Chapter II: Conclusion

THE STAR-CHAMBER; AN HISTORICAL ROMANCE, By W. Harrison Ainsworth, Esq. 1854.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I. The Three Cranes in the Vintry.

CHAPTER II. Sir Giles Mompesson and his partner.

CHAPTER III. The French ordinary.

CHAPTER IV. A Star-Chamber victim.

CHAPTER V. Jocelyn Mounchensey.

CHAPTER VI. Provocation.

CHAPTER VII. How Lord Roos obtained Sir Francis Mitchell's signature.

CHAPTER VIII. Of Lupo Vulp, Captain Bludder, Clement Lanyere, and Sir Giles's other Myrmidons.

CHAPTER IX. The Letters-Patent.

CHAPTER X. The 'prentices and their leader.

CHAPTER XI. John Wolfe.

CHAPTER XII. The Arrest and the Rescue.

CHAPTER XIII. How Jocelyn Mounchensey encountered a masked horseman on Stamford Hill.

CHAPTER XIV. The May-Queen and the Puritan's Daughter.

CHAPTER XV. Hugh Calveley.

CHAPTER XVI. Of the sign given by the Puritan to the Assemblage.

CHAPTER XVII. A rash promise.

CHAPTER XVIII. How the promise was cancelled.

CHAPTER XIX. Theobalds' Palace.

CHAPTER XX. King James the First.

CHAPTER XXI. Consequences of the Puritan's warning.

CHAPTER XXII. Wife and Mother-in-Law.

CHAPTER XXIII. The Tress of Hair.

CHAPTER XXIV. The Fountain Court.

CHAPTER XXV. Sir Thomas Lake.

CHAPTER XXVI. The forged Confession.

CHAPTER XXVII. The Puritan's Prison.

CHAPTER XXVIII. The Secret.

CHAPTER XXIX. Luke Hatton.

THE STAR-CHAMBER; AN HISTORICAL ROMANCE, By W. Harrison Ainsworth, Esq. Author of "Windsor Castle," &C. In Two Volumes. VOL. II. 1854.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I. Poison.

CHAPTER II. Counter-Poison.

CHAPTER III. Showing that "our pleasant vices are made the whips to scourge us."

CHAPTER IV. How the forged Confession was produced.

CHAPTER V. A visit to Sir Giles Mompesson's habitation near the fleet.

CHAPTER VI. Of the Wager between the Conde de Gondomar and the Marquis of

CHAPTER VII. A Cloud in the Horizon.

CHAPTER VIII. Whitehall.

CHAPTER IX. Prince Charles.

CHAPTER X. The old Palace-Yard of Westminster.

CHAPTER XI. The Tilt-Yard.

CHAPTER XII. The Tilting Match.

CHAPTER XIII. The Felon Knight.

CHAPTER XIV. The private Cabinet of Sir Giles Mompesson.

CHAPTER XV. Clement Lanyere's Story.

CHAPTER XVI. Sir Jocelyn's rupture with de Gondomar.

CHAPTER XVII. Disgrace.

CHAPTER XVIII. How Sir Jocelyn's cause was espoused by the 'prentices.

CHAPTER XIX. A Noble Revenge.

CHAPTER XX. A Place of Refuge.

CHAPTER XXI. The Arrest.

CHAPTER XXII. The Old Fleet Prison.

CHAPTER XXIII. How Sir Jocelyn was brought to the Fleet.

CHAPTER XXIV. The Abduction.

CHAPTER XXV. The "Stone Coffin."

CHAPTER XXVI. A Secret Friend.

CHAPTER XXVII. Showing how judgment was given by King James in the Star-Chamber, in the

CHAPTER XXVIII. The two warrants.

CHAPTER XXIX. The Silver Coffer.

CHAPTER XXX. How the Marriage was interrupted.

CHAPTER XXXI. Accusations.

CHAPTER XXXII. Judgment.

CONCLUDING CHAPTER.

THE LANCASHIRE WITCHES. A Romance of Pendle Forest. By William Harrison Ainsworth, Esq. Third Edition. Illustrated by John Gilbert. CONTENTS.

INTRODUCTION. The Last Abbot of Whalley Chapter I. The Beacon on Pendle Hill. Chapter II. The Eruption. Chapter III. Whalley Abbey. Chapter IV. The Malediction. Chapter V. The Midnight Mass. Chapter VI. Teter et Fortis Carcer. Chapter VII. The Abbey Mill. Chapter VIII. The Executioner. Chapter IX. Wiswall Hall. Chapter X. The Holehouses.

BOOK THE FIRST. Alizon Device Chapter I. The May Queen. Chapter II. The Black Cat and the White Dove. Chapter III. The Asshetons. Chapter IV. Alice Nutter. Chapter V. Mother Chattox. Chapter VI. The Ordeal by Swimming. Chapter VII. The Ruined Conventual Church. Chapter VIII. The Revelation. Chapter IX. The Two Portraits in the Banqueting-Hall. Chapter X. The Nocturnal Meeting.

BOOK THE SECOND. Pendle Forest Chapter I. Flint. Chapter II. Read Hall. Chapter III. The Boggart's Glen. Chapter IV. The Reeve of the Forest. Chapter V. Bess's o' th' Booth. Chapter VI. The Temptation. Chapter VII. The Perambulation of the Boundaries. Chapter VIII. Rough Lee. Chapter IX. How Rough Lee was defended by Nicholas. Chapter X. Roger Nowell and his Double. Chapter XI. Mother Demdike. Chapter XII. The Mysteries of Malkin Tower. Chapter XIII. The Two Familiars. Chapter XIV. How Rough Lee was again Besieged. Chapter XV. The Phantom Monk. Chapter XVI. One O'Clock! Chapter XVII. How the Beacon Fire was Extinguished.

BOOK THE THIRD. Hoghton Tower Chapter I. Downham Manor-House. Chapter II. The Penitent's Retreat. Chapter III. Middleton Hall. Chapter IV. The Gorge of Cliviger. Chapter V. The End of Malkin Tower. Chapter VI. Hoghton Tower. Chapter VII. The Royal Declaration concerning Lawful Sports on the Sunday. Chapter VIII. How King James Hunted the Hart and the Wild-Boar in Houghton Park. Chapter IX. The Banquet. Chapter X. Evening Entertainments. Chapter XI. Fatality. Chapter XII. The Last Hour. Chapter XIII. The Masque of Death. Chapter XIV. "One Grave." Chapter XV. Lancaster Castle.

ILLUSTRATIONS. Nicholas Assheton and the Three Doll Wangos Leaving Hoghton Hall. Alvetham and John Paslew. The May Queen. Nan Redferne and Mother Chattox. Mother Chattox, Alizon, and Dorothy. Alizon Alarmed at the Appearance of Mrs. Nutter. The Incantation. Potts after Being Thrown from his Horse. Richard Overhears the Mother Chattox and the Sexton. The Ride through the Murky Air. The Phantom Monk. Alizon Defies Jennet.

ROCKWOOD BY

WILLIAM HARRISON AINSWORTH

MEMOIR
TO MY MOTHER
PREFACE
BOOK I—THE WEDDING RING
The Vault
The Skeleton Hand
The Park
The Hall
Sir Reginald Rookwood
Sir Piers Rookwood
The Return
An Irish Adventurer
An English Adventurer
Ranulph Rookwood
Lady Rookwood
The Chamber of Death
The Brothers
BOOK II—THE SEXTON
The Storm
The Funeral Oration
The Churchyard
The Funeral
The Captive
The Apparition
BOOK III—THE GIPSY
A Morning Ride
A Gipsy Encampment
Sybil
Barbara Lovel
The Inauguration
Eleanor Mowbray
Mrs. Mowbray
The Parting
The Philter
Saint Cyprian's Cell
The Bridal
Alan Rookwood
Mr. Coates
Dick Turpin
BOOK IV—THE RIDE TO YORK
The Rendezvous at Kilburn
Tom King
A Surprise
The Hue and Cry
The Short Pipe
Black Bess
The York Stage
Roadside Inn
Excitement
The Gibbet
The Phantom Steed
Cawood Ferry
BOOK V—THE OATH
The Hut on Thorne Waste
Major Mowbray
Handassah
The Dower of Sybil
The Sarcophagus
L'ENVOY
NOTES

AURIOL OR THE ELIXIR OF LIFE BY W. HARRISON AINSWORTH WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY H. K. BROWNE 1898 CONTENTS