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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