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Title: Hayslope Grange
A Tale of the Civil War

Author: Emma Leslie

Release Date: August 28, 2006 [EBook #19136]

Language: English

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HAYSLOPE GRANGE

A TALE OF THE CIVIL WAR

BY EMMA LESLIE

AUTHOR OF "THE CAPTIVES," "CONSTANCIA'S HOUSEHOLD," "THE ORPHAN AND
FOUNDLING."

LONDON:
Sunday School Union.
56, OLD BAILEY
THOS. NELSON & SONS, 42, BLEECKER ST., NEW YORK

THE GRESHAM PRESS
LONDON & CHILWORTH

UNWIN BROTHERS,
PRINTERS BY WATER TOWER.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I. THE DRURY FAMILY

CHAPTER II. HARRY'S ANNOUNCEMENT

CHAPTER III. TRAITOR OR HERO

CHAPTER IV. CROMWELL'S IRONSIDES

CHAPTER V. MAUD HARCOURT

CHAPTER VI. THE HAYSLOPE

CHAPTER VII. THE REVEL

CHAPTER VIII. BESSIE'S DISTRESS

CHAPTER IX. THE WOUNDED MESSENGER

CHAPTER X. "ON, CAVALIER, ON!"

CHAPTER XI. MYSTERIES

CHAPTER XII. HARRY'S RETURN

CHAPTER I.

THE DRURY FAMILY.

It was a sweet spring day, soft and balmy as summer, and any one looking
across the green meadows and smiling uplands of Hayslope, now so full of
the promise of early fruitfulness, would have wondered what could make
the farm-labourers appear so gloomy, and the women-folk sigh instead of
singing at their work, if he knew nothing of what was going on a few
miles away.

It was the year 1644, and for two long years civil war had been raging
in England, and now two rival Parliaments were sitting, the one presided
over by the King meeting at Oxford, while that in London was engaged
upon the trial of Archbishop Laud, and levying war against the King, so
that it was not to be wondered at that men looked gloomy and sorrowful,
for they were dark, sad times for everybody.

Hayslope was a little village on the borders of Essex, but quite out of
the