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Title: Margaret Tudor
A Romance of Old St. Augustine

Author: Annie T. Colcock

Illustrator: W. B. Gilbert

Release Date: January 17, 2008 [EBook #24335]

Language: English

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THE STORY OF MARGARET TUDOR

[Illustration: MARGARET TUDOR.]

MARGARET TUDOR

_A Romance of Old St. Augustine_

By ANNIE T. COLCOCK

_Illustrated by_
W. B. GILBERT

[Illustration]

NEW YORK . FREDERICK A.
STOKES COMPANY . PUBLISHERS

COPYRIGHT, 1901,
BY FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY

_All rights reserved_

Transcriber's Note:

Minor typographical errors have been corrected without note. The oe
ligature is shown as [oe].

"That thee is sent receive in buxomnesse,
The wrastling of this world asketh a fall,
Here is no home, here is but wildernesse,
. . . . .
Looke up on high, and thanke God of all!"
CHAUCER.

NOTE.

The names of Mr. John Rivers,--kinsman and agent of Lord Ashley,--Dr.
Wm. Scrivener and Margaret Tudor appear in the passenger list of the
_Carolina_, as given in the Shaftesbury Papers (Collections of the South
Carolina Historical Society, Vol. V, page 135). In the same (page 169)
may be found a brief account of the capture, at Santa Catalina, of Mr.
Rivers, Capt. Baulk, some seamen, _a woman, and a girl_; also (page 175)
mention of the unsuccessful embassy of Mr. Collins; and (page 204) the
Memorial to the Spanish Ambassador touching the delivery of the
prisoners, one of whom is alluded to as _Margaret_, presumably Margaret
Tudor.

The names of the two Spaniards, Senor de Colis and Don Pedro Melinza,
each appear once in the Shaftesbury Papers (pages 25 and 443): the
latter individual was evidently a person of some consequence in San
Augustin; the former, in the year 1663, was "Go