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HEREWARD THE LAST OF THE ENGLISH
CONTENTS
HEREWARD, THE LAST OF THE ENGLISH.
PRELUDE.
CHAPTER I. β HOW HEREWARD WAS OUTLAWED, AND WENT NORTH TO SEEK HIS FORTUNES.
CHAPTER II. β HOW HEREWARD SLEW THE BEAR.
CHAPTER III. β HOW HEREWARD SUCCORED A PRINCESS OF CORNWALL.
CHAPTER IV. β HOW HEREWARD TOOK SERVICE WITH RANALD, KING OF WATERFORD.
CHAPTER V. β HOW HEREWARD SUCCORED THE PRINCESS OF CORNWALL A SECOND TIME.
CHAPTER VI. β HOW HEREWARD WAS WRECKED UPON THE FLANDERS SHORE.
CHAPTER VII. β HOW HEREWARD WENT TO THE WAR AT GUISNES.
CHAPTER VIII. β HOW A FAIR LADY EXERCISED THE MECHANICAL ART TO WIN HEREWARDβS LOVE.
CHAPTER IX. β HOW HEREWARD WENT TO THE WAR IN SCALDMARILAND.
CHAPTER X. β HOW HEREWARD WON THE MAGIC ARMOR.
CHAPTER XI. β HOW THE HOLLANDERS TOOK HEREWARD FOR A MAGICIAN.
CHAPTER XII. β HOW HEREWARD TURNED BERSERK.
CHAPTER XIII. β HOW HEREWARD WON MARE SWALLOW.
CHAPTER XIV. β HOW HEREWARD RODE INTO BRUGES LIKE A BEGGARMAN.
CHAPTER XV. β HOW EARL TOSTI GODWINSSON CAME TO ST. OMER.
CHAPTER XVI. β HOW HEREWARD WAS ASKED TO SLAY AN OLD COMRADE.
CHAPTER XVII. β HOW HEREWARD TOOK THE NEWS FROM STANFORD BRIGG AND HASTINGS.
CHAPTER XVIII. β HOW EARL GODWINβS WIDOW CAME TO ST. OMER.
CHAPTER XIX. β HOW HEREWARD CLEARED BOURNE OF FRENCHMEN.
CHAPTER XX. β HOW HEREWARD WAS MADE A KNIGHT AFTER THE FASHION OF THE ENGLISH.
CHAPTER XXI. β HOW IVO TAILLEBOIS MARCHED OUT OF SPALDING TOWN.
CHAPTER XXII. β HOW HEREWARD SAILED FOE ENGLAND ONCE AND FOR ALL.
CHAPTER XXIII. β HOW HEREWARD GATHERED AN ARMY.
CHAPTER XXIV. β HOW ARCHBISHOP ALDRED DIED OF SORROW.
CHAPTER XXV. β HOW HEREWARD FOUND A WISER MAN IN ENGLAND THAN HIMSELF.
CHAPTER XXVI. β HOW HEREWARD FULFILLED HIS WORDS TO THE PRIOR OF THE GOLDEN BOROUGH.
CHAPTER XXVII. β HOW THEY HELD A GREAT MEETING IN THE HALL OF ELY
CHAPTER XXVIII. β HOW THEY FOUGHT AT ALDRETH.
CHAPTER XXIX. β HOW SIR DADE BROUGHT NEWS FROM ELY.
CHAPTER XXX. β HOW HEREWARD PLAYED THE POTTER; AND HOW HE CHEATED THE KING.
CHAPTER XXXI. β HOW THEY FOUGHT AGAIN AT ALDRETH.
CHAPTER XXXII. β HOW KING WILLIAM TOOK COUNSEL OF A CHURCHMAN.
CHAPTER XXXIII. β HOW THE MONKS OF ELY DID AFTER THEIR KIND.
CHAPTER XXXIV. β HOW HEREWARD WENT TO THE GREENWOOD.
CHAPTER XXXV. β HOW ABBOT THOROLD WAS PUT TO RANSOM.
CHAPTER XXXVI. β HOW ALFTRUDA WROTE TO HEREWARD.
CHAPTER XXXVII. β HOW HEREWARD LOST SWORD BRAIN-BITER.
CHAPTER XXXVIII. β HOW HEREWARD CAME IN TO THE KING.
CHAPTER XXXIX. β HOW TORFRIDA CONFESSED THAT SHE HAD BEEN INSPIRED BY THE DEVIL.
CHAPTER XL. β HOW HEREWARD BEGAN TO GET HIS SOULβS PRICE.
CHAPTER XLI. β HOW EARL WALTHEOF WAS MADE A SAINT.
CHAPTER XLII. β HOW HEREWARD GOT THE BEST OF HIS SOULβS PRICE.
CHAPTER XLIII. β HOW DEEPING FEN WAS DRAINED.
HEREWARD, THE LAST OF THE ENGLISH.
PRELUDE.
The heroic deeds of Highlanders, both in these islands and elsewhere, have been told in verse and prose, and not more often, nor more loudly, than they deserve. But we must remember, now and then, that there have been heroes likewise in the lowland and in the fen. Why, however, poets have so seldom sung of them; why no historian, save Mr. Motley in his βRise of the Dutch Republic,β has condescended to tell the tale of their doughty deeds, is a question not difficult to answer.
In the first place, they have been fewer in number. The lowlands of the world, being the richest spots, have been generally the soonest conquered, the soonest civilized, and therefore the soonest taken out of the sphere of romance and wild adventure, into that of order and law, hard work and
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