeness, according to the circumstances of friendship nr 
 hostility in which their clans had recently stood to ea. h 
 other. Each Chief, however small his comiiarative import- 
 ance, showed the full disposition to exact from the rest the 
 deference due to a separate and independent prince ; while 
 the stronger and more powerful, divided among themselvus 
 by recent contentions or ancient feuds, were constrained m 
 policy to use great deference to the feelings of their less 
 powerful brethren, in order, in case ol need, to attach :is 
 many well-wishers as might be to their own interest and 
 standard. 
 
 The Chieftains assembled in close conclave in the great 
 hall of the casf.e. Among them were the persons of the 
 greatest consequence in the Highlands, some of them 
 attracted by zeal for the royal cause, and many by aversion 
 to that severe and general domination which the Jtar.|Uis 
 of Argyle, since his rising to such influence in the slate, 
 
THL HIGHLANDERS TO THE RESCUE 363 
 
 had exercised over his Highland neiglibours. That states- 
 man, indeed, though possessed of considerable abilities 
 and great power, had failings, which rendered him un- 
 popular among the Highland chiefs. The devotion which 
 he professed was of a morose and fanatical character ; his 
 ambition appeared to be insatiable, and inferior chiefs com- 
 plained of his want of bounty and liberality. Add to this, 
 that although a Highlander, and of a family distinguished 
 for valour before and since, Gillespie Grumach* (which, 
 from an obliquity in his eyes, was the personal distinction 
 he bore in the Highlands, where titles of rank are un- 
 known) was suspected of being a better man in the cabinet 
 than in the field. He and his tribe were particularly 
 obnoxious to the M'Donalds and the M'Leans, two 
 numerous septs, who, though disunited by ancient le^;ds, 
 agreed in an intense dislike to the Campbells, or, as the>' 
 were called, the Children of Diarmid. 
 
 For some time the assembled Chiefs remained silent, 
 until som i should open the business of the meeting.' 
 At letigth ' the most powerful of them comnitnced 
 
 the diet by .uymg,— "We have been summoned hither, 
 M'Aulay, to consult of weighty matters concerning the 
 King's affairs, and those of the state ; and we crave to 
 know by whom they are to be explained to us ? " 
 
 M'Aulay, whose strength did not lie in oratory, intimated 
 his wish that Lord Menteith should open the business of 
 the council. With great modesty, and at the same time 
 with spirit, that young lord said, " he wished what he was 
 about to propose had come from some person of better 
 known and more established character. Since, however, it 
 lay with him to be spokesman, he had to state to the 
 Chiefs assembled, that those who wished to throw off the 
 base yoke which fanaticism had endeavoured to wreath 
 round their necks, had not a moment to lose. -I'he 
 Covenanters," he .said, "after having twice made war 
 * Cr«wa4-/i— iii-favouicd. 
 
364 
 
 CHARLES I 
 
 upon their sovereign, and having extf'/ted from him every 
 request, reasonable or unreasonable, which they thought 
 proper to demand — after their Chiefs had been loaded with 
 dignities and favours — after having publicly declared, when 
 his Majesty, after a gracious visit to the land of his nativity, 
 was upon his return to England, that he returned a 
 contented king from a coiitented people, — after all this, 
 and without even the pretext for a national grievance, the 
 same men have, upon doubts and suspicions, equally dis- 
 honourable to the King, and groundless in themselves, 
 detached a strong army to assist his rebels in England, in a 
 quarrel with which Scotland had no more to da than she 
 has with the wars in Germany. It was well," ho said, 
 "that the eagerness with which this treasoi.able purpose 
 was pursued, had blinded the junta who now usurped the 
 government of Scotland to the risk which they were about 
 to incur. The army which they had dispatched to England 
 under old Leven comprehended their veteran soldiers, the 
 strength of those armies which had been levied in Scotland 
 during the two former wars. The moment was most 
 favourable for all true-hearted and loyal Scotchmen tn 
 show, that the reproach their country had lately undergone 
 arose from the selfish ambition of a few turbulent ami 
 seditious men, joined to the absurd fanaticism which, 
 disseminated from five hundred pulpits, had spread like a 
 land-flood over the Lowlands of Scotland. He had letttrs 
 from the Marquis of Huntly in the north, which he should 
 show to the Chiefs separately. That nobleman, eqiuilly 
 loyal and powerful, was determined to exert his utmost 
 energy in the common cause, and the powerful Earl of 
 Seaforth was prepared to join the same standard. From 
 the Karl of Airly, and the Ogilvies in Angusshire, he had 
 had communications equally decided ; and there was no 
 doubt that these, who, with the Hays, Leiths, Burnets, 
 and other loyal gentlemen, would be soon on horsebaik, 
 would form a body far more than sufficient to overawe tV" 
 
THE HIGHLANDERS TO THE RESCUE 365 
 
 northern Covenanters, who had already experienced their 
 valour in the well-known rout which was properly termed 
 the Trot of TurifiT. South ot Forth and Tay," he said, 
 " the King had many friends, who, oppressed by enforced 
 oatlis, compulsatory levies, heavy taxes, unjustly imposed 
 and unequally levied, by the tyranny of the Committee of 
 Estates, and the inquisitorial insolence of the Presbyterian 
 divines, waited but the waving of the royal banner to taki, 
 up arms. Douglas, Traquair, Roxburgh, Hume, all 
 friendly to the royal cause, would counterbalance," he 
 said, "the covenanting interest in the south; and two 
 gentlemen, of name and quality, here present, from the 
 north of England, would answer for the zeal of Cumber- 
 land, Westn.oreland, and Northumberland. Against so 
 many gallant gentlemen the southern Covenanters could 
 but arm raw levies ; the Whigamores of the western shires, 
 and the ploughmen and mechanics of the Low-country. 
 For the West Highlands, he knew no interest which the 
 Covenanters possessed there, except that of one individual, 
 as well known as he was odious. But was there a single 
 man, who, on casting his eye round this hall, and recog- 
 nising the power, the gallantry, and the dignity of the chiefs 
 assembled, could entertain a moment's doubt of their 
 success against the utmost force which Gillespie Grumach 
 could collect against them ? He had only farther to add, 
 that considerable funds, both of money and ammunition, 
 had been provided for the army — that officers of ability 
 and expcience in the foreign wars, one of whom was now 
 present, had "ngaged to train such levies as might 
 require to be disciplined ; — and that a numerous body of 
 auxiliary forces from Ireland, having been detached from 
 the Earl of Antrim, from Ulster, had successfully accom- 
 plished their descent upon the main land, and, wiLh the 
 assistance of Clanranald's people, having taken and fortified 
 the Castle of Mingarry, in spite of Argyle's attempts to 
 intercept them, were in full march to this place of ren- 
 
366 
 
 CHARLES I 
 
 dezvous. It only remained," he said, "that the : ible 
 Chiefs assembled, laying aside every lesser consideration, 
 should unite, heart and hand, in the common cause ; send 
 the fiery cross through their clans, in order to collect their 
 utmost force, and form their junction with such celerity as 
 to leave the enemy no time, either for preparation or 
 recovery from the panic which would spread at the first 
 sound of their pibroch. He himself," he said, " though 
 neither among the richest nor the most powerful of the 
 Scottish nobility, felt that he had to support the dignity of 
 an ancient and honourable house, the independence of an 
 ancient and honourable nation, and to that cause he was 
 determined to devote both life and fortune. If those wlio 
 were more powerful were equally prompt, he trusted thuy 
 would deserve the thanks of their King, and the gratitude 
 of posterity." 
 
 Loud applause followed this speech of Lord Menteith, 
 and testified the general acquiescence of all present in the 
 sentiments which he had expressed ; but when the shout 
 had died away, the assembled Chiefs continued to ga/e 
 upon each other as if something yet remained to be 
 settled. After some whispers among themselves, an agod 
 man, whom his grey hairs rendered respectable, although 
 he was not of the highest order of Chiefs, replied to what 
 had been said. 
 
 "Thane of Menteith," he said, "you have well spoken; 
 nor is there one of us in whose bosom the same sentiments 
 do not burn like fire. But it is not strength alone that 
 wins the fight ; it is the head of the commander, as well as 
 the arm of the soldier, that brings victory. I ask of you 
 who is to raise and sustain the banner under which we are 
 invited to rise and muster ourselve? ? Will it be expected 
 that we should risk our children, and the flower of our 
 kinsmen, ere we know to whose guidance they are to be 
 intrusted ? This were leading those to slaughter, whom, b> 
 the laws of God and man, it is our duty to protect. Where 
 
THE HIGHLANDERS TO THE RESCUE 367 
 
 is the royal commission, undur wliicli thu lieges are to l)e 
 convocated in arms ? Simple and rude as we may be 
 deemed, we know something of the established rules of 
 war, as well as of the laws of our country ; nor will we arm 
 ourselves agau,st the general peace of Scotland, unles. by 
 the express commands of the King, and under a leader fit 
 to command such men as are here assembled " 
 
 Several of the Highland Chiefs interfered to the same 
 purpose and none with more emphasis than the celebrated 
 livan Dhu. 
 
 "I have come from my lakes," he said, "as a stream 
 descends from the hills, not to turn again, but to accom- 
 plish my course. It is not by looking back to our own 
 pretensions that we shall serve Scotland or King Charles 
 My voice shall be for that general whom the King shall 
 name, who will doubtless possess those <iualities which are 
 necessary to command men like us. High-born he must 
 be or we shall lo,se our rank in obeying him-wise and 
 skilful, or we shall endanger the safetv of our peo,)le- 
 bravest among the brave, or we shall peril our own honour 
 -temperate, firm, and manly, to keep us united. Such is 
 the man that must command us. Are you prepared 
 ll.aneof Menteith, to say where such a general is to be 
 found ? " 
 
 "The., is but ONE," said Allan M'Aulay; "and here ' 
 he said, laying his l.and upon the shoulder of a person 
 who stood behind Lord Menteith, " here he stands ! " 
 
 The general surprise of the meeting was expressed by an 
 impatient murmur ; when the stranger, throwing back the 
 cloak in which his face was muffled, and stepping forward 
 spoke thus:-" I did not long intend to be a silenl 
 spectator of this interesting scene, although my hasty 
 riend has obliged me to disclose myself somewhat sooner 
 than was my intention. \Vhether I deserve the honour 
 reposed in me by this parchment will best appear from 
 what I shall be able to do for the King's service. It is a 
 
368 
 
 CHARLES I 
 
 commission under the great seal, to James Graham, Earl 
 of Montrose, to command those forces which are to b<; 
 assembled for the service of his Majesty in this kingdom." 
 
 A loud shout of approbation burst from the assembly. 
 There was, in fact, no other person to whom, in point of 
 rank, these proud mountaineers would have been disposed 
 to submit. His inveterate and hereditary hostility to the 
 Marquis of Argyle insured his engaging in the war with 
 sufificient energy, while his well-known military talents, and 
 his tried valour, afforded every hope of his bringing it to a 
 favourable conclusion. 
 
 Some days were spent in organizing the forces at his 
 command, and then Montrose led his army, like a herd of 
 wild deer, from mountain to mountain, and from forest 
 to forest, wheie his enemies could learn nothing of his 
 motions, while he acquired the most perfect knowledge 
 respecting theirs from the friendly clans of Cameron and 
 M'Donnell, whose mountainous districts he now traversed. 
 Strict orders had been given that Argyle's advance should 
 be watched, and that all intelligence respecting his motions 
 should be communicated instantly to the General himself. 
 
 It was a moonlight night, and Montrose, worn out by the 
 fatigues of the day, was laid down to sleep in a miserable 
 shieling. He had only slumbered two hours, when some 
 one touched his shoulder. He looked up, and, by the 
 stately form and deep voice, easily recognised the Chief of 
 the Camerons. 
 
 " I have news for you," said that leader, " which is worth 
 while to arise and listen to." 
 
 " M'Uduy can bring no other," said Montrose, address- 
 ing the Chief by his patronymic title—" are they good or 
 bad?" 
 
 " As you may take them," said the Chieftain. 
 
 " Are they certain ? " demanded Montrose. 
 
 " Yes," answered M'llduy, " or another messenger should 
 have brought them. Know that I made a stretch of four 
 
NEWS OF ARGYLE BROUGHT TO MONTROSE. 
 
 [/•3'* 
 
THE HIGHLANDERS TO THE RESCUE 36, 
 
 thousand chosen m'n colf/r? ^"^•^■"'^''^ «"'' ""cc 
 sons of Diarn,id.-Th:se atTv ^ ''" """ ""*" °f ""^ 
 
 « is for you .0 co„s.ru:Thrp:rpo";;r '•'^•^ - --^i- 
 
 Pl-santin the ears oVArontLr^"^ ^''"'^"y '' -«•• 
 
 " sp-ks of some brave enC:; n^h ""?' '"^■''""' *"- 
 musters ? " '•nterprise at hand. What are our 
 
 He then called for littht „^a 
 
 .-t part of his U^lS'Ztrt'ZTt'' """ ' 
 secure their booty he hnrt „ , 'l .. ^'' '^'sp^rsed to 
 fourteen hundred n,en. """' ^"" "^^'^ '«^'ve or 
 
 " Not much above a thirH » c,!j ., 
 Argyle's force, and High InderTnn"':"'"' ^'"''"^^ ""^ 
 With the blessing of God u"n"?'^'^'f '" "'g^landers. 
 hesiute were the^odd^butTe .0 ^Jo"-. """' ' "''""' "°' 
 
 .-;etTsha7sr„diri?M^fc?r"\^^ 
 
 of these glens will reirdeaf ,0 h"'" '"''' "°' " '"='" 
 garry-Keppoch-I mysc"f wo„M ^ '"'"'"°"'- ^len- 
 SHord, theT^etch ,.^0 3^7 ^"T' *'"> "'^ ""d 
 Pretence whatsoever To °n '""""" ^'^'""^ ""''" ""> 
 a day of battle to i wL "rthe" ''' "T "'''• ^'''"' •« 
 Cameron, whatever be the ev Tm " """ °' "'"°""^" °' 
 
 .-^r.^a:.ST;:::ts^s:-'''Mon.ros. 
 
 "ot do justice to such followers T . ^ ™"'"'' '^''l ^ 
 -dubitable hopes of success tv^ entertam.ng the most 
 M'Callum MorVwho follows ^s It '"'" '^='' °" ""'^ 
 
 'fc.s of our army, shouW we mee h ' '"""" '° '''^°"' ">« 
 
370 
 
 CHARLES I 
 
 shall be,— you, M'llduy, shall brin^ it to a joyful issue, by 
 guiding us the bust and nearest road against our enemy." 
 
 "That will 1 willingly do," said M'llduy; "if I have 
 shown you paths by which to retreat through these dusky 
 wilds, with far more readiness will I teach you how to 
 advance against your foe." 
 
 A general bustle now prevailed, and the leaders were 
 everywhere startled from the rude couches on which they 
 had sought temporary re|M)se. 
 
 " I never thought," said Major Dalgetty, when summoned 
 up from a handful of rugged heather roots, " to have larUd 
 from a bed as hard as a stable-broom with such bad will ; 
 but, indubitably, having bet one man of military experience 
 in his army, his Kxcellency the Marcjuis may be vindicated 
 in putting him upon hard duty." 
 
 So saying, he repaired to the council, where, notwith- 
 standing his pedantry, Montrose seemed always to listen to 
 him with considerable attention ; iiartly because the Major 
 really possessed military knowledge and ex|)erience, aiiJ 
 often made suggestions which were found of advantage, and 
 partly because it relieved the General from the necessity of 
 deferring entirely to the opinion of the Highland Chiefs, 
 and gave him additional ground for disputing it when it 
 was not agreeable to his own. On the present occasicm, 
 Ualgetty joyfully ac^iuiesced in the proposal of marching 
 back and confronting Argyle, which he comfiared to the 
 valiant resolution of the great Gustavus, who moved against 
 the Duke of Bavaria, and enriched his troops by the pluiHlcr 
 of that fertile country, although menaced from the nonh- 
 v,ard by the large army which Wallenstein had assembled 
 in Bohemia. 
 
 The Chiefs of Glengarry, Keppoch, and Lochiel, whose 
 clans, equal in courage and military fame to any in the 
 Highlands, lay within the neighbourhood of the scene »f 
 action, dispatched the fiery cross through their vassals, to 
 summon every one who could bear arms to meet the King's 
 
THE HIGHLANDERS TO THE RESCUE 37, 
 
 lieutenant, and ,0 join the standards of their res^ctive 
 Chiefs, as they marched toward, Invc.rUK:hv U ,t. 
 
 ill --i (I,,. ., ; ui , . i>l<)ntrosf s army not onlv 
 
 ail .n the neighbourhood who wer.. it.l,. t„ 1 . 
 
 Ihis was a circumstance highly inspiriting to the est o ho 
 
 '"" •""• '« ''Wirt ™, 10 e„.„p .^„„j !,"„"„ ~ 
 
 expected to be. Argyle, ,n council with Auchenbreck and 
 'atnr;;7erntofVt" T'T '^^' ^°-- 
 
 and Baillic; ,f northward, fall into the hands of Sea- 
 
372 
 
 CHARLES 1 
 
 forth; or should he choose any halting-place, he would 
 expose himself to be attacked by three armies at once. 
 
 " I cannot rejoice in the prospect, my lord," said Auchen- 
 breck, "that James Grahame will be crushed with little 
 assistance of ours. He has left a heavy account in Argyle- 
 shirc against him, and I long to reckon with him drop of 
 blood for drop of blood. I love not the payment of such 
 debts by third hands." 
 
 " You are too scrupulous," said Argyle ; " what signifies 
 it by whose hands the blood of the Grahames is spilt ? It 
 is time that of the sons of Diarmid should cease to flow. 
 What say you, Ardenvohr ? " 
 
 "I say, my lord," replied Sir Duncan, "that I think 
 Auchenbreck will be gratified, and will himself have a 
 personal opportunity of settling accounts with Montrose 
 for his depredations. Reports have reached our outposts 
 that the Camerons are assembling their full strength on the 
 skirts of Ben-Nevis ; this must be to join the advance of 
 Montrose, and not to cover his retreat." 
 
 " It must be some scheme of harassing and depredation, " 
 said Argyle, " devised by the inveterate malignity of M'llduy, 
 which he terms loyalty. They can intend no more than an 
 attack on our outposts, or some annoyance to to-morrow's 
 inarch." 
 
 "I have sent out scouts," said Sir Duncan, "in every 
 direction, to procure intelligence ; and we must soon hear 
 whether they really do assemble any force, upon whit 
 point, or with what purpose." 
 
 It was late ere any tidings were received ; but when the 
 moon had arisen, a considerable bustle in the can-p, and a 
 noise immediately after heard in the castle, announced the 
 arrival of important intelligence. Of the scouts first dis- 
 persed by Ardenvohr, some had returned without being 
 able to collect anything, save uncertain rumours concern- 
 ing movements in the country of the Camerons. It seemed 
 as if the skirts of Ben-Nevis were sending forth those 
 
THE HIGHLANDERS TO THE RESCUE 373 
 
 unaccountable and portentous sounds with which they 
 somet.mes announce the near approach of a storm' 
 Others^ whose zeal carried them farther upon their n.is- 
 s^on were entrapped and slain, or made prisoners, by the 
 nhabitantsof the fastnesses into which they ende;voured 
 to penetrate. At length, on the rapid advance of Mon- 
 troses army, his advanced guard and the outposts of 
 Argyle became aware of each other's presence, and after 
 exchangmg a few musket-shots and arrows, fell back to 
 their respective main bodies, to convey intelligence and 
 receive orders. ° 
 
 Sir Duncan Campbell and Auchenbreck instantly threw 
 themselves on horseback, in order to visit the state of the 
 outposts; and Argyle maintained his character of com- 
 mander-in-chief with reputation, by making a respectable 
 arrangement of his forces in the plain, as it was evident 
 that they might now expect a night alarm, or an attack in 
 the morning at farthest. Montrose had kept his forces so 
 cautiously within the defiles of the mountain that no effort 
 which Auchenbreck or Ardenvohr thought it prudent to 
 attempt could ascertain his probable strength. They were 
 awr.re, however, that, at the utmost computation, it must be 
 inferior to their own, and they returned to Argyle to inform 
 him of the amount of their observations ; but that noble- 
 man refused to believe that Montrose could be in presence 
 himself He said, "It was a madness, of which even 
 James Grahame, in his height of presumptuous frenzy, was 
 mcapable; and he doubted not that their march was only 
 impeded by their ancient enemies, Glenco, Keppoch, and 
 Glengarry; and perhaps M'Vourigh, with his M'Phersons, 
 might have assembled a force, which he knew must be 
 greatly inferior in numbers to his own, and whom, there- 
 
 S^l'tiol^^' "°' '° ''"'^''^ '' ''"^^- - "y'-- °f 
 The spirit of Argyle's followers was high, breathing ven- 
 geance for the disasters which their country had so lately 
 
 i I 
 
374 
 
 CHARLES 1 
 
 undergone ; and the night passed in anxious hopes that the 
 morning might dawn upon their vengeance. The outposts 
 of either army kept a careful watch, and the soldiers -' 
 Argyle slept in the order of battle which they were next day 
 to occupy. 
 
 A pale dawn had scarce begun to tinge the tops of 
 these immense mountains, when the leaders of both armies 
 prepared for the business of the day. It was the second of 
 February, 1645-6. The clansmen of Argyle were arranged 
 in two lines, not far from the angle between the river and 
 the lake, and made an appearance equally resolute and 
 formidable. Auchenbreck would willingly have commenced 
 the battle by an attack on the outposts of the enemy ; but 
 Argyle, with more cautious policy, preferred receiving to 
 making the onset. Signals were soon heard that they 
 would not long wait for it in vain. The Campbells could 
 distinguish, in the gorge of the mountains, the war-tunes of 
 various clans as they advanced to the onset. That of the 
 Camerons, which bears the ominous words, addressed to 
 the wolves and ravens, " Come to me, and I will give you 
 flesh," was loudly le-echoed from their native glens. In 
 the language of the Highland bards, the war voice of 
 Glengarry was not silent ; and the gathering tunes of otlur 
 tribes could be plainly distinguished, as they successively 
 came up to the extremity of the passes from which they 
 were to descend into the plain. 
 
 " You see," said Argyle to his kinsmen, " it is as I said, 
 we have only to deal with our neighbours ; James Grahanie 
 has not ventured to show us his banner." 
 
 At this moment there resounded from the gorge of llie 
 pass a lively flourish of trumpets, in that note with which 
 it was the ancient Scottish fashion to salute the royal 
 standard. 
 
 " You may hear, my lord, from yonder signal," said Sir 
 Duncan Campbell, "that he who pretends to be the King's 
 Lieutenant, must be in person among these men." 
 
THE HIGHLANDERS TO THE RESCUE 375 
 
 pale for .ha, 1 trd ^h" ''"?'■ ''"' '''''' "^ '°°k 
 wrongs toreven^?"' ^'" "'"^ '"'^■^- '"^^ '° "ght, and 
 
 ceding march. " '"'^ ^"sta.ned in a pre- 
 
 "It is true," interrupted Ardenvohr, eagerly "mv r„^ 
 
 precious ,ou?as ah ad vni: '.'-" ^''''^y^-your life is 
 as a soldier." '"^"''-y°" hand cannot be useful to us 
 
 "itSSe;';s':;irt^rrfy:r''';/"'^^°'"''°"' 
 
 I cannot fight, I willa li,, H u"'""- ^'""'"^e; if 
 
 dren." ^' ^"^^ ^'^ '" ">e midst of my chil- 
 
 sions,^hould berl" .^'^°:J,^^^ ^'-'" o-a' 
 
 °f courage Jiut whrn "'''""^''„'° '"decision than to want 
 
 -bre^t;.i-i.:rtr'hr;i,rr7''"''"'-'^ 
 
 •o Limself, is seconded by that o numb '""'"i"''^^'^ 
 who assure him that it i, nf '"^V^ ""^bers around him, 
 history affords manv - '?' '"^™""'8« '° '^e public 
 
 see him on board, f you will s,V n 
 Auchenbreck to his kinsman' "I must b^nT";."" 
 Pre-nt this spirit from spreading falT mo g "'"'" '° 
 So -y.ng, he threw himself among the rankf. Entreating 
 
376 
 
 CHARLES I 
 
 commanding, and conjuring the soldiers to remember theit 
 ancient fame and their present superiority ; the wrongs they 
 had to revenge, if successful, and the fate they had to dread 
 if vanquished ; and imparting to every bosom a portion of 
 the fire which glowed in his own. Slowly, meanwhile, and 
 apparently with reluctance, Argyle suffered himself to be 
 forced by his officious kinsmen to the verge of the lake, and 
 was transported on board of a galley, from the deck of 
 which he surveyed with more safety than credit the scene 
 which ensued. 
 
 Sir Duncan Campbell of Ardenvohr, notwithstanding the 
 urgency of the occasion, stood with his eyes riveted on the 
 boat which bore his chieftain from the field of battle. 
 There were feelings in his bosom which could not be ex 
 pressed ; for the character of a Chief was that of a father, 
 and the heart of a clansman durst not dwell upon his fail- 
 ings with critical severity as upon those of other men. 
 Argyle, too, harsh and severe to others, was generous and 
 liberal among his kinsmen, and the noble heart of Arden- 
 vohr was wrung with bitter anguish, when he reflected to 
 what interpretation his present conduct might subject him. 
 " It is better it should be so," said he to himself, devour- 
 ing his own emotion ; " but of his line of a hundred 
 
 sires, I know not one who would have retired while tlie 
 banner of Diarmid waved in the wind, in the face of its 
 most inveterate foes ! " 
 
 A loud shout now compelled him to turn, and to hasten 
 with all dispatch to his post, which was on the right flank 
 of Argyle's little army. 
 
 The retreat of Argyle had not passed unobserved by his 
 watchful enemy, who, occupying the superior ground, could 
 mark every circumstance which passed below. The move- 
 ment of three or four horsemen to the rear showed that 
 those who retreated were men of rank. 
 
 "They are going," said Dalgetty, "to put their horses 
 out of danger, like prudent cavaliers. Yonder goes Sir 
 
TOE HIGHLANDERS TO THE RESCUE 377 
 
 andf ,"'"'^'-"'' ""» 'hree bodies, or columns, the Hi«h 
 
 and fdlowers of Montrose poured from the defiles "hfch 
 
 dhuherto concealed them from their enemies and rushed 
 
 «'th he utmost determination upon the Camnbelk .v^^ 
 
 |va..ed their charge with the greatest firmness' Shnd 
 
 hese chargmg columns marched in line the Irish under 
 
 Col >tto, mtended to form the reserve. With them was the 
 
 royal standard, and Montrose himself- and on ,^. fl > 
 
 rroiHaS 'T ""'-' ^^'«-''»^"ch°hV::n tt 
 
 exertions had been kept m some sort fit for service 
 
 l,.f/ K '■;Sht CO umn of Royalists was led by Glengarry the 
 
 'ho pLf^rfdl ht' "' T''. '' "^^ ^"" °f Momeit 
 
 thel^'^nfrv 'fi "?"' ^'"^ °" "'"' '"^ P^^'^^^ial fury of 
 their country, firing their guns, and discharging their arrows 
 a a ht ,e distance from the enemy, who received the assaul 
 i rtlan t-™'"'-^^"^"''^- "^"^^ P-ided::;^ ' 
 "kit he ml H ■'"'"""• f """-y-'^o. and therefore 
 Z, ° '^^!"°'^ <^^"^"^ =»™. 'he fire of Argyle's followers 
 '^s more destructive than that which they sustained The 
 rojal clans, perceiving this, rushed to close quarters, and 
 
378 
 
 CHARLES I 
 
 succeeded on two points in throwing their enemies into dis- 
 order. With regular troops this must have achieved a vic- 
 tory ; but here Highlanders were opposed to Highlanders, 
 and the nature of the weapons, as well as the agility of those 
 who wielded them, was equal on both sides. 
 
 Their strife was accordingly desperate ; and the clash of 
 the swords and axes, as they encountered each other, or 
 rung upon the targets, was mingled with the short, wild, 
 animating shrieks with which Highlanders accompany the 
 battle, the dance, or indeed violent exertion of any kind, 
 Many of the foes opposed were personally acquainted, and 
 sought to match themselves with each other from motives 
 of hatred, or a more generous emulation of valour. Neither 
 party would retreat an inch, while the place of those who 
 fell (and they fell fast on both sides) was eagerly supplied 
 by others, who thronged to the front of danger. A steam, 
 like that which arises from a seething cauldron, rose into 
 the thin, cold, frosty air, and hovered above the combatants. 
 
 So stood the fight on the right and the centre, with no 
 immediate consequence, except mutual wounds and death. 
 
 On the right of the Campbells the Knight of Ardenvohr 
 obtained some advantage, through his military skill and by 
 strength of numbers. He had moved forivard obliquely the 
 extreme flank of his line at the instant the Royalists were 
 about to close, so that they susta'ned a fire at once on front 
 and in flank, and, despite the utmost efforts of their leader, 
 were thrown into some confusion. At this instant. Sir 
 Duncan Campbell gave the word to charge, and thus un- 
 expectedly made the attack at the very moment he seemed 
 about to receive it. Such a change of circumstances is al- 
 ways discouraging, and often fatal. But the disorder was 
 remedied by the advance of the Irish reserve, whose heavy 
 and sustained fire compelled the Knight of Ardenvohr to 
 forego his advantage, and content himself with repulsing 
 the enemy. The Marquis of Montrose, in the meanwhile, 
 availing himself of some scattered birch trees, as well as of 
 
THE HIGHLANDERS TO THE RESCUE 379 
 
 had many strange ideas respecting the manner in wS thlt 
 annnal was trained to combat When .h„ r u 
 
 horse caracole and bound so is tn ,; making Ins 
 
 There was no sustaming the f.ght longer. Ar.yle^ fol' 
 owers began to break and fly, most towards thl" ak the 
 remamder m different directions. The defeat of h. u 
 
 The Knight of Ardenvohr, with two or three hundrer. 
 men a , gentlemen of descent and distinguished gan.; 
 
 men inih " t ' T '"^'^"""^ '" ''^^^^ ^ad mofe gen, e! 
 men m their ranks than any of the Highland clanf In 
 
 retreat of the common file. Their resolution only prove! 
 
38o 
 
 CHARLES I 
 
 faUl to themselves, as they were charged again and again 
 by fresh adversaries, and forced to separate from each other, 
 until at length their aim seemed only to be to purchase an 
 honourable death by resisting to the very last. 
 
 " Good quarter. Sir Duncan," called out Major Dalgetty, 
 when he discovered his late host, with one or two others, 
 defending himself against several Highlanders ; and, to en- 
 force his offer, he rode up to him with his sword uplifted. 
 Sir Duncan's reply was the discharge of a reserved pistol, 
 which took effect not on the person of the rider, but on 
 that of his gallant horse, which, shot through the heart, fell 
 dead under him. Ranald MacEagh, who was one of those 
 who had been pressing Sir Duncan hard, took the oppor- 
 tunity to cut him down with his broadsword, as he turned 
 from him in the act of firing the pistol. 
 
 Allan M'Aulay came up at this moment. They were, 
 excepting Ranald, followers of his brother who were engaged 
 on that part of the field. " Villains ! " he said, " which of 
 you has dared to do this, when it was my positive order 
 that the Knight of Ardeiivohr should be taken alive ! " 
 
 Half a dozen of busy hands, which were emulously em- 
 ployed in plundering the fallen knight, whose arms and 
 accoutrements were of a magnificence befitting his quality, 
 instantly forebore the occupation, and half the number of 
 voices exculpated themselves, by laying the blame on tlie 
 Skyeman, as they called Ranald MacEagh. 
 
 The Marquis mounted a led horse, which was held by 
 one of his attendants, and rode on to view the scene of his 
 victory, which was more decisive than even his ardent hopes 
 had anticipated. Of Argyle's gallant army of three tliou- 
 sand men, fully one-half fell in the battle, or in the flight. 
 They had been chiefly driven back upon that part of the 
 plain where the river forms an angle with the lake, so that 
 there was no free opening either for retreat or esc.ipe. 
 Several hundreds were forced into the lake and drowned. 
 Of the survivors, about one-half escaped by swimming the 
 
THE HIGHLANDERS TO THE RESCUE 381 
 
 nvcr, or by an early flight along the Ml bank of the lake. 
 Ihe remainder threw themselves into the old Castle of In- 
 verlochy; but being without either provisions or hoiHs of 
 relief, they were obliged to surrender, on condition of being 
 luffered to return to their homes in peace. Arms, ammu- 
 mtion, standards, and baggage, all became the prey of the 
 conquerors. 
 
 This was the greatest disaster that ever befell the race 
 of Diarmid, as the Campbells were called in the Highlands' 
 It being generally remarked that they were as fortunate in 
 the issue of their undertakings, as they were sagacious in 
 planning, and courageous in executing them. Of the 
 number slain, nearly five hundred were dunniwassels, or 
 gentlemen claiming descent from known and respected 
 houses. And, in the opinion of many of the clan even 
 this heavy loss was exceeded by the disgrace arising from 
 the inglorious conduct of their Chief, whose galley weighed 
 anchor when the day was lost, and sailed down the lake 
 with all the siieed to which sails and oars could impel her. 
 —Sir W. Scott, Zej^aiJ 0/ Montrose. ' 
 
XXVII 
 
 What Cromwell saw in the 
 Portrait of the King 
 
 WE follow the course of a joliy cavalier, Rogi-r Wildiake 
 by name, who, on a September morning of the year 
 1651, mounted at the (leor^e Inn, Woodstock, after having 
 treated himself to a morning draught of eggs and nmsiadine. 
 
 Although he had suffered himself to be sunk in the 
 extravagant license which was practised by the cavaliers, 
 as if to oppose their conduct in every point to the precisi-- 
 ness of their enemies, yet Wildrake, well-born and will 
 educated, and endowed with good natural parts, and .1 
 heart which even debauchery, and the wild 'ife of a roariiii; 
 cavalier, had not been able entirely to a pt, moved en 
 his present embassy with a strange mi- re of feeliniis, 
 such as perhaps he had never in his . e before experi- 
 enced. 
 
 His feelings as a loyalist led him to detest Cromwi 11, 
 whom in other circumstances he would scarce have wished 
 to see, except in a field of battle, where he could h.iv>.' 
 had the pleasu-ito exchange pistol-shots with him. Hut 
 with this hatred there w^s mixed a certain degree of fi;ir. 
 A'w s victorious wherever he fought, the reniarkubli' 
 person whom Wildrake was now approaching had acciuirLil 
 that influence over the minds of his enemies, which urn 
 slant success is so apt to inspire — they dreaded while thiv 
 hated him — and joined to these feelings, was a restltss 
 meddling curiosity, which made a particular feature in 
 
CROMWELL A«, rm ™,OT,,>,T. 33, 
 
 -.val the „ron«es. inclina , L ' r "' ^""■•-■" °" "'» 
 at some of his old haunts u-l u ''' ^'^ r'-'^i'lunce 
 -lucnted that fair .oS;.™''^ '""^ '^--■°-"y 
 '-"Pat.ons of this kind, ht wern^^' ''"' ^'-■'''^"'"« ^'' 
 principal inn, from which if/ ™>'"s™iisly to th.- 
 
 had long disappeared "t" „"';"""?• "'^- '^'^ 
 expenenced in his knowledge ofhndn"', ""' '^"^'^''^". 
 had remembered a dashing \li',"' "'"' '^"^'^'"eS 
 -I.00I, had now sobered 2.n oh /"' "' '^"'^'-'" "--'-^ 
 shook his head when he spoke of h 7''^ °' ""■" "'"-. 
 his sp.got with the gravity of a nH '^^''ament, wielded 
 
 wished England a hapSt, 1 '' ™"''"'=""S a sacrifice, 
 and greatly lauded h^' Zln "'u"" '"=^ ""'-"""s 
 ^^™rakealsoremarker.h^ hi ;'•" ""= ^"'^ ^-'"--«' 
 was wont to be, the P rtan, n^'"-" "'' '^"" '^an i^ 
 Jetectmg every fallacy in "hat 2,'" "'"'•""-""' S""' ^' 
 meas^ures were less and his ch'L , ' ""'' "''" his 
 '^■h'-h he was induced to attemir^ '"«" -circumstances 
 a.-d deal about his col-^e ' ' """" "°^' '^"'-S 
 
 "light obtain access to lum nex ., ' "' ' ""'^ 'hat he 
 f-/he trouble of prcCtin hilT"'' '■" ^■'■«'" "'^'ock, 
 and announcing himself as th" , "' """ t-astle-gate 
 
 K^ellency. ^ "' ""^ '^'^"^-•^ of dispatches to h's 
 
 'he red.coated soldier, who ,vth^ ^"""'""^ '" '"'"> ''V 
 
 '™^'^''' on his shoulder m'.r, """'"" '°°'''^' ^"^'l ''is 
 
 "KJcr, mounted guard at the external 
 
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384 
 
 COMMONWEALTH 
 
 gate of that noble building. Wililrake passed Ihrounh the 
 
 underward or court, ga/iiig us hu passed u|i<)n thu luMutiful 
 
 CliaiHjl, which had but lately received, in darkness and 
 
 silence, the unhonoured remains ul the slau(;htered Kin;; 
 
 of England. R<)Ui<h as Wildrake was, the recDlleetion of 
 
 this circumstance affected him su slronnly, that he li.id 
 
 nearly turned back in a sort of ' jrror, rather than fa( ■ the 
 
 dark and darinj; man, to whum, amongst all the aet(l^^ 
 
 in that melam-hol;- |ff,ii-, its tragic con. lusion was chiefly 
 
 to be imputed. 'i.i;i he felt the necessity of subduing all 
 
 sentiments of this nature, and ci.mpelh'd himself to proceed 
 
 in a negotiation intrusted to his conduct by one to whom 
 
 he was so much obliged as Colonel I';\erard. At tin 
 
 ascent, which passed by the Koimd lower, he looked \o 
 
 the ensign-staff, from which the banner of England w.is 
 
 wont to float. It was gone, with all its ich emblazonry, 
 
 its gorgeous ((uarterings, and splendid embroidery ; and in 
 
 its room waved that of the Commonwealth, the cross of 
 
 Saint Cieorge, in its colours of blue and red, not yet inter 
 
 sected by the diagonal cross of Scotland, which was soon 
 
 after assumed, as if in evidence of ICngland's con<iuest over 
 
 her ancient enemy. This change of ensigns increased the 
 
 train of his gloomy reflections, in which, although contrary 
 
 to his wont, he became so deeply wrapped, that the first 
 
 thing which recalled him to hinisell, w.is the challenge from 
 
 the sentinel, accompanied with a stroke of the butt of Ins 
 
 musket on the pavement, with an emphasis which m.idc 
 
 Wildrake start. 
 
 "Whither away, and who are you?" 
 " The bearer of a packet," answered Wildrake, " to tlu 
 worshipful the Lord Ceneral." 
 
 " Stand till I call the officer of the guard." 
 
 The corporal made his appearance, distinguished above 
 
 those of his command by a double iiuanlity of band roui.ii 
 
 his neck, a double height of steeple-crowned hat, a l.iriici 
 
 allowance of cloak, and a treble proportion of sour gr.ivity 
 
CROMWELL AND T..R PORTRAH 38, 
 
 •- -'.U.S,, ^^r r S':::;" "; '''r ""'''■' ">^^" 
 
 "'^'" ^' ma.,1, for tl„. , . "'"''' ""-'"' '='"'" """ 
 
 at Wil. rakf as if h '"'^*''' "'"' «''-^^'-' «'l^n'nily 
 
 .r.H:^t-;;:::£l«^;';;^-^«™iya;,:eco.a- 
 
 Central." >-nsa..ons- niy business is with jour 
 
 -n.s.oo,iu..of.heUr.uceci,;j.::tc:;L::^'*' 
 
 silunt. ' "'" ''"""• "^' ""'y bowed, and was 
 
 "■"ions present at .he pr!i!n;L;" "' "'" """'"^ 
 
 volul,ili,y, which .ones, as he a^roa „ d ZZl '''•™' 
 I'wanie sharp and eacrr nc 1 ii conclusion, 
 
 answer or silen. acqu ct^^cr Thi .f7>' "'"" '"■^'•''"' 
 ''-■n .0 .he spea.er\i.h^-::ova,t f:a.troXT " 
 
386 
 
 COMMONWEALTH 
 
 III 1 1 
 
 the floor stood an officer, as he seemed by his embroidered 
 shoulder-belt and scarf round his waist, otherwise ver>- 
 plainly attired, who was engaged in drilling a stout bumpkin, 
 lately enlisted, to the manual, as it was then used. The 
 motions and words of command were twenty at the very 
 least ; and until they were regularly brought to an end, 
 the corporal did not permit Wildrake either to sit down or 
 move forward beyond the threshold of the guard-house. 
 So he had to listen in succession to— Poise your musket- 
 Rest your musket— Cock your musket— Handle your 
 primers— and many other forgotten words of discipline, 
 until at length the words, " Order your musket," ended tin 
 drill for the time. 
 
 "Thy name, friend?" said the officer to the recruit, 
 when the lesson was over. 
 
 " Ephraim," answered the fellow, with an affected twang 
 through the nose. 
 
 " And what besides Ephraim ?" 
 
 "Ephraim Cobb, from the godly city of Gloucesl.r, 
 where I have dwelt for seven years, serving apprentice to a 
 praiseworthy cordwainer." 
 
 " It is a goodly craft," answered the officer ; " but casliii;.; 
 in thy lot with ours, doubt not that thou shalt be sd 
 beyond thine awl, and thy last to boot." 
 
 A grim smile of the speaker accompanied this poor 
 attempt at a pun ; and then turning round to the corpoml. 
 who stood two paces off, with the face of one who seenud 
 desirous of speaking, said, "How now, corporal, what 
 
 tidings?" 
 
 " Here is one with a packet, an please your Excellency, 
 said the corporal. " Surely my spirit doth not rejoice in 
 him, seeing I esteem him as a wolf in sheep's clothmg." 
 
 By these words, Wildrake learned that he was in the 
 actual presence of the remarkable person to whom he was 
 commissioned ; and he paused to consider in what maniK-r 
 he ought tn address him. 
 
CROMWELL AND THE PORTRAIT ,87 
 
 >vitl. such a labvJn h f u^P"""-^' ''"'' ^^"^^^"8 i' 
 
 I^ Has been io^n^irSty^rhS^^^^^^^ 
 
 he hiri fl,„ 1 ^ ™ "'Other, and althoueh 
 
 con eld jrtr°"""; ''" °' ^''"^^''°" -'^ '^--■^1 g 
 
 ruler rnnW ^" advantage, the fanatic democratic 
 
 .heir inL:rir:::;r o^i^^^'^'^^ '^•-^ '- 
 
 ^^1 a. ..etinre. „„ht ^^'Z^'JZ^--- 
 
 ■ I 
 
 I 
 
388 
 
 COMMONWEALTH 
 
 not impose respect ; and there were even times when that 
 dark and subtle spirit expanded itself, so as almost to 
 conciliate affection. The turn for humour, which displayed 
 itself by fits, was broad, and of a low, and sometimes 
 practical character. Something there was in his disposition 
 congenial to that of his countrymen : a contempt of folly, 
 a hatred of affectation, and a dislike of ceremony, whicli, 
 joined to the strong intrinsic qualities of sense and courage, 
 made him in many respects not an unfit representative ul 
 the democracy of England. 
 
 His religion must always be a subject of much doulit, 
 and probably of doubt which he himself could hardly luivu 
 cleared up. Unquestionably there was a time in his life wlu ii 
 he wa<! sincerely enthusiastic, and when his natural temper, 
 slightly subject to hypochondria, was strongly agitated by 
 the same fanaticism which influenced so many persons of 
 the time. On the other hand, there were periods during 
 his political career, when we certainly do him no injubticu 
 in charging him with a hypocritical affectation. We shall 
 probably judge him, and others of the same age, most truly, 
 if we suppose that their religious professions were partly 
 innuential in their own breast, partly assumed in compliance 
 with their own interest. And so ingenious is the human 
 heart in deceiving itself as well as others, that it is probable 
 neither Cromwell himself, nor those making similar pretcn 
 sions to distinguished piety, could exactly have fixed the point 
 at which their enthusiasm terminated and their hypocrisy 
 commenced ; or rather, it was a point not fixed in itself, bul 
 fluctuating with the state of health, of good or bad fortune, 
 of high or low spirits, affecting the individual at the period. 
 
 Such was the celebrated person, who, turning round on 
 Wildrake, and scanning his countenance closely, seenuil sn 
 little satisfied with what he beheld, tliat he instinctively 
 hitched forward his belt, so as to bring the handle of Ins 
 tuck-sword within his reach. Hut yet, folding his arms m 
 his cloak, as if upon second thoughts laying aL^ide su: 
 
CROMWELL AND THE PORTRMr 389 
 
 odEnll T T""'"^-' ^'^' S*-"""^-"'"" was a good title n 
 
 difZit;"u:r'of''M' """t '?,'"'"-■- ^"pp^--^- -'" 
 
 uuy, soniL 01 his usual wi d exnletivi>9 • " r,Zrr, 1 
 
 has changed place with the under spur-leather " 
 
 Myst thou me?" said the CVii,.nl- "I r 
 art a bold companion, that ^: ^Ztr,L':1ZX''. 
 hou „n, St somewhat too loud to be good met", m"hi iV 
 And once agam, what are thy tidings with me » " 
 
 niollined'at T" *""' "''''"''™ ""•"'■''" ""^^^'^'^'^d Cromwell, 
 
 mi-htrnh^ Tk ^ ,'''-'"fe'«™"» situation in which he 
 >«'»lu be placed by the least cl,ance of detection, induced 
 
390 
 
 COMMONWEALTH 
 
 Wildrake to decline these hospitable offers, and stretching 
 back in his chair, and affecting slumber, he escaped notice 
 or conversation, until a sort of aide-de-camp, or military 
 ofificer in attendance, came to summon him to Cromwells 
 presence. 
 
 By this person he was guided lo a postern gate, throu{;li 
 which he entered the body of the Castle, and penetratinj; 
 through many private passages and staircases, he at lengtli 
 was introduced into a small cabinet, or parlour, in whicli 
 was much rich furniture, some bearing the royal ciphi-r 
 displayed, but all confused and disarranged, together with 
 several paintings in massive frair<i:s, having their faces turned 
 towards the wall, as if they had been taken down for tlic 
 purpose of bein;.: 'emoved. 
 
 In this scene of disorder, the victorious General of tlic 
 Commonwealth was seated in a large easy chair, covend 
 with damask, and deeply embroidered, the splendour ol 
 which made a strong contrast with the plain, and even 
 homely character of his apparel ; although in look and 
 action he seemed like one who felt that the seat whidi 
 might have in former days held a prince, was not too much 
 distinguished for his own fortunes and ambition. Wildraku 
 stood before him, nor did he ask him to sit down. 
 
 " Pearson," said Cromwell, addressing himself to the 
 ofificer in attendance, "wait in the gallery, but be witliiii 
 call." Pearson bowed, and was retiring. " Who are in liit 
 gallery besides ? " 
 
 "Worthy Mr. Gordon, the chaplain, was holding fcirtli 
 but now to Colonel Overton, and four captains of youf 
 Excellency's regiment." 
 
 "We would have it so," said the General; "we wmild 
 not there were any corner in our dwelling where the luiiii;rv 
 soul might not meet with manna. Was the good niau 
 carried onward in his discourse ? " 
 
 " Mightily borne through," said Pearson ; " and lie was 
 touching the rightful claims which the army, and esjiLcially 
 
CROMWELL AND THE PORTRAIT 3,, 
 
 asunder and caltawari7,heH'"''™rT"'^ '" ''^ ''™''- 
 but to be preserved Id hi ^^ °^ '^'" ^""'^ '^ °«n 
 honourable and laitLfu" laboi'r"'"K ■ \"' ^"""^ '°' "'"^ 
 and marched, and fas d a„d " ! r' ''.'^ '^'"'^ '■°"«'" 
 and sorrow; while others whn ^ f' """^ ™'^"^'' ^''J 
 disbanded, and broken and r° It "°" ^'^^'^ ^^"^ 'hen, 
 drink of the strong ' ''""''•'^* ^'^ "^ 'he fat, and 
 
 "- . Begone, ,Cl .J,™"^ -^ so.e.hi,g_but not 
 
 Everardin his hand looked a ""f' '""'"^ ""= '•-•"" °f 
 at Wildrake, as i consiennf '" u' '""^ "''"'^ "^•^'^'V 
 address him. '^""s'denng m what strain he should 
 
 Ct^toieTlichr- hi '"; '-;- °^ "'^ - 
 
 by whieh it was very difficuhfor ' ''''^' '^''"''^'^' ""^ 
 
 'high, and one wfo hal evTr h'T' ^"-^^ "^'"'^ "P°" ''is 
 pea. work of deliverLVth ^'"'''"''^ '""^^'f '" 'he 
 
 "ations. Answer m not' 1 1!! "T P°°' ""^ ""happy 
 •^d this letter he h^th ' "' ™''^' 'h°" "'""Id'st saV 
 
 P«y. me to have tTust that ther,, "-■'-'■ ''"'' '" "horn he 
 '^'"■eon us. And 's v h T T^ ^' '" '^"'•'f"' ""-■^^^■"fc'^'^ 
 
392 
 
 COMMONWEALTH 
 
 and victorious army of England, am nevurtliuluss exaltud 
 to the rank of holding the guidance and the Icadingstalf 
 thereof. Nay, do not answer, my friend — I know what 
 thou would'st say. Now, when communing thus together, 
 our discourse taketh, in re .pect to what I have said, a 
 threefold argument, or division : First, as it concerneth thy 
 master ; secondly, as it concerneth us and our office ; thirdly 
 and lastly, as it toucheth thyself. Now, as concerning this 
 good and worthy gentleman, Colonel Markham Everarii, 
 truly he hath played the man from the beginning of these 
 unhappy buffetings, not turning to the right or to the left. 
 but holding ever in his eye the mark at which he aimed. 
 Ay, truly, a faithful, honourable gentleman, and one who 
 may well call me friend ; and truly I am pleased to think 
 that he doth so. Nevertheless, in this vale of tears, we must 
 be governed less by our private respects and partialities, 
 than by those higher principles and points of duty, where 
 upon the good Colonel Markham Everard hath ever framed 
 his purposes, as, truly, I have endeavoured to form mine, 
 that we may all act as becometh good Englishmen and 
 worthy patriots. Then, as for Woodstock, it is a great thing 
 which the good Colonel asks, that it should be taken from 
 the spoil of the godly, and left in keeping of the men of 
 Moab, and especially of the malignant, Henry Lee, whose 
 hand hath been ever against us when he might find room to 
 raise it ; I say, he hath asked a great thing, both in respect 
 of himself and me. For we of this poor but godly army 
 of England, are holden, by those of the Parliament, as men 
 who should render in spoil for them, but be no sharer ol 
 it ourselves ; even as the buck, which the hounds pull to 
 earth, furnisheth no part of their own food, but they are 
 lashed off from the carcass with whips, like those wliicli 
 require punishment for their forwardness, not reward for 
 their services. Yet I speak not this so much in respect of 
 this grant of Woodstock, in regard that, perhaps, their Lord 
 ships of the Council, and also the Committeemen of this 
 
CROMWELL AND THE PORTRAIT 393 
 
 Parliament, may gracbusly think they have given m. a mr 
 -on m the matter, in relation that n,-- kinsnun >Z\oSJh 
 
 hath «ell deserved ,t for his true and faithful service to 
 tee unhappy and devoted countries, so it would i Zome 
 me to dmun,sh the same to his prejudice, unless tZl 
 upon great and public respects. Vlu.s ,l„ u see t how i' 
 
 touching thy masters re.juest to me; which yet I do not 
 "y that I can altogether, or unconditionally, grant or refu"e 
 bu on y tell my simple thoughts with regard fher to Thou' 
 understandestme, Idoubtnot?" 
 
 Now, Roger Wildrake, with all the attention he had been 
 able to pay to the Lord General's speech, had got so niuch 
 confused among the various clauses of the Lrangue .^at 
 h s bram was bewildered, like that of a country clow^^ 
 •hen he chances to get himself involved among a c owd 
 of carnages, and cannot stir a step to get out of Ihe wiv of 
 
 rt::r;.^"^°"' "-'-^ - '-'- °^ --^ "•^'^■" - 
 
 orion'^oT' "'"' "' '°"' °' P^^P'^'''"^' ^"'J ^^H-" ^ "- 
 ZT\ Ic T P^P^^^^s before :-spoke of his love 
 orh,s kmd fnend the Colonel.-his regard for his p ous 
 and godly kmsman. Master Desborough,ithe great immrt 
 
 "on^f tL:p't" ''"' ^' °' WoodsVck,-thf dlr^n : 
 tion of the Parliament that it should be confiscated, and the 
 produce brought mto the coffers of the State,-his own deep 
 veneration for the authority of Parliament, ^nd his no less 
 deep sense of the injustice done to the army,-how it wa 
 h.s wish and will that all matters should be" settled in an 
 amicable and friendly manner, without self-seek ngd bate 
 K \^f '"" "'^'^ ''^° ^'"^ ^"^" "'« hands a« ng and 
 
 "sv^k l! f^"'='V"""^' '""y^^"""g.to contribute to 
 
 fe r if ft '■"' "'""' ""' '" ™"""-ion only, but his 
 
 "le also, If ,t were requested of him, or could be granted 
 
394 
 
 COMMONWEALTH 
 
 with safety to the poor soldiers, to whom, silly poor men, he 
 was bound to be as a father, seein;; that they had followcil 
 him with the duty and affection of children. 
 
 And here he arrived at another dead pause, leaving Wilil 
 rake as uncertain as before, whether it was, or was not, his 
 purpose to grant Colonel Everard the powers he had asked 
 for the protection of Woodstock against the Parliamentary 
 Commissioners. Internally, he began to entertain hopes 
 that the justice of Heaven, or the effects of remorse, had 
 confounded the regicide's understanding. But no - lie 
 could see nothing but sagacity in that steady stern eye, 
 which, while the tongue poured forth its periphrastic Ian 
 guage in such profusion, seemed to watch with severe .ic- 
 curacy the effect which his oratory produced on the listener. 
 
 " Egad," thought the cavalier to himself, becoming a little 
 familiar with the situation in which he was placed, and 
 rather impatient of a conversation which led to no visible 
 conclusion o- termination. "If Noll were the devil himself, 
 as he is the devil's darling, I will not be thus nose-led hy 
 him. I'll e'en brusque it a little, if he goes on at this rate. 
 and try if I can bring him to a more intelligible mode uf 
 speaking." 
 
 Entertaining this bold purpose, but half afraid to execute 
 it, Wildrake lay by for an opportunity of making the attempt, 
 while Cromwell was apparently unable to express his o«n 
 meaning. He was already beginning a third panegyric upon 
 Colonel Everard, with sundry varied expressions of his 
 own wish to oblige him, when Wildrake took the opportunity 
 to strike in, on the General p'aking one of his oratoricjl 
 pauses. 
 
 "So please you," he said bluntly, "your worshi" h.ts 
 already spoken on two topics of your discourse : yc «ii 
 worthiness, and that of my master. Colonel Everard. . 'v 
 enable nit lO do mine errand, it would be necessary to bi -twv 
 a few words on the third head." 
 
 " The third ! " said Cromwell. 
 
CROMWELL AND THE PORTRAIT 395 
 
 Kallows-thousl^tranl ;>!•''''''» '^ '"'''''""^''' ""'e 
 counsel ! But " he adl", ' 1 "• "\":""' '' "^''" '^'=''''>- 
 
 Con,e hither-thou ar, bold I see ,hn K """^'"^ °^ '^'''' 
 Tl>"u hast been a mallnau ,n ^ ^°">e»hat saucy. 
 
 Colonel Everard; bu tChTst nl"- '"' "°^""' '"■'^'"'• 
 cause. I tell the; frie d? not a 1 "h rp ? """ '"'"'"« 
 arn,y could do would hive Dulled H "^l '^'l^'''™™' or the 
 their high places lin. T »'""'" ^"-"^"^ °"' "f 
 mththeL Well'itl a'sweetafd""" ^'u'' ^""''"--^ 
 on one's armou n behaTrof He '°™'^ ''""« '° '^"^'"'^ 
 •™ly, for mine own uart 1 ' '""'"' ""'^""^^ 
 
 "PC thethroLre:^::;.:''.^: dT; TeS^rdVit"^^ 
 
 •■.e..reat actings which are tn,';:'. ^ fj ''""''' '" 
 
 ..i.o,c,her drubbed ou,' ^[thtp "'" °' "^ "^"^'"^"^^ '"^ 
 "Vour honourable lordshia," said the .x„.„i- 
 
396 
 
 COMMONWEALTH 
 
 inaccessible to flattery ; " yea, truly, thou dost not lie in that 
 — we have been an instrument. Neither are we, as I hav 
 already hinted, so severely bent against those who hme 
 stiiven against us as malignants, as others may be. The 
 Parliament-men best know their own interest and their own 
 pleasure ; but, to my poor thinking, it is full time Id 
 close these jars, and to allow men of all kinds the mean.. 
 of doing service to their country ; and we think it will 
 be thy fault if thou art not employed to good pur[K)se lor 
 the State and thyself, on condition thou pultest away lli- 
 old man entirely from thee, and givest thy earnest attciiiiun 
 to what I have to tell thee." 
 
 " Your lordsiiip need not doubt my attention," said the 
 cavalier. 
 
 And the republican General, after another pause, as one 
 who gave his confidence not without hesitation, proriKkil 
 to explain his views with a distinctness which he selclDiii 
 used, yet not without his being a little biassed now and 
 then, by his long habits of circumlocution, which indtnl 
 he never laid entirely aside, save in the field of battle. 
 
 " Thou seest," he said, " my friend, how things si.ind 
 with me. The Parliament, I care not who knows it, luvc 
 me not — still less do the Council of State, by whom tlkj 
 manage the executive government of the kingdom. I in- 
 not tell why they nourish suspicion against me, unless it is 
 because I will not deliver this poor innocent army, which 
 has followed me in so many military actions, to lie now 
 pulled asunder, broken piecemeal and reduced, so that tiny 
 who have protected the State at the expense of their hlood, 
 will not have, perchance, the means of feeding thembtlvLS 
 by their labour ; which, methinks, were hard measure, sir i 
 it is taking from Esau his birthright, even without giviiK 
 him a poor mess of pottage." 
 
 " Esau is likely to help himself, I think," replitcl Wild 
 rake. 
 
 " Truly, thou sayest wisely," replied the Genera! : " it i^ :!! 
 
CROMWELL AND THE PORTR.Mr ,,; 
 
 wan. of due ^ubord „ , o„ .o ^h:"™""*'" "'^^"'o-, or 
 
 ous manner, that they would l/st.n In ' ''^'""'""- 
 
 «timati,>g„,e so li„le as ,1 "'dl 'v ' "" ""■'' ^'"^ 
 
 -ulJ I- a provocation n linZ^Z "T '""'' """ " 
 ^^ «HI as the I'arliainent ir«, I ' ^""""^ "f ^'^i'*^^. 
 
 --ncy to the comn.i:^"^ " .^^ 'I"""''' "^ '^"^ 
 •^)ft the highest in the State T„ i """'""'>•■ "hi^li is 
 '"^^^'-to carry on thT „ '°"« "'''>■ " '''-• ^"^ for 
 
 ">« malignant interest aZ i u ''^"'^'ng myself to 
 -l.ir..y and lasciviou ' at" > " "''" °' "'^ '"°°''- 
 > place of refuge to" ha,' "d °V"''"' '" '" '" ""^ ""' ^ay 
 Henry Ue to keen n^ mveterate Amalekite, Sir 
 
 iwilous matter." ^ " would be a 
 
 =h»" art not able to fathom mv ^'""'"■'•■"' " ' »<-■>-' 
 
 f"r.ly unfold it to "h J" 'L '''"•"' ""' '"""'''""^ ' «'" 
 '''"S"^-l-e,raymyco Ll av t's"7'''' ""'' ^'""''^ "'^ 
 ">-'-. by all the blood whiCh si " '? 'T-^^'"''' " '° '"y 
 •■™-'^^.>a,:Uica,houi:Liri^:^^'^-^'^"^ 
 
 ^-:;:s:s:::sX£rs---aturaiboid. 
 
 J;nec^n and quelled, like that :^o:Lr;::s:r 
 -■A"...,a„.al,gn.ntnkehis,athe'an^.;'i:'S 
 
3^ 
 
 COMMONWEALTH 
 
 up with llic young man to that last rufflu which we had with 
 him at W.irrcster ? May wo be grateful for the vieK.ry ! " 
 
 " 1 know there is such a young gentleman as Albert I.e.-," 
 said WiUlrake. 
 
 "Anil knowest thou not— I speak not by the way f 
 prying into the good Colonel's secrets, but only as it beh>)v 
 me to know something of the matter, that I may best jua,. 
 how I am to serve him— knowest thou not that thy mast.r, 
 Markham Everard, is a suitor after the sister of this sai.i. 
 malignant, a daughter of the old Keeinr, .all.a Sir Henry 
 
 Lee?" , , 
 
 " All this I have heard," said Wildrake, " nor can I deny 
 
 that I believe in it." 
 
 "Well then, go to. When the young man Chark^ 
 Stewart fled from the field of Worcester, and was by sh ir|. 
 chase and pursuit comi^lled to separate himself from hb 
 followers, I know by sure intelligence that this Albert l.«- 
 was one of the last who remained with him, if not indml 
 
 the very last." 
 
 " It was devilish like him," said the cavalier, without 
 sufficiently weighing his expressions, considering in whal 
 presence they were to be uttered. " And I'll uphold liini 
 with my rapier, to be a true cliip of the old block ! " 
 
 "Ha, swearestthou?" said the General. "Is this tlv. 
 reformation?" 
 
 " I never swear, so please you," replied W ildrakc, recn 
 lecting himself, " except there is some mention of muli; 
 nants and cavaliers in my hearing ; and then the old luL.i 
 returns, and I swear like one of Coring's troopers." 
 
 " Out upon thee," said the General ; " what can it avail 
 thee to practise a profanity so horrible to the ears of oiIkt-. 
 and which brings no emolument to him who uses it ? " 
 
 " There are, doubtless, more profitable sins in the worli, 
 than the barren and unprofitable vice of swearing," was thi 
 answer which rose to the lips of the cavalier ; but that »ji 
 exchanged for a profession of regret for having given offence 
 
CROMWinx AND THE PORTRAIT 3,, 
 
 Th... truth was, the discournc I,,.,.,,,, ,„ , ,1.. , , 
 rcndLTLd it more intunsiin., . '^ '""' "''"■'' 
 
 "■s iosscsion or the 1, that ' "TT"^ '"' "'""'"• 
 
 k«pin« guard upon his own. ^ "'""«'' "■ ' '^ °' 
 
 ■• ^Vlial sort of a house is Woodstock ? " siirl ,h . f ■ 
 ahrupily. "iwLK r said the General 
 
 " An old mansion," said Wildrake in r, ■ u. ... . 
 
 "'un,cati„„s under m.und which ,, ' '• '""^ '" ""•■ '-■'^n>- 
 "ols of the sort." '' """'""" '" "I'' ^-'V'-'n- 
 
 _^__Vour,n.nour.sE.ce,,ency;.siLwil.„,,.;.:L;:::;- 
 ^arhc., infancy?" '«-'«" "c.juamted ever since his 
 
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 A^.r ^^S' 
 
400 
 
 COMMONWEALTH 
 
 answered the General. " Long may it be ere our names 
 sliall be aught but a terror to our enemies. But m this 
 matter, if thou art an aetivc plotter for thy master's interest, 
 thou inight'st, I should think, work out something favour- 
 able to his present object." 
 
 "My brain is too poor to reach the depth of your 
 honourable purpose," said Wildrake. 
 
 " Listen then, and let it be to profit," answered Crom- 
 well. " Assuredly the conquest at Worcester was a great 
 and crowning mercy ; yet might we seem to be but sniull 
 in our thankfulness for the same, did we not du what in us 
 lies towards the uhimute improvement and final conclusiun 
 of the great work which has been thus prosperous in our 
 hands, professing, in pure humility and singleness of heart, 
 that we do not in any way deserve our instrumentality to 
 be remembered ; nay, would rather pray and entreat, that 
 our name and f(jrtunes were forgotten, than that the grai 
 work were in itself incomplete. Nevertheless, truly, placed 
 as we now are, it concerns us more nearly than others,- 
 Ihat is, if so poor creatures sliould at all speak of thiiii 
 selves as concerned, whether -'e or less, with tlii^t 
 changes which have been wrought around, not, I say, liy 
 ourselves, or our own power, but by the destiny to wlmh 
 we were called, fulfilling the same with all meekness and 
 humility,— I say it concerns us nearly that all things should 
 be done in conformity with the great work which hatli Ix-n- 
 wrought, and is yet working, in these lands. Such is ii... 
 plain and simple meaning. Nevertheless, it is much to 
 be a.^ired that this young man, this King of Scots, as he 
 called himself— this Charles Stewart— should not i-r,i|. 
 forth from the nation, where his arrival has wruii,:;iit »l 
 much disturbance and bloodshed." 
 
 "I have no doubt," said the cavalier, looking do«r, 
 "that your lordship's wisdom halh directed all linn:;- ■'; 
 tlicy may best lead towards such a consummation ; aiui i 
 piay your pains may be paid as they deserve." 
 
 I 
 
'^'^^^'^^^^-I- AND THE PORTRAIT ,o, 
 
 "-• hands of a gocd pay^a t" Zl °" '"™"'' '"'"^ '" 
 nigl... ISut understand tfrC; "j--' .-.P'^-^'"- -Saturday 
 n-y own share in the good > orl^ tT Tl'' "" ™"^^' 'l'^'" 
 poor kindness I can to vo ,r \ '' '''"'"'y <^" »1>'" 
 
 you in your degrc^-fl^r 'u'h 7^ '""'^■^' "'"' --' '" 
 ordinary men, that our n. ° ""' '^""^erse with 
 
 -ry-days occurce 'T::jZo'' "V^ '"' ^'" 
 tlK-,r reward or their punishme , r ""■'" '"^^ '^"''^ '"^ 
 
 'ormer wl,ich thou in t hT'e o / ''',! '"'■'' '' "'" ''^^ "'-■ 
 
 "Vour honour," L d wndnl" ""',' "' "'^ ''""''•" 
 customed to com;and" ' 'P""''^ "'^•-' ""- ^•^- 
 
 of that, desiring, as I do nl n,^ T '~" '''" '■"""^h 
 special person ttn is alike "o u'aM "''^''"'''^"'■y "" -y 
 •'I'ovc us. Jiut I would desir,o ,"•''"" "'"' "•'"'^^'' '^ 
 
 your n,aster's lap He ^^^ '° "j^ ""^ «"W^" ball into 
 
 Wt and his U" S l"rl r '"' ""^ ''"■'^'- 
 old knight, Lee and stn„ , '""™''" "'-■^'- '""'>-■ 
 
 daughter. V/J'a,:f,,rkt,.7'' fr'"^ '""-^'"'^ '"■^ 
 
 ™«li",^ look of thine wil „r,;^, ' *" ', '"' ^"""' -"'^' 
 
 ^■v-y malignant, and the ' ' "'" ^""''"l-""-' "f 
 
 ^•^ .Lough to shelter LI/'' V""'"'' "''' '"^-^' 
 
 »il.l'.sensibleofl:i:\!''.l.L:';;"-^'" "" '""''' ''"' "'™ 
 
 ''1-ionyouLvel u" '"" '""""^ f" "- «ood 
 
 ^l'o>v „,y gratitude by tl e eve U f^'^'""''' "'^" 1 ""y 
 
 your Kxceliency's schem^ ,-l '""' "'"' .--'^-renee, 
 
 '-"ins in posls Ln"o ;r" ""''''^'>' "hile \Voodstock 
 
 f"'«'nand his son",d f rn::;:'''""r"v ""•" '"-i-j 
 
 '•"""'•r hinted at «,H take , ^ '" ' "" '"^''''"^ ^'^ >"»^ 
 "" "-7 are ren,oved ' '""■" '^"'^ "°' '" "I'P'oach it 
 
 I 
 
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402 COMMONWEALTH 
 
 " It is for that I have been dealing with thee thus long 
 said the General. "I told thee that I was something 
 unwiUing, upon slight occasion, to dispossess the seques- 
 trators by my own proper warrant, although having, pcrha,,^ 
 sufficient authority in the state both to do so, and t., de- 
 spise the murmurs of those wlio blame me. In bnel 1 
 would be loath to tamper with my privileges, and make- 
 experiments between their strength and the powers of the 
 commission granted by others without pressing need, or at 
 least great prospect of advantage. So, if thy Colonel «,ll 
 undertake, for his love of the Republic, to find the- mean, 
 of preventing its worst and ne..re.. danger, which muM 
 needs occur from the escape of this >.,ung man, and wnl do 
 his endeavour to stax h,.m in case his flight should lead h.n, 
 to Woodstock, wb.ch I hold very likely, I will give thee an 
 order to these sequ«Uai..r» to evacuate the palace ins^antl) 
 and to the ne.U troop of m> reg.nrvmt, which lies at Osuml 
 to turn them out by the Oioulders if they make any scruple, 
 \y even for exa.nples sake, if thev drug Desborougli out 
 foremost, though he be wedded to my sister." 
 
 "So please you, sir," said Wiidrake, -'and with yo.' 
 most powerful warrant, I trust I might expel the conv 
 missioners, even witliout the aid of your most warlike and 
 devout troopers." 
 
 "That IS what lam least anxious about," replied the 
 General ; " I should like to see the best of them sit alter 1 
 had nodded to them to be gone-always excepting t,, 
 worshipful House in whose name our commissions ru,.. 
 but who, as some think, will be done with politics ere 
 be time to renew them. Therefore, w.^t ch^fly coiKc > 
 me to know is, whether thy master will embrace a trott,. 
 which hath such a fair promise of profit withit I an. wj- 
 convinced that, with a scout like thee, who h*,t been m '^ 
 cavaliers quarters, and canst, I should guess resun e . 
 drinking, ruffianly, heaUh-qnafftng manners whene.e U^^ 
 hast a mind, he must discover where this bte»art lu... 
 
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Evc-rard .n<l tl,.,u mus.hat 1 . "■""^' •'^•"'">^'"' 
 
 ''-"1-" While I,., snok. n • '" '■'"■'>■ ''-"^"f yo"^ 
 
 -se from his ch^V ' ' '™ " r;.""'^" ^"■^" '"'^ ''^""•. '>« 
 
 ">''" I'reathc the tir ' , " ^T' ''"""^""' '" '''""'pV 
 
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 Pow<ier-n.a,,.t.i„e, the leas ' ^ ■'""" ^' "''"■'' "^-^'^ ■' 
 I'l'-^ thee to a.SH ^ l\ "'"'" '"^'^•"'"--- ^I-rk 
 
 -" 'Lis di.e.pe:;:::""v t^ -:'- '-'--' 
 
 '•-■arson sliall i.rinfi thee .,.,] ■''""'^' ^"'■'■•'1' 
 
 l>.-t.sometlv,t,K,oask." '" ^■••'' ^'^y-thou 
 
 "I wouJd liiiow," said \\-|l,lr,i 
 --^tyof .heCen^l^.' "''^' ;-'" "' "'e nsiMe 
 'W'- of ,h,s vo„n. .nll'nt i ";" "'■■'"'•■ ' "'hat .-s ihe 
 
 ^""-" He tar„e,l o,„„f , Jof ,h " ' "" "'"^■ 
 
 '■'^•|-l.-sU,eSe™„dl,;tl' V '■''""" "■•" 
 
 ■'■l"- first motion V , ""^'-'m l.tlier. 
 
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 '•'^-•i'd'-^io.,\:^£;;;^'''V'''''r'^^'«'''''^''^ 
 
 ^«''l'-ialso'kM,J' ':''■"•■'' --yco„ hi,,,., or 
 
 "-'-'" .lu. hand. „r ' . ;^'- ""■ l"'"r.M, ,^ his 
 
 ''"'■' -'""'"r of hi. ^^th. 
 
404 
 
 COMMONWEALTH 
 
 i ^ ; 
 
 |if 
 
 Being a fierce and desperate man, he commanded his 
 passion with great difficulty; and if, on its first violence, 
 he had been provided with a suitable weapon, it is possible 
 Cromwell would never have ascended higher in his bold 
 ascent towards supreme power. 
 
 But this natural and sudden flash of indignation, whicli 
 rushed through the veins of an ordinary man like Wildrake. 
 was presently subdued, when confronted with the strong 
 yet stifled emotion displayed by so powerful a character a' 
 Cromwell. As the cavalier looked on his dark and bold 
 countenance, agitated by inward and indescribable feelini;^. 
 he found his own violence of spirit die away and lose itsdi 
 in fear and wonder. 
 
 Wildrake stood a silent, inactive, and almost a terrifiud 
 spectator, while Cromwell, assuming a firm sternness of eye 
 and manner, as one who compels himself to look on what 
 some strong internal feeling renders painful and disgustful 
 to him, proceeded in brief and interrupted expressions, but 
 yet with a firm voice, to comment on the portrait of the 
 late King. His words seemed less addressed to Wildrake, 
 than to be the spontaneous unburdening of his own bosom, 
 swelling under recollection of the past and anticipation of 
 the future. 
 
 " That Flemish painter," he said — " that Antonio Van- 
 dyke—what a power he has ! Steel may mutilate, warriors 
 may waste and destroy — still the King stands uninjured by 
 time ; and our grandchildren, while they read his history, 
 may look on his image, and compare the melancholy 
 features with the woeful tale.— It was a stern necessity -it 
 was an awful deed ! The calm pride of that eye miglit 
 have ruled worlds of crouching Frenchmen, or suiipli 
 Italians, or formal Spaniards ; but its glances only rou>Lil 
 the native courage of the stern Englishman. — What is ih.ii 
 piece of painted canv:is to me more than others ? No , 
 let him show to others the reproaches of that cold, ( alni 
 face, that ])roiid yet complaining eye : Those who 1i.<vl 
 
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CROMWELL AND THE PORTRAIT 403 
 
 -»^5^'":t■rs r ~ "^ *"*«"* 
 -;;■" tirrzs "?.'?,''" -7 " '"" " 
 
 n>.Kht be immediatdy rero..nised I! f ?" /" V^"""'"^- 
 walkcd up to Cromwell T t / dauglitur. She 
 
 happen. - ^ " ''''" P''""'=<^'' ""^ ">is should noi 
 
 The General hung down his head like one wh 
 
 yi^lJed, ho've^r ,0 '"-'"-/"^ ^'■^-^"^'^d over hin,. He 
 - •'•n; Wai.h;,; Scrr, IVood.tock. 
 
XXVIII 
 
 How a Mysterious Order was 
 Give by a Royal Duke 
 
 T'!1E return (if the oast wind, which fetched out the 
 DutchiiKii, causctl UN soni. tiilficuUy in going vo mod 
 tlicm, nor did we di^vx-rn tlicm for two days. Upon 
 coming to anchor i« Southwold liay, we saw them alicnil 
 one o'clock in ih<. afternoon, to the windward of us. .Still, 
 owing to various causes, and to the endeavours of hirtli 
 sides to git the wind of each other, the two fleets did nm 
 come together for nearly forty-eight hours. It was two 
 o'clock in the morning, on the 3rd of June 1665, when the 
 enemy were discovered lighting their matches ; and, al'tit 
 contriving to get the wind of them, the battle began alxiui 
 three. It took place off Lowestoft, and was the ino^t 
 memorable one of the kind that had yet been known. Uc 
 had about a hundred sliijis on our side, the Dutch a gouJ 
 many more. His Ilighness's vessel, the Jioyal Cinr/iS. 
 by some mischance or another, was not so mtich er. ;i-uJ 
 at first as many of the others. Callant Kit Minns, wiin io 
 shocked the Spaniard with his brief name, and deli^hl.a 
 Nelly with his plebeian origin, got a-head of us, and was tlii' 
 first to engage ; and afterwards the Earl of Sandwich ^U' 
 ceeded in breaking the enemy into two divisims, «hiili 
 was the ultimate cause of our victory. 
 
 How all this took jjlace I cannot pretend to say ; lu.r, 
 for aught I could learn, were more oftieial persons wm'^' 
 better agreed upon it. All 1 know is, that the weather »a- 
 
MYSTKRIOUS ORDRR 
 
 407 
 
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 ' f'-O. -.y a li.„e turn oHhe "s:r;h ? *-' '""^'""^•"• 
 -y ""•■ a. if, wlK.n about .0 ri j' '" "'-" T" ' ^""'^ 
 marlial dance He sr.M,,, ?k , ^ ''""""^^'' '" ""s 
 
 '-n.,H....s .oundcd. ."d^L found" ";■ '"'"" '"•^' """ 
 
 'l'^' case with most of the other ThTt.s ^7 ''"' '■" ™' 
 "f --thinK r :e order and dc^l^'' ^^ fir , "7u '' "''"^ 
 n«its approached each other in , I '■ ""-' "''''"• 
 
 "e procecled to c 1 ,„,,''" ' ''"' '! '^''' '"" '«''<'■ 
 «vll as we coul,l wh <t u T ' '■'""'^""'' '■■'"^'' a^ 
 
 -lutes of the Z:^z::'uT"' 't"' '^^'"^'"«'"« 
 
 -, we selected ourtdK^Xr^ 
 
 \ "H<K and so stahl,ed away for it. '"■"'■" '" 
 
 We had Ion;; prepared for hattle Fverv.l.i,, 
 "filLT. The looks of ih,. nl,i '-^'^OI'imK was in 
 
 'hose of the n!w ole n,„ "'","" "'■" '""'''• "'^ --" ^ 
 
 h^e the hush hX:";.i:;:r"'''"'""'''''^'*' -■'■«- 
 
 --d giving wa^i...tw^;::':;';^^T^■' 
 .™ns.andthet,ingofsp,intersanj;:':c:r:.f^:r'v;: 
 
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4o8 
 
 CHARLES n 
 
 smoke was thickening ; and Heme was at my side watching 
 the Duke, who walked up and down l)eforu us conversing 
 with his Captain, Sir William I'unn. The Dvike then ralkil 
 lack to him my Lords Kalmoulh and Musketry, who hail 
 been conversing with him before, and resumed the discourse. 
 They were joined by Dick Boyle, who had l)een laughing to 
 us about a notion of Hewit's, that the Dutch made cantioii 
 balls of their cheeses. A minute had scarcely elapseil, 
 when a little powder-monkey, running past us (a boy with 
 flaxen locks like a doll), cried out, in his penny-whistle 
 voice, " D — nation ! " his heels being tripped up at tlu' 
 same time by a plash of blood. This blood was poor l)ii k 
 Boyle's. One of the cannon-balls he had been joking 
 about, as if to make him eat his words, had swept, at .^ 
 blow, himself. Lord Falmouth, and Lord Muskerry, knock- 
 ing off the head of our gallant ac()uaintance, and (I.l^l^ill^ 
 the blood and brains of Lord Falmouth over the Duk. ^ 
 [)erson. Sir Thomas Clifford was talking with the disguised 
 priest. 
 
 We all ran up to his Highness to see that he was safe. 
 
 "Some vinegar and a sponge; you'll find it in the cal.m, 
 gentlemen," said Penn. 
 
 " Go, Esher," said Heme ; " for something has hurt iin 
 side." 
 
 Something had hurt both of us a little. I know not 
 what it was, but it came from our poor friends. It w.is 
 said afterwards to be Mr. Boyle's head. My wound wa-^ 
 in the left arm. I did not feel it at the time ; but wlicii 
 I procecrliid to use the muscle in getting the sponge .iml 
 vinegar, it gave me an agony that turned me sick, i 
 fetched what was wanted, and had the honour of assi>iiii;; 
 to purify the royal person. Some blood had spurted our 
 the Duke's face. His Highness was very firm ; but talked 
 more than usual. He made us note down the hour .ind 
 other circumstances attending the accident. 
 
 Warm work continued till about two in the afternoon, 
 
A MVSTRRIOUS ORDER 
 
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 when till' firu of 111, 
 
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 '" order „,.a, , he „;k ' "T"" ^"^''"" '''^'"« » ""l^-. 
 
 >cl m the nl.ice of an „rt; > ^" ' "'"' '"-'en 
 
 |ji.n.L oi an ofhcer who was kill, ,1 ,n,i i i 
 ■>"nie active work to look to ,n,l «1 ^'' "°* 
 
 of any thoughts but .n , "■■" """"P'^'^' -"'d f"" 
 
 ™r hands longed m „ran,,l •'\''°'-"l^' «--mot,„ns ; and 
 
 our countrymen aLa7 "L':': '" ' ''^■'"^'>- "'^^ """ 
 -,;!-he pertinacity of the „rh„r'r'^^' " "'^■>' ''' '° 
 
 '"..1-f l^i^S^'^.r'""'^"^^'^ «""«' -d 'he 
 
 'f ■''-i^.p td t:[:;;'^,:,:^^:x;: ■ tv "■^'^'^' - 
 
 Wb succeeded by a dari.,, '"^'^"''y '""k place. Thi. 
 
 ' !-d no conception wha t^rat d,'"'"™ "''^- '"'^"■«'"- 
 I'k'-- an earthquake at s,- ■ , ' """"'"'• ^' ^'=<-™«--d 
 
 '-v.n had d.rusrdov ■itrf™""/'" '■"■"> -'I) - if 
 
 'l"^"-,totran,pleusf:rLX Th'.' h" "'°" ^""^ 
 ^d the sails plunged like a shak,.n ^'^ ""•^"''^''•■'l, 
 
 ">™ fell upon us. '" ' ''^P^''- -^ "lick smoke 
 
 ", "•^^ ^Z"^-"", »lio h.,d blown i„, A r, ^ ■ 
 ^-■d-J through the whole fleet o., , t '^""■■' ^"'=- 
 """rupted only by the working f V i'' "" '"'"'"<^^' 
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 4,0 CHARLES II 
 
 me forth beside tlic waters of comfort." Tlie voiie tlieii 
 retreated inwardly, still muttering the psalm. 
 
 The tranquil beauty of the verse thai was thus audibli, 
 aceompaiiied by the mysterious horror of the cireunistanct, 
 around us, had an effect similarly corroborative of the 
 awfulness of the moment. A little after the eNplosion, 
 and when the mind had become, as it we-e, duly sensible 
 of its extreme terribleness, I shook from head to foot like a 
 frightened horse. Older men did not hesitate to avow 
 themselves as much affected. My friend Heme not only 
 shook, but somebody whispering to him, to know what it 
 was, he said his tongue cleaved to his mouth, and that h. 
 forgot the man's name who asked him. 
 
 The first thing that roused us from our astonishment w.i^ 
 
 the falling of splinters, pieces of rope, and fiery pitch ami 
 
 oakum, which alarming us for the safety of the vessel, pm 
 
 all hands in re<iuisition. The Dutch had now cjuite given 
 
 way, and were preparing to run for it, with the exception <>i 
 
 the Ora«.!,r, a fine eighty-four, commanded by one Seai.m, 
 
 a man of Scottish parentage ; who being a stout felliiw, 
 
 and of a family celebrated for their high spirit, must n^v.l- 
 
 resolve to run his vessel on board us, and so have th. 
 
 honour of taking, or being taken, by the Duke. We db 
 
 cerned him, like the image of a gallant seaman, against lli; 
 
 red and dark-rolling smoke, mounted aloft on the stern, aiui 
 
 brandishing a two-handed broadsword. Seeing him .iJ 
 
 vance thus boldly and alone, some cried out it was a fir^ 
 
 ship ; but the Duke bade them be (piiet, for they would m 
 
 their mistake presently by the broadside he was preii.irin, 
 
 to give us. The honour, however, of being thus set h: 
 
 rights was interrupted, like that of our leading the van, hv 
 
 a vessel ahead of us ; which running between, and gelim. 
 
 yard-arm and yard-arm with the valiant Scot, received th. 
 
 intended broadside, giving him one in return, though n-t 
 
 without a loss of sixty men. Seaton had soon to do »ii, 
 
 more than one enemy, and so was compelled to strike ; an; 
 
A MYSTERIOUS ORDER 
 
 411 
 
 to Air. hNdyn); "died, sir, of his wounds and bruisus .I.,, 
 consequence of his rash ambition " ' ""- 
 
 -rib.e n,anne. b^";':^ Z ^r " ^:,jr ^^ ■' """" 
 plunged out of them into ti,e wlrs f i ; , ^''"7^"" 
 round about us At this .n P covermg the sea 
 
 ng and dragguig them up into their boats, some of which 
 ately bade him not to be too i ° ', J^l t' h '"7' 
 
 ..thedrenehedt:;e:^s::^r3;^.:;::::r 
 
 »el.er,ng and beating against the boat. The gr^fln" i 
 "f the sea „, which we suddenly found ourselves let do 1 
 the huge hulks of the vessels around u.s, the crijs ofTe 
 boats' crews and their officers, the sulphurous U ^rnh e 
 ro ">g around and narrowing the horizon, and X ve v 
 oours of the officers' heavy coats, with heir reds ad 
 lues n,ake up sometimes a picture in my imaginatt "^ 
 If 1 rementbered observing it all at the moment The 
 -n whom we had just been regarding as ene„,ies seen d 
 
 I it we wee as anxious as if their kindred was our own 
 .s an anect,,^ sight to see rugged old men kis:! ;r 
 hds because the nearness of death had tnade then think 
 of the, children ; an.! beardless boys lording it over older 
 but duller seamen, in the vivacity' of their rank, "m; 
 
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412 
 
 CHARLES II 
 
 God ! " exclaimed Hcriie, looking at a boat close to u=, and 
 turning as [)ale as he hid latterly been red, " it must lie 
 done !— See, Mr. Walters ! "—addressing a Master's Male, 
 who was with us. Wallers turned about, and taking a 
 marling-spike in his hand, stretched over to the boat, and 
 dashed it on the knuckles of a man who was struggling to 
 get in. The poor wretch gave up the struggle, and retreated 
 into his watery grave ; but the boat was saved. Sir Philip 
 turned aside, and tried to conceal his tears. " God ble^s 
 you, sir,'- said Walters ; " you have been the salvation of a 
 matter of thirty men." My friend said nothing. We weiu 
 now pulling back to the ship ; and he sat with his hat over 
 his eyes, looking on the water. But the same evening Ik- 
 got permission of the Duke to have Mr. Walters presented 
 to him, and his Highness promised to bear him in mind, 
 which he did. 
 
 We chased the Dutch all the evening, and took more 
 vessels ; nor could the main body of their fleet have 
 escaped us, but for a circumstance that made a great noise. 
 The Duke had ordered the Norwich to keep just ahead of 
 us with lights, so as to give notice in case the enemy altereil 
 their course ; and next morning we were to set upon thLir. 
 again. His HighneiS then retired to rest, still keeping hi> 
 clothes on, to be in i»adiness ; nor could he satisfy himself 
 before he lay down, wi':hout coming upon deck once more, 
 to see that all was right. 
 
 He had not been in his cabin above a quarter of an hour, 
 when Brunker, a Groom of his bedchamber (brother of 
 Lord Brunker the mathematician) came up to the master, 
 Captain Cox, with directions to slacken sail. The vessel, 
 he said, being so good a sailer, might run in among the 
 enemy during the night, and so be clapt on board by some 
 fire-ship, or find herself next day surrounded and cut off. I 
 I was present, and heard all that i)assed, and so did half a 
 dozen of us. We had been admiring the beauty of the 
 night, and the quiet scudding of the vessel, after all the 
 
A MYSTERIOUS ORDER ^,3 
 
 jolting and uproar • anH r 
 
 h^lni which he had taken in TT^ ^'^"^'y' '""^ 'he 
 l-fore hi. over the ,4t hTd Sv!"' P"'""« ^'"'«''t 
 manner, "We shall have 'en, ev. r^ T f'^'"*'' '" ^'" ^ry 
 Urunker gave his d rlJi ' ^ '"""'"' ^°" ' " 
 
 n.aner, nj £ ^e so^&^h "-"r "^ ^ ->' "- 
 concerned in it; which mal ; "'' "'^"■" ''^■'"K 
 
 '« run no risks. " '"'P"«'ve on the Captain 
 
 "•.'^n;::^:^rsS^r''''^^'^'^-"<^j-as 
 
 -e hold right on-and'tis 'v H ?""' " ""^ ''"'"^ ''^'^'^ 
 ""te senj n,e a counfer^nT. v' '" '° "^ "°- '^e 
 tions, Mr._a- „rav f, " ''*>'>•''" have direc- 
 
 "- he ...: „,:To'.strn Tan:'" "' "■'^''"-^'^ »-^' 
 
 ^■^« Ser:*^1S S,,:'^ h!^^ '^"^ "- «'-" •^™ a 
 would be better to do run V "'^' '^'^ "'""^ht it 
 g-ded himself as det^d 'to '^"" l^""" -^^ ^"^ -> '«■ 
 ""d that he had eft h , -^ ' directions accordingly; 
 
 ■^e nuke not^d^i'Lt' :e:r"^ '" '^^' ^•"-- 
 
 P-tastation/nc'thSoth. "''""' '^ ^""^« '■" ^' 
 
 people, were not evpec ed tl I w""' """^ "^ ''"'^ "^ 'he 
 '--hen orders w^^^^^e urer^^r "'''^ " '^*- 
 
 I'^^^X mu"unr ;■"; ^^^^^"""^^ ""^ -<^er 
 ""'-, they'n,us. be brouX h l". ' "■"'*^' ''"'• ^^'her- 
 "'^'ter, as you say, Mr ! ^ "'t "«''' °«''^^^- The 
 
 I name ? " ^' ' ^~^~ what .s the gentleman's 
 
 "Brunker." 
 
 "The matter, as vou «v ;,, 
 j; ^ as you say. ,s a very nice matter, Mr. 
 
414 
 
 CHARLES II 
 
 Bunker ; but I am only the Master, you see ; and as you 
 are only a-a— person on board,— I beg pardon,— what is 
 the gentleman's rank, if I may be so bold ? " , , . 
 
 '"Tis Mr. Brunker, Groom of his Highness s bed- 
 chamber." , . , . , 
 
 Cox resuming with a dip of his head, which was to be 
 understood as a bow : "As you arc one of his Highness s 
 Grooms, Mr. Blunker, and not an officer of the vessel, 1 can 
 only say that his Highne ,-.ve me positive orders to keep 
 within gun-shot of the en.my, and that I must continue to 
 do so, unless one of my superior officers brings me a 
 countermand." , . , . 
 
 So saying, he gave a push to the tiller ; and jerking some 
 tobacco from his mouth a yard off, seemed to dismiss both 
 that and the subject together. 
 
 Brunker, however, was not to give up the point so easily. 
 He recommenced, by complimenting the Master on his 
 zeal; but observed, that peculiar circumstances made a 
 difference in what would be the properest thing m the 
 world under any others. And then he set forth the danger 
 of needlessly hazarding the life of his Majesty's brother; 
 which he said might be taken ill by the King himsell ; 
 adding that the Duke, and indeed all his officers and men, 
 had conducted themselves already like heroes, and won a 
 glorious victory; and that he could not see the policy of 
 doing more than was necessary, when everything had been 
 
 done so well. i , ,1 
 
 " Policy ! " exclaimed the Master in a heat :— what the 
 devil have I to do with policy ? Damn it, sir, you seem to 
 me— I beg pardon— but you're in my way, Mr. Blunder ;- 
 you should never get in the way of the helmsman, sir:-- 
 and so, sir, I can't do it, by G-d ; and that's the long and| 
 the short of it." 
 
 " Then I am to tell the Duke so ? " 
 "Damn it, sir, what signifies talking? The Dukes too 
 good a seaman to expect me to act unseamanlike. He gaxj 
 
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 SIR JOHN HARMAN RECEIVING n,E I.UKE OF YORK'S ORDER 
 ' TO bllORTES SAIL. 
 
 If- 415- 
 
A MVSTERIOUS ORDER ^,. 
 
 here can testify, ,„ 4 ,o a. ,i ' T'\ "' ""^ «™''^™en 
 J^'futcnant bring., me count rn '.■■""' ""'^'''' '"'^ Highn.ss's 
 knows something ^^T^'ZT' °' '""""''^^y ^'^ «''o 
 speak, d-n me, If Bin Col h "■'■■' ""^ *"" =» %'ht to 
 The Groom of he n.lK T" ''■"' '^ "'''^^'"l-" 
 
 Of .o Sir Joh"„°£LXH 2'""'^\''''^°"^^^'"'- -« 
 of us followed him "'fe''"'C'ss's Lieutenant. .Most 
 
 •.i»nb., t™„o',j,r?ul"',rT,-"-. ■'■'"' ""'«■■ 
 
 from the Duke that he shoul ^h^ ^"^ ""'^ «'^hes 
 
 Captain said he could not do i, A ""'• """^ """ "'« 
 "Certainly r " 1"h „ " "'"'""' ^'^g"'^'- orders. 
 
 Brunker. Short;„s^tf GoTh," ' '"'" '"'P""''^''-'. W^- 
 «ay we're in ? Rig^t and til :"/°""" '°"'' '^^'^ ^^^ "- 
 "s? Why, it's all MT , ""^ ""' " man to escane 
 
 'na Dutchml^'fguTs.'^'"" "" ^'-'«"""rward as a pS 
 
 «^ "uSjSe" aSr'^ '° ""'^- '™^ -^y ^ i-^ "you 
 before you " "^ '' " burgonmster, for he is running 
 
 ^ -ay with a brave man Mr '°'' ""'''"^ ' '^"' "'^''^ "«' 
 '■^^f-'e-n. Of puncZg h'^^ ^^^^^ ^ - talk. 
 
 " ^i^v'lZT'T''''" "-"^ Montagu. 
 |^-A-.r::^---^ughediain.butthe 
 
4i6 
 
 CHARLES II 
 
 "All that," continued he, "is very true; yet it is no 
 lessVue that the Duke wishes to let .he poor dev s take 
 b;eat7alle. He sees no ■. in being in such a damned 
 
 ''""oh ho!" quoth Sir John, "we are thereabouts, are 
 wel But are you sure the Duke's wishe. are what you 
 
 ^The Groom shrugged his shoulders, as much a .to reply 
 ,ha?he h^d he 'L not capable of stating what was 
 
 """Tbeg your pardon, Mr. Brunker," resumed Harman 
 .. bu are you sure his Highn. .s was quite awake ? Peop e 
 nirstrlnge things sometimes, when they are gomg to 
 
 '^Brunker took advantage of this remark as qujck ^^ >i«'^^ 
 ninir He said he could not answ:r for that. Sir ,ohn had 
 Town" new light on the business : but he would go down 
 '^"t^rtn^'Tidingly, and a pause took plaee,^dy 
 
 choosing to speak before the Cap.am and he not known,. 
 
 what t J say. At leng'h he muttered aloud,- 
 
 roLin his pimping face; what would he be at 
 
 Here we are. gentlemen, wind and tide in our favour and 
 
 Th Du chmen in our very hand, and th^ s.k-pe t.coa 
 .r ., hitrh eh?— it looks very like it ; but we have 
 
 rbbfd^im Ithink.'\ethimb.-ing me the Duke's mes- 
 
 "Ala's'^*" poor" Sir John had nabbed himself. Up conu-s 
 M^ Brunker a seccid time with the very message or what 
 he St! tes to be such. The Duke, he said, was as wide awake 
 as ^fm'lf, and now sent positive orders to shorten sad, and 
 to Captain Harmar,. 
 
 ;:S::;ir!;L.:?rd then laying his hand upon,. 
 
 n^S'rrdLX^fetihat he had hampered himself b, 
 
A MYSTERIOUS ORDER 
 
 acquiesce in 1 'footh L ^ ''S.l'r ""■:''' »"- '° 
 dav-brcak Th,. ,^r. , <-nough to regain the time. At 
 
 struck u a 1 when his H T'"" '"^ " ^''■^'""^"■"ce that 
 was, that ho express d "f "'"'.'""'' "P""^ Jeclc. This 
 sailed, nor l,S „' ". '"'^^^f "' '"'^ '"''"B >hus out- 
 begin;ingtoend ''"'-■ ^>"'"^''^ "" 'he matter from 
 
 We knew not who* to make of it p 
 his Highness had m,.i„ i •^"-"''^ moment affr 
 
 say somethl B^t "' "r r""'*-' "" '"^'"'^ '>'"' '" 
 and Brunke:'^ollowed C ^ ^^ '" ""' '''' "" ^•^''^ '""''- 
 
 vici.,. . Ve V d-ffJZ : ^"'^""^ "''" '■^'^y «"' 'he 
 
 by the t.vo Zttf « . 7. "' "'''' °" ''"^'' °^™«-ons 
 
 and ina short timer ,/^ ' "■''^' '° conclude, 
 
 as his Highness '"°" '' ""'"' ^'^°"' '^e matte; 
 
 -I.EioH Hunt, 5;> iPa//^ ^^^^^ 
 
i I 
 
 XXIX 
 
 How the Commonalty fought 
 for a Royal Duke 
 
 ON the morning of July S'h. '685. th" dram beat to 
 arms ; and the Duke of Monmoulh accompanud 
 by the principal officers, went \o meet his men, assembled 
 at Sedgmoor. A rumour of the near approach of the royal 
 army had already spread through the town ; but the alacrity 
 with which the soldiery obeyed the summons of their leader, 
 showed plainly that they did not particiiate in his depres- 
 sion On the contrary the tidings gave them joy. Ihcy 
 were heartily tired of their loitering inaction, and longed tu 
 come to blows on any terms. A profound and anxious 
 silence fell upon the.n, therefore, when they saw Monmouth 
 preparing to address them. 
 
 "I never imagined," said he, " my gallant fellow-country- 
 men, that your zeal could be sufficient to overcome fortune 
 and our foes together. Had we only James of \ork and 
 his adherents to contend with, I could be content to dure 
 the worst : but we are told there is a certain wayward power 
 that exercises a capricious influence over the affairs of man, 
 whose favours are bestowed at random, who gives beeaus.^ 
 she will, and withholds because she is not willing to bestow, 
 without regard to merit, justice, or necessity. I'oc'ts an.l 
 painters repi ;sent her blind, because she knows not how to 
 discriminate; and they give her a wheel, for he that is on 
 the topmost spoke at morning may be ground in the rut ere 
 nightfall. Gamblers invoke, her, whether they rattle dice 
 for gold, or play out of cannon-mouths for poor men s livo ; 
 
"OW THE CO^rMONAf.TY POUGHT .,, 
 
 ""<! others «vhom .."„*' ;■'"•: t'"' '•'"'- f^a-lav 
 
 -adie to ,h. Krave -s:;:":;h:"\'"'«'"-^ f™"- "- 
 
 'h"'-'-' in a whim, and oh", 1 f" "'"^^•' '«''^^'' ^ 
 "-""Kh hfc. , am one f h, ;"" .^'"-' ""K^ «i.h mi. ,, 
 
 affair, my friends, she has dX, "'"'''"'''• ■■""' '" "'- 
 •-k-' f'-d in time and look^^ T^' '"' ^^■'■'^^'^■'■-'^^. 
 )"'" l.i.her, my friends ,„ie. "'''"■ ■ ' '''''' ^-"■-■J 
 '"'hank y„„f„ your l.vi ef Ur'T '"•" '"'"'■"• >""- 
 "f Monmouth, and .o Wd !„ L '"m"".'" ""-■ ^■-- 
 has declared ayainst us, and rr,» 7 ' "'"'' '''"«'""-' 
 -"'ro! her. I .rust a hapi. '■"'*■* "'^•""■^ ""« '" 
 S^'^-nd that .e may'- 1^J----r 
 
 --Syn^^rr^:^"?^-^-^^ 
 
 I he soldiers D-esserl r7„,. 
 -ongst whom 'th Du tf Mo" "T «""" °^ °«'--. 
 -.;;.;c;d in earnest remons lances ^Xt ' '^'°''''' ''"'^ -- 
 
 "l\hat care we for the rlst?" , "' general. 
 >", ;ha. U,„re we ,., Z "X:"^" °"*= '' " ^'^ '"-^ht of 
 
 I «use IS good." "•' '"' °"' hves when our 
 
 
420 
 
 JAMES II 
 
 'and 
 
 " Only lead us to the field ! " exclaimed a third, 
 leave the rest to ourselves." 
 
 " Ay, ay, to the field ! huzza ! to the field ! " exclaimed a 
 thousand voices ; and a shout ensued so stunning, that it 
 seemed to shake the very earth on which they stood. 
 
 " Give them their way, my lord," said Ferguson ; " that 
 shout foreboded victory." 
 
 " They will not quit their arms," said a second officer. 
 " Except to meet with Feversham," added a third. 
 The spirit of his followers seemed to restore the confi- 
 dence of Monmouth. Afte. a little pause he said : 
 
 " Is it your desire then, soldiers, that we should go to the 
 field to-morrow ? " 
 
 " Ay, ay, to the field— huzza ! " was answered, as before, 
 in a voice of thunder. 
 
 " 'Tis well then," answered Monmouth ; " I yield to your 
 desire. Feed well to-night, and rest well, for you will have 
 something to do before daybreak. Let every man have his 
 matchlock for a bedfellow to-night, and be stirring at the 
 beat of drum. Ay, while you keep such hearts as these, 
 there is little fear of the issue. You are to fight for Eng- 
 land, against Englishmen. Trust me, you will not find 
 them strong in their cause, as we are. Huzza then, once 
 again, for liberty and England ! " , . • 
 
 Again the ready shout resounded ; and Monmouth having 
 given his orders for the night, retired to his lodgings. The 
 men dispersed to their quarters, and prepared for the 
 encounter of the following morning with the alacrity which 
 is inspired by a strong conviction of right and confidence 
 of success. 
 
 In the meantime, the royal generals, secure of an easv 
 victory, took little pains to increase that certainty by choice 
 of situation or a well-ordered plan of engagement. Their 
 fully-armed and highly-disciplined force, they knew, was 
 more than sufficient to meet any number of those ine> 
 perienced clowns that could be brought against them. It 
 
HOW THE COMMONALTY FOUGHT 42, 
 
 -nner i„ wS A ^^ff uteTt ' ;\"' "^ ^'"««""« 
 the ground showed p ain rhow Httle th """f^'"" "^ 
 
 ended any attempt .^hich'couTd b made bvT"^ '"""■ 
 to disturb their position Th„ , . ^ "'^ 'nsurgents 
 
 '•ngwas stii. farSnTwh?;i:t^t"' ^"' """■ 
 plan, the army of Monmnntt, P"'*"""' t" a preconcerted 
 
 the town. Lord GreT^t th. T^'7" ""' '" '^'"'^ f™™ 
 a little before, as the Lee £st1 h/ "' '""'^' "''^ -"' 
 prise. Monmouth himef fCL .'^ k l""" '™"' ^ ="'■ 
 his army, nearly three thouslnd of T '^' """'" ^'"^V °f 
 in some tc:.abl ae^etSplf °"^ ''''' ''""''' ^^ 
 
 -It ^rTtXXtr mTchT T'"^'^ '^"^ '"^ -- 
 about one o'cfock in th?L\ "'""">'' ='"'' ^-^^-^hed 
 The royal army had llZrl, ^ '"f "' ""^ •"°-- 
 Lord Grey, at the head J f' ""^^ '"''"" ">« ^^'arm. 
 orderedto push forward an, 1 'Z-''""''™"' "' ''°^^^. ^^as 
 sham, but a wide and deep di^dr'^^'K ""P "^ ^-- 
 P;^in between both armls ';.e td an '"'"""^'^ "^"^ 
 effectual obstacle. As thev rod. nT ""«pected and 
 
 where a passage might e efetVvoI:: ";"' f ' P'^^ 
 opened upon them from the enemy's line ?''"'^ ''''' 
 slirmish in the dark with a partv of h ' ""'" "" ''"'^'^^'l 
 «hat in advance of thpm ?■ ^'"'' °™ ^en, some- 
 
 Grey himselHnce iTe^uWueTh '';^'^°"'"^'°"- Lord 
 new disgrace to that of Vlo" t ./fl •' '"^^J'y. added a 
 to a little distance, where thev mI ^'"^ ^'"^ *"'' '™°P^ 
 •he range of musket-shot The thr. "'' '•''°^"'°" °"' °f 
 "'ade a gallant attempt to f„7 "'^"'^ ''^'"ammg squadrons 
 
 pulsed and obliged to^lt re n H • ' f"'^"' *•"' "'^^^ re- 
 ndered the inffntry to d a "ce Af- ?"'"°""> "- 
 fire, which had only the effect 'V ^ '°"^ "°""'""^d 
 
 'he insurgents, dly b olfu'^ IT"' '^' '""■""""-" 
 -^ed to the eyes or!.onm:uThr ^oSC^afi^^^^ 
 
^„ JAMES II 
 
 paces distant, quietly reserving their fire, and ^ufenngthe 
 artillery alone to answer the volleys of the insurgents, while 
 Feversham's cavalry, newly arrived from Weston, was posted 
 on his rifiht flank. Without losing a moment, the mfantry 
 was ordered to pass the ditch, a man^uvre which was soon 
 effected. The imposing sight of Feversham's disciplined 
 troops, with their artillery and their calm and confident 
 aspect as of men certain of success, might well have 
 checked the ardour of a newly-levied force like that of 
 Monmouth. The latter, however, did not spare to pursue 
 their purpose. The signal for attack was given, and w-uh 
 shouts of fury the insurgent yeomen dashed forward on the 
 royal force. It was impossible to resist the terrific energy 
 of their onset; and the royal generals were astounded at 
 the gallantry displayed by these poor fellows who found m 
 their own courage a substitute for all the skill and know- 
 ledge that are only gathered from experience. It was in 
 vain that Feversham put in practice all the manoeuvres of 
 the field in order to resist the vehement charge of the in- 
 surgents-now drawing his men into line, now condensing 
 them into squares and columns. The soldiers of Mon^ 
 mouth, in indiscriminate masses, rushed forward to the 
 charge wherever they beheld a foe, and carried all befor. 
 them with an impetuosity which nothing could resist. Ihc 
 royal army was routed and driven from the ground-it was 
 rallied and routed again-there was not a man on Mon- 
 mouth's side who did not labour as if he had been engaged 
 in single combat, and that combat for his hfe. Astonished 
 at what they beheld, the royal generals began to despair of 
 the day, and their exertions now were bent to render the 
 retreat as orderly ar, it was possible. But the tr.umphan 
 yeomanry pressed too close upon their rear to admit of 
 their recovering order. 
 , "It is in vain, Kirke," said Feversham, as that officer 
 galloped by him. "What are your lambs about? These 
 
HOW THE COMMONALTY FOUGHT 423 
 
 They will not leave a man of us 
 
 fellows fight like furies, 
 to tell the news." 
 
 would, in all nrobal.,4, \ -^ 'h>ng-a victory which 
 in the' dy^Lrof E'Snd^'l^r^ •r^"™'^'''^"«= 
 was extreme when th^fi n, ec" d 'T, "■'"' ''r'""'' 
 was irremediahlP • .!,„ '' ■■ ^ ^'^ ™"'"-"' ""happ ly, 
 
 The se^et soo" ^cr""""";"'"" °'""^ '™"P^ ^ad failed 
 
 gathered cordencerd^tirr '''^'l''"' '""^'^^ "•'- 
 rallied now without HM T"^^^!'""' '^e discovery. They 
 
 p.e.edand:rrediT;Ti:rt't;tr'-^'''^^^^ 
 
 destruct.ve fire was opened on them Cn I ^posU 
 es? It wa's^:: "' '""r"' '^■''^•<== descriptioi^'^IX' 
 with th n"an° of n'Sa" "' "" '"'''''''"''• ""P--'"^'^ 
 tance, rushed do:n rmas^onTh ''f"' ™."''''' =" " '^'^- 
 to effect by the mer. n? . .'"-■' ''"^ '•'"deavoured 
 
 could no c :;rr;"r vsr^^'^' '"^-^ 
 iiSX'tii^r-^'- '''^^"^°^=^' 
 
 strivinrto make an t °"' ''"""^' ^•"''^ "^^'V »->-■ 
 
 "b '" make an impression in another It «-,. . 
 
 for Monmouth and se[n« the mtf; "'. ™""' '" ^''■■" 
 
 commanding officers Zk th. ^""^ '^'''"''' ''^ "^ 
 
 Kiven th.m T ' . "^ °"'>' ''^P "hich could have 
 
 fcntn them a chance of safety. Lord Grev «.),„ u J 
 
 reserve. By charging vigorously now in front, they migh" 
 
I 
 
 424 JAMES II 
 
 enable the infantry, who were at present suffering severely, 
 either to effect a tolerable retreat, or to procure time for 
 recovering confidence and order. 
 
 " Mr Fullarton," cried Colonel Jones to his aide-de-camp, 
 "ride to Lord Grey at once, and order him to charge in 
 front with all his force." 
 
 Arthur Fullarton put spurs to his horse, and galloped at 
 full speed towards the rising ground on which the cavalry 
 were stationed. The Colonel observed with an anxious eye 
 the result of his dispatch. There wns no movement amongst 
 the cavalry. Young Fullarton was seen to use a hasty 
 action, as if urging his message; but Lord Grey s^eemed 
 obstinate. Again, a)t full speed, his horse all bathed in 
 perspiration and scattering foam around him, young Fullar- 
 ton returned to Colonel Jones to say that Lord Grey re- 
 fused to act upon the orders. Before the former could 
 make an observation, the fate of the engagement was dc 
 cided Disheartened at length by the tremendous carnage 
 that took place amongst their associates, a general pan,c 
 seized on the insurgents, and a disordered flight ensued, 
 with all its accompanying horrors. The victorious roya is.s 
 continued their fire while the routed army remained with, 
 range of their shot ; after which the pursuit was maintaincJ 
 by the dragoons alone. The musketry ceased firing and 
 no sounds were heard except the fierce shouts of the r. 
 vengeful conquerors, the shrieks and groans of the woundul 
 and the dying, mingled with the occasional thunder of k 
 few pieces of artillery that accompanied the royal a n« 
 Colonel Kirke and his dragoons seemed thoroughly in thc^ 
 element, and revelled like exulting fiends in the hav« 
 whkhtiieir weapons made. And so ended the battle 
 Sedgmoor, on which Monmouth's hope was set as on 
 single cast. _Griffin, Duke 0/ Monmonlh. 
 
XXX 
 
 A Shot for Freedom 
 
 month he was at the head ofTr . I ^ "'°"' ""'" " 
 
 obtained r.infoJ:'::',^:'\:z", 'TTT "^ 
 
 and the Camerons and thp cZrT ^ Macdonalds, 
 
 of the Marquis of Atho L ^^^^^^^ h ' ''^- ^•™"' 
 castle of Blair, and defended it StJ:;'"!"^^^^ m the 
 An event still niorp <;trn„„ "" "^ '"s master. 
 
 Lis presence !-.r,ansme "?.'?'!""' '^^ "'^ ^P«» of 
 and joined his standard He kind d.h'Tf' ''"'' ^"'^^ 
 and all the life of the North L, ,1 *""' '" '"'^«"^c, 
 
 Mackay, with the Co^e's't ""^ '""""' '''"'• 
 land, and the Camerontns win ' '^"''""^ f™" Ho'" 
 cntrance into the LowUnd ' The Zd f '° °"P°^^ "'' 
 Pended. Should he defeat M, i "^ "^ '^"^ ^"s- 
 
 I y f" °''^ '"^". verging on threescore 
 
 eyelids Jve^VearbLs r;"l ^'"°"' " '^ '"'^^'^ "y 
 
 "ightsufferthe^stingsofaJetvIn?' " T °"'^ •'^=" ^ 
 
 ■ny dreams were of fll " k , ," '""^ ^'"''P'^^ form ; for 
 
 names ^kindhng around me through 
 
WILLIAM AND MARY 
 
 ,ueet, and I listened -'^^ Jcuvytheelsof'annon ; .nd 
 
 me with pity. , . , suddenly changed ; 
 
 IJut the haste and frenzy of ths ma ^^_^^ ^^^^ 
 
 1 felt that I Nvas a chosen '"^"r';"'' as assuredly son.e 
 ,uin which had fallen on "- --^ ^^ ^ .^he pr'ophcy 
 g.eat mystery "fj-r tT ask va Tn Ire for me, though I 
 
 ^-r:ort:;^;Sc;is:^-"---^- 
 
 to reinforce Mackay. ^y j Port, I 
 
 hurried by. „.;thnnt as it were drawin? 
 
 again impatiently on calmer ; and when 1 
 
 But my mind was tht-n some retiring to 'nf 
 
A SHOT FOR FREEDOM 427 
 
 n«t a marvellous vigour was soon again given to me, and t 
 rce refreshed from my resting-place on the wall of the 
 bndge, and the same night I reached Perth. I stopped in 
 a stabler's fl! the morning. At break of day, having hTred a 
 horse from h,m, I hastened forward to Dunkeld, where he 
 old me Muckay 'ad encamped the day before, on his wav 
 to defend the Pass of Killicrankie. ^ 
 
 The road was thronged with women and children flocking 
 ,0 Perth .n terror of the Highlanders, but I heeded h"' 
 not. I had but one thought, and that was to read the 
 scene of war and Claverhouse. "" 
 
 On arriving at the.ferry of Inver, the field in front of the 
 B.shop of llunkeld's house, where the army had beJn In 
 camped was empty. Mackay had marched toward BlaTr- 
 Athol. to dnve Dundee and the Highlanders, if Ifibie 
 back mto the glens and mosses of the ' jrth fTt' 
 hadlearnt that his own force greatly eL^eeC his adver! 
 
 h,i? n'^f-f V'"V"'' ""y ^°''^ ^'"S in need of batinc I 
 halted at the ferry-house before crossing the Tav ass-TrpH L 
 the boatman that I should be able to overtake the .r 1 " 
 b^e it could reach the meeting of CtZ'TZ 
 C ry. And so u proved ; for as I came to that turn of the 
 
 W r;" . M '"""'' P""" "' ™^""« ^-"-- into the 
 I a), I heard the ecomg of a trumpet among the moun 
 
 Uns, and soon after saw the army'winding'it toihome" 
 course along the river's brink, slowly and hnavilv asT 
 c anots of Pharaoh laboured through the sand 'o" Z 
 I'e.ert; and the appearance of the long array was as th^ 
 ".any-coloured woods that skirt the nvers in autumn ' 
 
 Oeneral Mackay halted the ho«f nn , "'"'""• 
 
 plain which lies at'he siting of the TlLrdTh T" 
 
 and which the Highlanders 'call ^1^^::^^ 7e 
 
 ame m the.r tongue signifies, no trees ar^ growing hereon 
 
 h,s place IS the threshold of the Pass of Kmicranlie' 
 
 I ".rough^the dark and woody chasms of which the imTat 'eS 
 
 H H 
 
438 WILLIAM AND MARY 
 
 waters of the Gary come with hoarse and wrathful tnutter- 
 Tn s Ind murmurs. The hills and mountams around are 
 b^^upin more olden and antic forms than those of o.r 
 Inland parts, and a wild and strange solemnUy .s m.n.Ud 
 ;^e!e wTmuch fantastical beauty, as if accordmg toll,. 
 min^trZof ancient times, sullen wizards and games.,,,. 
 l^lriestd joined their arts and s,k.11s to make a conu , 
 
 'tt''^Ls spread themselves ..erU.^^n;;o.;^^ 
 of Fascali,and piled their arms and furled ther lunn.r,, 
 !ldSd their drUs on the ground, and led the.r h.rscs ,., 
 the river, the General sent forward a scout through the I ... 
 
 tZ^<^r the movements of ^^'^'^'^^^ ^^ 
 that he was coming from the castle of Hla.r-Athol, to pre 
 
 -^JrX:rr :tir£:Sa.>ad not heen go. 
 
 ahov'^hff an hour, when he ^^'^^^^ r:\^7Z 
 tell that the Hi.l5l>'-ders were on^h b ow o^^^ .^^^^^ 
 
 ^itS^nS:^:^""-^-— "^"- 
 
 ' 'mLSSs news, ordered the trumpets to sound anJ 
 asfhe echoes multiplied and repeated the alarum n « a,. 
 ^ Sr:;:e spirits of'the hills called '^^ -;> ^ ^^.e i' 
 soldiers looked around as they formed *e.r anUs, 
 
 exttIV towards Lude and Blair-Athol we saw 
 
 officer had reported, the Highland hosts of t-" 
 omcer na F niountam, abo\e Hk 
 
 arrayed along the loity row breeze on the 
 
 house of Rinrorie, their pla.ds waving in the breeze 
 hill, and their arms glittering to the sun 
 
 Mackay directed the troops, at cro mg a raging _^^ 
 called the Girnaig, to keep along a ^^'°^2^^^,,,, 
 house of Rinrorie. and '» f •"' •\° ^,1 whe e the Hij^ 
 field beyond the garden, and under the h.U where 
 
A SHOT FOR FREEDOM 43, 
 
 tl.c river C,-,rv \„ ■ ""^ '"'"''* s'""'^'* and 
 
 of .h^ o«t ' iai r:r'i"r""""""'i r°"*''" "«= -''"'"<= 
 
 I'-n fouyh the " and ^t" '" •'°'"''.'-''''" "K"^" ba"''-' had 
 had fallen ' """ '"""-■ """" "^ ""(.'ht and fame 
 
 ».« .. ». ,h„, „,„,, ,.^. :it:ri"i" rr 
 
 "•, in a snull chamber which is entetwl by iwo doors 
 ingroom. In this situation we could see but httle of 
 
 ^ S T "' ''' ''""' "' ""-' '^-''•- i' mX 
 
 *h rco ?hfH?;h."T "" '°"l"'='' '° "''^ f'"^'^ °f '"e hill 
 and fro .nrt , • 7 .C^^^'"'"^'-' °" horseback riding to 
 
WILLIAM AND MARY 
 
 43° 
 
 When he had seemingly concluded his ^^^^ 
 Highlander, stooped forw.^^^ ^^^^^ l„, ,,,„ 
 
 which they had 8f *'".'='^/°' '^^'^^ji^g with a noise like 
 
 Mackay gave the signal to •^'""'";-";;^fX Highlanders, at 
 
 We saw from the -"'1°- .^^/^^t ^l" .me furiously 
 thenrstvolley.staggerand all buttheom ^^^,^ 
 
 down; and before the ^'j^^'j^^^SvoX-f the ClansnKn 
 
 bayonets into their guns, the broad s«ora 
 
 hewed hundreds to 'he ground ^^^^^^^^^ ,,_^ 
 
 Within a few mmutes the >>»"'«J\ f i„,„,^ed all th. 
 
 two armies; but the smoke of «h« f. ""« ,,,,,^, 
 
 field, and we could see """^'"S.^'X £ and the sounds 
 
 --ri:i^:f:Sth:r;rofauni.. 
 
 l**"'^- <• .™ri. return ; I could no lo"P' 
 
 I felt the pass.on of "»-P;'^ /f ^;'^; snatching u,, nn 
 
 restrain myself, nor rematn where ^^ „dhurric.l 
 
 carabine, I left my act.onless post at the w , ^^^^^^ 
 
 downstairs, and out o the ^ou- J -Jj; ,^,,^„ ,,., 
 throughthesmoke that the finng.^P^ ^^, „^ ,, , 
 the plain where the '^''Bg-'ge ^"^ ; ^ ^,^^^^^■, i,,, 
 
 knew that there was some >""^ \'^^^_^^^'^^^^ ,,„, ,„ifu„ 
 ....hether the Highlanders °'. *«= J" ;;X'^;^,, , ,,,, fiiKJ 
 
1} 
 
A SHOT FOR FREEDOM 43, 
 
 •tecp, and sometimes I h..hi.|,l ik • . . 
 ground endeavouring .0 pro! .'h"' '" 'u"' """ "" "'« 
 «ith .heir tarKuts, bu^ o w'hl 1 "'. ''"'^""'^^'"■'' ''^'«'» 
 I could di«:ern no In aZj "'"/'^'"">' "^ 'o be given 
 
 "Hall not be permitted L.K , ""'' ""^ '•"''' '^ '"'^'V it 
 vail. '^ "'""'' "* ""= ^'"""P'on of bondage to pre- 
 
 aside, and I b.h.M man/of he SL^r" *"'' ''''*" 
 "■iggons plundering and tearin/ "'«'''''"f'"' '""°"S the 
 shouting on the rk-ht ,„. ^'^ ^"^ ' ''^'"'' « SKU 
 
 l"«er plain, ...,dmaki"?L''':i":« '" "•■"■"»"" ""os, ,he 
 ... M'ackay with Tw'rfe ::r;;'r: ''--"^ I "'- 
 <t'-ipline, also in the E 'hI h H ,'"' '^' ""^" ^^ 
 
 wii'mVir'and" I"be:t''"^''^ "'^" "'"— ^ ' »'an-Pt 
 
 ^-ds ^ith thetni r iw::r^^^^^ ^ -^'-^ -^y 
 
 "•eground-and all the ,031 f u L "" "'>'''-"'f °" 
 returned upon me-and I S' °' "''f '. ''-'= """«" 
 "M,emy of .1. fo„,, I \Z^^Z^ ' """^ '"""'^ '"^ 
 
 f^ii'nTrou': m;L:^ ":::;'t' ^'r' - "^- --p™-^ had 
 
 '".use into the gaTden and r ^r"'"' """' «'"'"« °' ">« 
 
 "f his officers comta^on, h"" '^'Tu""''' ^'''' ^"■^"' 
 had marched to thdr ±",f„' ^'"""'^ ^^ ^""''^ °« hosts 
 
 'ound and exhorting h^rn-JoIrH" ""'r"""" '""'"« 
 he «as making for fhe Pa^sll? ' ^' ^'" "''''-'"' 
 
 ■i-s from escaping that :i; ""' °" ^""-^-^ f^^i- 
 
 A small goose-pool lay on the outside, between 
 
432 WILLIAM AND MARY 
 
 which and the garden I perceived that Claverhouse would 
 
 ''Tprepared my flint and examined my firelock, and I 
 walked towards the top of the garden with a firm step. 
 
 Claverhouse was coming forward-several officers were 
 near him, but his men were still a little behind, and seemed 
 inclined to go down the hill, and he chided at the>r re- 
 luctance. I rested my carabine on the garden wall I be.it 
 my knee a d knelt upon the ground. I amied and fired, - 
 but when ■ smoke cleared away I beheld the oppressor 
 still proudly on his war horse. I loaded agam, again 
 knelt, and again rested my carabine upon the wall, and 
 fired a second time, and was again d.sappomted. 
 
 Then 1 remembered that I had not implored the help o 
 Heaven, and I prepared for the third time, and when all 
 was ready, and Claverhouse was commg forward, I took o I 
 ray bonnet, and kneeling with the gun in my hand, cried, 
 " Lord, remember David and all his afflictions' ; and having 
 so prayed, I took aim as I knelt, and Claverhouse, raising 
 his arm in command, I fired. ■„,„;„ 
 
 When the smoke rolled away, I beheld Claverhouse m 
 the arms of his officers, sinking from his horse, and the 
 blood flowing from a wound between the breast-plate and 
 the armpit. The same night, that is on July 27. he ""' 
 summoned to the audit of liis crimes. 
 
 It was not observed by the officers from what .luarter the 
 summoning bolt of justice came, but thinking ,t wasfnm, 
 the house, every window was instantly attacked, wbde 
 deliberately retired from the spot, and, concealed nu-ll 
 among the bushes and rocks that overhung the violen 
 stream of the Girnaig. 
 
 Thus was my avenging vow fulfiUed-and thus was n.y 
 native land delivered from bondage. 
 
 —J. Gali, Jiiitsan Gi/hiia. 
 
XXXI 
 
 A King and no King 
 
 ^HE gazetteers and writers, both of the French and 
 ■*■ i-nglish side, have given accounts sufficient of that 
 
 Eind :," ,°7"'"'^"'" " ^'^'P'^""*^'' »*-» «- the 
 . 1; f M l""^'-'" """""^ °f "^^ "<^'°"^^ °f 'he great 
 )uke of Marlborough. I„ that tremendous combat near 
 u,>™ two hundred and fifty thousand men were engaged 
 more t an th.rty thousand of whom were slain or wounded 
 the Alhes lost twice as many men as they killed of the 
 
 llr^t^Tl V'^T'''^^'- ""' '"'^ ''^'^'"'f"' ^'-"ghter 
 
 1 ken ?h P'ace because a great General's credit was 
 
 uken at home, and he thought to restore it by a victory 
 
 such were the motives which induced the Duke of 
 
 Mar borough to venture that prodigious stake, and des- 
 
 P at ly sacrifice th.rty thousand brave lives, so that he 
 
 might figure once more in a Gaze»e, and hold his places 
 
 .d elfish design, for the victory was purchased at a cost 
 
 H n ""f "• ''"""'■ "' 8'ory as it may be, would 
 mmgly pay for any triumph. The gallantry of the French 
 ;.s as remarkable as the furious bravery of their assailants. 
 . I r° t 7 Tc" "^ "'"'' ""«'' ^"<^ ^ f*^"- i''^'^^' "f 'heir 
 
 ttl 'T "^""' '^^ '"'^^-^hed lines, from which 
 he enemy was driven. He retreated in perfect good order • 
 he panic-spell seemed to be broke under which the French 
 had laboured ever since the disaster of Hochstedt ; and 
 "ghtmg now on the threshold of their country, thev showed 
 
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 434 ANNE 
 
 an heroic ardour of resistance, such as had never met us 
 f„ th course of their aggressive war. Had the battle been 
 
 more successful, the conqueror -f '/-^''''''f.P:"; ° 
 which he waged it. As it was (and justly, I thmk), the 
 iy adverse'to the Duke in England were -d.gnant 
 Ae lavish extravagance of slaughter, f^ demanded more 
 eagerly than ever the recall of a chief whose cup.d.ty and 
 defp ration mi.ht urge him further still. A ter th.s bloody 
 fight of Malplaquet, I can answer fo: .t, that m the Dutch 
 quarters and our own, and amongst the very reg.ments and 
 comn.anders whose gallantry was most consp.cuous upon 
 this frightful day of carnage, the general cry was, that the c 
 va enough of the war. The French were d"ven back .nto 
 heir own boundary, and all their conquests and booty of 
 Zanders disgorged. As for the Prince of Savoy, w,th whom 
 oirCommande' in-Chief, for reasons of his own, consorted 
 more closely than ever, 'twas known that he was antmated 
 Tt merely by a political hatred, but by persona rage 
 ginTthe'old French King: the Imperial <>— -» 
 n'ever forgot the slight put by Lew.s "P"" f^ j;''^;^f- 
 Savoie ; and in the humiliation or rum of His Most (.hri 
 'an Mljesty, the Holy Roman Emperor found his account 
 But whit were these quarrels to us. the f-e citizens o 
 Encland and Holland? Despot as he was the 1 rcnrh 
 monarch was yet the chief of European civilization, nior 
 vnerlble in his age and misfortunes than at «'- P-oJ 
 hsmost splendid successes; whilst his opponent was ta 
 a L-mi-barbarous tyrant, with a P^'agmg, murderou h 
 of Croats and Pandours, composing a half of his arm 
 fi ling our camp with their strange figures, bearded like the 
 m screant Turks their neighbours, and carrying into Chn 
 "an warfare their native heathen habits of rapme, lust, a 
 murder Why should the best blood in England an 
 Fmnce be shed in order that the Holy Roman an 
 AoTstolic master of these ruffians should have his reveng 
 . over th Christian King? And it was to this end we were 
 
A KING AND NO KING 435 
 
 had no heart fo thai: 'not onJ^of ^h"' h" ^"' ""= ■"- 
 "\Vhere's my comrade plwhee^^ '^vT ^h' '""l "''"'''"«• 
 
 Of tr' whS hfhfd't °z ™'^ '° '"^ "'« -^'^^ 
 
 battles, and got a :ound n th '" "' '1°"' "' '^ ^™- °f 
 his back; and you mav be . ^^°'"' '"'' ''™ °" 
 
 abusing the Conra„deLch7a^^^^ '"""'^ "^ 
 
 Poral John's .. fond of me t !, ^ ^"^"'"S = " ^or- 
 
 i^avid was of Genera. Uriah -td^o he T' "" '''"^ 
 (he post of dancer " He 1' / ^ ^'"'^>'' 8'^<^= "le 
 believing that the n. t "i ' '° ^'" ^J"'"*-' ^ay, in 
 
 ^Vynendaerand en hL""'"''''^ ^''°"'<^ be'bea't at 
 hoping that he might te kn^r!,' ""\^ ^'"''" ^-^^ 
 Esmond and Frank rlt ^ ^ ? "" *<= '"=''d 'here, 
 'hough the diviL wh To ''°*r-P^'' -'hout hurt, 
 
 ---hananyo;t:L^-t=ro:?:h^ 
 
436 
 
 ANNE 
 
 fury of the enemy's cannonade, which was very hot and 
 well-served, but the furious and repeated charges of the 
 famous Maison du Roy, which we had to rece.ve and beat 
 off again and again, with volleys of shot and hedges of .ron 
 and our four lines of musqueteers and pikemen. They said 
 the King of England chaiged us no less than twdve t.mes 
 that day, along with the French Household, bsmonds 
 late regiment, General Webb's own ^-f^^^:^^ 
 division which their colonel commanded The Central 
 t" thrice in the centre of the square of the lus.leers, 
 calling the fire at the French charges, and, after the action, 
 his Grace the Huke of Berwick sent his compliments to his 
 old regiment and their Colonel for their behaviour on the 
 
 """we drunk my Lord Castlewood's health and majority, 
 the 25th of September, the army being then before Mons^ 
 and here Colonel Esmond was not so fortunate as he hud 
 been in actions much more dangerous, and was hit by a 
 pent ball just above the place where his former w^nd 
 was which caused the old wound to open again, ksa 
 spitting of blood, and other ugly symptoms, to ensue ; and 
 'a ^™rd, brought him near to death's door. 1 he kmd 
 lad, his kinsman, attended his elder comrade with a ve 
 praiseworthy affectionateness and care until he w,. pro 
 nounced out of danger by the doctors, when Hank wc. 
 "r passed the winter at Bruxelles, and bes.eg.d, no doubt 
 ieXr fortress there. Very few lads would have^g.. 
 up their pleasures so long and so gaily as Brank did, h^ 
 lerful prattle soothed many long d'^V-f ^smoi^d s p 
 and languor. Frank was supposed to be still at his kin, 
 nmn' bfdside for a month after he had left it, for letters cam 
 ^om his mother at home full of thanks to the youn^ 
 gentleman for his care of his elder brothe so 1 pi a ed 
 Esmond's mistress now affectionately to s.,le him) , 10 
 t^Mr. Esmond in a hurry .0 undeceive her, when th 
 good young fellow was gone for his Christmas holidaj. 
 
A KING AND NO KING 437 
 
 was as pleasant to Esmond en his couch to watch the youns 
 mans pleasure at the idea of being free, as to note his 
 simple efforts to disguise his satisfaction on goin- away 
 Ihere are days when a flask o. champagne at a cabaret, 
 and a red-cheekod partner to share it, are too strong tempta- 
 tions for any young fellow of spirit. I am not going to play 
 the moralist, and cry " Kie ! " For ages past, I know how 
 old men preach, and what young men practise ; and that 
 patriarchs have had their weak moments too, long since 
 I'ather Noah toppled over after discovering the vine. Frank 
 went off, t< .,;, to his pleasures at Bruxelles, in which capital 
 many youn; fellows of our army declared they found in- 
 fiiiitely greater diversion even than in London ; and Mr 
 Henry Esmond remained in his sick room, where he writ a 
 fine comedy, that his mistress pronounced to be sublime 
 and that was acted no less than three successive nights in 
 London in the next year. 
 
 Though they lost the day at Malplaquet, it was the French 
 who were elated by that action, whilst the conquerors were 
 dispirited by It; and the enemy gathered together a larger 
 army than ever, and made prodigious efforts for the ne.xt 
 campaign. Marshal Berwick was with the French this year- 
 and we heard that Afareschal Villars was still suffering of 
 1.1s wound, was eager to bring our Duke to action, and 
 vowed he would fight us in his coach. Young Castlewcod 
 came flying back from BruNelles as soon as he heard that 
 fighting was to begin ; and the arrival of the Chevalier de 
 ht. Ceorge was announced about May. " It's the King's 
 third campaign, and it's mine," Frank liked saying He 
 was come back a greater Jacobite than ever, and Es'mond 
 suspected that some fair conspirators at Bruxelles had been 
 inflaming the young man's ardour. Indeed, he owned that 
 he had a message from the Queen, Beatrix's godmother 
 who had given her name to Frank's '-er the year before 
 ne and his sovereign were horn. 
 However desirous M:reschal VilL .,ght be to fight, 
 
438 
 
 ANNE 
 
 tny Lord Duke did not seem disposed to indulge him this 
 campaign. Last year his Grace had been all for the Whigs 
 and Hanoverians; but finding, on going to England, his 
 country cold towards himself, and the people in a ferment 
 of High Church loyalty, the Duke comes back to his army 
 cooled towards the Hanoverians, cautious with the Im- 
 perialists, and particularly civil and polite towaids the 
 Chevalier de St. George. 'Tis certain that messengers and 
 letters were continually passing between his Grace and his 
 brave nephew, the Duke of Berwick, in the opposite camp. 
 No man's caresses were more opportune than his Grace's, 
 and no man ever uttered expressions of regard and affection 
 more generously. He professed to Monsieur de 'I'orcy, so 
 Mr. St. John told the writer, quite an eagerness to be cut 
 in pieces for the exiled Queen and her family ; nay, more, 
 I believe, this year he parted with a portion of the most 
 precious part of himself — his money — which he sent over 
 to the royal exiK >. Mr. Tunstal, who was in the Prince's 
 service, was twice or thrice in and out of our camp ; the 
 French, in theirs of Arlieu and about Arras. A little river, 
 the Canihe I think 'twas called (but this is writ away from 
 books and Europe ; and the only map the writer hath of 
 these scenes of his youth, bears no mark of this little 
 stream), divided our picquets from the enemy's. Our sen- 
 tries talked across the stream, when they could make them- 
 selves understood to each other, and when they could not, 
 grinned, and handed each other their brandy-flasks or their 
 pouches of tobacco. And one fine day of June, riding 
 thither with the officer who visited the outposts (Colonel 
 Esmond was taking an airing on horseback, being too weak 
 for military duty), they came to this river, where a number 
 of English and Scots were assembled, talking to the good- 
 natured enemy on the other side. 
 
 Esmond was especially amused with the talk of one long 
 fellow, with a great curling red moustache, and blue eyes, 
 that was half-a-dozen inches taller than his swarthy little 
 
KHCKKS OK MAKLBOROUan SALVTINO THE PRETLNl-KR 
 
 it- 43> I 
 
A KI.VG AND NO Kinq ^^ 
 
 'he Royal Cravats. ' "'^ """^ """ I"-" ''clonged to 
 
 Krom his Hay of sajing " Royal (>„ , „ ,. 
 
 kncH- that the fc'll..ws ,oLu. h,d fr ' ^'"'""<^ "' ""-'-• 
 of the Liffe,-, and not the' , .^ td",?'''"'' "" ""-■ '^""^ 
 d;.'serter prol,aUy_did not lik . ; '■ P°°^ ^"'dier-a 
 
 ^^ench conversation, L" hi u l"^:'"''-' ^"-'^y "'^^P 'nto 
 ""'• He chose to restri, t h' r ^ '''"'"Uc should pee,, 
 
 ■'" 'he French ian;:: ^ s :lVu^r^'-'^^ ^«- ' 
 
 ^J-'y; and his atttmptat d,s.u 'ew ■';: '""' ""'^'-^■'' 
 Mr. l.;s,„„„d «.histled Lill bu Vro , ■""""^''y ^■^"^'ng. 
 
 H-an to t«inl<!e, and t^n flZ , "'""' ''"^"e""--'^ -^ye' 
 poor boy brolce out u^h a "f-od"i ." '°""' '''"" '^e 
 hen.sse votre honor," that Juld ^fl rr'^"' ''' "'•^" 
 'h'-- provost-marshal had he b., „ '^ ''''''■' "'•"'" him to 
 
 , \^'hilst,his parley .aVgoL.'or.r'^'^r' "■"-'"-^• 
 »"d stopped as if eyein/,' , ' ''"•"•' '"'l'-' distance 
 «h-t«o,,„drodecC'u, io^'^y' "^ "-" 'eft the 
 I'ook, look ! - says the Kova f " "''■"-■ ''-' "''-' ^'^eani 
 
 V^ '-■, .hats he,, not h?n 'iw'"""'; «-« ^g"a.ion 
 *«ant officer on a chestnut h^rse ilb '"" .''"'"'^"^ '^ 'he 
 
 M-ll.orough-n,y Wdi-t;:';"™" '" '"y ^ord 
 ^^*li; and l„okn,g to see th. '„ ^ 'he gentlenuin in Eng- 
 
 f'Posed, he added, I, h ^ sn:,!'":'!,"'^'^'-' ""' '>-'i'ely 
 
 )«"rs, gentlemen, yonder • he W '''"' "^ '""'"'"d of 
 
 ^'-^ of your faces'on the u h o V"r 'V'^ ">^'' '- «w 
 
 . '}^ 'he gen,le„,a„ spoke, the oth '! '"^ ''' '''' >'^''^-' 
 
 »"<! can,e ,,uite close u'c knct'^ "" "*'^^'" ""^'^ "P- 
 
 '™» 'he King, then t„o-an I n> V ""'•''-' *'>° ''' "'as. 
 
 ;■■" deep brown eye , t M r'^i ''"']' °^''' '^h and slim 
 
 ^;vore a s„,i,e. ^vi to^- "off l",;:f-"';'>-. 'hough hi.^ 
 
 !^----.see.rthefir::;;:;S--S: 
 
 I I ' 
 
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440 
 
 ANNE 
 
 r _,.rh fime and misfortune. 
 ,he youthful inhentor "f '« ""^^^ f^^^ , ,,, „„t unlike 
 It seemed to Mr. Esmond that '^^.1"" resembled. 
 
 ,oung Castlewood whose age -.^^^fig - ^^^^ ^^,^^^_ ^^,, 
 The Chevaher de St- G «' ackno fc^^ ^.^^ ^^ ^^^ .^.^,^ 
 
 looked at us hard, l-;^"'' « '°''- (.^^,^, he ran to the 
 set up a hurrah. As for 'he Ho al Cra ^^^^^^^ 
 
 Princ*;. stirrup knelt down a^^^^^^^^^^^ ^,;,„^^ ,,,,. 
 
 and looked a hundred "-Jacu'a""" j 
 
 Prince bade the aide-de-camp ^^^^^^ Cravat 
 and when the party -"''"f "' ^f ,f benediction, and 
 rg5S:>!';— St la^d twirling his hon. 
 
 -^Xrtwhosecom,.anyK— J^^^^^^ 
 ,Utle captain of Handystdes regimen, Mr^.^ ^.^^^^^ ^^^^ 
 
 P'°P°"a,ld tSa^ If ;n Wshman too, and as br... 
 Esmond had their »"»''- ™ ^ „ jj^a^a," says Roger 
 
 a little soul as ever wore a »«°'^^_ ,„^„,ifu, that I 
 
 Sterne, "that long fellow 'P^^'^/j^^^ ",, ,„ be brok. 
 shouldn't have known he w^asn t a fo e.fcn , ^^^^ ^^^ 
 
 °"' -* his hulla^^-^ "^ -^„,,,, ,, k in h,- 
 
 bellow like that. Ana "^y „ absurdity ■. "H 
 
 wild way, in which there was senseas^wel ^,^^ ^^^^ ^^ ^^_ 
 
 that young genternan, f V^ "^ . ;, hat and say, ' Her. 
 camp, instead of V'l ars s, toss up h^s ^^^^^^ 
 
 „„ I, the King, -ho^l oUo; -^t"^,;^ home again, anc 
 
 the whole army would ris. a"d carry _ 
 
 beat Villurs, and take Par^by '^e -ay.^_^^_^^^_ ^^^^^^^^ 
 
XXXII 
 Guelph and Stuart 
 
 'he English and SottidJ '"■;:" '"'^"''^'' '^^ "" 
 danger of their position, and evidently had very 
 
44* 
 
 GEORGE I 
 
 litllf reliance ciihtr on the judgment or skill of their con, 
 mander. 
 
 Under these ciraiinslaiuxs the advice of lirigadier Mac 
 kintobh was urgently reciuested 1.) Lord Derw.nlwater anJ 
 
 others. , 
 
 "You have greater military experience than any (rt un 
 brigadier," said the earl. " What plan do you suggest ? " 
 
 " Will you follow out my plan, if 1 offer it ? " said llu- 
 brigadier. , 
 
 "We will," replied the earl. " If wc waste time in di. 
 cussion, the enemv will be upon us." 
 
 " Aweel, then," said Mackintosh. " It will l>e useless tu 
 defend die bridge, since the river is fordable in m.iin 
 places, nor do 1 think it would be safe to risk a battle ou.^ 
 side the town, because the Highlanders have not yet leanud 
 to face cavalry. Nothing frightens them so much as ,> 
 charge of horse. I'or this reason I would have the batll. 
 take place within the town, where the cavalry, of which tliu 
 enemy's force chiefly consists, will be least serviceable, and 
 where the Highlanders will fight well, liarncades and 
 intrenchments can be thrown up in different parts o' • >■ 
 streets, so as to imiiede the advance of the enemy, and ,i 
 destructive lire can be poured upon them from the ro„l, 
 and windows of the houses." 
 
 All approved of the plan exceiit I'orster, and he w.h 
 
 overruled. . , , , 
 
 " How many barricades shall we require ?- -and where 
 do you propose to erect them ? " said Lord Widdrington. 
 
 "Four will suffice," replied the brigadier. " In fact, m- 
 haven't time to form more. The first shall be placed ,| 
 little bel-,w the church, and as it is likely to be the duel 
 object of attack, I will take the command of it myself. 
 
 " Why not make it at the extreme end of the strcd, 
 so as to prevent the entrance of the enemy? " said lorstcr. 
 
 "There are so many lanes and avenues thereabouts that 
 I should require more men than I possess to defend the 
 
GUELPH AND STUART 
 
 443 
 
 post," rcplicl the briRa.li.T " -rh^ 
 
 •-»' I'la.v.l, i„ „,y .,,^„„\, ^' "-"nl MrrkT ,vi,| ,^. 
 
 ■nandc-d by I.„rd CharL, M.;^.; ""' ' ""'"'' '■•"" '' -".• 
 
 lonKasIcan." ' ' ''"' """"'^^ ' "^'"'1 k-p i.-as 
 
 "And now Iff iic ■,,., .„ ,.. ■ 
 
 '• "--^ 'uve„. a L;;:,r,;:,::^' ''"'^"■" -'''''- '-Headier. 
 
 . ''-he Earl of Dcrwcntua." ,: /^'"'"^ '"^"--'^^ '""^""-■'l- 
 ■"""Lplng orr ,l,e,> coats th ey „ k' / , :"''«^''-' '«-■-• 
 
 ■"reel and tl.e !• ..hcrgate were filled ui.h 
 
444 
 
 GEORGE I 
 
 Highlanders and dismounted troopers, ready to fire upon 
 llii; enemy from window, roof, ana collar. 
 
 In the e two streets were the best houses of the tc.v„ 
 and here Brigadier Mackintosh anticipated that the ch.ef 
 
 attack would be made. . , u i 
 
 The church, was surrounded by an extensive churchyard. 
 
 and here-as the most available place for the purpose -^ a 
 
 ^'^^r;:::ndr?;he edifice were posted the I,ow- 
 
 landers and Northumbrian ^<^^^"^^Z^:^l^^ 
 now dismounted-underthe command of Colonel Oxbufch 
 and Colonel Brereton, who had lately )omed as a volunteer. 
 On the south side were planted the Borderers, hkew.e 
 dismounted, under the command of Captams Douglas and 
 
 "tr'small street adjoining Sir Henry Hoghton's house 
 a small barrier had been formed by Captam Wogan and 
 
 '';S:"eservos were posted in the market-place, and 
 here were kept the horses of the dismounted troopers. 
 
 WM^the barriers were being formed. General Forstcr 
 attended by a small party of men, rode from pomt to pom, 
 to Eive directions, which were not always obeyed. 
 
 ^posuion in the town, except, perhaps the tow.r f 
 the church, commanded so good a view of the proceed ng> 
 as was obtained from the summit of Sir Henry Hoghtc,„> 
 
 '" p"a« of the roof was flat and protected by a balustrade, 
 and it was here that the countess and Dorothy l-orster wcr. 
 
 ^'thefhad come there, after witnessing the completion ol 
 the barricade at which the earl had ass.sted, and contem- 
 Dlated the scene with extraordinary mterost. 
 
 Frorn this spot they could clearly distmgu>sh the move- 
 Jrof the enemy.' They saw General Wi"s -ue - 
 Ae Wigan Lane with his infantr/ and cavalry, and dra« . 
 
GUELPH AND STUART 
 
 of .hei. o,tn uncSS .C^ ""'^' ^^'"^^^^ '^"'' '"»' 
 Alter a time, they saw two britf des of hrr=. , 
 dragoons move off towards the othe ,.1"" ■'"'' 
 and though these troops soon di.'n. ■ "f. ""■"' 
 
 the movement was clear '^' ' " '''"<=''' "^ 
 
 ^e.aaeonth:sS^;t;!:r---;:~--wo.M 
 
 perceived that both streets were no. "* '"'''" "^^^ 
 
 that the trenches w^c^Z J"?' ■^'""S'>- S^-^ed 
 
 on the barricades-thnf n„r ''^""°" mounted 
 
 -HebarwersX.;::;-td:;x:SK^"'^^ 
 :^::S':2h^ri:- -^ "'"------ 
 
 troops-sh^vinVtha i ,f ''''°"'' ""-*"'' «•''' *""" °f 
 
 -.orr^^L,:;:?-,:^^;';:;^^^'"^ 
 
 manded by Lord Charles Murray Id s,w, ""'■ 
 narrow street at the left ° ""^ " 
 
 «-. «.„» s.„, „„ ,,,o.L" ".i; ;""'"*" 
 
446 
 
 GEORGE I 
 
 A strange and portentous quietude now prevailed, like 
 th awful 'hush preceding a storm. Ml the .nsurgen 
 troops were in position, and in momentary expectation ol 
 
 "''l-hTbLicades were manned, the houses occupied with 
 soldiers, as we have mentioned, and the churchyard fid 
 with troops. But not a sound proceeded from tl„s vast 
 ^"'::::^:[rhadl.re.tonbeheldsucha sigh. Except 
 in ^1 market-place, all business was suspended hroug ^ 
 
 out the town, but here the houses were open, and Ihc 
 
 Mitre and the Bull were thronged. 
 
 Terrified to death at the thoughts of the approach.n, 
 
 conflic , almost all the residents in Church Street atu 
 
 FWhergate had quitted their houses, and repa.red to the 
 
 2r?of the town. It was the same tlung tn Lnargate, 
 
 and in many houses in the Lancaster avenue 
 
 Thus in fear and trembling did the inhab.tants of Pres- 
 
 ton await the commenceinent of the assault. 
 
 AUengka murtnur arose from tuose s.at.oned on the 
 
 .oofl of'Louses, and everywhere were heard the words, 
 
 '""rhenThe countess and Dorothy, with hundreds of others 
 who were ga.ing eagerly towards the W.gan avenue - 
 held a body of red-coated foot sold.ers .ssue from the Ian. 
 inri march towards the street. 
 
 iCe were Preston's foot. Captain Preston was w,th 
 them himself, but on this occasion the regiment was conv 
 manded by Lord l-'orrester, who rode at their head. 
 
 The men looked very well, and presented a very gallan 
 ^nnearance They were supported by two hundred and 
 fiftrdraeoons selected from five different regiments, each 
 p Vbefng c-n,anded by a captain, a,id the whole ben, 
 commanded by Major Bland and Major Lawson. 
 '° Then came\wo legiments of dragoons under the conv 
 mand of Brigadier Iloneywood. 
 
GUELPH AND STUART 447 
 
 insSm^' 7'*^ glance along .ho street, I,„r,I Forrester 
 
 attack the barruade, which presented a very forn.id.l.le 
 
 appeara,.,x^ w,th the cannon mounted upon it. ad he 
 
 troops collected l)ehind it. 
 
 But the assailants had not advanced far, wl,en such a 
 
 rnhle fue was poured upon then, from the barricade 
 
 Tl!r """' "■'■"""" "f"-. houses, that tlS 
 
 y-y this deadly discharge nearly f.fty men were killed 
 
 or severely woun.led. Loud shouts arose fron, the 
 
 S:^ "'''' ""'^^'^•' '"' '''-' ^'^ «^™- "f '': 
 
 The fire of the defenders was instantly returned by the 
 assailants, but with conparatively little effbct 
 
 Urged on by Lord Forrester and Captain Preston the 
 assailants marched on, but were checked by a second dis 
 charge quite as terrible as the first, while tie cannon 
 
 s:fertir^^^'''^^'-^>----n'~ 
 
 y."K and dead, was too much for them, and t e cove "d 
 their eyes to shout out the dreadful sight. 
 '' Sliall I take you hence ? " said Father Norham. 
 
 Ves— yes ! " cried the countess 
 Casting one look at the barricade, and seeing that the 
 arl was safe, she instantly quitted the roof with the priest 
 nd Newbiggin. The other ladies followed. The nam 
 "1 not venture into the street, but made th.^>'wa 
 .rough tl^ garden at the back of the house. As the 
 »ere speeding along, another discharge of musketry took 
 place, accompanied by the roar of the cannon 
 
 side of'^h'T" ''"'t '^'"^"' ''""''' ™^ '^^"'1 °" 'he north 
 .d of the , own, showing that the attack had likewise 
 -b"" in this quarter. A sergeant, despatched by Captain 
 
448 
 
 GEORGE I 
 
 Innes, made way for them through th. crowded street to 
 
 'nZ"^— er ..roceeded to the churchy-;;^^^ 
 had now no fears respecting the countess and Uorothj, 
 for he knew they had reached the town-hall m safety 
 
 Scarcely had he entered the churchyard when he ,xr- 
 ceived Captain Gordon, and calhng him said : 
 
 " You are the very man I want. Co instant.y to the to 
 of the church-tower, and let me know the movements of 
 
 ""cr;Z-Gordon obeyed, and as soon as he reached this 
 exalted position he looked carefully around. 
 
 We have already mentioned that the tower m questio 
 was singularly low, but from its position .t commanded an 
 entire view of the operations. . ,. j „ ^„„iri 
 
 From this post of observation Captain Gordon could 
 see BrTgadier Honeywood with his regiment of dragoons 
 atio edat the end of the street, but he did not concer 
 ~ with them, his attention being particularly attracted 
 to the movements of Major Bland, with a large party o 
 dismounted dragoons, attacking the battery commanded b) 
 '^tS:^^rde.nding himself vigorously and^su. 
 eessfully, when another party was seen approaching to 
 attack him in the flank. . , 
 
 Thereupon Captain Gordon gave a signal ° '^e Earl o 
 Derwentwater, who immediately put himself at he he 
 of a hundred of his gentlemen and hastened to ..orcl 
 
 '^'S^r'S^ing in the back lane, and flanking th. 
 en!my 1' a cL firl the earl quickly put them to ccn 
 
 ^ZlSLtin^the dragoons burst open t^ie^» 
 at the back of Sir Henry Hoghton's garden drove ou 
 •aptn Maclean and the voKmteers p.aced here I, 
 General I'orster, and took possession of th. mansion. 
 
GUELPH AND STUART 
 
 449 
 
 Ar;'F;"e'or!;'"'"' time,,helarge house I.elonKing .„ 
 
 s»d 'M!" '"''"■"';™' "^ "'^■'^'^ '»" '^°"»'^=. general," he 
 lie retaken at anv cn^i l,„f t ii ^ ' 
 
 --™.thalSi^;r=;r,;- 
 
 ^r^.^W^ ... di.od,e the ene,,,.-,,^™:!;' Ih! 
 "Btitdoyou not perceive, general, that by this course 
 
 ^.^'""^Rlr''"'" "^^ besiegers P..^.aid ^^^ 
 .ordon. Reinforcements are sure to arrive, and then 
 «._»hall never be able to drive out the enemy " 
 
 At all events, the attempt shall be made before I have 
 
 «beused. "' "'' ""-''"' "''"''■■ — ' -u^t 
 
 ^ *arcely able to control his anger, Captai:, Gordon went 
 
 Eyt'sIZ^br: '^"■"'^ '''^""'' "-'^^ '° -™ver Mr. 
 
450 
 
 GEORGE r 
 
 Bri^jadifr Mackiiitush would have (luirkly knocked down 
 both those lioiiscs, hut on learning that Cicnfral I'ostur had 
 positively pruliihited the use of cannon, ho desisted. 
 
 With the exception of the loss sustained by the capture 
 of these two important houses, and which had boon en- 
 tirely caused by Korster's gross misnianagemont, the insur- 
 gents had not only held their own, but obtained decided 
 advantages over the enemy. 
 
 Not one of the three batteries on the south side of the 
 town, though all had been repeatedly and vigorously 
 attacked, had been taken. On the contrary, in every 
 instance, the assailants had been repulsed, and with great 
 loss. Neither by stratagem, nor direct assault, had any 
 portion of the king's forces been able to penetrate intd 
 the town. All the damage they had done was at the out- 
 skirts. 
 
 The church, which constituted the most important posi- 
 tion on the south, was entirely in the hands of the insur- 
 gents, and so trifling had been the loss sustained by them, 
 that it had not boon necessary, as yet, to call upon tin.' 
 reserves stationed in the market-place. 
 
 Of course, the brunt of the fight had boon borne hy 
 Brigadier Mackintosh, who had planned the able defeiin 
 of the town, and had stood as firm as a rock beside tlic 
 barrier he had reared ; but a most courageous defence of 
 the Fishergate barrier was made by Captain Douglas and 
 Captain Hunter, and their moss-troopers and Borderers. 
 
 Individual acts of valour were performed by those hardy 
 fellows worthy of another age. Not content with firing 
 upon the assailants from roof and window, they occasion- 
 ally sallied forth, and then some most desperate encounters 
 took place between them and Colonel Pitt's dismounted 
 dragoons. Captain Douglas, who was a very powerful i.iaii. 
 killed three dragoons with his own hand. In another sally 
 Captain Hunter and half a dozen men with him advanced 
 too far, and, being completely surrounded, must have been 
 
GUELPH AND STUART 
 
 -.d burnt by Piu?. ,„e, bu n^ T""^' "■'^^'•' ^^ ^^^^ '° 
 
 A' the same time sev.r.l i"''™«'-' "« ^onc. 
 - fire at the end of Z[1ZT\ "t!'" '^°-- -re set 
 Honeywood, sous to drf .0'; h J'^";'''^^ °' ^"f'-dier 
 l"<=d ">um, and compel them ,, "'Slanders who oceu- 
 >-d. Fortunately, the «td bl f"'' '" '"'^ '^'^"-h. 
 
 "^ conflagration did not si ad V" '""^s"""'' '' '""^ "">«• 
 "- opposite quarter, and Z^^l """^ " '"°»-" f™", 
 "'vn would probably hav7 1 en h ''™"8' '"''^ "''''le 
 'e.ng „,ade to extinguish the fir , ,^7"'- ''° '-''^"'^ 
 burntng for several hours and M 'r '• ''""''^'' continued 
 
 We must no»- repair to th ^^f-' " '^'"'"""^ dark. 
 ;'! 'ho end of the'um..st r' ;"" '"'"'-<^^". -'"ated 
 
 dragoons, atten,pted to ai'proaehTL 1 "'"^'1 ^isn.ounted 
 freet or lane called ^^11 V ,''"'''-■ ''^ " "a""- 
 '"'"■arted in their design bv .h ■, ^"''' '"" "'^-^ «ere 
 
 »eened by garden «a lis L-dt "f h"I "'«'^'anders, who, 
 half their number, and fo ced th ' ''""'^'-"' '^''"'-•d "eari; 
 ■\ direct attack was ,h /'" '" '''-■'^^■a'- 
 
 t>-'-'-suL:: 'Sr^i™^'»"'«'''^•^- 
 *elves splendid nmrksmen ^'•"^''"""'^hes proved then,- 
 
 ho-es and out-buildings uCe"' '" "'' "" '■'^'-' '"' '" 
 , '^d brigadier Dormer was h^^^« ""= "^''^ "-^cu- 
 ^nd corporal werekilwT„H '" "'"' ''^e- "^^ «e>rgeant 
 
 h"' the work o^ de ru'cXn "'"' °[ ""^ ""^" "'"""''ed 
 - -"ages were burttX' uHr^t-cf,-^ — 
 
 w 
 
452 
 
 GEORGE 1 
 
 But nothing was gained. The valiant Highland chid 
 and his cUnsmen laughed at the futile attempts to drive 
 them from their posts. 
 
 Having thus taken a survey of the defences of the town, 
 it will be seen that they were all intact, and able to hold 
 out. But the besiegers were under the impression that the 
 insurgents would attemiit to cut their way out during the 
 night. Accordingly, the Lancaster avenue was very 
 strongly guarded. 
 
 An express had been sent by Sir Henry Hoghton to 
 General Carpenter, who had reached Clitberoe, to inform 
 him that hostilities had commenced, and it was therefore 
 certain he would arrive next day. Should this news reach 
 the rebels, it would quicken their desire to escape, and it 
 behoved the besiegers to be doubly vigilant— especially on 
 the north side of the town, where the exit was most likely 
 to be made. 
 
 Several hundred of the king's troops, as we have stated, 
 had been shot down in the ineffectual attacks on the 
 barriers. Among the wounded were Major Bland and 
 Major Lawson, and, as we have just mentioned. Brigadier 
 Dormer was slightly hurt. 
 
 Captain Preston expired as he was being conveyed to the 
 AVhite Bull, where all the wounded insurgents were taken. 
 At this place died Colonel Brereton, Mr. C:iifton, and t«u 
 or three others whose names are not recorded. 
 
 When Captain Peter Farquharson, of Rochaley, whose 
 leg had been badly shattered by a bullet, was brought m 
 by half a dozen Highlanders, and laid down on a bemh, 
 he called for brandy for the men, and taking a glass him- 
 self, said : , u , T (■ 1 1 
 " Come, lads, here's to our master's health ! 1 can iigm 
 
 no longer, but I wish you success." 
 
 With mingled feelings was the health drunk. 
 
 Alas ! this gallant officer died under the operation, which 
 
 was unskilfully performed. 
 
GUELI'H A\D STUART 
 
 As soon as it be 
 
 Gordi 
 All . 
 lande 
 
 ■)untwl the church-tow 
 
 fc'row light next niornini,' ( 
 
 liiiet— hesieged and defend 
 
 er to survey the to«i 
 
 453 
 
 >|>tain 
 
 barricade ; hut 
 
 ■"e still lying stretched on tl 
 
 The High. 
 
 th 
 
 greater jjart of tl 
 
 'cir [ilaids near the 
 
 r -- '^0 ..ar.^;;:,Tr;^:. ;:ti-" !!''' 
 
 the 
 
 ■'f the adjacent 
 
 churchyard, and sougnt shelter L ... 
 
 i.awng,r:e:::::^::::;,f-'>- fi^^ ".-^ .i^d not 
 
 1^1^^^^^ ^.a, and the ground he,ng covered with 
 
 '■ationed near the 1 riZ Cf\ ™"''™'"' "'''■ ""'"i'' 
 
 ^^^^-."-■ouidhed-iltidt ::,;:r"-°^'''"'^ 
 
 " liatever might he the design of th ■ 
 
 '" Captain Gordon that no in,md ,'';■'"";'■' " ''T" 
 Hut while he continued hi. '" '"'ended. 
 
 n-itred the outskirts nhet,::",:-';'"" ""f "^ ^^™"- 
 ™— dragoons creeping a^:^t^^-:;:t:ri 
 
 " ^St";^;s^:t^r ,•::""'"■ ^-"'--'' 
 
 convinced .hat they were theS"; tr^/ ''-- 
 .-hS::;^:£>-^ed ^.^,r "Lor, and 
 '>- post, and who o dered ,im to n ' J'"" '"^ ''^""'^ ^' 
 Hshergate barrier-thTlt" iernrblol.^d" '° '"^■ 
 '^^^ a troop of horse and attack them "^-'"'' 
 
454 
 
 GEORGE I 
 
 Captain C.Drduii instantly obuyud— nor was he dctaino<l 
 at the barrier in (|UfStion. 
 
 Kifty stout Bordtrtrs, who wcru sleeping beside their 
 steeds, bridle in hand, were quickly in the saddle. A horsu 
 was found for him, and the parly sallied forth. 
 
 The Wigan lane was about a quarter of a mile off, and 
 to reach it they had to cross the field on the south side nf 
 the town. They got there just as the dragoons had ([uitud 
 the lane, but had not formed, and inimediir !y chargLcl 
 them- throwing them into confusion by the Muldenness ol 
 
 the attack. 
 
 ■"he conflict only lasted for a few minutes, and ended m 
 the complete rout of the dragoons, several of whom were 
 killed, including the captain. Very little loss was sustained 
 by the insurgents. 
 
 Quite surprised with what he had done, and fearing hi» 
 retreat might be cut ■'<' if he attempted ,)ursiiit. Captain 
 Gordon galloped l,.'.c . j hard as he could to the Fisher- 
 gate avenue. 
 
 He was only just in time. The encounter had been 
 witnessed by the two squadrons of Pitt's dragoons stationed 
 near the river, and they both endeavoured to intercept hiiii, 
 but he and the Borderers were safe behind the barriers 
 before either could come up. 
 
 Preparations were made by the insurgent leaders at all 
 the barricades for a renewal of hostilities, and Brigadier 
 Mackintosh had just given orders to Tom Syddall to 
 commence the demolition of the two large houses m 
 Church-street, when word was brought that a very large 
 force, consisting of more than two thousand horse, could 
 be seen approaching from the north. 
 
 No doubt could be enteuained that '.his force bclonstJ 
 to General Carpenter, who must have made an early maich 
 from Clitheroe in order to effect a junction with \\ills 
 before the attack was resumed. 
 
 All was now consternation among the besieged, who fcii 
 
GUELPH AND STUART 
 
 45'J 
 
 ".-iiioSS'S^iix' r T"^ '■"'■ -"- "'» 
 
 "P a Posfnon on ^k'Z^'^-'TL'"''"'' '"' """■ 
 acc"n,pa„ied by „,. ,.„, of CarlisL %"?"• "•= «- 
 
 Immediately on his arrival r """''g'-'"'^- 
 » eminence, a'nd J ^ a.^r ArTr '"'^'^ "^ 
 "'-n a shot fired from the r,n "'","'"'^""" l>arricade, 
 fc" very near him, and cidT"'; "u'"^ °" "'•^' ''-"- 
 
 While he was «t,W *!•'''''' ''''^ P°'*'''""- 
 
 !ha.Ishouldhave7eenfb,etor?"^'^'' ''''"''' ""' 
 The rebels, lam bound to s^ h°" f'"-" V'^^ '"^'"^ '-^-V- 
 jnd have made a very 1,'^'^":% "*>'''' ""^ '^^''^ely, 
 Highlanders; but I haJeri f'"'"' '^^P'-'^'ally the 
 
 *e barricade commanded nriV"' T' '"''' '° '="< 
 *en they must surrender" ^ *" " ^^^-^kintosh, and 
 
 "Ni^'ruldTe Z^J'^tr^"'^^^^'^ Carpenter. 
 "" not deprive you of h ^'''^ ':°""nand. I 
 
 achieved." ^ ^ " "^ ""^ "'^'"0' yuu have so nearly 
 
 K K 
 
456 
 
 GEORGE 1 
 
 " I thank y.ui. ccncral, and am pmud to receive your 
 commendation,- replied Wills. "Hut 1 bmv to your 
 experience, and any Mi^sestions you may offer shall be 
 immediately adopted. Uefore the decisive attack .s made, 
 I should wish you to survey the town. 
 " I propose to do so," replied Carpenter. 
 Having posted six sMUa.lrons of dragoons under the 
 connnund of Colonel Churchill to prevent any attempt at 
 llieht from the Windnnll barricade, (Jeneral CariM.ter r.Kle 
 down towards the south side of the town w,th W ills. 
 
 They were attended l.y a strong guard, and aeco>n|«n,ed 
 by the two noblemen previously mentioned. On the wa> 
 they met Sir Henry Hoghlon with a party .,f nuhtja, and 
 while Ceneral Carpenter was conversing with ^''r Henry, 
 Parson Woods and a dozen of his men came up from the 
 ford, with some fugitive insurgents, whom they had just 
 
 captured. .„!,:„„ 
 
 Learning from Woods that constant escapes were taking 
 pl.ace from the Fishergate avenue, deneral <-''^'P^^^1' f^'' 
 ;,rders that the outlet should be effectually blocked up 
 without delay, so as not only to che,k any urther flight, 
 hut prevent supplies of provisions fr<,m being brought m. 
 
 Finding that the entrance to the Churchgate aveni.. 
 was inconveniently crowded, so that the troops could nnt 
 act, Carpenter made a different disposition of the troops; 
 and deeming it probable that a most determined attempt 
 at escape might be made from the north of the town, lu- 
 caused this outlet to be still more strongly guarded. 
 
 When all these orders had been executed, and ever; 
 
 outlet was blocked up, the two generals divided their forco 
 
 and completely surrounded the town. . ^ , , , 
 
 From his post on the church-tower, CaPtain Gordon had 
 
 witnessed these proceedings and reported them to Brigadir 
 
 Mackintosh. , , 
 
 Though not disheartened, the brave old Highlander fdi 
 
 that the situation was one of die utmost peril, and cc'.'.-. 
 
GUELPII ANU STUART 
 
 perceive onlv oni' w iv r.f . ■ ■ 
 ■•'«.!, tlun they w,M„,| ,„ ,,, , ; • ''"' I"'"' "!' in iIk- 
 
 -il;n,';:;:;;:f^:;::;';/;;;.;;;,;;v-'-o,,n ,„.„„„„„,.,,, 
 
 -'"'J lead tlu.,,, ,,,„,, '""*- ''■''''""'•'' '" 'I- --.ri,.,, (u.. 
 
 l««..Kc .l.muKi, th.,,;, .Yail,; ™! "^' '""""•^•^ '" -" ^' 
 "nngton, and ,;.;,„„, fV;.;,;;, '>— "vat.r, ,.,.j U'id- 
 
 "-' "^:";r '.:;::: ::::;t' "-^ '^•"'-'"^'^' - ^-^" 
 
 "i'ls," .aid l.or.s.er. "f : ' ^' '"^ r'"', ''"'"■•"'" ""'' 
 
 "liut it will not h„ f '•■'" '^"'^ ""•■m.sflvos." 
 
 the Earl. ""' ^ '"' '" '^-' -"«mt .hen,," ol..served 
 
 -^'SSwldSSif'-'o^^'-^'"'-^'--^- 
 
 :---d...«.e.r;a.e'^:xri^-^- 
 
 "'^--i-Ue.,n Will ,euse,e.,s," said WdUerwen. 
 
 III'! 
 
458 
 
 GEORGE I 
 
 water. " And I would die rather than do aught dishonour- 
 
 ''''"There is nothing dishonourable in what I propose," 
 «.id Fo::tJr; "but I feel certain the Scots w.U never 
 
 '=°" Ye's 'L; wo:^"tnlider then,seWes degraded by such 
 submission," said Lord Derwentwater. 
 
 "If they choose to throw away their lives, they mus do 
 so," said Lord Widdrington. " But do not let us act thus 
 
 '''"Mm acquainted with General Wills," said Colon.l 
 Oxburgh "and, if you desire it, I will propose a treaty 
 to him Rest assured I will assent to no disgraceful 
 
 'Xd Derwentwater was still very unwilling that the step 
 should be taken without consulting Bngad.er Mack'" o J 
 but he yielded at last to the representations of Lord W.d- 
 
 'ICraU^^later.Colonel Oxburgh, preceded bya 
 trumpeter on horseback, rode out °f '"e Fishergate 
 
 He was immediately stopped by the guard, but on 
 explaining his errand, was conducted by a sergeant and 
 two dragoons to WiUs's tent, which was about a quarter of a 
 
 ■" Geneml Wills was seated at a small table in the centre 
 of the tent, when Colonel Oxburgh was announced by a 
 
 ''wilU raised his head, and, looking at him very sternly, 
 demanded his business. . , . , r 
 
 ^You will guess it without difficulty, I think, gener.1, 
 reolied Oxburgh. "I am come to propose that the msur- 
 gen fo?ce "hall lay down their arms in the confide,,, 
 fxpect^ion that you will recommend them for pardon to 
 
 ""Seitain no such expectation, si." ^^ed WUl. st». 
 more sternly. "1 will not treat with rebels. Ihose fo- 
 
GVELl'H AND STUART 
 
 459 
 whom you plead have killed many of the Kin, - ■ ■ 
 and deserve death " "8' subjects, 
 
 soldiers from cuttin. hen to ^'r"'"""'} '"^^ P^<=^™' -"V 
 
 "» his majesty. pLsuTe i^ C:' '"Thir ".r't ''^^^ 
 promise." - Known, ihat is all I will 
 
 ;; Do you require an immediate decision, general ? " 
 I will give you an hour-no more, ' replied W Is 
 
 O^^uX ^rZ£^T'T^' ^^-^^^'^ Colonel 
 
 •'I have mL:^z'^-::^-"^ f- you.- 
 
 rebels such as you," rejoLd Wi „ <!ut"° ™' "'* 
 ted, return to the town and in hn k ^ "^ "°' '"*'=- 
 -iwni attack you, and ^f-rtLtv^-.-'-e minute 
 
 no mercy ? " '' *^'"8 <^«=°'K'-' «■'" show us 
 
 ™;j™nri:r£j;-.j^-''"^''oidout 
 
 rendering yourselves pr^o^T ^'.ST?. "'"^^ '^ '^ 
 deSS^ """""« "'- -""^ "e obtained, Co"lonel 0..bur«h 
 
 The Highlanders still wani,.H t„ c l. ■ 
 capitulation was effected aTd tt ^ 'f ord "n ""'"'"^'^ ^ 
 •'nd the other leaders were ».,!,»„ v Uerwentwater, 
 
 doom of execution buHhe nth <r°'"" "'^"P'^'* "''^ «"^' 
 
 cessful rebels. °"'''' '"'^"^^'^ "-e fate of unsuc 
 
 W. H. Al.NSWORTH, />„/„„ y,;^,/,/ 
 
XXXIII 
 How the Guelph fought the 
 last Battle with the Stewart 
 
 A HOUSE situated by the side of the Solway, and not 
 A far distant from a rude pier, near wh.ch .ay several 
 £l,tat; which frequently acted in a different c.pac. y 
 belonged to a worthy pubUcan known as 1-ather Cracken 
 thorp The house was also adapted to the various occupa- 
 ionrwhich its owner carried on, being a large scrambhng 
 assemblage of cottages attached to a house of two storey, 
 roofed w!th flags of sandstone -the or.gmal mansmn to 
 vhth the extension of Master Crackenthorp's trade had 
 ; asioned his making many additions. Instead of the s,ng . 
 Lg watering-trough, which "--"V ^^f '"S"'*!; '^r ^ 
 
 tand wha species of troops he was thuikmg of A hu^ 
 
 ash tree before the door, which had reared "^elf to a gru 
 
 .nd hXht in spite of the blasts from the noghbounn; 
 
 Sray'Sa^eta^ usual, the ale-bench, as our ancc. 
 
 " ut^tile upper loft of one of those cottages which 
 ,..de add ons to the Old Inn, poorly furn.shed, du, .. 
 :::;'tntorder, in which the Royal -nd^er was o r^ 
 the homage of his followers; for ^*«^' ^ J^^^ ^^ ';^,, 
 might be considered, those who engaged m it had been 
 
HOW THE GUELPH FOUGHT 461 
 
 ful not to draw the attention of strangers by any particular 
 attentions to the personal accommodation of the Prince He 
 was seated, when the deputies, as they might be ermed of 
 
 forward and bowed, m acceptance of their salutation it 
 was w,th a d,gn,fied courtesy which at once suppl ed wha 
 
 "IhTd r' '" "'""^' P""'"' -" converted he 
 wretched garret mto a saloon worthy of the occasion. 
 
 Redgaundet presented to him successively the young 
 
 wK » ^',^^ h.s kmsman. Sir Arthur Darsie Redgauntlet 
 
 who trembled as, bowing and kissing his hand, h'e found 
 himself surprised mto what might be construed an act of 
 high treason, which yet he saw no safe means to avo"d 
 
 bir Richard Glendale seemed personally known to Charles 
 Edward, who received him with a mixture of dignity and 
 affection, and seemed to sympathize with the teL which 
 rushed mto that gentleman's eyes as he bid his Majesty 
 welcome to his native kingdom. "lajtsty 
 
 " Yes, my good Sir Richard," said the unfortunate Prince 
 hlVw 'rf!'"''!'°^y' >-^' ^<^^<"^-^d, " Charles Edward is with 
 hs faithful friends once more-not, perhaps, with his former 
 gay hopes which undervalued danger, but with the same 
 determined contempt of the worst which can befall him t 
 claiming his own rights and those of his country " 
 
 I rejoice, sire-and yet, alas! I must also grieve to 
 
 ee you once more on the British shores," said Sir Richard 
 
 Glendale, and stopped short-a tumult of contradictory 
 
 feelings preventing his farther utterance ^ 
 
 "It is the call of my faithful and suffering people which 
 
 m my hand. For my own part, Sir Richard, when I have 
 
 V the swrH^'n' u "" '°^"' """ "''■'''"' f"--'^ P-ished 
 by the sword and by proscription, or died indigent and 
 neglected m a foreign land, I have often sworn thaf no vtew 
 to my personal aggrandizement should again induce me to 
 agitate a title which has cost my followers so dea^. Bu° 
 
 Im 
 
462 
 
 GEORGE II 
 
 since so many men of worth and honour conceive the 
 cause of England and Scotland to be linked with that of 
 Charles Stewart, I must follow their brave example, and, 
 laying aside all other considerations, once more stand 
 forward as their deliverer. I am, however, come hither 
 upon your invitation ; and as you are so completely 
 acquainted with circumstances to which my absence must 
 necessarily have rendered me a stranger, I must be a mere 
 tool in the hands of my friends. I know well I never can 
 refer myself implicitly to more loyal hearts or wiser heads 
 than Herries Redgauntlet and Sir Richard Glendale. Give 
 me your advice, then, how we are to proceed, and decide 
 upon the fate of Charles Edward." 
 
 Redeauntlet looked at Sir Richard, as if to say, "Can 
 you f;(js any additional or unpleasant condition at a 
 monii?iv: Hke this?" And the other shook his head and 
 looked down, as if his resolution was unaltered, and yet as 
 feeling all the delicacy of the situation. 
 
 There was a silence, which was broken by the unfortunate 
 representative of an unhappy dynasty, with some appearance 
 of irritation. " This is strange, gentle n," he said ; " you 
 have sent for me from the bosom of my family to head an 
 adventure of doubt and danger ; and when I come, your 
 own minds seem to be still irresolute. I had not expected 
 this on the part of two such men." 
 
 "For me, sire," said Redgauntlet, " the steel of my sword 
 is not truer than the temper of my mind." 
 
 " My Lord 's and mine are equally so," said .Sir 
 
 Richard ; " but you had in charge, Mr. Redgauntlet, to 
 convey our request to his Majesty, coupled with certain 
 conditions." 
 
 " And I discharged my duty to his Majesty and to you," 
 said Redgauntlet. 
 
 " I looked at no condition, gentlemen," said their King, 
 with dignity, " save that which called me here to assert my 
 rights in person. That I have fulfilled at no common risk. 
 

HOW THE GUELPH FOUGHT 403 
 "urj>r'."' "''''' "'' '■"''• --J I -pec. of you .0 be 
 
 highly, I would ne,ht,rnor re^rd' "' v ""' ' """'' ^ 
 lessen them in n,y love ' h ""'' """« "■'''^'' ^""'d 
 
 havenop.H..L';;.ri:^5::^- ^""''i'- can 
 
 your Majesty seems i,mo .n^ r u ""' " ""y f""" 'hat 
 
 that I shiuld communica to°v m '""' '"''J^"'^ "'^^'^'^'l 
 sake ! for the sake of ^M ^ "^^J'^'y- ^'"'- Heaven's 
 l-ve not such a Ttain ""' P'^' ^'"'<^'=' """ ^"fi--ings 
 Number ,)., of which his r" "" """""^ ' ''''''^ ""'- 
 subject to which Sir RiH ^ '"P^' '^^^'""^ '° '^e painfu 
 " Vou pre', u on tf "'"? ''"^^'^ >"" ''«^"''°"-" 
 
 c"'ourin« L,h.,"i^™ ^;^.q'^S: ^r'^ tV't'^' 
 most a en to vour rh^ . x ' ' ''°'<^ 'hem 
 
 banished from m remor;Tdi nT" "'"'"^'^ '^^^^■ 
 loyal subjects wc. d thi„l< in 1 , . '"''P"'"^ "'^' "^ 
 depressed circun;ta„cet ^ \°^ ""-' "^ '° "^^ -"V 
 into my domes" cnrivlt ""f"" " ^°'''"8 ""="'^^'^-' 
 «i.h their k"^ re^rd nTn,!;; '"?"''""''' --%'--"'» 
 hinds clain, the riWle'" „f ,h ^' '" r""* ""^ "»-'''"«^' 
 affairs of state and e o icy l'"f,, " '"^T'^'"" ^" 
 
 I'ecomes a prince by the advte nf '•"'' *" ^"'ded as 
 
 in those which reirard 2 n i "'^' "''"■■'' counsellors; 
 
 arrangements I Ta';L'T f '"""^ """^ "^^ <^°'""'ic 
 allow. o all mysub"tsanr',. '''''■" °' ^"" "^ich I 
 '^^-thwJinr;C;:i:eCr> — were 
 
 ■' ' stt y mt:i'Tv tT'^'" 1' ^'^ ^'^''"^ «'-''^-'^. 
 
464 
 
 GUORGE II 
 
 regret. It is true we have called you to head a mighty 
 undertaking, and that your Majesty, preferring honour to 
 safety, and the love of your country to your own ease, has 
 condescended to become our leader. But we also pointed 
 out as a necessary and indispensable preparatory step to the 
 achievement of our imrpose— and, I must say, as a pc itivc 
 condition of our engaging in it— that an individual supposed, 
 —I presume not to guess how truly,— to have your Majesty's 
 more intimate confidence, and believed, I will not say on 
 absolute proof, but upon the most pregnant suspicion, to 
 be capable of betraying that confidence to the Elector of 
 Hanover, should be removed from your royal household 
 and society." ' 
 
 " This is too insolent, Sir Richard ! " said Charles Edward. 
 " Have you inveigled me into your power to bait mc in tlirs 
 unseemly manner ? And you, Rudgauntlet, why did yoii 
 sufler matters to come to such a point as this, without 
 making me more distinctly aware what insults were to be ■ 
 practised on me ? " 
 
 " My gracious Prince," said Redgauntlet, " I am so far 
 to blame in this, that I did not think so slight an impedi- 
 ment as that of a woman's society could have really inter- 
 rupted an undertaking of this magnitude. I am a plain 
 man. Sire, and speak but bluntly ; I could not have dreamt 
 but what, within the first five minutes of this interview, 
 either Sir Richard and his friends would have ceased to 
 insist upon a condition so ungrateful to your Majesty, or 
 that your Majesty would have sacrificed this unhappy 
 attachment to the sound advice, or even to the over- 
 anxious suspicions, of so many faithful subjects. I saw no 
 entanglement in such a diiificulty, which on either side 
 might not have been broken through like a cobweb." 
 
 " You were mistaken, sir," said Charles Edward, " entirely 
 mistaken— as much so as you are at this moment, when 
 you think in your heart my refusal to comply with this 
 insole.it proposition is dictated by a childish and ronianiic 
 
HOW THE GUELPH FOUGHT 463 
 
 passion for an individual. 1 tell vou sir t , . 
 that person tomorrou- wi,hout".n ' . ' . ™"''' ''"" ''"h 
 have had thoughts of'd ^Ir ,r t'' "^"'"""' ' 
 reasons known to nivsrlf- K? u , ' '">' '"""• f""- 
 
 -y rights asasover3randa"U^',n ,7" "T "^"'^'^ 
 secure the favour of anv nn ' ^ ■'''""« ""» '"-'P '« 
 
 which, if you ::; i o rat:;.'is'd"'r """ ''"^■«'^"^'' 
 
 right." , "' ""' '" ''"'•• "> me as my birth- 
 
 "I am sorry for this " siiH v 1 1 
 
 y""r Majesty and Sir Rici^:^^ ■''',"' ''"'"" '■'"" 
 •ions, or forhear this discus ll' '".""""l" y<n.r resolu- 
 J trust your Ma e sty wMl T , " " '""'"""'''"' '" ''--"■«• 
 S-und that .ur lion ■ "'^" >'°" "« "" ''.stii; 
 notice as to permi us nnl? .k'"""!.'" ^^'"^ ^" •"" <^»<--»M 
 purpose; ins^mTc , har^ ^" -ith :h' "l "'"^' '^■" ^"^ 
 heart I foresee even danlr ,0 '''''" ''"^'■^'>- "' 
 
 unless you can generous^ ^ ''""' °'''" ^'^^ P'^^^^""' 
 
 •ion, which Sir Richird s *" '"'"• '"''J'"' "^<^ ^""^f^- 
 in demanding!" '""' '° "''"'' ""ey are obstinate 
 
 ■"ri^^" ^kit^ '""' ""'''•^'y -«•" 'o be," said the 
 in which you e "e ' : 7"'"^'--- °f Personal danger 
 
 founded oL sTn'Ie of X -TdL't ""'""°"' "'^''^'"^ 
 prince .= If the axe .Z t ,. '° """ ^' * '"^n or a 
 
 windows of U'Titehalll would H """ ""'"'■ '«=^°- "><-• 
 
 .-h -yroat-grandther 'nrX;' "^ T' "^"' 
 ■n which my honour is co;cerned° =*"•■'' P"'"' 
 
 'iTrtdt-Lr^t:''' " 'T™'"'^'^ ^^--' -'J 
 
 ""^ie, who saw hi "hourht T"^' "' "^ ''^°"' <'^'''P'''^S 
 ^■"-prise) seemed tie ' " ^'^r"' h" ' "r" "^•"'°"' 
 
 ;-H, Sir Richard sMe^nT^L-'^rSL^ 
 
 ^e^:o:S"i:;^;^r;;:;l^^^'^'-^0■en<ia,ewere 
 
 ='^ enough to weigh it agS^th^^t^^^Xr 
 
466 
 
 GEORGE II 
 
 Majesty's service. But I am only a ,ne»scnger-a com- 
 missioner. who must execute my trust, and t^x^t, whom . 
 Thousand V ,es will cry Curse and woe, ■ I do U not w, 
 Sty. AH of your adherents, even Redgauntlet hm.self, 
 Z certain ruin to this en.erprise-the r='"-'^'*Xo "r 
 your Majesty's person-the utter destruction ot all )our 
 party and friends, if they insist not on the point, wh.cl, 
 rnfortunately, your Majesty is so unwill.ny to conce. e. 1 
 speak it with a heart full of anguish-w.th a ""«";^ "'f >• 
 t^utter n,y emotions-but it must be s,K.ken-the fatal 
 truth-that if your royal goodness cannot y.eld to us a boon 
 which we hold necessary to our security and your own, 
 your Majesty with one word disarms ten thousand men 
 ready to draw their swords in your behalf ; or, to s,Kak y. 
 more plainly, you annihilate even the semblance of a royal 
 narty in Great Britain." 
 
 "And why do you not add," said the Prmce, scornful!), 
 "that the men who have been ready to assume arms in my 
 behalf, will atone for their treason to the Elector, by do 
 Uvering me up to the fate for which so many proclamations 
 have destine! me? Carry my head to St. James's, gen le- 
 men ; you will do a more acceptable and a more honourabl- 
 Tctio;, than, having inveigled me into a situation wh,. 
 places me so completely in your power, to dishonour your- 
 selves by propositions which dishonour me. 
 
 "My God, Sire!" exclaimed Sir Richa.d, clasping hh 
 hands together in impatience; "of what great and .n^ 
 expiable crime can your Majesty's ancestors have been H 
 hat they have been punished by the infliction of judoul 
 blindness on their w le generation !-Come, my Lord , 
 we must to our frienus." 
 
 "By your leave. Sir Richard." said the young noblema , 
 " now till we have learned what measures can be taken for 
 
 '^'^Sfrot^ormtyS' -n," said Charles Edwar. 
 "when I was in the society of Highland robbers and 
 
HOW THE GUELPH FOUGHT 467 
 
 whispers "^ '""'• """^ conversed in 
 
 When Rcdgauntlet left the room in hasto »nH ^• 
 Dosurp th.. r.r«f „ L '""111, in naste and discom- 
 
 " What the dHvM? *" u' ^^ '"' ""^"dant Nixor.. 
 "iiai tne aevil do you here?" h» «™.j u 
 sternly. ^ "* '*"^' abruptly and 
 
 Nixoa"'' ^^"'' '^-' "•"' ^''^^>' >■"- commands," said 
 "c:ni2hSV''-"'>-'^-hin,,.saidRedgauntlet; 
 
 N-iltltiSgerL^r """""^ '-- '"^ P— '" -id 
 
 mlLto.d.actbyar^gllldr:::;'"'"^ '^^" ""^'"-^ 
 ce^t^ntS^/l^'SI^f-'^^'--''--^^^'^'-- 
 
 "b:u:>:^ir:^tS::r:i£^:-'<^'^^^-""-^ 
 
 A moment after, Nixon returned with Ewart. 
 
 il 
 
468 
 
 GEORGE II 
 
 " Is this the smuggling fellow ? " di-mandcd Redgauntlet. 
 Nixon noddud, 
 
 " Is he solwr now ?--he was brawling anon." 
 " Sober enough for business," said Nixon. 
 " Well, then, hark ye, Ewart— man your boat with your 
 licst hands, and have her by the pier- gC -our mil. r 
 fellows on board the brig— if you have any cargo Uli, 
 throw it overboard ; it shall be .-H (uid, five times over 
 and be ready for a start to \\..ies or the Hebrides, or 
 perhaiK for Sweden or Norway." 
 
 Ewart answered sullenly enough. " Ay, ay, sir." 
 "Co with him, Nixon," said Redgauntlet, forcing himsell 
 to siK'ak wii;i some appearance of cordiality to the servant 
 with whori! he was offended ; " see he does his duty." 
 
 ?,:.■■■ i left the house sullenly, followed by Nixon. The 
 sa !ci was just in that species of drunken humour which 
 made him jealous, passionate, and troublesome, without 
 showing any other disorder than that of irritability. As he 
 walked towards the beach he kept muttering to himself, but 
 in such a tone, that his companion lost not a word, "Snui- 
 gling fellow— Ay, smuggler— and, start your cargo into tli.> 
 sea— and be ready to start for the Hebrides, or Sweden - 
 or the devil, I suppose. Well, and what if I said in answer 
 
 — Rebel, Jacobite— traitor— I'll make you and your d d 
 
 confederates walk the plank— I have seen better men do 
 it— half-a-score of a morning— when I was across the Line." 
 
 " D d unhandsome terms those Redgauntlet used to 
 
 you, brother," said Nixon. 
 
 " Which do you mean ? " said Ewart, starting, and recol- 
 lecting himself. " I have been at my old trade of thinkinn 
 aloud, have I ? " 
 
 " No matter," answered Nixon, " none but a friend heard 
 you. You cannot have forgotten how Redgauntlet dis- 
 armed you this morning." 
 
 " Why, I would bear no malice about that — only he is so 
 cuiSfdly high and saucy," said Ewart. 
 
Till 
 
 now THE GUEr.PlI |-()1(;||T .,f,o 
 
 ^.^■•.W>h.V'>..i,,Xi. ..,t y.,,for.Uu.U.. „ 
 
 "'''•'" ^"1- I')- <; ,-.s.,i.l K«-.,rt. "N-,, ,i„.s„„ , 
 
 a.;un;;:::^.::;r';';:™i;;7--'7>^v>f "- 
 
 K. pay .'u.ics " '"^^*^"'«'""W,l..i. I. ..,„■< afr„r,| 
 
 ;; V"U arc. outlawed, I bdicvc-," sai.l .\,x„„. 
 Am I ?-,a„h, I l„,|i,,., I ,„, ,. ^^,ij ,., .. 
 
 supiH»c." ^ ' pcrcm,„„rj. K.„tk.,„an, 1 
 
 "I will,,,,,-!, j.„ua Letter .ri,k," said \i.v„„. 
 IS a bloody iwck of rchcl. yonder " 
 
 ■'And what of that ? " said Kwart, ,|„icl<lv. 
 
 unl jt^tno,. and take. o notice of any^inal fir. 
 ,l'-.>^ by C- d, Nanty I.wart, I will „,ake a „,an of you 
 
 'Ci"heS.:s.str^^--'--- 
 
 ;Ves; I have been ill paid for my service amonK th. 
 
 I !l 
 
 I 
 
Alc, GEORGE II 
 
 470 
 
 Redgauntlets-have sca.e got dog. ;;;|e--d Jeen 
 
 Ueated worse than ever dog wa^ "^f NanU a"d -■•11 se. 
 
 ..Yofaread-d old scoundrel-traitor to the man who.. 
 J:d ^uU-. Me help ^o^^^^^^ \Z 
 been so often betrayed myself !-Not 'f '^ey 
 dred Popes, Devils, and Pretenders ^ "j^^^ J J^^^^ ;„. 
 
 them their danger-they -"^ ^X^:^^Zt-VnZc^.^" 
 voiced-put under my charge by the owner. ^^^ ^^^ ^^^ 
 
 "You are not stark mad? said mx , ^^ 
 
 he had miscalculated '"/"PP^'v-'n ev"n by esentment, 
 honour and fidelity could be f-^^^^^^'^l^'n^^^ back 
 or by his Protestant partialities. You snaii n g 
 
 -»r«tTto Redgauntlet, and see whether it is a joke 
 
 '^^iy'^X. if you do," said NWon-' hear reason. 
 They were in a clump or cluster o td fur e t , 
 moment they were speaking, .=''^°"' ^f/;'^^, f^om which 
 pier and the house, but ^^^ ^^'^ Muced 
 Nixon, whose object it was to gai 
 Ewart to diverge insensibly. desperate resolu- 
 
 He now saw the necessity of t^^^fg ,^, ^'P'' ,„j„ ^till 
 
HOW THE GUELPH FOUGHT 47, 
 
 frame might have seemed inadequate ;-it cleft the hat 
 whjc the wretch wore though secured by a p.ate of iron 
 ».thn, the Immg, bit deep into his skull, and there left a 
 
 thT'iZ' ""'''°"' '"'^'"^ "■"' ''™''= ^y "^^ f"'y of 
 
 attncted'"hv"!f 7"""" °^ "'^ '"'''«'''' ^l^" ^'™»^d "P. 
 a raced by the firmg ol the pistol, though, being a smal 
 
 men stark dead. Alarmed at what he saw, which he con- 
 ceived to have been the consequence of so^e unsuccessful 
 engagement betwixt his late commander and a revenue 
 officer for N.xon chanced not to be personally known to 
 h.m), the sailor hastened back !o the boat, in order to 
 apprise his comrades of Nanty's ..te, and to advislthem 
 to take off themselves and the vessel. 
 
 Meantime Redgauntlet, having, as we have se^n h. 
 spatched Nixon for the purpose of'securlg a treat f^; the 
 unfortunate Charles in case of extremity,'returned o h! 
 apartment where he had left the WanderJ;. He now find 
 
 "Sir Richard (llendale," said the unfortunate Prince 
 'with his young friend, has gone to consult their ad 
 eren s now ,n the house. Redgauntlet, my friend I wll 
 ot blame you for the circumstances in which I find mysd 
 
 .1; ible^'fiu't'""''^ '''"t' '■" ''"'"'' '"' -''ered^o : 
 tempt ble. But you ought to have stated to me more 
 
 s rongly the weight which these gentlemen attached to 
 heir insolent proposition. You should have told me , hit 
 o compromise would have any effect-that they desired 
 ot a Prince to govern them, but one, on the cont ary, o er 
 
 «hom they ,vere to exercise restraint on all occasions from 
 he highest affiiirs of the state, down to the most "dmat^ 
 
 and private concerns of his own privacy, which the most 
 
47i 
 
 GEORGE II 
 
 " (".ii<i knows," said Roduauntlet, in much agitation, " 1 
 ,i(k(l fur tlio l)cst when I pressed your Majesty to come 
 hither— I never thought that your Majesty, at such a crisis, 
 would havo scrupled, when a kingdom was in view, to 
 
 saciillee an attachment, which " 
 
 " Peace, sir 1 " said Charles ; " it is not for you to estimate 
 my feelings upon such a subject." 
 
 Redgauntlet coloured high, and bowed profoundly. " .\l 
 least," he resumed, " I hoped that some middle way miglu 
 be found, and it shall— and must -('ome with me, nephew. 
 We will to these gentlemen, and I am confident 1 will 
 bring back heart-stirring tidings." 
 
 " 1 will do mucii to comply with them, Redgauntlet. I 
 am loath, having again set my foot on Dritish land, to unit 
 it without a blow for my right. liut this which tlie\ 
 demand of me is a degradation, and compliance is im- 
 possible." 
 
 Redgauntlet, followed by his nephew, the unwilling 
 spectator of this extraordinary scene, left once more the 
 apartment of the adventurous Wanderer, and hurried to- 
 wards the place where the Jacobite gentlemen were holding 
 their council, and Darsie followed him, in the hope that 
 the obstacle which had arisen to the prosecution of their 
 desperate adventure would prove unsurmountable, and 
 spare him the necessity of a dangerous and violent rupture 
 with his uncle. The discussions among them were very 
 eager ; the more dan.ig part of the conspirators, who had 
 little but life to lose, being desirous to proceed at all 
 hazards ; while the others, whom a sense of honour and u 
 hesitation to disavow long-cherished principles had brought 
 forward, were perhaps not ill satisfied to have a fair apology 
 for declining an adventure, into which they had entered 
 with more of reluctance than zeal. 
 
 Suddenly attention was called to a loud noise at the 
 door, where a crowd had been assembled in consequence 
 of the appalling cry that the enemy were upon them, 
 
now THE GUELPH VnUGHT 47, 
 
 Lwart and of Nixon ""^ ''"'^"^^ "f Nanty 
 
 assembled in great confu fnn Tu^ '"""'''"'• '''"^ ""«• 
 Chevalier himself "' ""^ ^"^ ^''" J""'«l l-y U„,. 
 
 KedSmlt-r""'"""'- "^'^^'^ ™"SS""S -oundrel," said 
 
 '""k-J toward. Chart^s "!,'' "' "^ '''-■^''"-' ''"^ "-''<-■ 
 of sail ! " ' "•'"^^ ""' '" sea under a press 
 
 ''^ been n.y loo stand anrr "''''''""■^ '" ^'■''''^'' " 
 '>0Pen;;^-— o^--;;^^. "Ouron, 
 
 -jce|.rdis^ayin Sy 2:,S:2- d '^"^ "'^ 
 
 4-:s;^:ir:s::~'f--^ 
 
 ■ng," a celebrated clan-march '^•'"'i'lK-lls are com- 
 
 -Pany began to <;::;;lfr::^:::i --'''- or the 
 
 Kn;;:; n;;;;;;^ "^ :S;X~"-f < of a young 
 
 I'e cowards. We have one h, '' '"" '"' "^ 
 
 -'"-?^;:v:™;::,;x:! * «'■' ^..i. 
 
474 GEORGE II 
 
 " That shall be my business," said Rcdgauntlet ; " if wc 
 liave but time to bring back the brig, all will be well— I 
 will instantly despatch a party in a fishing skiff to bring her 
 to."_He gave his commands to two or three ot the most 
 active among his followers.—" Let him be onre on board/ 
 he said, " and there are enough of us to stand to arms and 
 cover his retreat." 
 
 "R'lght, right," said Sir Richard, "and I will look to 
 points which can be made defensible ; and the old powder- 
 plot boys could not have made a more desperate resistance 
 than we shall— Redgauntlet," continued he, " I see some 
 of our friends are looking pale ; but methinks your neplic-v 
 has more mettle in his eye n-w than when we were m cold 
 deliberation, with danger at a distance." 
 
 "It is the way of our house," said Redgauntlet; "our 
 courage ever kindles highest on the losing side. I, too, 
 feel that the catastrophe I have brought on must not ho 
 survived by its author. Let me first," he said, addressing 
 Charles, " see your Majesty's sacred person in such safety 
 
 as can now be provided for it, and then " 
 
 "You may spare all considerations concerning me, gentle- 
 men," again repeated Charles; "yon mountain of CriiTol 
 shall fly as soon as I will." 
 
 Most threw themselves at his feet with weepmg and 
 entreaty; some one or two slunk in confusion from the 
 apartment, and were heard riding off. Unnoticed in sue li 
 a scene, Darsie, his sister, and Fairford, drew together, and 
 held each other by the hands, as those who, when a vessel 
 is about to founder in the storm, determine to take their 
 chance of life and death together. 
 
 Amid this scene of confusion, a gentleman, plainly 
 dressed in a riding-habit, with a black cockade in his bat, 
 but without any arms except a couteaii de-chasse, walked into 
 the apartment without ceremony. He was a tall, thin, 
 gentlemanly man, with a look and bearing decidedly 
 military. He had passed through their guards, if in ihu 
 
HOW THE GUELPH FOUGHT 475 
 
 confusion they now maintained any, without stop or ques- 
 tion, and now stood, almost unarnied, among armed men 
 It^tior'^""-'- '"'" °" ''"" - °" 'hc'ange. of d": 
 
 R,C7°H^'^°^ ?''"'' °" "^'' S^""emen," he said. "Sir 
 
 Richard Glet,dale-my Lord , we were not «„ays such 
 
 trangers Ha, Pate-in-Peril, how is it with you? and vou 
 
 00 Ingoldsby-I must not call you by any'other naml"- 
 
 «hy do you rt-ccve an old friend so coldly? But you 
 
 guess my errand." ' ^ " 
 
 "And are prepared for it. General," said Redgauntlet • 
 
 slaTglu::.""" ""'" '° '' ^""'' "P '"^ ^heep\or"tt' 
 
 wo^d wXyor '''' ' "° "'°"'^-'^' "'' 'P-^ ^- - 
 " No words can shake our purpose," said Red^untlet 
 
 "Hear me sir," said the ^Vanderer, stepping forward- 
 suppose I am the mark you aim at-I surrender myself 
 «-.llmgIy, to save these gentlemen's dan^rer_let this aTLa t 
 avail in their favour." 
 
 An exclamation of "Never, never! " broke from the little 
 body of partisans, who threw themselves round the un 
 fortunate Pnnce, and would have sei.ed or struckdown 
 Campbell, had it not been that he remained with his arms 
 folded, and a look, rather indicating impatience because 
 they would not hear him, than the least apprehens on of 
 violence at their hand. >="cnbion 01 
 
 At length he obtained a moment's silence. " I do not " 
 
 h. .ud, "know this gentleman "-(Making a pronund bow 
 
 he unfortunate Prince)-"! do not with to know him 
 
 It IS a knowledge which would suit neither of us " ' 
 
 Our ancestors, nevertheless, have been well acquainted » 
 
 m f 
 
 I:; 
 
GEOKGE II 
 
 said Charles, unable to suppress, even in that hour of dread 
 and danger, the painful recollections of fallen royalty. 
 
 " In one word, General Campbell," said Kedgauntlet, " is 
 it to be peace or war ? — You are a man of honour, and we 
 can trust you." 
 
 " I thank you, sir," said the (k-neral ; "and I reply, th,a 
 the answer to your (juestion rests with yourself. Come, do 
 not be fools, gentlemen ; there was perhujis no great ham. 
 meant or intended by your gathering together in this ob- 
 scure corner, for a bear-bait or a cock-fight, or whateVLr 
 other amusement you may have intended ; but it was a 
 little imprudent, considering how you stand with govern 
 ment, and it has occasioned some anxiety. ICxaggerated 
 accounts of your purpose have been laid before government 
 by the information of a traitor in your own counsels ; and 
 I was sent down post to take the connnand of a sufticiein 
 number of troops, in case these calumnies should be found 
 to have any real foundation. I have come here, of course, 
 sufficiently supported both with cavalry and infantry, to do 
 whatever might be necessary ; l)Ut my commands are— and 
 I am sure they agree with my inclination— to make no 
 arrests, nay, to make no further enquiries of any kind, if the 
 good assembly will consider their own interest so far as to 
 give up their immediate purpose, and return ijuietly homo 
 to their own houses." 
 
 " What !— all ? " exclaimed Sir Richard Glendale — " all, 
 without exceiition ? " 
 
 " All, without one single exception," said the General : 
 " such are my orders. If you accept my terms, say so, and 
 make haste ; for tilings may happen to interfere with hi> 
 Majesty's kind purjrases towards you all." 
 
 " His Majesty's kind purposes ! " said the Wanderer. 
 " Do I hear you aright, sir ? " 
 
 " I speak the King's very svords, from his very lips," re 
 plied the General. '"I will,' said his Majesty, 'deserve 
 the confidence of my su'.ijects by reposing my security m 
 
HOW THE GUBLl'H l.uUcwrr 
 
 477 
 
 •l>-'rrorsoreduca,i!,„,tdLTvt «?';;■'■"''"'"■; '"'''■ 
 ^■vcn believe- that the most T 7 '''J'">' "'" ""' 
 
 '-■" <■•-." nounsh tho °h :;''::v'"'''''v^ "'^ >-^'' - 
 
 '""^t I'c fatal to th r f •, ""^' ^' '■'"' ™^ "•'"'^h 
 
 '■^•""-J' cvct, believe of 1„?H " ? '"•"'''^"' '^""'- "-• 
 
 «l-l' ntust rui„ all wh,, havle 't / ; 7'' '" "V""""' 
 and he i.s convineed th-,t d,rl ., ' ™''' ''^'""''''^^ I 
 
 l-d that person to 1 1 th s r ' 1 '"' """"'^ "-'*^'-- 
 
 it »as his wisest course 1 ^L , 7' '"' """'" ^"°'' ^-' 
 Majesty cot^passiZtes his r", "'' '""""""'• ='"d his 
 "l«tacleto his doing 1o" " '°" '""'^'' '" '^A"" '^■y 
 
 ■l.i^'-.l^I-:l!I„"'' ^^'«""""'^'- "^^ y°" ".can 
 
 i» - a«ain apUXn!:irr ^^ ''"^ ^^'''^''- ^ -^. 
 <^ener:^^;^a;:!^>;,:::t-:^-"P-nt,. said the 
 
 •" entbark uninterrttpted bjme . h'T 7' "''* "' ''''"'^ 
 "ff "ho have not powerful Z' '"' ""™ '" S" 
 
 P-»ent n,eeting, f'th" 1; Mb""' ""'^"r''"'^'' ^■''"^ 'he 
 one.' *' ' "'" ^ remembered against no 
 
 " Then, gentlemen," said Redir,,,,,,! , , 
 
 :;--^..>e words burst rC:':^;^--^--: 
 
 momentary ; for the door n ''^'^,~"«""ation was bu, 
 
 ^-pef:das£^-:-r:iS,i;-«- 
 
 "'-''iencetoyoursu,nmons?" °'''' °'" ""^^'""^ '" 
 
 " Vou have, Sir Riehard," answered the General. 
 
478 
 
 GEORGL 11 
 
 "And I also have your promise," said Redgauntlct, 
 " that I may go on board yonder vessel, with any friend 
 whom I may choose to accompany me ? " 
 
 "Not only that, Mr. Ingoldsby— or I will call you Rrd- 
 gauntlet once more— you may stay in the offing for a tide, 
 until you are joined by any jxirson who may remain at !• air- 
 ladies. After that, there will be a sloop of war on tlie 
 station, and 1 need not say your condition will then beccni^ 
 perilous." 
 
 "Perilous it should not be. General Campbell, said 
 Redgauntlet, "or more perilous to others than to us, il 
 others thought as I do even in this extremity." 
 
 "You forget yourself, my friend," said the unhupiiy 
 Adventurer ; " you forget that the arrival of this gentleman 
 only puts the cope-stone on our already adopted resolution 
 to abandon our bull-fight, or by whatever other wild name 
 this headlong enterprise may be termed. I bid you fare- 
 well, unfriendly friends— I bid.i«« farewell," (bowing to the 
 General,) "my friendly foe— 1 leave this strand as I landed 
 upon it, alone, and to return no more ! " 
 
 "Not alone," said Redgauntlet, " while there is blood in 
 the veins of my father's son." 
 
 " Not alone," said the other gentlemen present, stung with 
 feelings which almost overpowered the better reasons under 
 which they had acted. " We will not disown our principlLS, 
 or see your person endangered." 
 
 " If it be only your purpose to see the gentleman to tlic 
 beach," said General Campbell, " I will myself go will. 
 vou My presence among you, unar:,i;d, and m your 
 power, will be a pledge of my friendly intentions, and ^vlll 
 overawe, should such be offered, any interruption on tlu 
 part of officious persons." 
 
 " Be it so," said the Adventurer, with the air of a I rince 
 to a subject ; not of one who complied with the request ol 
 an enemy too powerful to be resisted. 
 
 They i-ft the apartment— they left the house- an un- 
 
HOW THE GUELPH FOUGHT 479 
 
 «'litudeon thela^dTcn P '«-'-' '•■"'"ely. There was 
 
 now n.oved owal he' dl'n?""', "' T"" '""^ "'^'^'' 
 
 asr:a;;:dio^frs.:/2--'r™ 
 
 nil adiiurms fi,tIo«-ed, look iib on the trmimd .h , 
 
 »y ...UKBns .8*,, ,„ „lc,.L of , iT^ * 
 
 =;t:o=,::— -t£^^-= 
 
 Cau.H wretch ! " exclaimed Redgauntlet •- " Td v . 
 
 "That sound broadsword cut. s,«d the Gem-. ,1 "1 
 -1 us the Shan,, of reward,,,, . traifor " ' ""' '"^ 
 
 hey arrived at the place, ct embarkat.v. The l-rince 
 
 deep ler' T '°"^" ""''' '''' ^^'^^ ^^'^^ 
 deep silence. A papc-r was the*, .Ut^ j^,o his hands 
 
 
.4Mo 
 
 GKoRCiE II 
 
 -ho looked at it, and saiil, " I find tlio two friinds I liav 
 left at I'airladiLS are a|i|)ri/;ed of my destination, and pro 
 iwsc to embark from Howncss. I presume this will not 1» 
 ati infrinnement of the conditions under whieh yon li.iw 
 acted ? " 
 
 "Certainly not," answered (leneral ( 'aniphell ; " tin v 
 shall have all facility to join yon. ' 
 
 "I wish, then,'' said Charles, "only another companion 
 — Redj^aiintlet, die air of this country is as hostile to you 
 as it is to me. These gentlemen have nia<le their peace, or 
 rather they have dime nothing to break it. liut you - couu 
 you, and share my home where ch.uice sh.ill i ast it. W i 
 shall never see these shores again ; but we will talk of them. 
 and of our disconcerted bullfight." 
 
 " I follow you. Sire, through life," said Redgauntlet, "as 1 
 would have followed you to deith. Permit me one nio 
 nient." 
 
 The Prince then looked round, and seeing the ab.islnu 
 countenances of the other adherents bent upon the grouml, 
 he hastened to say, " Do not think that you, gentlemen. 
 have obliged me less because your zeal was mingled wuli 
 prudence, entertained, 1 am sure, more on my own account, 
 and on that of your country, than from selfish apprehen- 
 sions." 
 
 He stepped from one to another, and, amid sobs and 
 bursting tears, received the adieus of the last remnant which 
 had hitherto supported his lofty pretensions, and addres^cd 
 them individually with accents of tenderness and affection. 
 The General drew a little aloof, and signed to K'li 
 gauntlet to speak with him while this scene proceeded. " It 
 is now all over," he said, "and Jacobite will be lietia 
 forward no longer a party name. When you tire of for. ii:n 
 parts, and wish to make your peace, let me know. \ out 
 restless zeal alone has impeded your pardon hitherto." 
 
 ".\nd now I shall not need it," said Redgauntlet. "I 
 leave England for ever ; but I am not displeased that \vi 
 
now -11 iR Gur-r.pii fought ,s, 
 
 >"" up in my own poliiii.,! ,,|,i,i„,„^ i, , , , 
 
 "•^'".v >v..rs „,y.nxi.,„s wish I „„ „. ' , '""" ''" 
 
 '""'. ""lii'l. sits m ,J. '"^ ■"I'l-'l. look...;,' .,r„„„,l 
 
 -i;..uv..„.i:;:;;:;^-:>;::,t:::;:::';::;;'^""' 
 
 loyally on lliu ,l,vvv ,n,P ,i • , "" ""Ik<' "I tlu'ir 
 
 (layinf,- his hand „„ ih,. „ ''i ' " *^""<' "''°"''" 
 
 "^•vor ,„hl rl' ";'";," '"■ '"'"■•> "»l"'-l' shall 
 
 <1-P i" the uido o,!a,' "•''■'" ''''^''^"">'f'''h"n- 
 
 The unfortunate- ( 'harlcs ]wl»-,r.l i. . i 
 ■'dieus ,o his do„.n,„st . dhe em H "?'"'" ''" '"^' 
 hi^ hand to Ked,.u,ntlet « ' "''"^'' '' '*'«" ""h 
 
 rest appearing too „ n.h Jc; , , "ssistanre ; the 
 'aken place to%rove,:;'i„;'"'^' '" '"" '''"'' ^^''^^ "ad 
 
 y<u for it. You have tat^,; ''u "" "'^ "'-"■'' ^ '"^"k 
 menonthescaffi^ld n'l?'' ""■' "'" '"''"'^'■l''^' »" «''<i^h 
 .heirexecmi^'',^J^;«?-- -'' '''"^-- even ,or 
 
 .o'x';:^:^-r';:!;:r:rd;;-r'fr"''^''""^''°'^ 
 
 ''-.^--diction, in terms whh' Tn '"" '"'° ' '""'' 
 jenerous to critic setth '""''' ^''"^'''"-"" ^'' f°o 
 
 nay, it is sa°d tha ,V 7^"' "''" ''••"'''^''" "'■"^^-^'^^.s ; 
 
 from the shore "■"" •^'"'^" ''^''^ ^-°"nded 
 
 -Sm U'. Scott : Redi;a„„tkl. 
 
XXXIV 
 
 No Popery 
 
 THE mol) who followed I-ord deorge Oordon in 1780, 
 was divided into four <livisions : the London, the 
 Westminster, the Southwark, and the Scotch. Each of these 
 divisions being subdivided into various bodies, and these 
 bodies being drawn up in various forms and figures, the 
 general arrangement was, except to the few chiefs and leaders, 
 as unintelligible as the plan of a great battle to the meanest 
 soldier in the field. It was not without its method, how- 
 ever ; for, in a very short space of time after being put in 
 motion, the crowd had resolved itself into three great 
 parties, and were prepared, as had been arranged, to cross 
 the river by different bridges, and make for the House 
 of Commons in separate detachments. 
 
 At the head of that division which had Westminster 
 Bridge for its approach to the scene of action, Lord Georjje 
 Gordon took his post, with his secretary, Gashfcrd, at his riglit 
 hand, and sundry rufifians, of most unpromising appearance, 
 forming a kind of staff about him. The conduct of a second 
 party, whose route lay by Blackfriars, was intrusted to a com 
 mittee of management, including perhaps a dozen men ; while 
 the third, which was to go by London Bridge, and through 
 the main streets, in order that their numbers and their serious 1 
 intentions might be better known and appreciated by the 
 citizens, were led by Simon Tappertit (assisted by a ft" [ 
 subalterns, selected from the Brotherhood of United Bi* | 
 dogs), Dennis the hangman, Hugh, and some others. 
 
NO POPERY 
 
 ;""1 «as of .such procli'i ,!^ T. ""t ""; ""'-^ "' ""-nbc., 
 '" "'"Ve, the from wa ''•""»'"■">'-.■- l,e«a„ 
 
 "'">Vithst.,ncli„i, that .h« „;, * ?" ""'" '■" "-'-.Mi,-,.. 
 
 foijowedv^ycLe ;:*;:,.:;;; .:;:;^-'''--' •"- ^.>-aM a,,.; 
 
 At the head of this ,,„tv in h , 
 he madness of his hu„ ,u ,V ,,!''''?,'*•''"'= ""«'•, in 
 between that dangerou. , o i.pa , T """■ ^""' -""<"•« 
 Bamaby, as many a nun .Z" u , "^ '"'"■""■^"- «->' 
 on that day afterwards re, ,e , , 'h T'""^' '■'■" '""^'^ 
 other things in the ecstas^o r "'"• '^"^g^'^"' "f a" 
 and h.., eyes sparkhng wifh 1' , ["T':!- '"'^ '''"■- «"»hed 
 «f the great banner he carri > ' r"''' "' "'•-■ "'-■'•ght 
 ""^h-ng in the sun and rusZ^'in T ""'"''"' ""'^ °f "» 
 he went, proud, happy " " f "'"""■" ''""«- on 
 
 hght-hearted, undesiS '""" •"' 'elling-th,. onlv 
 
 "What d^ you "k'onh": .i" ""•• ^'-^o'- --n,b, . " 
 passed tiuough the cotd/d /'^ '''^"^ ""«' ■ ^» they 
 ''•indows which w!rc lo 7''?'' """ '""''ed up a. ,1^ 
 have all turned ou to ^^ "'"' -^P^""'"^^- "They 
 «-naby? Why, J, ^.^T, T "^^^ -d .rean.rs, ^h 
 i-ack! His flag'' the arges If ,h'";""' "'"" "' '"' 'he 
 'here's nothing in the how liL R V"""' ''"S'"""' -• 
 'umed on hin,. Ha, ha, ha 7" ""''''■ ''" •■>- "« 
 
 K'-cinTwUht'X''ipr,n:'" '''"*'"' '"^ '"'"«™". 
 ;"'""=• "I hope he don'uhinkfh '''' "' ^""'^''^ "'^ he 
 f"' carrying that there pLceofhr' """''"^' '" '''' ''°"« 
 
 ^">7 -hltS lrE.f™jyo«^hV With':; 
 
 ,. ''^^aby had been ea,in^f,K "''>'<'°"'yo" speak?- 
 '^"■« his questioner to Hul ^^' '"'' "^''"^ '"'""'^y 
 
484 
 
 GEORGE III 
 
 " He don't understand your way," said the latter. " Here, 
 I'll explain it to him. " Barnaby, old boy, attend to me." 
 
 " 111 attend," said Barnaby, looking anxiously round ; 
 "but I wish I could see her somewhere." 
 
 "See who?" demanded Dennis in a gruff tone. "You 
 an't in love, I hope, brother? That an't the sort of lliiiv^ 
 for us, you know. We mustn't have no love here." 
 
 " She would be proud indeed to see me now, eh, Hugh?" 
 said Barnaby. "Wouldn't it make her glad to see me at 
 the head of this large show? She'd cry for joy, I know she 
 would. Where can she be? She never sees me at my 
 best, and what do I cfire to be gay and fine '\{ she's not by?" 
 
 "Why, what palaver's this?" asked Mr. Dennis with 
 supreme disdain. "We an't got no sentimental member- 
 among us, I hope." 
 
 " Don't be uneasy, brother," cried Hugh ; " he's only 
 talking of his mother." 
 
 " Of his what ? " said Mr. Dennis, with a strong oath. 
 
 " His mother." 
 
 " And have I combined myself with this here section, 
 and turned out on this here memorable day, to hear men 
 talk about their mothers ? " growled Mr. Dennis with e\- 
 treme disgust. "The notion of a man's s.veetheart's bad 
 enough ; but a man's mother ! " and here his disgust was 
 so extreme that he spat upon the ground and could say no 
 
 " Barnaby 's right," cried Hugh with a grin, " and I say it. 
 Lookee, bold lad. If she's not here to see, it's because I've 
 provided for her, and sent half a dozen gentlemen, every 
 one of 'em witli a blue flag (but not half as fine as yours), 
 to take her in state to a grand house all hung round with 
 gold and silver banners, and everything else you please, 
 where she'll wait till you come, and want for nothing." 
 
 " Ay ! " said Barnaby, his face beaming with deligh:. 
 " have you indeed ? That's a good hearing ! That's fine • 
 Kind Hugh ! " 
 
NO POPERV 
 
 are ever were, or will be-wiH beTon , ^"' '^'"^^ "-ere 
 to that noble gentlemanlthe besf Z, "k " "^ ''^^ *"'- 
 °"r flags for a few days and l " '" ""^ *°^ld-carry 
 we've got to do." ^ ' "■* ""^"^P ^m safe. That's all 
 
 " Is that all ? " rrioH n l 
 clutched his pole the Ughter" .^""' ''"''"'"^ «y-. ^» "e 
 one safe, then. You have put it in Tu ^"^ ^ ''^^P '^s 
 "-e. Hugh ? Nobody shairwel "hf fl '^'^'^ ^°" ''"°- 
 
 "Well said," cried Hul 'h^ ^r^'" 
 Ihats the old stout Barnabv 'th»f r ' r'' ' ^°^^y ^^'d ■' 
 wth n,any and many a day > f ,'/"%'='■"' bed and leaped 
 'n Barnaby. Don't you see man " h Z^ "°' ■"■'^"'ken 
 a^ he slipped to the other !^^e of n "^ '" '^ '^'''''P^^- 
 natural, and can be cot to H ?^"""' "'''t the lad's a 
 
 %"" »ay.. Uttin flrtt ^7 '1^°" ''"^ "-''■' 
 nien, ,n earnest, as you'd find f vn ' f' "'""'' ^ ''o^^" 
 Leave bin, to me. You sha„ soof" u " ^^" ^'"^ ^im. 
 or not." '"='" »°on see whether he's of use 
 
 Mr. Dennis received tl 
 
 -any nods and winks, and ^ZnTlTui '■""'''' «■'"' 
 ■arnaby from ,1,^^ , '^-^^j '"« behaviour towards 
 
 I- nose, stepped back into l" t '""^, '"^ ''"«'^^ ™ 
 proceeded in silence "'"''' P'ace, and they 
 
 ~^'-^'^^';::^::r:tir^°'^-^-Heaaernoon 
 
 .'""""S .n.o one luj ma' \ "'^ "' "'^^""■"ster, and" 
 '"- -as no, only done Tn ,ok ""f 1 "'""^""'^"^ -^hout.' 
 ^ -gnal .0 those on whom tl,e task TT"""''- ''"' ^^ 
 t';>>e to take possession of th lol b r?'''''^ *"" " «a. 
 -'He various avenues o-aSi:::;::;:^^ Houses, and 
 
 M .M 
 
486 
 
 GEORGE III 
 
 To the last-named place, Hugh ""id ^enms sUU wUh the- 
 pupil between them, rushed straightway ; Barnaby havng 
 eKen his flag into the hands of one of the.r own party, who 
 kept them at the outer door. Their followers pressmg on 
 beh nd, they were borne as on a great wave to the very 
 doors ^f the gallery, whence i. was imposs.ble to retreat 
 oven if they had been so inclined, by reason of the throng 
 vhich choked up the passages. It .s a fanuhar expression 
 in describing a great crowd, that a person might have 
 walked upon the people's heads. In this rase it was 
 actuallv done, for a boy who had by some mean= i^ arnong 
 throoncourse, and was in imminent danger of sufloca tion 
 climbed to the shoulders of a man .e.de him, and walked 
 uZ the people's hats and h«. .«o the open street: 
 Tersuig in his passage the whole length of two staircases 
 and a long gallery. Nor was the swarm without .ess dense . 
 f r a basket, which had been tossed into the crowd, was 
 erked from head to head, and shoulder to shoulder, and 
 lent spinning und whirling on above them, until it was lost 
 to view-, without ever once lulling m among them or eommg 
 
 "'^Tl^,|r:;:i^'vast throng, sprinkled, doubtless, here and 
 
 there with honest zealots, but composed for the most part 
 
 he very scum and refuse of London, whose growth was 
 
 fostered by bad criminal laws, bad prison regulations, and 
 
 he worst conceivable p.,lice, such of the members of bo h 
 
 Houses of Parliament as had not taken the precaution to 
 
 be already at their posts, were compelled to ^ght an-i fo-o 
 
 their way. Their carriages were stopped and broken . th. 
 
 leels wrenched off, the glasses shivered to atoms U. 
 
 panels beaten in; drivers, footmen, and masters pulled fr.^ 
 
 heir seats and rolled m the mud. I^rds, commoners, and 
 
 reverend bishops, with little distinction of person or part;-^ 
 
 w re kicked, and pinched, and hustled, passed from hand 
 
 to hand through various stages of ill-usage, aiui sent .. 
 
 teir fellow-senttors at last with their clothes hanging ... 
 
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 487 
 
 ribbons about them th.lr 1., 
 
 speechless and bre^Lle " andlhi' '"" '"'■ """^'"^■- 
 
 the powder which had been cuff dandlr'T ™""^ T' 
 
 ;;;;;;. One .ord was so long ■:'^tijr: -:;^;t!;^ 
 
 ,„„•=„ A "-'-"*'"''"-'' ''y 'hose who knew him best Tho 
 ^ij..ceas.nglj, and each new outrage served to swell it, 
 
 the Speaker went to prayers. His (ollower 
 
 the .a„,e time, the Lby and a m^I :, ^^ '" " 
 
 mediately lilled, as we have seen Thus 1 . , '"'' 
 
 not only attacked in -heir passage thro ,. '^"' T" 
 
 were set u,,on within the ery w'lls f- ""''' ''"' 
 
 ;;-.u„,uit, hoth within a„:;\w;;;;:;'„L;^t'::i;^t;::: 
 
 'hose who a.ten,pted to speak could scare, K- h 
 -v^ces^ntr less consuLpon the cirV:::^^ 
 
 JU^' arrived, with dress disordered and d sh el Id "! '" 
 ca™e struggling through the crowd in tlu lo,, v f ';?"; 
 -d screamed in triumph ; and when the door oh H™ 
 1-t.ally and cautiously opened by those wit nf""?" 
 admission, gave them a momentary glimps.- of t Ic n 
 'hey grew more wild and .savage, Ike bea ts It ' '^""'' 
 prey, and made a rush again^'.he'po:;:ni:!r:;:S::J 
 
 -!;1 
 
 * 
 
488 
 
 GEORGE III 
 
 its lorks and bolls in their btaples and shook the very 
 lieanis. 
 
 The strangers' gallery, which was immediately above the 
 door of the: HouM, had been ordered to be closed on ihe 
 first rumour of disturbance, and was empty ; save that now 
 and tl-.cn Lord (leorge took his seat there, for the eon- 
 vemenre of coming to the head of the stairs which led to 
 it, and reiieating to the people what had passed within, h 
 was on these stairs that Barnaby, Hugh, and IJennis were 
 posteil. There were two flights, short, steep, and narrow, 
 running parallel to each otlier, and leading to two Imle 
 doors communicating witli a low p.issage which opened on 
 the gallerv. Between tliem was a kind of well, or unglazed 
 skylight, for the admission of light and air into the lobby, 
 which might be some eighteen or twenty feet below. 
 
 Upon one of these litll.; staircases not that at the head 
 .,f which Lord Ceorge appeared from lime to time, but tlie 
 other -Gashford stood with his elbow on the banister, and 
 his ci, ek resting on his hand, with liis usual c-rafty asf)ect. 
 Whenever he varied this attitude in the slightest degree - 
 so much as by the gentlest motion of his arm— lire uproar 
 was certain to increase, not merely there, but in the lobliv 
 below ; from wliich place, no doubt, some man who acted 
 as fugleman to the rest was eonsUntly looking up and 
 wa.ching him. 
 
 •'Order ! " cried Hugh, in a voice whidi inade itsell heard 
 even above the roar and tumult, a.s Lt)rd (leorge appeared 
 at the top of tlie staire.ise. "New,: News from mv 
 
 lord ! " 
 
 'I'hc noise continued, notwithstanding Ins apiiearance. 
 until Gashford looked round. There was Mleiice iiiUTierli 
 ately— even among the people in the |iassages without, an. I 
 on the other staircases, who could neither see nor hc;ir, bu' 
 to whom, notwithstanding, the signal was o.nveyed with 
 marvellous rapidity. 
 
 •• Gentlemen," said Lord George, who was ve'-v pale and 
 
NO POPERY 
 
 409 
 
 l^"t »■,. nu,.st succeed and «in , " '"'' '''•"' ''-""r.sucr,.ss, 
 '" ">™ and rH.red, .St^^r T' '""'• '"^ ''""-d 
 
 :^:cir^'--''----^^:.-^ 
 
 '-•"•Ji.>«.s „r l'arliament',rr ':;'■■";'""' ""■ >'"'■ 
 .grievances, w,,. nu,st n.eet , I n !■ "'''^^ ""^ "»■" 
 
 '■-"i^nce, and , .i„ I.e^Cj^C!!!'"' ""^ '"^ '" 
 
 exasperation iver,. at the- hl.;„Kf 1- "*'' "°''i'- and 
 
 -.<i toM then, that the al«rn, tad -trwi'T' ""^•-' ""'"^■' 
 ™und,- that when the k„,, Zlrd f 'l'^ '•«"y ■-'- 
 together in that -reat hodv h h , , ' -"^mhU.v' 
 
 -ouid send do«; p V ,!;,'!' r^-'" H- -«ajest: 
 
 l"i«l with ; and-4h ten ::.;:, r.^ '^"^ »■'*« 'on.. 
 -resolute, and ancert, , " "' '"^ ''»*'=^'' ■•'^ ch'Wi.h, 
 
 A-ther, when two .JtCensu T'"" ""^ "^'--li"^' 
 
 "l-ere he stood, a,r, pr .« " r:'' ""'^^•""' "^ "'^ doo^ 
 
 - two lower down up n ^'t " I '"' ™"'"'« ^' »"^1' 
 
 ■Hie holdness of this a t^^n ' "•''"'"'^'i 'he people. 
 
 .en.le,nen, turning to Lor,i ^1^ :;^, j""' °- "'■ the 
 
 --■;-. ->.ni.h. hear hi. :j:c\;;;:r .;:;,;;'::; 
 
 ■Vou may tell these ne.iole if ..„„ , 
 ' ^"" (;e,u.ral Co.n.ay o who,;, 1/ '"?'"' '"' '"'''• """ 
 ' ••''-- ''"^petuionLlirprS^^^ 
 
 •" a sol.lier, ^ou n> u- ,,.1 '^'^'^"''"K^' an.l yours. 
 
 ■ '' " '"•'"• ^"'1 I «■!! protect the 
 
 '•,*' I 
 
490 
 
 GEORGE III 
 
 freedom of this place with my sword. You see, my lord, 
 that the members of this House are all in arms to-day ; you 
 know that the entrance to it is a narrow one ; you cannot 
 1)0 ignorant that there are men within these walls who are 
 determined to defend that pass to the last, and before 
 whom many lives must fall if your adherents persevere. 
 Have a care what you do." 
 
 "And, my Lord fieorge," said the other gentleman, ad- 
 dressing him in like manner, " I desire them to hear this, 
 from me— Colonel Gordon— your near relation, if a man 
 among this crowd, whose uproar strikes us deaf, crosses the 
 threshold of the House of Commons, I swear to run my 
 sword that moment— not into his, but into your body ! " 
 
 With that, they' stepped back again, keeping their faces 
 towards the crowd, took each an arm of the misguided 
 nobleman, drew him into the passage, and shut the door ; 
 which they directly locked and fastened on the inside. 
 
 This was so quickly done, and the demeanour of both 
 gentlemen— who were not young men either— was so gallant 
 and resolute, that the crowd faltered and stared at each 
 other with irresolute and timid looks. Many tried to turn 
 towards the door ; some of the faintest-hearted cried they 
 had best go back, and called to those behind to give way ; 
 and the panic and confusion were increasing rapidly, when 
 Gashford whispered Hugh. 
 
 " What now ! " Hugh roared aloud, turning towards them. 
 "Why go back? Where can you do better than here, 
 boys ? One good rush against these doors and one below 
 at the same time, will do the business. Rush on, then '. 
 As to the door below, let those stand 'jack who are afraid. 
 Let those who are not afraid, try who shall be the first to 
 pass it. Here goes ! Ix>ok out down there ! " 
 
 Without the delay of an instant, he threw himself head- 
 long over the banisters into the lobby below. He had | 
 hardly touched the ground when Barnaby was at his side 
 The chaplain's assistant, and some members who were I 
 
NO POPERY 
 
 •gainst the doorf S- meH a^H T'' f ^'^ "'<="»elve, 
 earnest. Pe I mell, and besieged the house in 
 
 'H 'n! £ :;s r thrrord-"^' 'r ''-"«•« 
 
 within, in which case great l^sonifeTn K? '^' ^'^'^''""''^^ 
 mevitably have en.u^d-llhlJ ^ bloodshed would 
 gave way, and thr^u.ou^ ^^Lr'™ "l "" "°'^'' 
 that a messenger had bJn ^ . u T '"°""' '° '"""th 
 mihtary, who we re for^ in T '''' ''^ "^"^^ f°' '^e 
 tainms a charge in tZ ZZ 1 '"■ *^^"''"' "^ -- 
 so closely welged tj.he he'Thr'" '" "'"'"^ '"^^ '-- 
 pcusly as .Ly h^^ fit k ' iL "a' 7"'h 7' ^'^ '"'■ 
 turned at once, Barnaay and H, 1 '"''"'^ '"''^am 
 
 %ht,ng and strugglin/^rtrL^Lg*'^:: fllL'"' ^"'^ »■ 
 being trampled on in tun, themseiv« ^ I u'"' ^"'^ 
 mass floated by degrees into th?^ ' ^ ^"'^ "''^ "'hole 
 detachment of thf Guard" hl^r^" ''"'''' "''"^ ^ 'arge 
 hurrying up, clearing ^e'^ou^d l^r I"' '°°'' '^^'^^^ 
 that the people seemed to rfir "^ "'^'^ ^ 'apidly 
 
 The word of command Th T7 ^^ '^'' advanced 
 formed across the sTrm ■ ^h ^"^"^ ^"'="' ">^ ^"'^^'-s 
 hausted with their la rexe'rtions 7"":. l'"'''^''^^^ -'i - 
 a very irregular and" i^rd X"; ^ ''n ""' "^°"*'"' '" 
 officer rode hastily into ,h„ """"'='• ' he commanding 
 bodies, accompanied bv am "T ''^''' '^'"^^" '^e two 
 House of Commons fSfwhtf'"'' '"' ''" °'«<^^^ "^ the 
 
 'topers had has.n' dtmot , .d'^'T^'""" ^ ™"^ "^ 
 l>ut not a man stirred ""-'^- ' >"= '^'°t Act was read, 
 
 -od side^by'^e' ImV'T'Tf ' """^^^ -" ""^'b 
 hands when he ame out St ''' ''T '■"'° '^--"''^ 
 "hich, being now roU^d ,7 ^ '" '"'' ''^"'""^ %; 
 
 "^« a giant^aLS a? h^:Xd i;tm7"'%'°°^^'^ 
 ^po. h,s guard. If ever man bf lie^ ^t h'^- l^e S 
 
492 
 
 GEORGE III 
 
 and soul that he was engaged in a just cause, and that he 
 was bound w stand by his It-ador to the last, poor BariwNy 
 believed it ol himself and l.ord V,o^r^e Gordon. 
 
 After an ineffectual attempt to make himselt hea»d, the 
 magistrate gave the word, and the Horse Guards ear.K- 
 riding in among the crowd. But, even then, he galloped 
 here and there, exhorti he people to dis()erse : ;«id al- 
 though heavv stones ^.ere thrown at the na., .md some 
 were desperately cut nd bruised, they had «s. oniers but 
 to make prisoiK-rs ol such of the rioters as were the most 
 active, and to drive the peoi.le back with the flat of their 
 sabres As the horses came in anhsnn them, the throng 
 •ave way at many points, and the K^ards, following up their 
 Advantage, were rapidly clearing; the ground, when two or 
 three of the for. most, who were in a manner cut oft from 
 the -est by the people closing round them, made straight 
 towards Harnabj and Hugh, who had no dotibt been 
 ■Minted out as the two men who dropped into the lobby ; 
 laying about them now with some effect, and inflicting on 
 the more turbulent of their opponents a few slight flesh 
 wounds, under t!v; influence of which a man dropped, here 
 and there, into the arms of his fellows, amid much groaning 
 ami confusion. 
 
 \t the sight of gashed and bloody faces, seen for a 
 moment in the crowd, then hidden by the press around 
 the<« Barnaby turned pale and sick. But he stood his 
 ground, and grasping his pole more firmly yet, kept his eye 
 iixexl upon the nearest soldier— nodding his head meanwhile 
 IS Hugh, with a scowling visage, whis|)ered in his ear. 
 
 The soldier came spurring on, making his horse rear as 
 the people pressed about him, ('utting at the hands of those 
 who would have grasped his rein and forced his chargei 
 back, and waving to his comrades to follow and still 
 Harnaby, without retreating an inch, waited for his coming. 
 Some called to him to fly, and some were in the very a< t 
 of closing round him to prevent bis being taken, -.vhen the 
 
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 493 
 
 m sV h r "''-■'■'''' ""-■ '"•■'Ki^"-ate for ..ffurinL. to dis- 
 
 .o ,> s" ;T "" ™"'"""" "' ""^'^ ""-«'-"-• <''.«""- 
 , r ''""'^■^- ^""1 "•"' '«-' '"Id Barnahy were l,et<er 
 
 m. Kc the hest of thcr way to thf Hoot ; whure Ihrre w,^ 
 
 '>"">ly«""dc„tcrtain„,„u a.ul safe lodK,' , "i";: 
 
 .hey^otnd certainly be joined ,.y „,any o^,t.;M:Lt::: 
 
 -.and.Hatti.yj.e:s;:;;:::::rr:rr; 
 
 had mule pnsoners to Newgate for safety. Not at al ill 
 P'.a.e.l to have so narrowly escaped ,1,.. cavalca.le , kv lo t 
 "o more t,me ,„ asking questions, l.ut hurried to the iW 
 «•; h as much speed as ,.u,h considered i, p 1 u to „ k^ 
 
 — CiiAKi.ts Dickens, A\,nm/:y AW-,-. 
 
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XXXV 
 
 The Sound of Revelry 
 and of War 
 
 THERE never was, since the days of Daiius, such a bril- 
 liant train of camp-followers as hung round the Uuke 
 of Wellington's army in the Low Countries in 1815; and led 
 it dancing and feasting, as it were, up to the very brink of 
 battle. A certain ball which a noble Uuchess gave at 
 Brussels on the 1 5th of June in the above-named year is 
 historical. All Brussels had been in a state of excitement 
 about it, and I have heard from ladies who were in that 
 town at the period, that the talk and interest of persons of 
 their own sex regarding the ball was much greater even than 
 in respect of the enemy in their front. The struggles, in- 
 trigues, and prayers to get tickets were such as only English 
 ladies will employ, in order to gain admission to the society 
 of the great of their own nation. 
 
 Several who were panting to be asked, strove in vain to 
 procure tickets ; but others were more lucky. For instance, 
 through the interest of my Lord Bareacres, Captain Georyi- 
 Osborne of the Guu-ds got a card for Captain and Mrs. 
 Osborne ; which ci-oumstance greatly elated him. Captain 
 Dobbin, who was a friend of the General commanding Ihc 
 division, in which their regiment was, came laughing one 
 day to Mrs. Osborne, and displayed a similar invitation, 
 which made Mrs. Osborne's brother Jos envious, and her 
 husband wonder how the deuce he should l>e getting into 
 society. Mr. and Mrs. Rawdon Crawley, finally were of 
 
THE SOUND OF REVEL 
 
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 she must send her corsetiire the next morning. She vowed 
 that it was a delightful ball : that there was everybody that 
 every one knew, and only a very few nobodies in the whole 
 room. It is a fact, that in a fortnight, and after three 
 dinners in general society, this young woman had got up 
 the genteel jargon so well, that a native could not speak it 
 better ; and it was only from her French being so good, that 
 you could know she was not a born woman of fashion. 
 
 George danced with Rebecca twice or thrice — how many 
 times Amelia scarcely knew. She sate quite unnoticed in 
 her corner, except when Rawdon came up with some words 
 of clumsy conversation : and later in the evening, when 
 Captain Dobbin made so bold as to bring her refreshments 
 and sit beside her. He did not like to ask her why she 
 was so sad ; but as a pretext for the tears which were filling 
 in her eyes, she told him that Mrs. Crawley had alarmed 
 her by telling her that George would go on playing. 
 
 At last George came back for Rebecca's shawl and 
 flowers. She was going away. She did not even con- 
 descend to come back and say good-bye to Amelia. The 
 poor girl let her husband come and go without saying a 
 word, and her head fell on her breast. Dobbin had been 
 called away, and was whispering deep in conversation with 
 the General of the division, his friend, and had not seen 
 this last parting. George went away then with the bouquet ; 
 but when he gave it to the owner, there lay a note, coiled 
 like a snake among the flowers. Rebecca's eye caught it at 
 once. She had been used to deal with notes in early life. 
 She put out her hind and took the nosegay. He saw by 
 her eyes as they met, that she was aware what she should 
 find there. Her husband hurried her away, still too intent 
 upon his own thoughts, seemingly, to take note of any 
 marks of recognition which might pass between his friend 
 and his wife. These were, however, but trifling. Rebecca 
 gave George her hand with one of her usual quick, knowing 
 glances, and made a curtsey and walked away. George 
 
THE SOUND OK KEVELRV Am WAR ,,, 
 
 It - ;trt::, :7s:4'r ui^ '"^ "-^^ -. 
 
 request to get her her scarf and «" ' ^^'"''^''' 
 
 than he had done twentv^L!"h f " " ^^ "° "^-e 
 last few days., but nowit Ct ",f ^ "'" "^'"^^"^ "^ 'he 
 she said, suddenly chnll L Lob'f.'' ^" ''-■ "William," 
 "youVe always be'en ^{l:, f.f'lll^^o was near her, 
 I ake me home." She did nnf I T m— I'm not well. 
 Christian name, as Geo! ' t""" ''' ^'"^'^ ''''" by his 
 went a.,ay with 'her SZ HerTJ'"'"'''' '° "''■ «« 
 and they threaded throuZh." f^!"^' were hard by; 
 thing seemed to blmorf asdr th """°"'' ^^ere every-' 
 -thin. George had be^n " g, ^ "0^" t'h"" ''^ '^"™°'" 
 h.s wife up on his return from the nart Z^' '^"'^''"6 
 quented; so she went straighrto bed n f '"' '''= ^''- 
 she did not sleep, and although h ^ T' ''"' «'"'°"gh 
 galloping of hor^'emen t re fneetnt'" r' '""'^i' ""'^ '"^ 
 
 aitr -'- --^ -"« otSirtotfp ^ 
 
 he started up after a 1 rpocTlfhi"^""^""'' '"' 
 - '" « b^ifet. Where he' dlnl^'::^ XTuS^r 
 
 had been to the card-Lblerto i^i^^k" '"""'^ "'"'• "^ 
 Oobbin looked as p^e and - - ' '''' f"^"''' 
 
 flushed and jovial ^^''^ '^ ''" ^"'"fade was 
 
 "HuIlo,Dob! Come and drink, old Dob I The Duke's 
 
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 GEORGE IV (REGENCY) 
 
 i'mous. Cive me some more, you sir;" and lie held 
 out a tremblmg glass for the licjuor. 
 
 "Come out, George," said Dobbin, still gravely :" don't 
 drink. 
 
 " D-ink ! there's nothing like it. Drink yourself, and 
 light up your lantern jaws, old boy. Here's to you." 
 
 Dobbin went up and whispered something to him, at 
 which Ceorge, giving u start and a wild hurray, tossed off 
 Ins glass, clapped it on the table, and walked away speedilv 
 .m his friend's arm. " The enemy has passed the Sambre. ' 
 William said, "and our left is already engaged. Co.ne 
 away. We are to march in three hours." 
 
 Away went George, his nerves quivering with e.xritement 
 -It the news so long looked for, so sudden when it came 
 What were love ^nd intrigue now? He thought about a 
 thousand things but these in his rapid walk to his quurters- 
 his past life and future chances— the fate which might be 
 before him— the wife, the child perhaps, from whom, un- 
 seen, he might be about to part. Oh, how he wished that 
 night's work undone ! and that with a clear conscience, at 
 least, he might say farewell to the tender and guileless being 
 by whose love he had set such little store ! 
 
 He tiiought over his brief married life. In those few 
 weeks he had frightfully dissipated his little capital. How 
 wild and reckless he had been ! Should any mischance 
 befall him : what was then left for her? How unworthv he 
 was of her .' Why had he married her ? He was not fit for 
 marriage. Wi.y had he disobeyed his father, who had been 
 always so generous to him? Hope, remorse, ambition 
 tenderness, and selfish regret filled his heart. He sate down 
 and wrote to his father, remembering what he had said once 
 before, when he was engaged to fight a duel. Dawn faintly 
 streaked the sky as he closed this farewell letter. He sealed i 
 It, and kissed the superscription. He thought how he had 
 deserted that generous father, and of the thousand kindnesses i 
 which the stern old man had done him. 
 
THE SOUND OF REVELRY 
 
 AND WAR 4y,, 
 
 that she was asleep n^ "^ ^^°""^' ''"^ he was glad 
 
 "ail. he had founT his :e ~f, " ''' """'-^ f^o.^t e 
 
 preparations for his depaZe I ''"''^"' "'''''^ """^'"fi 
 -g"=" to be s.i„, and'hTe arrant*"'" '"' ""''"^'°°'' hi! 
 '"Id silently rnade. Should h^"'"'' ''"'" ^^''^ 1"ickly 
 thought, or leave a note for h f 'r"'' '^^'^<= Amelia, he 
 of departure to herT h/ ,t t'™"!" ,'° '^-^'^ '"e new: 
 •'gam. ""^ '''"^"f '" to look at her once 
 
 should not seenf to rep olh h ' T" '" "'"'''^'""'"^^^ 
 '"rned. so soon after iSftoo^h' ^•'"■::'"^" '"^ ''^^ ^e- 
 felt more at ease, and turn J toward T'" '""^ ''^"' had 
 0"t of the room, she had f»V '"'" ^' he stept softly 
 
 came in and looLed at her ta" '"'° ^''■^'' ^'«^P- W 
 «y the pale „ight,amp he cS ;::■:""" ^'" ""'^'^ -f"' 
 'he purple eyelids were fringed aid h" 7""'' '"''^ f^^'"- 
 arm, smooth and white lav on^ / f ^' """^ """ ™"nd 
 «od •' how pure she wa^'- howler ' u""" '"'''''''■ «°°d 
 fnendless; and he, how self ^ ^'^'^ "^"'''^^' -"<i ho. 
 «me! Heart-stained, and shaml.,' '"'^ ^''"'^ '"''h 
 hed's foot, and looked at the sCn" 'I'' ■^'""'^ "' ">« 
 -who was he, to pray for '„? '^'"^ «'''• ""^^ dared he 
 «od bless her! He caLe 1 ?k'''u '"' ' ""^ "less her' 
 'he hand, the little soft Ind IwL 'f '^' ''"'^ '°°''^<^ «' 
 
 °ver the pillow noiselessly towtjsth/?' ""' ''^ ''^"' 
 Two fair arms closed t°T), ^"'"''^ P^''-' fa^. 
 
 stooped down. "lamLll" «/ """^/''^ "-'' « he 
 w'th a sob fit to break the nfM' ^ ^^'' ""^ P°" ^hild said 
 hy his own. She w^s Iwa oo:"' "r' ""^^'"^^ » ciosej 
 .'hat moment a bugle frorSl Pi! '"!?''/"' '° '^''^'•' ^t 
 '"g clearly, and waf taken uoth^n/™^ ''^^an sound- 
 •he drums of the infantry and the shri''°"" ' '"" '""'"'^ 
 the whole city awoke. ^"" P'P'^' °f 'he Scotch, 
 
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 The bugles had wakened everybody : there was no usp in 
 concealment now. George's servant was ])acking in this 
 room, Osborne coming in and out of the contiguous bed- 
 room, flinging to the man such articles as he thought fit to 
 carry on the campaign. And presently Dobbin had the op- 
 portunity which his heart coveted, and he got sight of 
 .Vmelia's face once more. But what a face it was ! So 
 white, so wild and d^soair-stricken, that the remembrance 
 of it haunted him .wards like a crime, and the sight 
 smote him with inexpressible pangs of longing and pity. 
 
 She was wrapped in a white morning dress, her hair fall- 
 ing on her shoulders, and her large eyes fixed and without 
 light. By way of helping on the preparations for the de- 
 parture, and showing that she too could be useful at a 
 moment so critical,' this poor soul had taken up a sash of 
 George's from the drawers whereon it lay, and followed him 
 to and fro with the sash in her hand, looking on mutely as 
 his packing proceeded. She came out and stood, leaning 
 against the wall, holding this sash to her bosom, from 
 which the heavy net of crimson dropped like a large stain 
 of blood. Our gentle-hearted captain felt a guilty shock as 
 he looked at her. " Good God ! ■' thought he, " and is it 
 grief like this I dared to pry into ? " And there was no 
 help ; no means to soothe and comfort this helpless, speech- 
 less misery. He stood for a moment and looked at her, 
 powerless and torn with pity, as a parent regards an infant 
 in pain. 
 
 At last George took Emmy's hand, and led her back into 
 the bedroom, from whence he came out alone. The part- 
 ing had taken place in that moment, and he was gone. 
 
 "Thank Heaven, that is over," George thought, bound- 
 ing down the stair, his sword under his arm, as he ran 
 swiftly to the alarm ground, where the regiment was mus- 
 tered, and whither trooped men and officers were hurrying 
 from their billets ; his pulse was throbbing and his cheeks 
 flushed : the great game of war was going to be played, and 
 
'-'-LKV AiVD \V.\R - 
 
 '"•P^; «"d 1 'iL'^ureT' \£TI'' ''"''' -^<">.'mem of <ioub, 
 «;""•• »f>at were all '"' ' "'"''""■^ ''^"ds of lo^ror 
 '•'■-d -".pared to Lsont;'"? °' '"■"^"'•■^ ''« hadev" 
 f"^'- ^Ml and coural the ^"'° "" ™"'«'» re,,uiZ 
 ;ood .p«.„ds, had flung' ;■„,/"""." '"^"> f'""" ^i b^ 
 ^'>a".p.on of his school^,^ ^f "'.'"' "" his might. The 
 companions had followed ,1^ '""T'' ""= ^^'os of hi 
 -■cket match to the g.lion ,.?''''' ' ^^^ 'he bo>V 
 •'f '^'"'"Phs ,■ and whfrever he ' '' '""^ '^°" ^ ''undred 
 ;;dn.jr,..d and envied 1^ 'uC;;^.^" -<^ -en td 
 
 mind strencth inH ""-'""'y and va bur > T,„, 
 
 .„j * """ couraae havo i, . ''"'e out of 
 
 "nd romances; and from theJ '" """ ^heme of bards 
 
 ''^averyso much, and preti> " "'"' "^^^ "dmire 
 
 eagerness and excitement ,v.s a„^' ^""^ "^""^ ''eeling of 
 
 'he sun was just rising as the 
 fi-llants,ght-th. band led hi T"^ "^^^an-it „as a 
 cental n,arch-,hen cane the m"""' P'^>-''"g 'he regf 
 ■e s" fh'e'7^' "''^ «°- chatrSl "" T""^"^' ^'^ 
 
 nis company. He 
 
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GEORGE IV (REGENCY) 
 
 503 
 
 lookud up, and s.uikd at Amelia, and Rssed on ; and even 
 tlie sound of the music died away. 
 
 The first news arrived at some ten o clock. At that hour 
 tho ci.^ ng of a sabre might have been heard up the 
 tairo the house where the Osbornes occup.ed a storey 
 r he Continental fashion. A knock might have be_ ,. 
 card at the kitchen door; and poor Van me, the ma.d, 
 comeback from church, fainted almost w.th terror as he 
 ooTned it and saw before her her haggard hussar. Pau me 
 openeu u oi-" would >ave called 
 
 would have screamed, but that her "V /'°"'' ^ 
 
 hc-r masters, and discovered her friend. She stifled ncr 
 scream then, and leading her hero into the kitchen, gave 
 Wm beetand the choice bits from the dinner, whic. Jo 
 had not nd the heart to taste. The hussar showed he was 
 'o ghost by the prodigious <,uantity of flesh and beer which 
 he devoured, and during the mouthfuls he told his tale of 
 
 '''wf regiment had performed prodigies of courage, and 
 hadwithsW or awhile the onset of the whole French 
 army But they were overwhelmed at last, as was the whok 
 BrTtish army by this time. Ney destroyed each regimen 
 !sk came up. The Belgians in vain interposed to preven 
 L buTcher'y of the English. The B™"--''- -- 
 outed and had fled-their Duke was killed. It wa a 
 :,eneral dibicU. He sought to drown his sorrow for the 
 
 'ti? M^lolphledley-s valet, who had come into the 
 
 kitchen he^dthe'conversation, and rushed out to inform 
 
 kitchen ne ,„ ,,e shrieked to Jos. " Milor 
 
 "r ■ prisoner the Duke of Brunswick is killed; the 
 
 BKUsh army is in full flip'-t ; there is only °ne man es^ped 
 
 aT i« in the kitchen now— come and hear him." So Jos 
 
 i^' " *at tptt-nt, where Regulus stiU sate on the 
 
 kitchen table, and clung fast to his flagon of beer. In the 
 
 best French ;hich he could muster, and w.ach was, in sooth 
 
 o averyungrammatical sort, Jos besought the hussar to tell 
 
rU^ SOU.VO OK RHVKL.v AND U^r ,,.^ 
 
 H^ '.ad sec,',;: j "f ;r„'?' l"?',^'"'" -" •■- '-•^ 
 
 "'^'-trij^i^^r- rr«'•""^- 
 Rmnours of various na.u ' "''^ '^'^^'^'^ *"<= ''"^V- 
 
 utterly defeated another! "^^' ™^»™s had heen 
 
 heen attacked and cohered a !"''"-; "'"«"^" "ho had 
 l'--W their gr.,.und. Vhi "1 t r,',„ '^ '^^ '^^ '''"" had 
 
 No Frenchmen had „ ade ,7 ""^ ^"' ''''^"«''^- 
 
 '-d come in from thrat, Wnr^"""- ''^^««'^- 
 more favourable; at last an ,i ^ '^ '''P°"' "'"'^ ""d 
 Brussels V.h despatch's for thr ■"""'" """"">■ ^'^^'^''ed 
 «ho placarded pITsem h ou h ^"1""'''"" "' ""^ '"''-' 
 nouncen,ent of the success of ,h,™ ^" °*"''' ^- 
 and the entire repulse of tt . < "' ^""'^"^ ^^"^ 
 
 hours' battle. The aide de camo" Tf" ''''' ^'^'^^ ^ ^^ 
 "■ne while Jos Sedley was buTinrh' T "'"'"' »"'-' 
 'o escape, or was insplctin. h, ^ ' ^°'''' ""^•^«""h 
 reached .'.is own hotel he found ^ """■ ^^'''^" *>'■■ 
 '"habitants on the threshold di " '""'^ "' '"' """'""us 
 -as no doubt as to ■ u.h Zd "f "' ""-' "''''' ' ">--■ 
 '"""'cate it to the ladies under h k' "'"' "'' '" =°"'- 
 'hink it was necessary t^LlIthen'^ '^.'T "'= ''■'^ ""' 
 take leave of them, ho v he hid k ^.^ >■' '"''"''''' '° 
 price he had paid f^r Zm ^^^' '•°'^'=^' '"'^ *hat a 
 
 
 
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 ■ matter to tlicm, who 
 
 But sucrcis or defeat was a r 
 had only ihoiinht for the safety of those they loved. 
 Amelia, at the i ws of the victory, became still more 
 agitated ever-, ilian before. She was for going that moment 
 to the army. She besought her brother with tears to con- 
 duct her thither. Her doubts and terrors reached their 
 paroxysm ; and the poor girl, who for ma'iy hours had been 
 plunged into stupor, raved and ran hitlicr and thither m 
 hysteric insanity— a piteous sight. No man writhing in 
 pain on the hard-fought field fifteen miles ^fi— where lay, 
 after their struggles, so many of the brave— no man su.Tered 
 more keenly than t..is poor, harmless victim of the war. 
 Jos could not bear the sight of her pain. He left his 
 sister in the charge of her stouter female companion, and 
 descended once more to the threshold of the ho el, where 
 everybody still lingered, and talked, and waited for more 
 news. 
 
 It grew to be broad daylight as they stood here, and 
 fresh news began to arrive from the war, brouglit by men 
 who had been actors in the scene. Waggons and long 
 country cart; laden with wounded came rolling into the 
 town ; ghastly groans i;anie from within them, and haggard 
 faces looked up sadly from out of the straw. Jos Sedley 
 was looking at one of these carriages with a pamfiil 
 curiosity— the moans of the people within were frightful— 
 the wearied horses coulU hardly pull the cart. " Stop ! 
 Stop ! " iv feeble voice cried from the straw, and the carriage 
 stopped i^Dposite Mr. Sedley's hotel. 
 
 " It is C.orge, I know it is ! " cried Amelia, rushing in 
 a moment to the balcony, with a pallid face and loose 
 flowing hair. It was not George, however, but it was the 
 next best thing : it was news of him. It was poor Tom 
 Stubble, who had marched out of Brussels so gallantly 
 twenty-four hours before, bearing the colours of the regi- 
 ment, which he had defended very gallantly upon the field. 
 A French lancer had speared the young Ensign in the leg, 
 
TMK SOUND or REVELRY .v^o ^AR ,„, 
 
 "li" Ml, still hravely 
 
 llolill, 
 
 <« his rta 
 
 the poor l,o). in a cart and h. I ''i '' ''''"' ''"""•' '"' 
 JirussHs. ' ''"'' '''- ''•■"! I"'" l-roiight hark to 
 
 j--„':;::';;,:::;,^-x;r:;^ 
 
 •■""IDol-hinsaidlv^as an'i "'^- "''^'"■""' ""'1- 
 
 ^;;-'''«."s. n,/r;,;;':^,r';a::";:,'^:- ilT-— 
 
 f;ll<»v s tho,,,|„s during (he |„„„ ^i^. ^ , ' '"■" >'"""« 
 
 -ht.;;:;;^;:;,;;r-7-'- 
 
 '"™es^1.:";:r,:'';V''^'''''"<''-^^'"''.nndall.he 
 
 rushed down o • n, ^^u ","' '"" ""J"^'^ "■''•-• '"^ 
 '•-n, tlu. halcon, V r ,, ,'V"'"-\''-' -'^--l hi", 
 "-men when .|,ey J^^,uT\ "'" ^^"""'^'^ "^ "'"-^ 
 '">'n their Imshand er a ' i""" t"' "" "'''■'' "'"^ 
 AnKhafellon her good Lnd ne- ? T" ^^P'"^^' 
 ■nwl-tagratelu, .««ion o ';r^;j';;; ^^""'--1 '-- 
 
 could have had n^ 1 . , ^r '"'' "'-'"•""'^ '^'"■^''•'i"". 
 
 «-ay. She and Mrs O'Dow ■ ■ ''"''' ''"' '" '"-'■■ 
 
 wounded lad, whose pa t Iv ": ""•■'"^^'""^ ">' "- 
 'Imythus fv .d unonh r ''V'7>' ''"■'-•■■^■- and in the 
 over her p. , ,^| an i ' ""-'" '''■''' ""' '""- '" l'ro,„i 
 
 -n tears'and tr:^;:^ XM.r '"^^^^": "" '" '- 
 I«tient told in his simplf Ls"i on h ' ""= >■"""« 
 
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 GEORGE IV (REGENCY) 
 
 h.ul siifr.aa si'Virrly. 'I'lu) h.id li>sl viry nmny offiren 
 and im'ti. The Major's liorso had l)euii slint undur liitn as 
 the reginu-nt charged, and they all thminht that O' Dowel 
 was gone, and that Dohlihi had got his majority, until on 
 their return from the charxe to their old ground, the Nh.jor 
 was discovered seated on I'yranius's carcass, refreshing 
 himself ''roni a ease liotlle. It was Captain Osborne ihil 
 cut down the French lancer who had sinared the Ivnsign. 
 Amelia turned so pale at the notion, that Mrs. O'Uowd 
 stopped the young Knsign in his story. And it was Cap- 
 tain Dobbin who at the end of the day, though wouiuU-d 
 himself, took up the lad in his arms and carried him to the 
 surgeon, and thenre to the cart which was to bring him 
 back to Brussels. And it was he who promised the driver 
 two louis if he would make his way to Mr. Sedley's hotel 
 in the city, and tell Mrs. Captain Osborne that the action 
 was over, and that her husliand was unhurt and well. 
 
 In tending her iiatient, and in thinking of the wonderful 
 escapes of the day before, her second day jxissed away not 
 too slowly with Amelia. There was only one man in the army 
 for her ; .'.nd as long as he was well, it must be owned thai 
 its movements interested her little. All the reports which 
 Jos brought from the streets fell very vaguely on her ears ; 
 though they were sufficient to give that timorous gentleman, 
 and many other people then in Brussels, every disiiuiet. 
 The French had been repulsed certainly, but it was after a 
 severe and doubtful struggle, and with only a division of 
 the French army. The Emi)eror, with the main body, was 
 away at I.igny, where he had utterly annihilated the I'rus 
 sians, and was now free to bring his whole force to liear 
 upon the allies. 'l"he Duke of Wellington was retreating 
 upon the capital, and a great battle must be fought under 
 its walls probably, of which the chances were more than 
 doubtful. The Duke of Wellington had but twenty 
 thousand British troops on whom he could rely, for the 
 Hermans were r; .v militia, the Belgians disafTected ; and 
 
THE SOUND OK KUVELRY .WD WAK -,07 
 
 which «./, ilTni: 1 t: fa;:;''*^^^^''''^^^"'"'- 
 
 KnilKTor was scattered .0 , , ? "''''"'"' '" "'«' 
 
 came, this robust woman went back r,h K u""""'"*-' 
 
 and her major had . eir bi let a h 'r"''"'-' ^•" 
 
 elabcte and splendid toLt;' bjr.t hrdaT^X" 
 very possible that whilst alone in th ,. Vh u ' '' 
 
 husband had inhabited and ^here his 1.7,^':'""'' '" 
 pillow, and his cane sto'od in the^^r r,^ p'a yfaU '^^^ 
 
 ne^ss;'z.T:::^S':^in"r""'^^-- 
 
 stopped all of a sudden '" ""-' ^"""""^d'-g 
 
 AH of u, have road of what occurred during that interval. 
 
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 GEORGE IV (REGENCY) 
 
 The tale is in every Englisliman's mouth : and you and 1, 
 who were children when the great battle was won and lost, 
 are never tired of hearing and recounting the history of that 
 famous action. Its remembrance rankles still in the 
 bosoms of millions of the countrymen of those bravi: men 
 who lost the day. They pant for an opportunity of reveng- 
 ing that humiliation ; and if a contest, ending in a victory 
 on their part, should ensue, elating them in their turn, and 
 leaving its cursed legacy of hatred and rage behind to us, 
 there is no end to the so-called glory and shame, and to the 
 alternations of successful and unsuccessful murder, in which 
 two high-spirited nations might engage. Centuries hence, 
 we Frenchmen and Englishmen might be boasting and 
 killing each other still, carrying out bravely the Devil's code 
 of honour. 
 
 All our friends took their share and fought like men in 
 the great field. All day long, whilst the women were pray- 
 ing ten miles away, the lines of the dauntless English 
 infantry were receiving and repelling tlie furious charges of 
 the French horsemen. Guns which were heard at Brussels 
 were ploughing up their ranks, and comrades falling, and 
 the resolute survivors closing in. Towards evening, the 
 attack of the French, repe.ated and resisted so bravely, 
 slackened in its fury. They had other foes besides the 
 British to engage, or were preparing for a final onset. It 
 came at last : the columns of the Imperial Guard marched 
 up the hill of Saint Jean, at length and at once to sweep 
 the English from the height which they had maintained all 
 day, and spite of all— unscared by the thunder of the 
 artillery, which hurled death from the English line— the 
 dark rolling column pressed on and up the hill. It seemed 
 almost to crest the eminence, when it begai. to wave and 
 falter. Then it stopped, still facing the shot. Then at 
 last the English troops rushed from the post from which no 
 enemy had been able to dislodjje them, and the Guard 
 turned and fled. 
 
THE SOUND OF REVEr.RV AND WAR ,o. 
 
 -niS'^ "ZC^-'' at I..,.e,s--.he pursuit rolled 
 
 '^e:^;::?^^^"'^'^Sri:i------ 
 
 -che7 K, ? n^"''^ °f Q-t.e ..as and Ua.erloo 
 
 published the rllt o th.?' •,'""•• ''''' ^'^'^ ^rst 
 
 intelligence all linMand thrT i f ' '" "'''''^'' (-''""'""^ 
 
 i:ar.iculars,,,enfol,idVanfaJ';h '"""'"' "^'^ f-^^ 
 the victories came the lisf^f .^ announcement of 
 
 ^Vho can tell the dread Uk''^"?""''*^'' "^^ ""^ '^'ain. 
 
 opened and read f Set It ."''"'„ "'"' '^^''"°g"« '^as 
 aln,ost through the three lin T"^ 7""^" ""'^ homestead 
 "f tl>e battles .rF anders ' 7'!' "'' ^''^^^ "^-^^'^ '""^'"S 
 and gratitude, berea entt, nd •'.' ''"""^'^ "' '^^""'''-" 
 'ist^ of the egimental lo sf "'"^ '^''^""'>'' ^'^en the 
 
 became knownNrheteVthe/'':-^"? "'^"6''' ^"^ " 
 e^ca,,ed or fallen TZ', ^T' ''."""^ and relative had 
 
 looking back to a file f ^ht n "'" ""'' '"'^ '-""^"^ "^ 
 -n now, fee, at^'Li^r.^ l^^l.^ '""^ -«' 
 exprctation. The lists r,f '"/"'^ hrcathless pause of 
 day ;o day: you ,to' ' Th , " "''^ ^"^'^ "" f™", 
 
 be continued' i, ouT,"4 ' rwT '" ' '^'->- "'hich is to 
 have been as those pp"^ fo[lo'wed ', "l'"""'''^ "'-' 
 the press; and if such an in. "' ' ""^'^ ^'''^ f™"> 
 
 country, and abo t a bat'le "''^"^' ^""'^ ^'e felt in our 
 our people were cng^ed hi^oT '"' '"T"'^ "'""^^'"^ "^ 
 for twenty years before ^he " Delnf """^""'" "^ ^"^°P« 
 thousands, but by milh^^'^eCe ^f":.;: "«""? "" ''>' 
 
 ^;"en.y. wounded horr,b,som::^;!;r;:;t:::';- 
 
 The girls indulged unrestrlS in t /:""/ ""' '^ :=^''^^- 
 stricken old father was «,;ii '""""^Sn^. Ihegloom- 
 nnd sorrow. '"" "'""" ''""« ''o"" by hi fate 
 
310 
 
 GEORGE IV (REGENCY) 
 
 Whatever his sensations miglit have been, however, the 
 stern old man would have no confidant. He never men- 
 tioned his son's name to his daughters ; but ordered the 
 elder to place all the femiiles of the establishment in 
 mourning, and desired that the male servants should be 
 similarly attired in deep black. 
 
 About three weeks after the i8th of June, Mr. Osborne's 
 acquaintance, Sir William Dobbin, called at Mr. Osborne's 
 house in Russell Square, with a very pale and agitated face, 
 and insisted upon seeing that gentleman. Ushered into his 
 room, and after a few words, which neither the speaker 
 nor the host understood, the former produced from an 
 enclosure a letter sealed with a large red seal. " My .son, 
 •Major Dobbin," the Alderman said, with some hesitation, 
 
 " despatched me .a letter by an officer of the th, who 
 
 arrived in town to-day. My son's letter contains one for 
 you, Osborne." The Alderman placed the letter on the 
 table, and Osborne stared at him for a moment or two 
 in silence. His looks frightened the ambassador, who, 
 after looking guiltily for a little time at the grief-stricken 
 man, hurried away without another word. 
 
 The letter was in George's well-known bold handwriting. 
 It was that one which he had written before daybreak on the 
 i6th of June, and just before he took leave of Amelia. The 
 great red seal was emblazoned with the sham coat of arms 
 which Osborne had assumed from the Peerage, with " Pax 
 in bello " for a motto ; that of the ducal house with which 
 the vain old man tried to fancy himself connected. The 
 hand that signed it would never hold pen or sword more. 
 The very seal that sealed it had been robbed from George's 
 dead body as it lay on the field of battle. The father 
 knew nothing of this, but sat and looked at the letter in 
 terrified vacancy. He almost fell when he went to open it. 
 Have you ever had a difference with a dear friend ? How 
 his letters, written in the period of love and confidence, 
 sicken and rebuke you ! What a dreary mourning it is to 
 
THE SOUND OF REVELRY AND WAR -„ 
 
 d«cll 
 \Miat lying 
 
 i^ire:-;:!''^::™'^'"^-— rde: 
 
 What dark, cruel 
 "f us have got 
 
 epitaph: 
 
 ' comments 
 •ritten 
 
 make over the 
 upon Life and \ 
 
 ad affcTtion ! 
 corpse of J.ovt 
 
 '" us nave Kot or iirm»„ i 'anines j 
 
 c;ose.-skele^ns'::hrt rti^"':^'''-: The, 
 
 hied 
 
 'anities ! 
 em. 'J'l 
 Osborne 
 
 Most 
 
 ■ are 
 
 l"o vrou, to ackn :ie1he"tn7 "'"'''■ "« "^^ ^een 
 felt He only said thafo , hreve^r: """' ''' '"'^" 
 wshed to bid hi. father farewjl a„d 1? 'T """"'^ "^ 
 his good offices for the wife • u '"'^"'"'y to implore 
 
 "horn he ief, behind hTm^ ^^' '"^ ^" "'^ ^hild- 
 "- irregularities and h s L,," "''""^J''^ -""'^ition that 
 large part of his mott rS ^t le T ,"" "'"' ^"^^''^ "-'^■d » 
 father for his former generouc^^"" "'^ "'^"''«' h'^ 
 '"•"' that if he fell on the fie d'^', ""^ '" "-""-d 
 a manner worthy „f the nalt o C I^ (^' ."^ "-'^ - "' 
 
 If the sisters had any an^ietv it I °"'- 
 
 and towards the end'of ^e'^ l'"^''^''''^'^^'-'""'' 
 announcement that he was .1^ k !, ''^ '^"' father's 
 «"'"'-. but they knew ItCe tTh "^ '''" ""' ^^ 
 turned towards Belgium and w ' "'P' """''' ^e 
 
 widow was still in Bru"sl. ""'"^ •"^' ^'™rge's 
 
 \ ery many of the brave th whn h.A «• 
 
 upon both days of action, were till n h"''"'^ ^"•^^'^'>- 
 
 auumn, recovering of their wound Th "''''' '" ""•■ 
 military hospital for months after fh' '"^ ""^ ^ ™^t 
 
 men and officers began to rallvfron.^.^''u' ""''''''' ""^ as 
 and places of public reorTswarm.'K''"''-^' "^<^ gardens 
 old and young, who "s rTCH "'' '"""'^'^ "triors, 
 gambling and gaiety Lidnv, ""^ °^ '^'"''^' f'-'" to 
 Kair wilfdo. Mr OsZrnefound "'' " '"-'"'"'-• "^ ^'-"y 
 
 easily. He knew thlir v °"' •'*°'"'-' °f the ,i 
 
 used'to follow :.hTpr:l':r """^-'''-d bad be , 
 
 regiment, and loved fo^rar'Lrd'itrr^'^^ '" "'^■ 
 -^'^l^eenoneofthenumbe. On TdJ ^f^-^ 
 
5" 
 
 GEORGE IV (REGENCY) 
 
 at Brussels, and as he issued from his hotel, wliich faced 
 the Park, he saw a soldier in the well-known facings, re- 
 posing on a stone bench in the garden, and went and sate 
 down trembling l)y th'; wounded convalescent man. 
 
 " Were you in f Captain Osborne's company ? " he said, 
 and added, after a pause, " He was my son, sir." 
 
 The man was not of the (Captain's company, l)ut he lifted 
 up his unwounded arm and touched his cap sadly and re- 
 spectfully to the haggard, broken-spirited gentleman who 
 questioned him. "The whole army didn't contain a finer 
 or a better officer," the soldier said. " 'I'he Sergeant of the 
 Captain's company (Captain Raymond had it now) was in 
 town, though, and was just well of a shot in the shoulder. 
 His honour might scj him if he liked, who could tell him 
 
 anything he wanted to know about — about the th's 
 
 actions. But his honour had seen Major Dobbin, no doubt, 
 the brave Captain's 'great friend ; and Mrs. Osborne, who was 
 here too, and had been very bad, he heard everybody say. 
 They say she was out of her mind like for six weeks or 
 more. But yo'ir honour knows all about that — and asking 
 your pardon " — the man added. 
 
 Osborne put a guinea into the soldier's hand, and told 
 him he should have another if he would bring the Sergeant 
 to the Hotel du Pare : a prnnnse which very soon brought 
 the desired officer to Mr. Osliome's presence. And the 
 first soldier went away ; and after telling a comrade or two 
 how Captain Osborne's father was arrived, and what a free- 
 handed generous gentleman he was, they went and made 
 good cheer with drink and feasting, as long as the guinea; 
 lasted which had come from the proud purse of the mourn- 
 ing old father. 
 
 In the Sergeant's company, who was also just convalescent, 
 Osborne made the journey of Waterlo', ai d Quatre Bras, 
 a journey which thousands of his countrymen were then 
 taking. He took the Sergeant with him in his carriage, and 
 went through both fields under his guidance. He saw the 
 
THE SOUND OF REVELRY AND AVAR -,,3 
 
 mmimm 
 
 under the rain of .he ni.tl'Z eve fenT ^^IT'^' 
 was the position which they ,00k and he d linJ th. H "" 
 forming time after time to receive the chl .f. ^''^' 
 
 Brussels," the Sergeant said. :' a loVvoice "an/h h'!'" 
 burted, as your honour knows " 1 iJ '"' *""' 
 
 hunters about the place werH; '^'"'^"'^ ^"'^ '■^"<=- 
 
 the soldier told hif tL^ T^e^^^^^ara^^lt 7' ^ 
 
 — W. M. Thackeray, Vanity /■air. 
 
XXXVI 
 
 The New Warfare 
 
 TOWARDS midnight the teasing, monotonous bark of 
 the house-dog disturbed the quietude of a certam 
 rectory in Yorkshire. Two girl kept vigil there, Caroline 
 Helstone, the rector's niece, and her friend, Shirley Keeldar. 
 Caroline Helstone rose, and made her way noiselessly through 
 the dark passages to the kitchen, intending to appease the 
 doF with a piece of bread : she succeeded. On returning 
 to the dining-room, she found it all dark, Miss Keeldar 
 having extinguish.-d the candle : the outhne of her shape 
 was visible near the still open window, leaning out. Miss 
 Helstone asked no questions : she stole to her side, ihe 
 dog recommenced barking furiously ; suddenly he stopped, 
 and seemed to listen. The occupants of the din.ng-room 
 listened too, and not merely now to the flow of the mill- 
 stream : there was a nearer, though a muffled sound on the 
 road below the churchyard ; a measu.ed, beating, approach- 
 ing sound ; a dull tramp of marching feet. 
 
 It drew near. Those who listened, by degrees compre- 
 hended it. extent. It was not the tread of two, nor of a 
 do.en, nor of a score of men : it was the tread of hundreds. 
 They could see nothing: the high shrubs of the garOen 
 formed a leafy screen between them and the road. o 
 hear, however, was not enough ; and this they felt as the 
 troop trod forwards, and seemed actually passing the 
 Rectory. They felt it more when a human voice— though 
 that voice spoke but one word-broke the hush of the 
 night. 
 
THE NEW WARFAKE 
 
 513 
 
 " Halt ! ■• 
 
 A lialt followed : the march was arrested Th,-,, n 
 
 "We must hear this," said Shirley. 
 
 no have c,uuted the house had she been alon tbut Zhe e 
 
 .te't Za dXrS fbehindt-^^^'H' "' ^"^^ 
 at her Triend;; sid'e.'Xrd S :.r;"tS 
 
 "S;ti^^--:;:i:--'--°-chS 
 
 "It louks a rambling old building. Who lives in it 
 besides the damned parson ? " 
 
 '■ Only three women : his niece and two servants." 
 
 IJo you know where t^ey sleep ? " 
 ;; The lasses behind : the niece in a front room." 
 
 .And Helstone ? " 
 
 " Yonder is his chamber. He uses burning a light ■ but 
 I see none now." ^ ° ' "' 
 
 " Where would you get in ? " 
 
 "If I were ordered to do his job-and he desarves it- 
 
 d try yond' long window: it o,,ens to the dining-room- 
 
 I cou^d grope my way upstairs, and I know his chamber " ' 
 
 How would you manage about the women foIkT" 
 
 Let em alone, except they shrieked, and -hen I'd soon 
 
 r T^u Ju'"''''^ "'^" '° «'«! '''<^ ''■d chap a lee, if 
 he waked, he'd be dangerous." ' ' 
 
 " Has he arms ? " 
 
 " Fire-arms, alius,— and alius loadened » 
 
 thi'?'" ^'°,?^ ^ ^°°' '° ''°P "^ f'"^; " ^hot would give 
 the alarm : Moore would be on us before we could turn 
 round. We should miss our main object " 
 
5i6 WILLIAM IV 
 
 "You might go on, I tell you. I'd engage Helsloiie 
 alone." 
 
 A lause. One of the party dropiied some weapon which 
 rang on the stone causeway ; at this sound the Rectory dog 
 barked again furiously — fiercely. 
 
 " That spoils all ! " said the voice ; " he'll awake : a noise 
 like that might rouse the dead. You did not say llierc was 
 a dog. Damn you I Forward ! " 
 
 Forward they went,— tramp, tramp,— with mustering 
 manifold, slow-filing tread. They were gone. 
 
 Shirley stood erect ; looked over the wall, along the road. 
 " Not a soul remains," she said. 
 
 She stood and mused. " Thank Cud ! " was the ne.\t 
 observation. 
 
 Caroline repeated the ejaculation, not in so steady a 
 tone : she was trembling much ; her heart was beating fast 
 and thick ; her fate was cold ; her forehead damp. 
 
 " Thank God for us ! " she leiterated ; " but what will 
 happen elsewhere? They have passed us by that they 
 may make sure of others." 
 
 "They have done well," returned Shirley with com- 
 posure : " the others will defend themselves,— they can do 
 it,— they are prepared for them : with us it is otherwise. 
 My finger was on the trigger of this pistol. I was quite 
 ready to give that man, if he had entered, such a greeting 
 as he little calculated on ; but behind him followed three 
 hundred: I had neither three hundred hands nor three 
 hundred weapons. I could not have effectually protected 
 either you, myself, or the two poor women asleep undei 
 that roof; therefore I again earnestly thank God for insult 
 and peril escaped." _ . 
 
 After a second pause, she continued : " What is it my 
 duty ana wisdom to do next ? Not to stay here inactive, I 
 am glad to say, but of course to walk over to the Hollow. 
 " To the Hollow, Shirley ? " 
 " To the Hollow. Will you go with me ? " 
 
THE NEW WARFARE 
 
 5J7 
 
 ;; Where those men are gone?" 
 rhey have taken the hiL'hwav • we ,hnnW . 
 them : the road over the r,Xt ' ' '"°"''' "°« encounter 
 
 •he spea'jtVh'eV::;:- ^;:" ^r."^""'"'^' "•" "--- 
 
 otherwise than scared a,Th„ '^ ° «° ' '"■' '"'^"^^^ *as 
 
 ^»e fe,t .he 00^,"^ alt dorsS/ ''"'• ^"' ''-"- 
 
 a^ se'rrwrcrnSndin^ "'"'^r ""<^ '-- ^" 
 
 going for, Gary ? " '' '^° >"" ''"°>'' "hat we are 
 
 liy^^--"o-bec3use you wish it " 
 
 of n.iU'" Whatl^do^S" °'^'''^"' '" ^ ---^ -P"- 
 husband 1 The moon?L ' ^°" T"'" '"^'"-- '» => »'«-■ 
 moment; and theLnen at th "°' "^'" "^''" >°"- ^' ">is 
 'han you; busy filers and 'o f ",'kT "°' '""'^"^ "^^ 
 and dismayed and^'otedvo,..-/"'^ terror-struck. 
 
 ^t-jrisSr^T-^a-i- 
 
 acute and s:"n"b,e,VhWe;,"Tl;.ir' '°"^ '"' >°" - 
 gladly go with you r " ^ ' '" «° *'"^ y^" ' I will 
 
 for"!ne:br;o"u'wouJt.:r" f^^'-^'y-d -ekly 
 Moore:butinZhreisno ''""^ '"'^ ^'^"^'^ <^'^^ f"^ 
 we run no risk at aJl ' '"'^"™ °' ^^""^ '""'ght,- 
 
 fear r TshS ^vf brSt ^"'^ 'n'^ " "" "- 
 possibly run, Shirley \tl° and" -'ft"' " ^"^ ^^" 
 across the fields." '^ "'' ■ '^' ""^ g° ^'^ight 
 
 " But you cannot climb walls ? " 
 
 "To-night I can." 
 
 be'St ctsi'?"' '-''''' ^"' '"« "--^ "hich we shall 
 
 K.S. 
 
 O o 
 
5i8 
 
 WILLIAM IV 
 
 i::.::.:" 'ihey ra„. Many a wall checUcd, but did 
 
 7Wffl7Lm Shirley was surc-fmitud and ag.le; she 
 
 rr;i^^e a dee7.hen »-;--, -l^l^ra 
 
 A qu ise" heTge bou-^ded the la,t field : they lost time m 
 feling a U. >" it : the aperture, when found, was narrow 
 
 he plank su.cessf.aiy and fearlessly many a t.me before. 
 
 Taroline had never yet dared to risk the transit. 
 Ti'lcar^ you across," said Miss Keeldar: "you are 
 
 lii;ht and I am not weak ; let me try." 
 
 "if I fa 1 in, you may fish me out," was the answer, as a 
 
 erateul queee compiessed her hand. Carohi;^, without 
 
 flu ne tmd forward on the trembling plank as if it were a 
 ^mil bn of the firm turf: Shirley, who followed, did not 
 
 oros it more resolutely or safely. In their present humour 
 
 on hir present errand, a strong and foaming channe 
 .ou Id have been a barrier to neither. At «he -onjent they 
 were above the control either of nre or water ; all Stilbro 
 Moor, alight and alow with bonfires, would not have stopped 
 them nor would Calder or Aire thundering in flood. Yet 
 one sound made them pause. Scarce had they set foot on 
 the solid opposite bank, when a shot split the air from the 
 north One second lapsed. Further off. burst a like note 
 Tthe south. AVithin the space of three minutes, similar 
 signals boomed in the east and west. kc„^.„h 
 
 " I thought we were dead at the first explosion,' observed 
 Shirle , drLing a long breath. " I felt myself hit m the 
 temples, and 1 concluded your heart was pierced ; but the 
 
THE NEW WAKI-ARE 
 
 road hcyond' A ,""„ 'f ' ''^' >-'' ^ ">'>■ '""Id s... ,„.. 
 too la,. „ ^,,, ;^„ '" ^^\ ";"J-'..ro : ,hc.y wcTe already 
 
 ^'"-d )ard gate andtlTfi"""""^-" '" f^"' "f "- 
 -mly addressing hcn>- .iH ,, T7/'""'' »"h'". "PPar- 
 
 "S"rely h. i, prepared ' f' ' ""^ """''■" "'"""'' "• 
 
 join hil;::"' ' """''■• "^- •' ' -„,e only f.,r him. I ,hall 
 .ranc:r;:yl;d:!.'''"'"^^"- P--l.-i.no en. 
 
 ,,„ „j, i,,." "'"^"^ ^i » ^-re. „,e,h..d which I know-I 
 "Not with my leave" 
 
 ^r^::^tS'^^ 'z-r ''- ^"-^ """ ^^^ 
 
 ^he went on authorita;,' ^ly "":! ^^^^P ^^^^^^ >- stir," 
 would be both shocked an/l ..„,. 1 "'oment, Moore 
 
 you or me. Men nev^r wan, lom "''''^'' '1 ""' ^^'^ -"'- 
 real danger." *°""'" "''^ ""^'n 'n time of 
 
 " I would not trouble— I «oiil,l h,.i„ u- -, 
 ""o-Byinspiringhijra!::^-^;^ 
 
530 
 
 WILLIAM IV 
 
 are nol the d*y. of chivalry : it i« not A titt at a tournament 
 "e art I;oin« to l-choM, but a strugnlc atx,ut money, and 
 
 fuod, and life. " , 
 
 " It is natural that I .hould be at his side. 
 
 .. A;:,uc.en of hi. heart? Hi, mill in hi, >»dy-love Cary 
 Backed by hi, factory and hi, frames, he ha, all the en 
 cour^ement he want, or can know. It i, no. for love or 
 beaZbu"for ledger ..nd broadcloth, he i, go.ng to break 
 a »pear. Uon't be wntimental ; Robtrt i, nol so. 
 
 " 1 could help him-1 will seek him." 
 
 .■Off then-I let you go-seek Moore, you 11 not find 
 
 "'she loosened her hold. Caroline s,K.d like levelled shaft 
 from bent oow ; after her rang a jesting, g.b.ng laugh. 
 .. Look well there is no mistake ! " was the warnmg given. 
 
 But there u<as a mistake. Mis, Helstone paused, hesi- 
 tated, ga«d. The figure had suddenly retreated from the 
 gate, and was running back hastily to the mill. 
 
 " Make haste, Una ! " cried Shirley ; " meet him I 
 
 ''"caroHne slowly returned. "It is not Robert,'^ she si ; 
 " it has neither his height, form, nor bearing. 
 
 .. I saw it was not Robert when I let you go. How could 
 you imagine it? It is a shabby little figure of a private 
 soldier: they had posted him as sentinel. He is safe n 
 the mill now ; I saw the door open and a.lmit him. My 
 mind grows easier ; Robert is prepared : our warning would 
 have been superfluous, and now I am thanUul we came 
 too late to give it : it has saved us the trouble of a scene. 
 How fine to have entered the counting-house toute fperdui, 
 and to have found oneself in presence of Messrs. Armitage 
 and Ramsden smoking, Malone swaggering your uncle 
 sneering, Mr. Sykes sipping a cordial, and Moore himself 
 in his cold man-of-business vein: I am glad we missed 
 
 " i wonder if there are many in ihe mill, Shirley ! " 
 
THE NEW WARFAKE 
 
 «/Xir r,„^:s: *'■'•'«- -' 
 
 and the corndealer whh I "^ ""-" ""'"""■ "^^ '^'"'Wer, 
 
 whispcrinc tree, Ih '' "'^'"' '" '"""^ «»"- ""d 'l-csc 
 
 gathe^" ' '' "'"""^ "=P°" °'"- f"«"d» will no. come to 
 
 llirough. ThevwII T JT ^"^ ""-"y "'^ Pouring 
 ."any? AVould to'cL I we e "little n"' r'"'"" "" 
 
 S:r:;^::^rvrid'°^r"^---"' 
 
 ^'^4.ico.Mt;;;i,rso:et:r^'"""'-^" 
 
 They come on ! " cried Shirlev " H . ■ , 
 
 A crash — smash— shiver stm.. j > ■ 
 
 sniver— stopped their whispers. .\ 
 
522 WILLIAM IV 
 
 simukancously-hurlcd volley of stor-js had salulud the broad 
 front of the mill, with all its windows ; and now every pane 
 of every lattice lay in shattered and pounded fragments. A 
 yell followed this demonstration— a rioters' yell— a North- 
 of-England-a Yorkshire— a West-Riding-a West-Riding- 
 clothing-district-of-York shire rioters' yell. You never heard 
 that sound, perhaps, reader? So much the better for your 
 ears-perhaps for your heart ; since, if it rends the air in 
 hate to yourself, or to the men or principles you approve, 
 the interests to which you wish well. Wrath wakens to the 
 cry of Hate : the Lion shakes his mane, and rises to thu 
 howl of the Hyena : Caste stands up, ireful, against Caste ; 
 and the indignant, wronged spirit of the Middle Rank bears 
 down in zeal and scorn on the famished and furious mass 
 of the Operative Class. It is difficult to be tolerant- 
 difficult to be just- in such moments. 
 
 Caroline rose, Shirley put her arm round her : they stood 
 together as still as the straight stems of two trees. That 
 yell was a long one, and when it ceased, the night was yet 
 full of the swaying and murmuring of a crowd. 
 
 " What next?" was the question of the listeners. Nothing 
 came yet. The mill remained mute as a mausoleum. 
 " He cannot be alone ! " whispered Caroline. 
 " I would stake all I have, that he is as little alone as he 
 is alarmed," responded Shirley. 
 
 Shots were discharged by the rioters. Had the defenders 
 waited for this signal ? It seemed so. The hitherto inert 
 and passive mill woke ; fire flashed from its empty window- 
 frames ; a volley of musketry pealed sharp through the 
 
 Hollow. , , 
 
 "Moore speaks at last!" said Shirley, "and he seems 
 to have the gift of tongues : that was not a single voice." 
 
 " He has been forbearing ; no one can accuse him of 
 rashness," alleged Caroline ; "their discharge preceded his : 
 ihey broke his gates and his windows ; they fired at his gar- 
 rison before he repelled them." 
 
THE NEW WARFARE 523 
 
 What was goint! on now? It seemed dilHcult, in the 
 darkness, to distinguish, but something terrible a still 
 renewing tumult, was obvious; fierce attacks, desperae 
 repulses; the mill-yard. the mill ."tself. was ful of battt 
 novcment: there was scarcely any cessation now of the 
 discharge of firearms; and there was struggling, rushing 
 rumpling, and shouting between. The aim of the as ".ilam: 
 berth '" ^ '%r"-'[ "^^ ■"'"• """ "f "'<-■ defendants to 
 
 back S °^- tI ?":' ""-■ "■'«■■' '^'«'" ">■• " '^^ "'^■ 
 
 back. Uds . They heard a voice retort, " Come round, 
 we will meet you 1 " ' 
 
 "To the counting-house ! " was the order again. 
 Welcome !-\Ve shall have you there!" was the re- 
 sponse. And accordingly, the fiercest blaze that had yet 
 glowed the loudest rattle that had yet been heard, bur 
 
 Th?' ^1r ,','".' "1"^ '''°'"=" «'''' M""^"'^ o«n voice 
 They could tell by its tones that his soul was now warm 
 « th the conflict : they could guess that the fighting animal 
 tolh ;" 'T^ °"^ °' "'"^'^ "'™ 'here st'ruggTn ' 
 
 SrClnTeiS.''^ ""' '^^''^—^ ^-'^ 
 Both the girls felt their faces glow and their pulses throb- 
 bo h knew they would do nogood by rushing down in^o th. 
 
 b'uf^he ' ff'^'^'^ ""'"- '» '^-> "or to 'receive blo.^ 
 but hey could no have run away-Caroline no more than 
 Shir ey ; they could not have fainted ; they could not hav 
 taken their eyes from the dim, terrible scene-froni the 
 mass^ of cloud, of smoke-the musket-lightning-for the 
 
 "How and when would it end?" was the demand 
 iLrobbing ,„ their throbbing pulses. " Would a jinuUire 
 arise in which they could be useful?" was what they wai ec 
 10 see ; for. though Shirley pu, off their too-late arrival will, 
 a jest, and was ever ready to satirize her own or any other 
 
524 
 
 WILLIAM IV 
 
 |)erson's enthusiasm, she would have given a farm of hei 
 best land for a chance of rendering good service. 
 
 The chance was not vouchsafed her; the looked-for 
 juncture never came: it was not likely. Moore had ex- 
 pected this attack for days, perhaps weeks: he was prepared 
 for it at every point. He had fortified and garrisoned his 
 mill, which in itself was a strong building : he was a cool, 
 brave man : he stood to the defence with unflmchmg firm- 
 ness; those who were with him caught his spirit, and 
 copied his demeanour. The rioters had never been so met 
 before. At other mills tb.y had attacked, they had found 
 no resistance ; an organized, resolute defence was what 
 they never dreamed of encountering. When their leaders 
 saw the steady fire kept up from the mill, witnessed the 
 composure and determination of its owner, heard them- 
 selves coolly defied and invited on to death, and beheld 
 their men falling wounded round them, they felt that 
 nothing was to be done here. In haste, they mustered 
 their forces, drew them away from the building : a roll was 
 called over, in which the men answered to figures mstead 
 of names : they dispersed wide over the fields, leaving 
 silence and ruin behind them. The attack, from its com- 
 mencement to its termination, had not occupied an hour. 
 
 Day was by this time approaching : the west was dim, 
 the east beginning to gleam. It would have seemed that 
 the girls who had watched this conflict would now wish to 
 hasten to the victors, on whose side all their mterest had 
 been enlisted; but they only very cautiously approached 
 the now battered mill, and, when suddenly a number of 
 soldiers and gentlemen appeared at the great door opening 
 into the yard, they quickly stepped aside into a shed, the 
 deposit of old iron and timber, whence they could see with- 
 out being seen. 
 
 It was no cheering spectacle : these premises were now a 
 mere blot of desolation on the fresh front of the summer- 
 dawn. All the copse up the Hollow was shady and dewy, 
 
THE NEW WARFARE g^. 
 
 cor/.o!,hadbeae„trjr'unH ■?. .""' '" ""= "'S*" ''""' 
 left it waste and pu verf/ed Th ' n ''""'''"« ''°°'^' ^"<^ 
 with unglazed framel ,h. I " ' ^^™"'' ^" '"'"°"^ 
 stones and brickbats 'nH 'T ""' "'''^'''y ''^^''^™ ^-"h 
 glittering L^emfof t^\" T"^" '^' '""'' ^"'^ ""-■ 
 other wLSTay here ant r '"'""' muskets and 
 crimson stSn Lafvis b t e^^veT^rJ'" Z/''' 
 
 quiet on its face near the L es • JnH « ^'"^" ^^ '^^ 
 .en ri,,., , .oanlLnr: b^dAlr ^'^ ''°""'^^'^ 
 
 the i;:: t".rbre^x;^^f '^ " '''" ^'^^ = " «■- 
 
 n.ent and exertion :.'! the if T" ".^'T^ ^^^"^- 
 
 ^|:i^.r^c:i^;-^.Ct-^^ 
 
 " ^ ^m soTy for those poor fellows " »■».. n,„ 
 -h le the spark in her glanc'e diss^d 'to det " ^^^^^ 
 -th,„ the m„l hurt, I wonder? Is that you^ uncle''" ' 
 
 thereVL^^rll^^ '^ ^^- ^^''^-- -'^. °'' Shi^'ey- 
 
 " Well " (resuming her former tonp^ " rfr.„'f .„ 
 fingers quite into my hand. I see thert ? Z""'' ^"'" 
 derful in that. We knew he. atl ' ^ '\"°tl""g won- 
 might be absent." *" " ''"''■ "^ ^'''- whoever 
 
 "He is coming here towards us, Shirley t» 
 
526 
 
 WILLIAM IV 
 
 " He is hurt, Shirley ! " 
 "Fiddlestick!" 
 
 " But I must po to him -. I wish to go so much ; I can- 
 not bear to be rei.rained." 
 
 "What for?" , , , j 
 
 "To si«ak to him, to ask how he is, and what I can do 
 
 for him ? " , . 
 
 "To teaze and annoy him ; to make a spectacle of your- 
 self and him befo.e those soldiers, Mr. Malone, your uncle, 
 et cetera. Would he like it, think you? Would you like 
 to remember it a week hence ? " 
 
 " Am I always to be curbed and kept down ? demanded 
 Caroline, a little passionately. 
 
 " For his sake, yes. And still more for your own. I tell 
 you, if you shoTOd yourself now, you would repent it an 
 hour hence, and so would Robert." 
 
 " You think he would not like it, Shirley ? " 
 " Far less than he would like our stopping him to say 
 good-night, which you were so sore about." 
 
 " But that was all play ; there was no danger." ^^ 
 
 " And this is serious work : he must be unmolested. 
 
 " I only wish to go to him because he is my cousin— you 
 
 understand?" „ , 
 
 "I quite understand. But now, watch him. He has 
 bathed his forehead, and the blood has ceased tr.ckhng ; 
 his hurt is really a mere graze: I -an see it from hence : 
 he is going to look after the wounded men." 
 
 Accordingly Mr. Moore =.nd Mr. Helstone went rou..d 
 the yard, examining each pro<^trate form. They then gave 
 directions to have the wounded taken up and earned into 
 the mill. This duty being performed, Joe Scott was ordered 
 to saddle his master's horse, and Mr. Helstone's pony, and 
 the two gentlemen rode aw.iy full gallop, to seek surgical 
 aid in different directions. 
 Caroline was not yet pacified. 
 "Shirley, Shirley; I sh.uld have liked to speak one 
 
THE NEW WARFARE 
 
 527 
 
 word to him before he wpi.t " d, 
 
 «a.l.erc,l glit.eri„; in her eyes ' "'""'""'' "''''" "^^^ '-" 
 
 sterol" "YoT„:i!iT'", ^^'^'^ ^«- ^eeldar a .i..,e 
 
 been cool and brave ncomZ ^ h '" """"""'' "'' '"'■^ 
 
 -':;7H:is.hisa.„::::t;et::eX::3;!^r'' 
 
 -ecryan.wn.inl^nrLij;:::.^'""^''''"^^^^"'^' 
 
 .o^^sSf lii^.^rr':" '" -'^^^ ■'■•"—- ^ 
 
 left her to weep in , ace IT T'. "' ""-' '^""^' ""^ 
 
 just now." ■°"'""'- I 'hank you for restraining me 
 
 to the cool n,orn ng bree"e ""d '■ .J "' '"■ " """ '""'"^ 
 
 the Rectory. W, will l,^ ,l' ''"■>■ ^""^"y ''"'^l* '" 
 
 know .vhere we m" L! n '" T "' ''°''^ °"'' "°"<^ ^^all 
 
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