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REGINALD HASTINGS.

VOL. II.

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A TALE OF THE TROUBLES

IN 164-.

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ELIOT WARBURTON,

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AUTHOR OF THE CRESCENT AND THE CROSS,"

AND MEMOIRS OF PRINCE RUPERT AND THE CAVALIERS."

"Fight on, thou brave true heart, and falter not, through dark
fortune and through bright. The cause thou fightest for, so far as
it is true-no farther, yet precisely so far-is very sure of victory;
the falsehood of it alone will be abolished, as is ought to be."

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

LONDON:

HENRY COLBURN, PUBLISHER,

GREAT MARLBOROUGH STREET.

1850.

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Printed by Schulze and Co., 13, Poland Street.

REGINALD HASTINGS.

CHAPTER I.

How say you?-My prisoner, or my guest?

SHAKESPERE.

AFTER some hours' rest, Hugo was again summoned to take his place in the waggon; but this time another prisoner shared his straw, and another escort conducted him with an officer, who either could not, or would not give him any information as to his companion of the night before. That evening he was lodged in the Tower, having fallen under suspicion of privity to the unlucky plot.

I have before observed, that one of the pecu

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