With the King at Oxford: A Tale of the Great Rebellion

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  _A Musketeer._ _HANHART LITH._]

  With the KING at OXFORD

  _A TALE OF THE GREAT REBELLION_

  BY THE

  Rev. Alfred J. Church, M.A.

  _Professor of Latin in University College, London_

  _Author of "Stories from Homer"_

  _With Sixteen Illustrations_

  LONDONSEELEY & CO., 46, 47 & 48, ESSEX STREET, STRAND(_LATE OF 54, FLEET STREET_)

  1886

  _All Rights Reserved_

  TO

  George William Fleetwood Bury,

  PHYSICIAN AND FRIEND,

  THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED.

  I cannot allow this book to appear without the expression of my thanksto the Rev. Andrew Clark, Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford, who verykindly put at my service a number of interesting records of the domestichistory of the College.

  A. C.

  HADLEY GREEN, _October, 1885_.

  CONTENTS

  CHAP. PAGE

  I. OF MY BIRTH AND BRINGING-UP 1

  II. OF MY SOJOURN IN LONDON 13

  III. OF THE PLAGUE AND OTHER MATTERS 26

  IV. OF THINGS AT HOME 40

  V. OF THINGS AT OXFORD 52

  VI. OF THE KING'S GOING TO WORCESTER 65

  VII. OF THE FIGHT AT COPREDY BRIDGE 81

  VIII. OF THE PLAGUE AT OXFORD AND OTHER MATTERS 93

  IX. BEFORE NASEBY 105

  X. OF NASEBY FIGHT 120

  XI. AFTER NASEBY 131

  XII. OF MY FATHER'S END AND OTHER MATTERS 152

  XIII. OF MY COMING BACK TO OXFORD 174

  XIV. OF BODLEY'S LIBRARY 185

  XV. OF THE VISITORS AT OXFORD 197

  XVI. OF MY KINSFOLK AT ENSTONE 209

  XVII. OF MY GOING TO LONDON 224

  XVIII. OF THE TRIAL OF THE KING 238

  XIX. OF THE KING'S DEATH 252

  XX. OF MATTERS AT ENSTONE 263

  XXI. OF MY ADVENTURES AT SEA 275

  EPILOGUE 293

  LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

  PAGE

  A MUSKETEER _Frontispiece_

  LONDON BRIDGE 14

  FRIAR BACON'S HOUSE 70

  KING CHARLES THE FIRST 72

  HALT OF OFFICERS 76

  A GUNNER 88

  MERTON COLLEGE, OXFORD 96

  A CAVALRY SKIRMISH 122

  A PIKEMAN 126

  GATEWAY OF CHRISTCHURCH, OXFORD 176

  THE LAST ABBOT OF OSENEY 178

  THE BODLEIAN LIBRARY, OXFORD 190

  PORCH OF ST. MARY'S, OXFORD 202

  VICE-CHANCELLOR AND ESQUIRE BEDELLS 204

  THE TRIAL OF KING CHARLES 248

  THE EXECUTION OF THE KING 260

  With the KING at OXFORD