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_A Musketeer._ _HANHART LITH._]
With the KING at OXFORD
_A TALE OF THE GREAT REBELLION_
BY THE
Rev. Alfred J. Church, M.A.
_Professor of Latin in University College, London_
_Author of "Stories from Homer"_
_With Sixteen Illustrations_
LONDONSEELEY & CO., 46, 47 & 48, ESSEX STREET, STRAND(_LATE OF 54, FLEET STREET_)
1886
_All Rights Reserved_
TO
George William Fleetwood Bury,
PHYSICIAN AND FRIEND,
THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED.
I cannot allow this book to appear without the expression of my thanksto the Rev. Andrew Clark, Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford, who verykindly put at my service a number of interesting records of the domestichistory of the College.
A. C.
HADLEY GREEN, _October, 1885_.
CONTENTS
CHAP. PAGE
I. OF MY BIRTH AND BRINGING-UP 1
II. OF MY SOJOURN IN LONDON 13
III. OF THE PLAGUE AND OTHER MATTERS 26
IV. OF THINGS AT HOME 40
V. OF THINGS AT OXFORD 52
VI. OF THE KING'S GOING TO WORCESTER 65
VII. OF THE FIGHT AT COPREDY BRIDGE 81
VIII. OF THE PLAGUE AT OXFORD AND OTHER MATTERS 93
IX. BEFORE NASEBY 105
X. OF NASEBY FIGHT 120
XI. AFTER NASEBY 131
XII. OF MY FATHER'S END AND OTHER MATTERS 152
XIII. OF MY COMING BACK TO OXFORD 174
XIV. OF BODLEY'S LIBRARY 185
XV. OF THE VISITORS AT OXFORD 197
XVI. OF MY KINSFOLK AT ENSTONE 209
XVII. OF MY GOING TO LONDON 224
XVIII. OF THE TRIAL OF THE KING 238
XIX. OF THE KING'S DEATH 252
XX. OF MATTERS AT ENSTONE 263
XXI. OF MY ADVENTURES AT SEA 275
EPILOGUE 293
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
PAGE
A MUSKETEER _Frontispiece_
LONDON BRIDGE 14
FRIAR BACON'S HOUSE 70
KING CHARLES THE FIRST 72
HALT OF OFFICERS 76
A GUNNER 88
MERTON COLLEGE, OXFORD 96
A CAVALRY SKIRMISH 122
A PIKEMAN 126
GATEWAY OF CHRISTCHURCH, OXFORD 176
THE LAST ABBOT OF OSENEY 178
THE BODLEIAN LIBRARY, OXFORD 190
PORCH OF ST. MARY'S, OXFORD 202
VICE-CHANCELLOR AND ESQUIRE BEDELLS 204
THE TRIAL OF KING CHARLES 248
THE EXECUTION OF THE KING 260
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