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Boscobel Or, the Royal Oak Boscobel or, the Royal Oak William Harrison Ainsworth Boscobel or, the Royal Oak Table of Contents Boscobel or, the Royal Oak......................................................................................................................................1 William Harrison Ainsworth..........................................................................................................................1 Book the first: the Battle of Worcester.......................................................................................................................4 Chapter 1. HOW CHARLES THE SECOND ARRIVED BEFORE WORCESTER, AND CAPTURED A FORT, WHICH HE NAMED FORT ROYAL ..............................................................4 Chapter 2. SHOWING HOW THE MAYOR OF WORCESTER AND THE SHERIFF WERE TAKEN TO UPTON−ON−SEVERN, AND HOW THEY GOT BACK AGAIN.....................................10 Chapter 3. HOW CHARLES MADE HIS TRIUMPHAL ENTRY INTO WORCESTER; AND HOW HE WAS PROCLAIMED BY THE MAYOR AND SHERIFF OF THAT LOYAL CITY......................14 Chapter 4. HOW CHARLES WAS LODGED IN THE EPISCOPAL PALACE; AND HOW DOCTOR CROSBY PREACHED BEFORE HIS MAJESTY IN THE CATHEDRAL...........................17 Chapter 5. HOW CHARLES RODE TO MADRESFIELD COURT; AND HOW MISTRESS JANE LANE AND HER BROTHER, WITH SIR CLEMENT FISHER, WERE PRESENTED TO HIS MAJESTY...................................................................................................................................................20 Chapter 6. HOW CHARLES ASCENDED THE WORCESTERSHIRE BEACON AND OF THE AMBUSCADE PREPARED FOR HIM AS HE CAME DOWN..............................................................23 Chapter 7. HOW COLONEL LEGGE BROUGHT IMPORTANT NEWS TO THE KING, AND HOW HIS MAJESTY PAID A VISIT TO SEVERN END.......................................................................26 Chapter 8. OF THE COUNSEL GIVEN BY COLONEL LESLEY TO THE KING.................................30 Chapter 9. OF THE GRAND MUSTER AT PITCHCROFT......................................................................32 Chapter 10. THE BIVOUAC ON THE PLAIN...........................................................................................35 Chapter 11. COLONEL ROSCARROCK RELATES HOW THE EARL OF DERBY WAS ROUTED AT WIGAN...............................................................................................................................38 Chapter 12. HOW URSO GIVES WAS WEDDED TO MARY RUSHOUT.............................................40 Chapter 13. SHOWING HOW THE KING HAD FORTIFIED THE CITY...............................................42 Chapter 14. BY WHAT MEANS GENERAL LAMBERT GAINED THE PASS AT UPTON BRIDGE......................................................................................................................................................44 Chapter 15. HOW CROMWELL RECONNOITRED THE CITY FROM RED HILL..............................46 Chapter 16. IN WHICH MASSEY PROPOSES A NIGHT ATTACK ON THE ENEMY........................48 Chapter 17. HOW THE SUBURBS OF THE CITY WERE BURNT........................................................50 Chapter 18. HOW URSO GIVES HAD AN INTERVIEW WITH THE LORD GENERAL IN THE STABLE OF SPETCHLEY MANOR−HOUSE........................................................................................53 Chapter 19. THE CAMISADE....................................................................................................................58 Chapter 20. HOW URSO GIVES WAS ARRESTED................................................................................60 Chapter 21. SHOWING HOW DAME GIVES BECAME A WIDOW......................................................66 Chapter 22. HOW THE EARL OF DERBY ARRIVED AT WORCESTER.............................................70 Chapter 23. IN WHAT MANNER JANE LANE WAS CAPTURED, AND BROUGHT BEFORE CROMWELL..............................................................................................................................................74 Chapter 24. WHAT CHARLES BEHELD FROM THE SUMMIT OF THE CATHEDRAL TOWER.....77 Chapter 25. HOW CROMWELL CONSTRUCTED A BRIDGE OF BOATS ACROSS THE SEVERN.....................................................................................................................................................81 Chapter 26. HOW CROMWELL THREW A FLYING BRIDGE OVER THE TEME.............................82 Chapter 27. THE FIGHT OF POWICK BRIDGE.......................................................................................84 Chapter 28. HOW THE BATTERY ON PERRY WOOD WAS TAKEN BY THE KING.......................85 Chapter 29. HOW THE BATTLE OF WORCESTER WAS LOST BY THE KING.................................89 Chapter 30. HOW THE ENEMY ENTERED THE CITY, AND HOW THE KING QUITTED IT..........90 Chapter 31. THE LAST STAND MADE BY THE ROYALISTS..............................................................93 Chapter 32. THE CONSULTATION AT BARBOURNE BRIDGE, AND THE KING'S FLIGHT..........94 i Boscobel or, the Royal Oak Table of Contents Boscobel or, the Royal Oak Book the second: White ladies..................................................................................................................................96 Chapter 1. HOW CROMWELL VISITED THE DYING DUKE OF HAMILTON AT THE COMMANDERY; AND WHAT PASSED BETWEEN THEM...............................................................96 Chapter 2. HOW THE FUGITIVE KING AND HIS COMPANIONS RODE FROM BARBOURNE BRIDGE TO WHITE LADIES................................................................................................................100 Chapter 3. THE PENDERELS...................................................................................................................103 Chapter 4. HOW CHARLES WAS DISGUISED AS A WOODMAN....................................................107 Chapter 5. HOW CHARLES WAS CONCEALED IN SPRING COPPICE, AND HOW IT RAINED THERE, AND NOWHERE ELSE IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD.........................................110 Chapter 6. HOW CHARLES SUPPED AT HOBBAL GRANGE, AND WHOM HE MET THERE.....113 Chapter 7. HOW CHARLES AND TRUSTY DICK WERE FRIGHTENED BY THE MILLER OF EVELITH..................................................................................................................................................117 Chapter 8. HOW THE KING WAS RECEIVED BY MR. FRANCIS WOOLFE AT MADELEY COURT.....................................................................................................................................................118 Book the third: the Royal Oak................................................................................................................................123 Chapter 1. SHOWING HOW THE HUNTING−LODGE WAS BUILT BY THE LORD OF CHILLINGTON, AND HOW IT ACQUIRED ITS NAME....................................................................123 Chapter 2. HOW TRUSTY DICK BETHOUGHT HIM OF THE OAK..................................................125 Chapter 3. HOW THE KING AND CARELESS TOOK REFUGE IN THE OAK..................................129 Chapter 4. HOW CARELESS CAPTURED AN OWL IN THE OAK.....................................................131 Chapter 5. HOW THEY BREAKFASTED IN THE OAK.......................................................................133 Chapter 6. HOW COLONEL JAMES HALTED BENEATH THE OAK................................................136 Chapter 7. HOW THEY PLAYED AT DICE IN THE OAK....................................................................137 Chapter 8. HOW THEY HAD A VISITOR IN THE OAK, AND IN WHAT MANNER THEY TREATED HIM........................................................................................................................................138 Chapter 9. HOW CHARLES SLEPT IN THE SECRET CLOSET; AND HOW CARELESS SLEPT IN A PRIEST'S HOLE IN THE GARRET...............................................................................................141 Chapter 10. IN WHICH THE KING PROVES HIMSELF A GOOD COOK..........................................144 Chapter 11. WHAT BROUGHT FATHER HUDDLESTONE TO BOSCOBEL.....................................146 Book the fourth:......................................................................................................................................................149 Chapter 1. CHILLINGTON HOUSE.........................................................................................................149 Chapter 2. HOW THE KING WAS WELL−NIGH CAPTURED BY MADMANNAH.........................151 Chapter 3. HOW THE KING RODE THE MILLER'S HORSE; AND HOW HE WAS ESCORTED DURING HIS RIDE.................................................................................................................................155 Chapter 4. WHERE THE KING FOUND JASPER..................................................................................158 Chapter 5. BY WHAT DEVICE THE KING ESCAPED BEING CAPTURED BY COLONEL ASHENHURST........................................................................................................................................161 Chapter 6. HOW THE KING BADE FAREWELL TO THE PENDERELS; AND HOW HIS MAJESTY WAS RECEIVED BY MR. THOMAS WHITGREAVE OF MOSELEY OLD HALL.......163 Chapter 7. HOW THE KING WAS PRESENTED TO MRS. WHITGREAVE.......................................167 Chapter 8. HOW TWO SPIES CAME BY NIGHT TO MOSELEY OLD HALL...................................170 Book the fifth: Jane Lane........................................................................................................................................172
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