GRISLY GRISELL

OR THE LAIDLY LADY OF WHITBURN

A TALE OF THE WARS OF THE ROSES

By Charlotte M. Yonge

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

 

PAGE

I.

An Explosion

1

II.

The Broken Match

12

III.

The Mirror

26

IV.

Parting

36

V.

Sister Avice

46

VI.

The Proctor

57

VII.

The Pilgrim of Salisbury

68

VIII.

Old Playfellows

80

IX.

The King-maker

87

X.

Cold Welcome

101

XI.

Bernard

112

XII.

Word from the Wars

127

XIII.

A Knot

137

XIV.

The Lonely Bride

150

XV.

Wakefield Bridge

159

XVI.

A New Master

169

XVII.

Strange Guests

177

XVIII.

Witchery

185

XIX.

A March Hare

195

XX.

A Blight on the White Rose

205

XXI.

The Wounded Knight

213

XXII.

The City of Bridges

222

XXIII.

The Cankered Oak Gall

231

XXIV.

Grisell’s Patience

244

XXV.

The Old Duchess

253

XXVI.

The Duke’s Death

260

XXVII.

Forget Me Not

268

XXVIII.

The Pageant

274

XXIX.

Duchess Margaret

285

XXX.

The Wedding Chimes

295






CAMEOS FROM ENGLISH HISTORY

FROM ROLLO TO EDWARD II.

1873

By Charlotte Mary Yonge



CONTENTS

PREFACE.

CAMEOS

INTRODUCTION.


CAMEO I. ROLF GANGER. (900-932.)

CAMEO II. WILLIAM LONGSWORD AND RICHARD THE FEARLESS. (932-996.)

CAMEO III. YOUTH OF THE CONQUEROR. (1036-1066.)

CAMEO IV. EARL GODWIN. (1012-1052.)

CAMEO V. THE TWO HAROLDS. (1060-1066.)

CAMEO VI. THE NORMAN INVASION. (1066.)

CAMEO VII. THE BATTLE OF HASTINGS. (1066.)

CAMEO VIII. THE CAMP OF REFUGE. (1067-1072.)

CAMEO IX. THE LAST SAXON BISHOP. (1008-1095.)

CAMEO X. THE CONQUEROR. (1066-1087.)

CAMEO XI. THE CONQUEROR’S CHILDREN. (1050-1087.)

CAMEO XII. THE CROWN AND THE MITRE.

CAMEO XIII. THE FIRST CRUSADE. (1095-1100.)

CAMEO XIV. THE ETHELING FAMILY. (1010-1159.)

CAMEO XV. THE COUNTS OF ANJOU. (888-1142.)

CAMEO XVI. VISITORS OF HENRY I. (1120-1134.)

CAMEO XVII. THE BATTLE OF THE STANDARD. (1135-1138.)

CAMEO XVIII. THE SNOWS OF OXFORD. (1138-1154.)

CAMEO XIX. YOUTH OF BECKET. (1154-1162)

CAMEO XX. THE CONSTITUTIONS OF CLARENDON. (1163-1172.)

CAMEO XXI. DEATH OF BECKET. (1166-1172.)

CAMEO XXII. THE CONQUEST OF IRELAND. (1172)

CAMEO XXIII. THE REBELLIOUS EAGLETS. (1149-1189.)

CAMEO XXIV. THE THIRD CRUSADE. (1189-1193)

CAMEO XXV. ARTHUR OF BRITTANY. (1187-1206.)

CAMEO XXVI. THE INTERDICT. (1207-1214.)

CAMEO XXVII. MAGNA CHARTA. (1214-1217.)

CAMEO XXVIII. THE FIEF OF ROME. (1217-1254.)

CAMEO XXIX. THE LONGESPÉES IN THE EGYPTIAN CRUSADES. (1219-1254.)

CAMEO XXX. SIMON DE MONTFORT. (1232-1266.)

CAMEO XXXI. THE LAST OF THE CRUSADERS. (1267-1291.)

CAMEO XXXII. The CYMRY. (B.C. 66 A.D. 1269.)

CAMEO XXXIII. THE ENGLISH JUSTINIAN. (1272-1292.)

CAMEO XXXIV. THE HAMMER OF THE SCOTS. (1292-1305.)

CAMEO XXXV. THE EVIL TOLL. (1294-1305.)

CAMEO XXXVI. ROBERT THE BRUCE (1305-1308.)

CAMEO XXXVII. THE VICTIM OF BLACKLOW HILL.

CAMEO XXXVIII. BANNOCKBURN. (1307-1313.)

CAMEO XXXIX. THE KNIGHTS OF THE TEMPLE. (1292-1316.)

CAMEO XL. THE BARONS’ WARS. (1310-1327.)

CAMEO XLI. GOOD KING ROBERT’S TESTAMENT. (1314-1329.)

INDEX.






THE ARMOURER'S PRENTICES

By Charlotte M. Yonge

1889




CONTENTS

CHAPTER I.

THE VERDURER’S LODGE

1

CHAPTER II.

THE GRANGE OF SILKSTEDE

13

CHAPTER III.

KINSMEN AND STRANGERS

24

CHAPTER IV.

A HERO’S FALL

39

CHAPTER V.

THE DRAGON COURT

49

CHAPTER VI.

A SUNDAY IN THE CITY

63

CHAPTER VII.

YORK HOUSE

77

CHAPTER VIII.

QUIPSOME HAL

89

CHAPTER IX.

ARMS SPIRITUAL AND TEMPORAL

102

CHAPTER X.

TWO VOCATIONS

112

CHAPTER XI.

AY DI ME GRENADA

130

CHAPTER XII.

A KING IN A QUAGMIRE

142

CHAPTER XIII.

A LONDON HOLIDAY

157

CHAPTER XIV.

THE KNIGHT OF THE BADGER

170

CHAPTER XV.

HEAVE HALF A BRICK AT HIM

184

CHAPTER XVI.

MAY EVE

194

CHAPTER XVII.

ILL MAY DAY

210

CHAPTER XVIII.

PARDON

229

CHAPTER XIX.

AT THE ANTELOPE

246

CHAPTER XX.

CLOTH OF GOLD ON THE SEAMY SIDE

264

CHAPTER XXI.

SWORD OR SMITHY

281

CHAPTER XXII.

AN INVASION

297

CHAPTER XXIII.

UNWELCOME PREFERMENT

315

CHAPTER XXIV.

THE SOLDIER

331

CHAPTER XXV.

OLD HAUNTS

343

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

“See there, Master Alderman”

FrontPage 312

“Ha! Ha!” laughed Henry, “hast found him out, lads?”

153

“And see here, your Grace!”

224






YOUNG FOLKS' HISTORY

OF

ROME.

By Charlotte M. Yonge




CONTENTS

1.—Italy

2.—The Wanderings of Æneas

3.—The Founding of Rome. B.C. 753-713

4.—Numa and Tullus. B.C. 713-618.

5.—The Driving Out of the Tarquins. B.C. 578-309

6.—The War with Porsena

7.—The Roman Government

8.—Menenius Agrippa's Fable. B.C. 494

9.—Coriolanus and Cincinnatus. B.C. 458

10.—The Decemvirs. B.C. 450

11.—Camillus' Banishment

12.—The Sack of Rome. B.C. 390

13.—The Plebeian Consulate. B.C. 367

14.—The Devotion of Decius. B.C. 357

15.—The Samnite Wars

16.—The War with Pyrrhus. 280-271

17.—The First Punic War. 264-240

18.—Conquest of Cisalpine Gaul. 240-219

19.—The Second Punic War. 219

20.—The First Eastern War. 215-183

21.—The Conquest of Greece, Corinth, and Carthage. 179-145

22.—The Gracchi. 137-122

23.—The Wars of Marius. 106-98

24.—The Adventures of Marius. 93-84

25.—Sulla's Proscription. 88-71

26.—The Career of Pompeius. 70-63

27.—Pompeius and Cæsar. 61-48

28.—Julius Cæsar. 48-44

29.—The Second Triumvirate. 44-33

30.—Cæsar Augustus. B.C. 33-A.D. 14

31.—Tiberius and Caligula. A.D. 14-41

32.—Claudius and Nero. A.D. 41-68

33.—The Flavian Family. 62-96

34.—The Age of the Antonines. 96-194

35.—The Prætorian Influence. 197-284

36.—The Division of the Empire. 284-312

37.—Constantine the Great. 312-337

38.—Constantius. 337-364

39.—Valentinian and his Family. 364-392

40.—Theodosius the Great. 392-395

41.—Alaric the Goth. 395-410

42.—The Vandals. 403

43.—Attila the Hun. 435-457

44.—Theodoric the Ostrogoth. 457-561

45.—Belisarius. 533-563

46.—Pope Gregory the Great. 563-800

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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

The Pope's Doortender. (Frontispiece.)

The Tiber

Curious Pottery

Jupiter

The Coast

Mount Etna

Carthage

Roman Soldier

Gladiatorial Shows at a Banquet

The Forum

Janus

Actors

Sybil's Cave

Brutus condemning his sons

Roman Ensigns, Standards, Trumpets etc.

Head of Jupiter

Female Costumes

Female Costumes

Senatorial Palace

View of a Roman Harbor

Roman Camp

Ploughing

Death of Virginia

Chariot Races

Arrow Machine

Siege Machine

Ruins of the Forum at Rome

Entry of the Forum Romanum by the Via Sacra

Costumes

Costume

Curtius leaping into the Gulf

The Apennines

Combat between a Mirmillo and a Samnite

Combat between a light armed Gladiator and a Samnite

Ancient Rome

Pyrrhus

Roman Orator

Roman Ship

Roman Order of Battle

The wounded Gaul

Hannibal's Vow

In the Pyrenees,

Meeting of Hannibal and Scipio at Zama

Archimedes

Hannibal

Corinth

Cornelia and her Sons

Roman Centurion

Marius

One of the Trophies, called of Marius, at the Capitol at Rome

The Catapult

Island on the Coast

Palazzo Vecchio, Florence

Cornelius Sulla

Coast of Tyre

Mountains of Armenia

Cicero

Colossal Statue of Pompeius of the Palazzo Spada of Rome

Pompeius

Amphitheatre

The Arena

Julius Cæsar

Cato

Funeral Solemnities in the Columbarium of the House of Julius Cæsar at
the Porta Capena in Rome


Marcus Antonius

Marcus Brutus

Alexandria

Caius Octavius

Statue of Augustus at the Vatican

Paintings in the House of Livia

Ruins of the Palaces of Tiberius

Agrippina

Rome in the time of Augustus Cæsar

Claudius

Nero

Arch of Titus

Vesuvius previous to the Eruption of A.D. 63

Persecution of the Christians

Coin of Nero

Temple of Antoninus and Faustina

Marcus Aurelius

Septimus Severus

Antioch

Alexander Severus

Temple of the Sun at Palmyra

The Catacombs at Rome

Coin of Severus

Diocletian

Diocletian in Retirement

Constantine the Great

Constantinople

Council of Nicea

Catacombs

Julian

Arch of Constantine

Alexandria

Goths

Convent on the Hills

Julian Alps

Roman Hall of Justice

Colonnades of St. Peter at Rome

Alaric's Burial

Roman Clock

Spanish Coast

Vandals plundering

Pyramids and Sphynx, Egypt

Hunnish Camp

St. Mark's, Venice

The Pope's House

Romulus Augustus resigns the Crown

illustration

Naples

Constantinople

Pope Gregory the Great

The Pope's Pulpit

Battle of Tours