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Preston Fight - ebook
This is a historical novel. The story revolves around the Jacobite rising and the invasion of Preston. The book is considered one of the author’s Lancashire novels.
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| Język: | Angielski |
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FRAGMENT KSIĄŻKI
Contents
DEDICATION
BOOK I. THE EARL OF DERWENTWATER
CHAPTER I Dilston Castle
CHAPTER II The Chevalier de Saint George
CHAPTER III Nicholas Ribbleton
CHAPTER IV The Little Chapel
CHAPTER V Anna Webb and Dorothy Forster
CHAPTER VI Lady Webb
CHAPTER VII The Proposal
CHAPTER VIII Colonel Oxburgh and his Companions
CHAPTER IX Confession
CHAPTER X A Banquet
CHAPTER XI A Mysterious Occurrence in the Chapel
CHAPTER XII A Letter from the Earl of Mar
CHAPTER XIII The Betrothal
CHAPTER XIV The Spy
CHAPTER XV A General Departure
BOOK II. BAMBOROUGH CASTLE
CHAPTER I The High Sheriff
CHAPTER II Pursuit
CHAPTER III Lord Widdrington
CHAPTER IV Dunstanborough Castle
CHAPTER V How the Prince was lodged in the old Fortress
CHAPTER VI Anna’s Adventure in the Cavern
CHAPTER VII An Alarm
CHAPTER VIII How the Sheriff and his Troop were cared for
CHAPTER IX The Prince’s parting Injunctions to Lord Derwentwater and Anna
CHAPTER X. The Escape
BOOK III. THE INSURRECTION IN SCOTLAND
CHAPTER I The Hunting in Braemar
CHAPTER II Brigadier Mackintosh of Borlum
CHAPTER III How the Standard was set up, and King James proclaimed at Castletown
BOOK IV. THE RISING IN NORTHUMBERLAND
CHAPTER I Dilston revisited
CHAPTER II A Warrant issued for the Earl’s Arrest
CHAPTER III The Woodcutter’s Hut
CHAPTER IV The Maiden’s Walk
CHAPTER V How Charles Radclyffe provoked Sir William Lorraine
CHAPTER VI How Charles Radclyffe joined the Earl at the Hut
CHAPTER VII How the Magistrates and the Militiamen were forced to quit the Castle
CHAPTER VIII How the Earl took leave of the Countess
CHAPTER IX Mad Jack Hall of Otterburn
CHAPTER X The Race on Simonside
CHAPTER XI Wanny Crags
CHAPTER XII Warkworth Castle
CHAPTER XIII Organisation of the Force
CHAPTER XIV The Earl’s brief Visit to Dilston
CHAPTER XV How the Earl was rescued by Nathan the Woodcutter
BOOK V. THE MARCH FROM HEXHAM TO LONGTOWN
CHAPTER I The Junction with the South Country Scots
CHAPTER II Mackintosh’s Achievements
CHAPTER III Sunday at Kelso
CHAPTER IV A Council of War
CHAPTER V Further Dissensions
CHAPTER VI The Highlanders refuse to cross the Border
CHAPTER VII Lord Widdrington returns from Lancashire
BOOK VI. THE MARCH FROM PENRITH TO PRESTON
CHAPTER I The Rout on Penrith Fell
CHAPTER II Madam Bellingham
CHAPTER III Hornby Castle
CHAPTER IV Sir Henry Hoghton and the Quaker
CHAPTER V How the Prisoners in Lancaster Castle were released
CHAPTER VI Lancashire Witches
BOOK VII. THE ATTACK
CHAPTER I Proud Preston
CHAPTER II How King James was proclaimed for the last Time
CHAPTER III The Countess and Dorothy arrive at Preston
CHAPTER IV Mrs. Scarisbrick
CHAPTER V Important Recruits
CHAPTER VI The Ball at the Town-Hall
CHAPTER VII Ralph Fairbrother
CHAPTER VIII Apathy of General Forster
CHAPTER IX Parson Woods of Chowbent
CHAPTER X General Wills arrives at Preston
BOOK VIII. THE DEFENCE
CHAPTER I The Barricades
CHAPTER II What the Countess and Dorothy beheld from the summit of the Mansion
CHAPTER III The Commencement of the Assault
CHAPTER IV Altercation between Forster and Mackintosh
CHAPTER V How the two large Houses in Church-street were taken by the Assailants
CHAPTER VI Houses burnt by the Assailants
CHAPTER VII The Windmill Barricade
CHAPTER VIII How the two large Houses were illuminated
CHAPTER IX The Ford
CHAPTER X By whom the Countess and Dorothy were liberated
CHAPTER XI An Unlucky Shot
BOOK IX. THE SURRENDER
CHAPTER I How a Party of Dragoons was routed by Captain Gordon
CHAPTER II Meeting of Carpenter and Wills
CHAPTER III General Forster wishes to capitulate
CHAPTER IV Colonel Oxburgh proposes Terms of Surrender to Wills
CHAPTER V Captain Dalziel has a Conference with Wills
CHAPTER VI How Forster learnt that he had been betrayed
CHAPTER VII Colonel Cotton
CHAPTER VIII Hostages required
CHAPTER IX In what Manner the Hostages were received by General Wills
CHAPTER X Brigadier Mackintosh dissuades the Earl of Wintoun from sallying forth
CHAPTER XI The Terms of the Treaty are accepted
CHAPTER XII The Insurgent Officers deliver up their Swords
CHAPTER XIII How Brigadier Mackintosh parted with his Claymore
CHAPTER XIV The Two Generals enter the Town
CHAPTER XV The Town is plundered by the Soldiery
CHAPTER XVI Captain Shaftoe is shot
BOOK X. THE DUNGEON
CHAPTER I The Chief Insurgent Prisoners are taken to London
CHAPTER II The Earl of Derwentwater is imprisoned in the Devereux Tower
CHAPTER III The Earl of Nithsdale’s Escape
CHAPTER IV The Earl of Wintoun’s Escape
CHAPTER V General Forster’s Escape from Newgate
CHAPTER VI Brigadier Mackintosh’s Escape
BOOK XI. THE SCAFFOLD
CHAPTER I The last Parting between the Earl of Derwentwater and the Countess
CHAPTER II How Lord Widdrington took a last Leave of the Earl of Derwentwater
CHAPTER III How the Earl of Derwentwater was beheaded
CHAPTER IV What happened in the Chapel at Dagenham Park
CHAPTER V The Journey to Dilston
CHAPTER VI The IntermentDEDICATION
TO WILLIAM FRANCIS AINSWORTH, ESQ., PH., F.S.A., F.R.G.S., ETC., ETC
THE details of Preston Fight, given in the Tale, which I have the gratification of inscribing to your name, may be new to you; inasmuch as you may not have seen DOCTOR HIBBERT WARE’S very curious historical collections relative to the great Jacobite movement of 1715, published, several years ago, by the Chetham Society, from which my materials have been derived.
But I am sure you will share my feelings of sympathy with the many gallant Roman Catholic gentlemen, who, from mistaken feelings of loyalty, threw away life and fortune at Preston; and you cannot fail to be struck with admiration at the masterly defence of the town made by Brigadier Mackintosh-the real hero of Preston Fight.
I hope I may have succeeded in giving you some idea of that valorous Highland commander.
Nothing can be better than the description of him given in the old Lancashire ballad:
Mackintosh is a soldier brave,
And of his friends he took his leave;
Unto Northumberland he drew,
And marched along with a jovial crew.
What a contrast to the brave brigadier is General Forster, by whose incompetency, or treachery, Preston was lost!–as the same old ballad says:
“Thou Forster hast brought us from our own home,
Leaving our estates for others to come;
Thou treacherous dog, thou hast us betrayed,”
My Lord Derwentwater thus fiercely said.
But the hero of my tale is the ill-fated Earl of Derwentwater–by far the most striking figure in the Northumbrian insurrection.
The portrait I have given of him I believe to be in the main correct, though coloured for the purposes of the story. Young, handsome, chivalrous, wealthy, Lord Derwentwater was loyal and devoted to him whom he believed his rightful and lawful sovereign.
His death was consistent with his life. On the scaffold he declared, “I intended wrong to none, but to serve my king and country, and without self- interest, hoping by the example I gave to induce others to do their duty.”
My Lord Derwentwater he is dead,
And from his body they took his head;
But Mackintosh and the rest are fled
To fit his hat on another man’s head.
Lord Derwentwater was strongly attached to his ancestral mansion, and deeply mourned by his tenants and retainers. In the “Farewell to Dilston,” by Surtees, he is made to say:
Farewell to pleasant Dilston Hall,
My father’s ancient seat;
A stranger now must call thee his,
Which gars my heart to greet.
Albeit that here in London Tower,
It is my fate to die,
O, carry me to Northumberland,
In my father’s grave to lie.
How few who visit Greenwich Hospital are aware that that noble institution, of which the country is so justly proud, has derived, for upwards of a century and a half, the immense revenue of six thousand a year from the ill-fated earl’s forfeited estates!
Has not this effaced the treason?
I commend his story to you.
Your affectionate cousin, W. Harrison Ainsworth.
Little Rockley, Hurstpierpoint, May 19,1875CHAPTER I. Dilston Castle
A SPLENDID place was Dilston Castle in Northumberland, the seat of the young Earl of Derwentwater, in the early part of the last century.
Crowning an eminence, overlooking a most picturesque district, approached by a long avenue of chestnut trees, and surrounded by woods, extending to the banks of the Tyne, the mansion formed a conspicuous object from whichever side it might be viewed.
Dilston Castle could not boast antiquity, having only been built some sixty years prior to the date of our story, by Sir James Radclyffe, subsequently created Earl of Derwentwater by James the Second, but it occupied the site of an old Border fortress, called Devilstone–since modified to Dilston–that had often resisted the incursions of the Scots.
Of this stronghold, which dated back to the time of Henry the First, only a single memorial was left, in the shape of a grey stone tower–all the rest having been demolished.
The mansion formed a square, and enclosed a spacious court with a fountain in the centre. The principal entrance, approached by a large perron, was inside the court, and faced a grand gateway, that terminated the chestnut avenue.
Close by, though screened by trees, was a little chapel, wherein the rites of Rome were performed–the Radclyffes being strict adherents to the old religion. Hereabouts, also, stood the grey stone tower, before alluded to, and some chambers within it were still used.
As may be supposed, from its size, the mansion contained some magnificent apartments, and these were sumptuously furnished. Large gardens, laid out in the formal French style, and ornamented with terraces, flights of stone steps, statues, and fountains, added to the attractions of the place.
Beneath the acclivity, whereon stood the castle, was a romantic and beautiful dell, the sides of which were clothed with brushwood. Through the midst of the ravine rushed a stream, called the Devil’s Water–bright and clear, despite its name–that hurried on, unless checked by a huge rock, or some other impediment, when it spread out into a pool. In places, the glen had a weird look, and many strange legends were connected with it.
The picturesque beauty of the spot was materially heightened by a lofty bridge flung across the hollow, and leading from the castle to the deer-park.
From this bridge, the stately structure, with the charming and diversified scenery around it, could be contemplated to the greatest advantage.
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DEDICATION
BOOK I. THE EARL OF DERWENTWATER
CHAPTER I Dilston Castle
CHAPTER II The Chevalier de Saint George
CHAPTER III Nicholas Ribbleton
CHAPTER IV The Little Chapel
CHAPTER V Anna Webb and Dorothy Forster
CHAPTER VI Lady Webb
CHAPTER VII The Proposal
CHAPTER VIII Colonel Oxburgh and his Companions
CHAPTER IX Confession
CHAPTER X A Banquet
CHAPTER XI A Mysterious Occurrence in the Chapel
CHAPTER XII A Letter from the Earl of Mar
CHAPTER XIII The Betrothal
CHAPTER XIV The Spy
CHAPTER XV A General Departure
BOOK II. BAMBOROUGH CASTLE
CHAPTER I The High Sheriff
CHAPTER II Pursuit
CHAPTER III Lord Widdrington
CHAPTER IV Dunstanborough Castle
CHAPTER V How the Prince was lodged in the old Fortress
CHAPTER VI Anna’s Adventure in the Cavern
CHAPTER VII An Alarm
CHAPTER VIII How the Sheriff and his Troop were cared for
CHAPTER IX The Prince’s parting Injunctions to Lord Derwentwater and Anna
CHAPTER X. The Escape
BOOK III. THE INSURRECTION IN SCOTLAND
CHAPTER I The Hunting in Braemar
CHAPTER II Brigadier Mackintosh of Borlum
CHAPTER III How the Standard was set up, and King James proclaimed at Castletown
BOOK IV. THE RISING IN NORTHUMBERLAND
CHAPTER I Dilston revisited
CHAPTER II A Warrant issued for the Earl’s Arrest
CHAPTER III The Woodcutter’s Hut
CHAPTER IV The Maiden’s Walk
CHAPTER V How Charles Radclyffe provoked Sir William Lorraine
CHAPTER VI How Charles Radclyffe joined the Earl at the Hut
CHAPTER VII How the Magistrates and the Militiamen were forced to quit the Castle
CHAPTER VIII How the Earl took leave of the Countess
CHAPTER IX Mad Jack Hall of Otterburn
CHAPTER X The Race on Simonside
CHAPTER XI Wanny Crags
CHAPTER XII Warkworth Castle
CHAPTER XIII Organisation of the Force
CHAPTER XIV The Earl’s brief Visit to Dilston
CHAPTER XV How the Earl was rescued by Nathan the Woodcutter
BOOK V. THE MARCH FROM HEXHAM TO LONGTOWN
CHAPTER I The Junction with the South Country Scots
CHAPTER II Mackintosh’s Achievements
CHAPTER III Sunday at Kelso
CHAPTER IV A Council of War
CHAPTER V Further Dissensions
CHAPTER VI The Highlanders refuse to cross the Border
CHAPTER VII Lord Widdrington returns from Lancashire
BOOK VI. THE MARCH FROM PENRITH TO PRESTON
CHAPTER I The Rout on Penrith Fell
CHAPTER II Madam Bellingham
CHAPTER III Hornby Castle
CHAPTER IV Sir Henry Hoghton and the Quaker
CHAPTER V How the Prisoners in Lancaster Castle were released
CHAPTER VI Lancashire Witches
BOOK VII. THE ATTACK
CHAPTER I Proud Preston
CHAPTER II How King James was proclaimed for the last Time
CHAPTER III The Countess and Dorothy arrive at Preston
CHAPTER IV Mrs. Scarisbrick
CHAPTER V Important Recruits
CHAPTER VI The Ball at the Town-Hall
CHAPTER VII Ralph Fairbrother
CHAPTER VIII Apathy of General Forster
CHAPTER IX Parson Woods of Chowbent
CHAPTER X General Wills arrives at Preston
BOOK VIII. THE DEFENCE
CHAPTER I The Barricades
CHAPTER II What the Countess and Dorothy beheld from the summit of the Mansion
CHAPTER III The Commencement of the Assault
CHAPTER IV Altercation between Forster and Mackintosh
CHAPTER V How the two large Houses in Church-street were taken by the Assailants
CHAPTER VI Houses burnt by the Assailants
CHAPTER VII The Windmill Barricade
CHAPTER VIII How the two large Houses were illuminated
CHAPTER IX The Ford
CHAPTER X By whom the Countess and Dorothy were liberated
CHAPTER XI An Unlucky Shot
BOOK IX. THE SURRENDER
CHAPTER I How a Party of Dragoons was routed by Captain Gordon
CHAPTER II Meeting of Carpenter and Wills
CHAPTER III General Forster wishes to capitulate
CHAPTER IV Colonel Oxburgh proposes Terms of Surrender to Wills
CHAPTER V Captain Dalziel has a Conference with Wills
CHAPTER VI How Forster learnt that he had been betrayed
CHAPTER VII Colonel Cotton
CHAPTER VIII Hostages required
CHAPTER IX In what Manner the Hostages were received by General Wills
CHAPTER X Brigadier Mackintosh dissuades the Earl of Wintoun from sallying forth
CHAPTER XI The Terms of the Treaty are accepted
CHAPTER XII The Insurgent Officers deliver up their Swords
CHAPTER XIII How Brigadier Mackintosh parted with his Claymore
CHAPTER XIV The Two Generals enter the Town
CHAPTER XV The Town is plundered by the Soldiery
CHAPTER XVI Captain Shaftoe is shot
BOOK X. THE DUNGEON
CHAPTER I The Chief Insurgent Prisoners are taken to London
CHAPTER II The Earl of Derwentwater is imprisoned in the Devereux Tower
CHAPTER III The Earl of Nithsdale’s Escape
CHAPTER IV The Earl of Wintoun’s Escape
CHAPTER V General Forster’s Escape from Newgate
CHAPTER VI Brigadier Mackintosh’s Escape
BOOK XI. THE SCAFFOLD
CHAPTER I The last Parting between the Earl of Derwentwater and the Countess
CHAPTER II How Lord Widdrington took a last Leave of the Earl of Derwentwater
CHAPTER III How the Earl of Derwentwater was beheaded
CHAPTER IV What happened in the Chapel at Dagenham Park
CHAPTER V The Journey to Dilston
CHAPTER VI The IntermentDEDICATION
TO WILLIAM FRANCIS AINSWORTH, ESQ., PH., F.S.A., F.R.G.S., ETC., ETC
THE details of Preston Fight, given in the Tale, which I have the gratification of inscribing to your name, may be new to you; inasmuch as you may not have seen DOCTOR HIBBERT WARE’S very curious historical collections relative to the great Jacobite movement of 1715, published, several years ago, by the Chetham Society, from which my materials have been derived.
But I am sure you will share my feelings of sympathy with the many gallant Roman Catholic gentlemen, who, from mistaken feelings of loyalty, threw away life and fortune at Preston; and you cannot fail to be struck with admiration at the masterly defence of the town made by Brigadier Mackintosh-the real hero of Preston Fight.
I hope I may have succeeded in giving you some idea of that valorous Highland commander.
Nothing can be better than the description of him given in the old Lancashire ballad:
Mackintosh is a soldier brave,
And of his friends he took his leave;
Unto Northumberland he drew,
And marched along with a jovial crew.
What a contrast to the brave brigadier is General Forster, by whose incompetency, or treachery, Preston was lost!–as the same old ballad says:
“Thou Forster hast brought us from our own home,
Leaving our estates for others to come;
Thou treacherous dog, thou hast us betrayed,”
My Lord Derwentwater thus fiercely said.
But the hero of my tale is the ill-fated Earl of Derwentwater–by far the most striking figure in the Northumbrian insurrection.
The portrait I have given of him I believe to be in the main correct, though coloured for the purposes of the story. Young, handsome, chivalrous, wealthy, Lord Derwentwater was loyal and devoted to him whom he believed his rightful and lawful sovereign.
His death was consistent with his life. On the scaffold he declared, “I intended wrong to none, but to serve my king and country, and without self- interest, hoping by the example I gave to induce others to do their duty.”
My Lord Derwentwater he is dead,
And from his body they took his head;
But Mackintosh and the rest are fled
To fit his hat on another man’s head.
Lord Derwentwater was strongly attached to his ancestral mansion, and deeply mourned by his tenants and retainers. In the “Farewell to Dilston,” by Surtees, he is made to say:
Farewell to pleasant Dilston Hall,
My father’s ancient seat;
A stranger now must call thee his,
Which gars my heart to greet.
Albeit that here in London Tower,
It is my fate to die,
O, carry me to Northumberland,
In my father’s grave to lie.
How few who visit Greenwich Hospital are aware that that noble institution, of which the country is so justly proud, has derived, for upwards of a century and a half, the immense revenue of six thousand a year from the ill-fated earl’s forfeited estates!
Has not this effaced the treason?
I commend his story to you.
Your affectionate cousin, W. Harrison Ainsworth.
Little Rockley, Hurstpierpoint, May 19,1875CHAPTER I. Dilston Castle
A SPLENDID place was Dilston Castle in Northumberland, the seat of the young Earl of Derwentwater, in the early part of the last century.
Crowning an eminence, overlooking a most picturesque district, approached by a long avenue of chestnut trees, and surrounded by woods, extending to the banks of the Tyne, the mansion formed a conspicuous object from whichever side it might be viewed.
Dilston Castle could not boast antiquity, having only been built some sixty years prior to the date of our story, by Sir James Radclyffe, subsequently created Earl of Derwentwater by James the Second, but it occupied the site of an old Border fortress, called Devilstone–since modified to Dilston–that had often resisted the incursions of the Scots.
Of this stronghold, which dated back to the time of Henry the First, only a single memorial was left, in the shape of a grey stone tower–all the rest having been demolished.
The mansion formed a square, and enclosed a spacious court with a fountain in the centre. The principal entrance, approached by a large perron, was inside the court, and faced a grand gateway, that terminated the chestnut avenue.
Close by, though screened by trees, was a little chapel, wherein the rites of Rome were performed–the Radclyffes being strict adherents to the old religion. Hereabouts, also, stood the grey stone tower, before alluded to, and some chambers within it were still used.
As may be supposed, from its size, the mansion contained some magnificent apartments, and these were sumptuously furnished. Large gardens, laid out in the formal French style, and ornamented with terraces, flights of stone steps, statues, and fountains, added to the attractions of the place.
Beneath the acclivity, whereon stood the castle, was a romantic and beautiful dell, the sides of which were clothed with brushwood. Through the midst of the ravine rushed a stream, called the Devil’s Water–bright and clear, despite its name–that hurried on, unless checked by a huge rock, or some other impediment, when it spread out into a pool. In places, the glen had a weird look, and many strange legends were connected with it.
The picturesque beauty of the spot was materially heightened by a lofty bridge flung across the hollow, and leading from the castle to the deer-park.
From this bridge, the stately structure, with the charming and diversified scenery around it, could be contemplated to the greatest advantage.
This is a free sample. Please purchase full version of the book to continue.
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