Hereward, the Last of the English

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Charles Kingsley. Hereward, the Last of the English

PRELUDE

CHAPTER I. – HOW HEREWARD WAS OUTLAWED, AND WENT NORTH TO SEEK HIS FORTUNES

CHAPTER II. – HOW HEREWARD SLEW THE BEAR

CHAPTER III. – HOW HEREWARD SUCCORED A PRINCESS OF CORNWALL

CHAPTER IV. – HOW HEREWARD TOOK SERVICE WITH RANALD, KING OF WATERFORD

CHAPTER V. – HOW HEREWARD SUCCORED THE PRINCESS OF CORNWALL A SECOND TIME

CHAPTER VI. – HOW HEREWARD WAS WRECKED UPON THE FLANDERS SHORE

CHAPTER VII. – HOW HEREWARD WENT TO THE WAR AT GUISNES

CHAPTER VIII. – HOW A FAIR LADY EXERCISED THE MECHANICAL ART TO WIN HEREWARD’S LOVE

CHAPTER IX. – HOW HEREWARD WENT TO THE WAR IN SCALDMARILAND

CHAPTER X. – HOW HEREWARD WON THE MAGIC ARMOR

CHAPTER XI. – HOW THE HOLLANDERS TOOK HEREWARD FOR A MAGICIAN

CHAPTER XII. – HOW HEREWARD TURNED BERSERK

CHAPTER XIII. – HOW HEREWARD WON MARE SWALLOW

CHAPTER XIV. – HOW HEREWARD RODE INTO BRUGES LIKE A BEGGARMAN

CHAPTER XV. – HOW EARL TOSTI GODWINSSON CAME TO ST. OMER

CHAPTER XVI. – HOW HEREWARD WAS ASKED TO SLAY AN OLD COMRADE

CHAPTER XVII. – HOW HEREWARD TOOK THE NEWS FROM STANFORD BRIGG AND HASTINGS

CHAPTER XVIII. – HOW EARL GODWIN’S WIDOW CAME TO ST. OMER

CHAPTER XIX. – HOW HEREWARD CLEARED BOURNE OF FRENCHMEN

CHAPTER XX. – HOW HEREWARD WAS MADE A KNIGHT AFTER THE FASHION OF THE ENGLISH

CHAPTER XXI. – HOW IVO TAILLEBOIS MARCHED OUT OF SPALDING TOWN

CHAPTER XXII. – HOW HEREWARD SAILED FOE ENGLAND ONCE AND FOR ALL

CHAPTER XXIII. – HOW HEREWARD GATHERED AN ARMY

CHAPTER XXIV. – HOW ARCHBISHOP ALDRED DIED OF SORROW

CHAPTER XXV. – HOW HEREWARD FOUND A WISER MAN IN ENGLAND THAN HIMSELF

CHAPTER XXVI. – HOW HEREWARD FULFILLED HIS WORDS TO THE PRIOR OF THE GOLDEN BOROUGH

CHAPTER XXVII. – HOW THEY HELD A GREAT MEETING IN THE HALL OF ELY

CHAPTER XXVIII. – HOW THEY FOUGHT AT ALDRETH

CHAPTER XXIX. – HOW SIR DADE BROUGHT NEWS FROM ELY

CHAPTER XXX. – HOW HEREWARD PLAYED THE POTTER; AND HOW HE CHEATED THE KING

CHAPTER XXXI. – HOW THEY FOUGHT AGAIN AT ALDRETH

CHAPTER XXXII. – HOW KING WILLIAM TOOK COUNSEL OF A CHURCHMAN

CHAPTER XXXIII. – HOW THE MONKS OF ELY DID AFTER THEIR KIND

CHAPTER XXXIV. – HOW HEREWARD WENT TO THE GREENWOOD

CHAPTER XXXV. – HOW ABBOT THOROLD WAS PUT TO RANSOM

CHAPTER XXXVI. – HOW ALFTRUDA WROTE TO HEREWARD

CHAPTER XXXVII. – HOW HEREWARD LOST SWORD BRAIN-BITER

CHAPTER XXXVIII. – HOW HEREWARD CAME IN TO THE KING

CHAPTER XXXIX. – HOW TORFRIDA CONFESSED THAT SHE HAD BEEN INSPIRED BY THE DEVIL

CHAPTER XL. – HOW HEREWARD BEGAN TO GET HIS SOUL’S PRICE

CHAPTER XLI. – HOW EARL WALTHEOF WAS MADE A SAINT

CHAPTER XLII. – HOW HEREWARD GOT THE BEST OF HIS SOUL’S PRICE

CHAPTER XLIII. – HOW DEEPING FEN WAS DRAINED

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Known to all is Lady Godiva, the most beautiful as well as the most saintly woman of her day; who, “all her life, kept at her own expense thirteen poor folk wherever she went; who, throughout Lent, watched in the church at triple matins, namely, one for the Trinity, one for the Cross, and one for St. Mary; who every day read the Psalter through, and so persevered in good and holy works to her life’s end,”—the “devoted friend of St. Mary, ever a virgin,” who enriched monasteries without number,—Leominster, Wenlock, Chester, St. Mary’s Stow by Lincoln, Worcester, Evesham; and who, above all, founded the great monastery in that town of Coventry, which has made her name immortal for another and a far nobler deed; and enriched it so much “that no monastery in England possessed such abundance of gold, silver, jewels, and precious stones,” beside that most precious jewel of all, the arm of St. Augustine, which not Lady Godiva, but her friend, Archbishop Ethelnoth, presented to Coventry, “having bought it at Pavia for a hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.” [Footnote: William of Malmesbury.]

Less known, save to students, is her husband, Leofric the great Earl of Mercia and Chester, whose bones lie by those of Godiva in that same minster of Coventry; how “his counsel was as if one had opened the Divine oracles”; very “wise,” says the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, “for God and for the world, which was a blessing to all this nation”; the greatest man, save his still greater rival, Earl Godwin, in Edward the Confessor’s court.

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“O that such a mother should have borne such a son.” groaned the Abbot, as they went in.

On the fifth day came Martin Lightfoot, and found Hereward in Prior Brand’s private cell.

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