The History of Margaret Catchpole, a Suffolk Girl

The History of Margaret Catchpole, a Suffolk Girl
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Cobbold Richard. The History of Margaret Catchpole, a Suffolk Girl

INTRODUCTION

TO. THE MARCHIONESS OF CORNWALLIS

AUTHOR’S PREFACE

CHAPTER I EARLY SCENES

CHAPTER II THE TEMPTATION

CHAPTER III MISFORTUNES

CHAPTER IV DECEIT

CHAPTER V WILD SCENES

CHAPTER VI HARVEST-HOME

CHAPTER VII THE CONFLICT

CHAPTER VIII DISAPPOINTMENT

CHAPTER IX EVIL WAYS

CHAPTER X THE PARTING

CHAPTER XI THE LAST INTERVIEW

CHAPTER XII THE WELCOME VISIT

CHAPTER XIII POVERTY AND PRIDE

CHAPTER XIV A CHEERFUL CHANGE

CHAPTER XV THE NEW PLACE

CHAPTER XVI BRIGHT HOPES

CHAPTER XVII ALTERCATION AND EXPLANATION

CHAPTER XVIII THE RECONCILIATION

CHAPTER XIX. THE ALTERATION

CHAPTER XX CHANGE OF SCENE AND CHANGE OF PLACE

CHAPTER XXI GUILT AND CRIME

CHAPTER XXII PREPARATION FOR TRIAL

CHAPTER XXIII TRIAL AND CONDEMNATION TO DEATH

CHAPTER XXIV THE REPRIEVE AND REMOVAL

CHAPTER XXV THE ESCAPE

CHAPTER XXVI PURSUIT AND CAPTURE

CHAPTER XXVII SECOND TRIAL, AND SECOND TIME CONDEMNED TO DEATH

CHAPTER XXVIII TRANSPORTATION

CHAPTER XXIX BANISHMENT

CHAPTER XXX REPENTANCE AND AMENDMENT

CHAPTER XXXI. CONCLUSION

SUPPLEMENT. BY THE AUTHOR A. D. 1858

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Independently of this simple history being a relation of facts, well known to many persons of the highest respectability still living in the county of Suffolk, it is hoped that an instructive lesson may be conveyed by it to many, who may not yet have seen the necessity of early and religious instruction.

These pages will prove, in a remarkable manner, that, however great may be the natural endowments of the human mind, yet, without the culture of religious principles, and the constant discipline of the Holy Spirit, they will never enable their possessor to resist the temptations of passion, but will be as likely to lead to great crimes as to great virtues.

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This cottage stood at the entrance of the village, and the shop, if such it might be called, had frequent customers among the poor. A single candle, a small loaf, half an ounce of tea, a halfpennyworth of cheese, a pennyworth of butter, or sugar, or snuff, or tobacco, could here be obtained. Thus Dame Cracknell managed to turn a penny in her own way; contented with small gains, she provided for her rapidly increasing family in a decent and honest manner, and looked forward with hope for more custom. She made no outward show to create opposition, and, had she always done so, might have gone on prosperously; but this joyful Whitsuntide, which found her and her friends so quietly happy, was fraught with untoward circumstances, which neither she nor her neighbours could foresee. She had invited a few friends to partake of her christening fare, and expected her relative, Stephen Laud, from Felixstowe Ferry, to stand with Margaret Catchpole and herself as sponsors for the little Susan.

This Stephen Laud was a famous boatman, and for many years plied at the ferry-boat between Harwich and Langer Fort, now called Landguard Fort. That it required a skilful pilot to manage a ferry-boat, which had nearly two miles to run from the Suffolk to the Essex side, will be easily imagined. As government letters were always conveyed from Harwich to the fort, at that time, the ferryman was in the receipt of government pay, and it was considered a good situation for an active man. Such was Stephen Laud – and not only active, but a man of no common intelligence. He had been left a widower, with one son, William, whose uncle, a boat-builder at Aldborough, had taken a great liking to him. He had bound him apprentice to Mr. Turner, the ship-builder, at Harwich, where the boy had acquired no mean tact at his employment, and grew up a good workman, though somewhat too free a spirit for a settled character. He was very fond of the sea, and, from the joyous buoyancy of his disposition, the captains of the traders to Aldborough used frequently to give him a run.

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