Hereward, The Last of the English

The Last of the English, by
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HEREWARD, THE LAST OF THE ENGLISH.
BY CHARLES KINGSLEY

CONTENTS.
PRELUDE
CHAPTER I.
HOW HEREWARD WAS OUTLAWED, AND WENT NORTH TO
SEEK HIS FORTUNES
II. HOW HEREWARD SLEW THE BEAR
III. HOW HEREWARD SUCCORED A PRINCESS OF CORNWALL
IV. HOW HEREWARD TOOK SERVICE WITH RANALD, KING
OF WATERFORD

V. HOW HEREWARD SUCCORED THE PRINCESS OF
CORNWALL A SECOND TIME
VI. HOW HEREWARD WAS WRECKED UPON THE FLANDERS
SHORE
VII. HOW HEREWARD WENT TO THE WAR AT GUISNES
VIII. HOW A FAIR LADY EXERCISED THE MECHANICAL ART
TO WIN HEREWARD'S LOVE
IX. HOW HEREWARD WENT TO THE WAR IN
SCALDMARILAND
X. HOW HEREWARD WON THE MAGIC ARMOR
XI. HOW THE HOLLANDERS TOOK HEREWARD FOR A
MAGICIAN
XII. HOW HEREWARD TURNED BERSERK
XIII. HOW HEREWARD WON MARE SWALLOW
XIV. HOW HEREWARD RODE INTO BRUGES LIKE A
BEGGAR-MAN
XV. HOW EARL TOSTI GODWINSSON CAME TO ST. OMER
XVI. HOW HEREWARD WAS ASKED TO SLAY AN OLD
COMRADE
XVII. HOW HEREWARD TOOK THE NEWS FROM STANFORD
BRIGG AND HASTINGS
XVIII. HOW EARL GODWIN'S WIDOW CAME TO ST. OMER
XIX. HOW HEREWARD CLEARED BOURNE OF FRENCHMEN
XX. HOW HEREWARD WAS MADE A KNIGHT AFTER THE

FASHION OF THE ENGLISH
XXI. HOW IVO TAILLEBOIS MARCHED OUT OF SPALDING
TOWN
XXII. HOW HEREWARD SAILED FOR ENGLAND ONCE AND
FOR ALL
XXIII. HOW HEREWARD GATHERED AN ARMY
XXIV. HOW ARCHBISHOP ALDRED DIED OF SORROW
XXV. HOW HEREWARD FOUND A WISER MAN IN ENGLAND
THAN HIMSELF
XXVI. HOW HEREWARD FULFILLED HIS WORDS TO THE
PRIOR OF THE GOLDEN BOROUGH
XXVII. HOW THEY HELD A GREAT MEETING IN THE HALL OF
ELY
XXVIII. HOW THEY FOUGHT AT ALDRETH
XXIX. HOW SIR DADE BROUGHT NEWS FROM ELY
XXX. HOW HEREWARD PLAYED THE POTTER; AND HOW HE
CHEATED THE KING
XXXI. HOW THEY FOUGHT AGAIN AT ALDRETH
XXXII. HOW KING WILLIAM TOOK COUNSEL OF A
CHURCHMAN
XXXIII. HOW THE MONKS OF ELY DID AFTER THEIR KIND
XXXIV. HOW HEREWARD WENT TO THE GREENWOOD
XXXV. HOW ABBOT THOROLD WAS PUT TO RANSOM

XXXVI. HOW ALFTRUDA WROTE TO HEREWARD
XXXVII. HOW HEREWARD LOST SWORD BRAIN-BITER
XXXVIII. HOW HEREWARD CAME IN TO THE KING
XXXIX. HOW TORFRIDA CONFESSED THAT SHE HAD BEEN
INSPIRED BY THE DEVIL
XL. HOW HEREWARD BEGAN TO GET HIS SOUL'S PRICE
XLI. HOW EARL WALTHEOF WAS MADE A SAINT
XLII. HOW HEREWARD GOT THE BEST OF HIS SOUL'S PRICE
XLIII. HOW DEEPING FEN WAS DRAINED

HEREWARD, THE LAST OF THE ENGLISH.

PRELUDE.
The heroic deeds of Highlanders, both in these islands and elsewhere,
have been told in verse and prose, and not more often, nor more loudly,
than they deserve. But we must remember, now and then, that there
have been heroes likewise in the lowland and in the fen. Why, however,
poets have so seldom sung of them; why no historian, save Mr. Motley
in his "Rise of the Dutch Republic," has condescended to tell the tale of
their doughty deeds, is a question not difficult to answer.
In the first place, they have been fewer in number. The lowlands of the
world, being the richest spots, have been generally the soonest
conquered, the soonest civilized, and therefore the soonest taken out of
the sphere of romance and wild adventure, into that of order and law,
hard work and common sense, as well as--too often--into the sphere of
slavery, cowardice, luxury, and ignoble greed. The lowland populations,