Brian Fitz-Count: A Story of Wallingford Castle and Dorchester Abbey

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PREFACE

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I THE LORD OF THE CASTLE

CHAPTER II THE CHASE

CHAPTER III WHO STRUCK THE STAG?

CHAPTER IV IN THE GREENWOOD

CHAPTER V CWICHELM'S HLAWE

CHAPTER VI ON THE DOWNS

CHAPTER VII DORCHESTER ABBEY

CHAPTER VIII THE BARON AND HIS PRISONERS

CHAPTER IX THE LEPERS

CHAPTER X THE NEW NOVICE

CHAPTER XI OSRIC'S FIRST RIDE

CHAPTER XII THE HERMITAGE

CHAPTER XIII OSRIC AT HOME

CHAPTER XIV THE HERMITAGE

CHAPTER XV [19] THE ESCAPE FROM OXFORD CASTLE

CHAPTER XVI AFTER THE ESCAPE

CHAPTER XVII LIFE AT WALLINGFORD CASTLE

CHAPTER XVIII BROTHER ALPHEGE

CHAPTER XIX IN THE LOWEST DEPTHS

CHAPTER XX MEINHOLD AND HIS PUPILS

CHAPTER XXI A DEATHBED DISCLOSURE

CHAPTER XXII THE OUTLAWS

CHAPTER XXIII THE PESTILENCE (AT BYFIELD)

CHAPTER XXIV THE OPENING OF THE PRISON HOUSE

CHAPTER XXV THE SANCTUARY

CHAPTER XXVI SWEET SISTER DEATH [29]

CHAPTER XXVII FRUSTRATED

CHAPTER XXVIII FATHER AND SON

CHAPTER XXIX IN THE HOLY LAND

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Title: Brian Fitz-Count

A Story of Wallingford Castle and Dorchester Abbey

Author: A. D. (Augustine David) Crake

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BRIAN FITZ-COUNT


By the same Author.

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HISTORY OF THE CHURCH

UNDER

THE ROMAN EMPIRE,

A.D. 30-476.


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EDWY THE FAIR,

OR THE

FIRST CHRONICLE OF ÆSCENDUNE.

A Tale of the Days of Saint Dunstan.


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ALFGAR THE DANE,

OR THE

SECOND CHRONICLE OF ÆSCENDUNE.

A Tale of the Days of Edmund Ironside.


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THE RIVAL HEIRS,

BEING THE

THIRD AND LAST CHRONICLE OF ÆSCENDUNE.


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THE HOUSE OF WALDERNE.

A Tale of the Cloister and the Forest in the

Days of the Barons' Wars.


BRIAN FITZ-COUNT

A STORY OF

Wallingford Castle and Dorchester Abbey

BY THE REV.

A. D. CRAKE, B.A.

VICAR OF CHOLSEY, BERKS; AND FELLOW OF THE ROYAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY;
AUTHOR OF THE 'CHRONICLES OF ÆSCENDUNE,' ETC. ETC.

'Heu miserande puer, siqua fata aspera rumpas,
Tu Marcellus eris.'
Virgil: Æneid, vi. 882-3.

RIVINGTONS

WATERLOO PLACE, LONDON

MDCCCLXXXVIII


DEDICATED

WITH GREAT RESPECT

TO

JOHN KIRBY HEDGES, Esq., J.P.

OF

WALLINGFORD CASTLE


                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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