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John G. Edgar. Runnymede and Lincoln Fair
Runnymede and Lincoln Fair
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INTRODUCTION
RUNNYMEDE. AND LINCOLN FAIR. A STORY OF THE GREAT CHARTER
CHAPTER I. A SQUIRE AND A CITIZEN
CHAPTER II. THE ICINGLAS
CHAPTER III. AN UNBIDDEN GUEST
CHAPTER IV. CHRISTMAS
CHAPTER V. THE TOWER OF LONDON
CHAPTER VI. KING JOHN
CHAPTER VII. A MAN OF THE FOREST
CHAPTER VIII. THE KING AND THE BARONS
CHAPTER IX. A BLOW IN SEASON
CHAPTER X. WILLIAM DE COLLINGHAM
CHAPTER XI. ANCIENT LONDON
CHAPTER XII. THE BARONS IN LONDON
CHAPTER XIII. EVACUATION OF THE TOWER
CHAPTER XIV. A HEROINE IN DANGER
CHAPTER XV. ISABEL OF ANGOULÊME
CHAPTER XVI. TAKEN BY SURPRISE
CHAPTER XVII. THE WINDSOR OF KING JOHN
CHAPTER XVIII. THE DAY OF RUNNYMEDE
CHAPTER XIX. CHAS-CHATEIL
CHAPTER XX. OLIVER’S CAPTIVITY
CHAPTER XXI. DE MOREVILLE’S DAUGHTER
CHAPTER XXII. HOW THE KING BIDED HIS TIME
CHAPTER XXIII. TURNING TO BAY
CHAPTER XXIV. A DESPERATE EXPEDIENT
CHAPTER XXV. THE VOWS OF THE HERON
CHAPTER XXVI. A PAINFUL INTERVIEW
CHAPTER XXVII. THE INVADER AND HIS DUPES
CHAPTER XXVIII. STYR THE ANGLO-SAXON AND HIS SON
CHAPTER XXIX. HUNTING A WILD BOAR
CHAPTER XXX. A GRAND FEAT OF HORSEMANSHIP
CHAPTER XXXI. PEDRO THE PAGE
CHAPTER XXXII. THE SUBTERRANEAN PASSAGE
CHAPTER XXXIII. WARRIORS IN DISGUISE
CHAPTER XXXIV. A RIDE FOR LIFE
CHAPTER XXXV. THE RUDDY LION RAMPANT
CHAPTER XXXVI. END OF KING JOHN
CHAPTER XXXVII. THE GREAT EARL OF PEMBROKE
CHAPTER XXXVIII. CORONATION OF THE BOY HENRY
CHAPTER XXXIX. A CONQUEROR IN IMAGINATION
CHAPTER XL. A CAMP OF REFUGE
CHAPTER XLI. OLIVER’S DREAM
CHAPTER XLII. BURNING OF OAKMEDE
CHAPTER XLIII. FOUND DYING
CHAPTER XLIV. A MYSTERIOUS EXIT
CHAPTER XLV. A FRENCH ARMAMENT
CHAPTER XLVI. A SEA-FIGHT
CHAPTER XLVII. THE SIEGE OF MOUNT SORREL
CHAPTER XLVIII. LINCOLN
CHAPTER XLIX. COLLINGHAM’S RAVENS
CHAPTER L. THE BATTLE
CHAPTER LI. DE MOREVILLE IN BATTLE HARNESS
CHAPTER LII. DEFIANT TILL DEATH
CHAPTER LIII. AFTER THE BATTLE
CHAPTER LIV. AN AWKWARD PREDICAMENT
CHAPTER LV. SUNSHINE AND CLOUDS
CHAPTER LVI. THE WRESTLING MATCH
CHAPTER LVII. A MEDIÆVAL RESTAURANT
CHAPTER LVIII. WRESTLING FOR THE RAM
CHAPTER LIX. A STARTLING SPECTACLE
CHAPTER LX. A DEMAGOGUE AND HIS DESPERADOES
CHAPTER LXI. AN OFFERING TO THE WINDS
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John G. Edgar
A Story of the Great Charter
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It was not altogether pleasant to be abroad and unattended under such circumstances, for the robber and the outlaw, then numerous in England, haunted the neighbourhood of the metropolis, as many a benighted wayfarer knew to his cost. But Oliver thought little of danger from robber or outlaw, so much occupied was his mind with the perils he was likely to encounter in his capacity of hostage for Hugh de Moreville, a man whom he doubted and dreaded. Notwithstanding the tone he had assumed in conversing with Constantine Fitzarnulph, Oliver did not relish the prospect that lay before him; and the idea of a long captivity—supposing that to be the worst—desolated his soul. Moreover, the fate of the Welsh hostages to whom Fitzarnulph had alluded recurred to his memory, and he almost felt inclined to fly. Indeed, he could not but perceive that De Moreville would certainly benefit by his death, and that it was the interest of the Norman baron to get rid of a person whose claims to the castle and baronies which he held for the present might one day become irresistible.
It was with such gloomy thoughts haunting his mind that Oliver Icingla rode homewards over ground hard as iron, for the frost was so keen that in many places the Thames was frozen over. The moon had risen, and was shining through the leafless trees on the grass, as he turned out of what is now the great north road, and dashed into the woodland that skirted the great forest of Middlesex, crossed, not without difficulty, a brook covered with ice slippery as glass, descried lights in the distance, and, riding down a glade that served as an avenue, approached Oakmede. Lights glimmered from the outhouses and the orchard, and an alarm-bell was ringing; for the hinds, as was their custom on that night, were wassailing the fruit-trees with cyder, and wishing them health in the coming year, and the bell was rung to scare away the demons while the process was going on.
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