CONTENTS

CHAPTER 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

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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

CHAPTER I.
OF MY BIRTH AND BRINGING-UP.