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Julian Stafford Corbett. Monk
Monk
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I. DEVONSHIRE AND FOREIGN SERVICE
CHAPTER II. FOR KING AND PARLIAMENT
CHAPTER III. THE KING'S COMMISSION
CHAPTER IV. THE PARLIAMENT'S COMMISSION
CHAPTER V. THE TREATY WITH THE IRISH NATIONALISTS
CHAPTER VI. CROMWELL'S NEW LIEUTENANT
CHAPTER VII. GENERAL-AT-SEA
CHAPTER VIII. GOVERNOR OF SCOTLAND
CHAPTER IX. THE ABORTIVE PRONUNCIAMENTO
CHAPTER X. THE NEGLECTED QUANTITY
CHAPTER XI. THE BLOODLESS CAMPAIGN
CHAPTER XII. ON THE WINGS OF THE STORM
CHAPTER XIII. THE UNCROWNED KING
CHAPTER XIV. THE FATHER OF HIS COUNTRY
English Men of Action
FOOTNOTES
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Julian Stafford Corbett
Published by Good Press, 2019
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The great drama was about to begin. The star-chamber had given judgment in Hampden's case: the prayer-book had been read in Edinburgh; and it was amidst ominous mutterings of coming evil that Captain Monk set foot once more upon his native shore.
How great a tragedy was to develope itself out of the prologue upon which the curtain was about to rise, no one as yet could tell. Still less were there any to guess that the plain Low Country officer stepping on to the Dover beach was the man who was to cut the knot of the last act and end the play in a blaze of triumph.
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