The Camp of Refuge: A Tale of the Conquest of the Isle of Ely
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The Camp of Refuge. [By Charles MacFarlane.] British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The GENERAL HISTORICAL collection includes books from the British Library digitised ...
Chapters (490)
- THE CAMP OF REFUGE.
- THE EDITOR’S PREFACE.
- THE CONTENTS.
- CHAPTER I. THE MESSENGER.
- CHAPTER II. THE SUCCURSAL CELL.
- CHAPTER III. THE GREAT HOUSE AT ELY.
- CHAPTER IV. THE MONKS OF ELY FEAST.
- CHAPTER V. THE MONKS OF ELY TAKE COUNSEL.
- CHAPTER VI. IVO TAILLE-BOIS AND THE LADIE LUCIA.
- CHAPTER VII. HEREWARD’S RETURN.
- CHAPTER VIII. LORD HEREWARD GOES TO GET HIS OWN.
- CHAPTER IX. ELFRIC THE EX-NOVICE, AND GIROLAMO OF SALERNO, PREPARE TO PLAY AT DEVILS.
- CHAPTER X. THE HOUSE AT CROWLAND.
- CHAPTER XI. THE LINDEN-GROVE AND LADIE ALFTRUDE.
- CHAPTER XII. THE MARRIAGE AND THE AMBUSCADE.
- CHAPTER XIII. HOW LORD HEREWARD AND HIS LADIE LIVED AT EY.
- CHAPTER XIV. HEREWARD IS MADE KNIGHT.
- CHAPTER XV. THE CASTLE AT CAM-BRIDGE AND A BATTLE.
- CHAPTER XVI. THE TRAITOROUS MONKS OF PETERBOROUGH
- CHAPTER XVII. HEREWARD GOES TO BRUNN, AND IS DISTURBED THERE.
- CHAPTER XVIII. THE DANES AND THEIR KING’S SON.
- CHAPTER XIX. THE NORMAN WITCH.
- CHAPTER XX. THE NORMAN DUKE TRIES AGAIN.
- CHAPTER XXI. THE MONKS OF ELY COMPLAIN AND PLOT.
- CHAPTER XXII. HEREWARD BRINGS CORN AND WINE TO ELY.
- CHAPTER XXIII. A CHAPTER AND A GREAT TREASON.
- CHAPTER XXIV. THE DUNGEON.
- CHAPTER XXV. THE NORMANS IN THE CAMP.
- CHAPTER XXVI. A FIRE AND A RESCUE.
- CHAPTER XXVII. HEREWARD STILL FIGHTS.
- CHAPTER XXVIII. THE HAPPY END.
- APPENDIX.
- Note A.—(Page 5.) FOUNDATION OF ELY ABBEY.
- Note B.—(Page 5.) THE LEGEND OF S. LUCY.
- Note C.—(Pages 5, 45, 57.) OVIN’S CROSS AT ELY.
- Note D.—(Page 7.) SPALDING PRIORY.
- Note E.—(Pages 16, 17.) ARCHBISHOP PARKER’S SALT-VAT.
- Note F.—(Page 20.) ABBEY OF S. ALBAN.
- Note G.—(Page 59). CROWLAND ABBEY.
- Note H.—(Page 61.) RAMSEY ABBEY.
- Note I.—(Page 61.) THORNEY ABBEY.
- Note J.—(Page 67.) KING’S LYNN IN THE 18TH CENTURY.
- Note K.—(Pages 74, 409.)* THE CAMP OF REFUGE SURRENDERED. (From Historia Eliensis, lib. sec.)
- Note L.—(Page 216.) PETERBOROUGH ABBEY.
- Note M.—(Page 217.) THE GIFT OF BRAND.
- Note N.—(Page 466.) KNUT’S VISIT TO ELY.
- FENLAND BIBLIOGRAPHY.
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