Sir Ludar / A Story of the Days of the Great Queen Bess
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Chapters (65)
- Talbot Baines Reed "Sir Ludar"
- A Story of the Days of the Great Queen Bess.
- Chapter One.
- How I saw my Queen.
- Chapter Two.
- How I served a Disorderly Printer.
- Chapter Three.
- How I rode post-haste to Oxford.
- Chapter Four.
- How I met a Runaway Scholar.
- Chapter Five.
- How I parted with my Cloak.
- Chapter Six.
- How I walked with a Rebel.
- Chapter Seven.
- How I found Trouble on my Return.
- Chapter Eight.
- How I was cast adrift.
- Chapter Nine.
- How I caught the Miséricorde.
- Chapter Ten.
- How we sailed with a Poet of the First Water.
- Chapter Eleven.
- How the Miséricorde changed her Crew.
- Chapter Twelve.
- How we sailed into Leith.
- Chapter Thirteen.
- How we brought the Maiden to her Father’s House.
- Chapter Fourteen.
- How Ludar fired the Beacon on Knocklay.
- Chapter Fifteen.
- How Ludar took Dunluce.
- Chapter Sixteen.
- How Sorley Boy McDonnell came Home to his own.
- Chapter Seventeen.
- How a Dog’s Head was set on Dublin Gate.
- Chapter Eighteen.
- How I found myself again in London.
- Chapter Nineteen.
- How I was concerned in Treason and Love.
- Chapter Twenty.
- How there came Visitors to Master Walgrave’s House.
- Chapter Twenty One.
- How a Certain Man was hanged at Tyburn.
- Chapter Twenty Two.
- How Master Walgrave fell short of Type.
- Chapter Twenty Three.
- How the Miséricorde sailed for Rochelle.
- Chapter Twenty Four.
- How the Invincible Armada came into British Waters.
- Chapter Twenty Five.
- How the Dons sailed up Channel.
- Chapter Twenty Six.
- How Ludar brought back the Duke’s Letter.
- Chapter Twenty Seven.
- How Ludar sailed North and I South.
- Chapter Twenty Eight.
- How I enlisted on a New Service.
- Chapter Twenty Nine.
- How Captain Merriman came and went betwixt me and the Light.
- Chapter Thirty.
- How the Sun went down behind Malin.
- Chapter Thirty One.
- How we came into Calm Water after all.
- The End.
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