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Westward Ho!: Or, the Voyages and Adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the County of Devon, in the Reign of Her Most Glorious Majesty Queen Elizabeth
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Westward Ho!: Or, the Voyages and Adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the County of Devon, in the Reign of Her Most Glorious Majesty Queen Elizabeth

by Charles Kingsley. 632 pgs.

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Contributors:

   Charles Kingsley

Publisher:

   Macmillan

Place of Publication:

  London  

Publication Year:

  1903
Subjects:   Great Britain--History--Elizabeth, 1558-1603--Fiction
Table of contents
CONTENTS.
CHAP.I. HOW MR. OXENHAM SAW THE WHITE BIRD PAGE 1
II. HOW AMYAS CAME HOME THE FIRST TIME 18
III. OF TWO GENTLEMEN OF WALES, AND HOW THEY HUNTED WITH THE HOUNDS, AND YET RAN WITH THE DEER 48
IV. THE TWO WAYS OF BEING CROST IN LOVE 64
V. CLOVELLY COURT IN THE OLDEN TIME 87
VI. THE COOMBES OF THE FAR WEST 112
VII. THE TRUE AND TRAGICAL HISTORY OF MR. JOHN OXENHAM OF PLYMOUTH 119
VIII. HOW THE NOBLE BROTHERHOOD OF THE ROSE WAS FOUNDED 158
IX. HOW AMYAS KEPT HIS CHRISTMAS DAY 174
X. HOW THE MAYOR OF BIDEFORD BAITED HIS HOOK WITH HIS OWN FLESH 207
XI. HOW EUSTACE LEIGH MET THE POPE'S LEGATE 217
XII. HOW BIDEFORD BRIDGE DINED AT ANNERY HOUSE 233
XIII. HOW THE GOLDEN HIND CAME HOME AGAIN 258
XIV. HOW SALVATION YEO SLEW THE KING OF THE GUBBINGS 266
XV. HOW MR. JOHN BRIMBLECOMBE UNDERSTOOD THE NATURE OF AN OATH 289
XVI. THE MOST CHIVALROUS ADVENTURE OF THE GOOD SHIP ROSE 299
CHAP.XVII. HOW THEY CAME TO BARBADOS, AND FOUND NO MEN THEREIN PAGE 315
XVIII. HOW THEY TOOK THE PEARLS AT MARGARITA 320
XIX. WHAT BEFELL AT LA GUAYRA 331
XX. SPANISH BLOODHOUNDS AND ENGLISH MASTIFFS 354
XXI. HOW THEY TOOK THE COMMUNION UNDER THE TREE AT HIGUEROTE 377
XXII. THE INQUISITION IN THE INDIES 393
XXIII. THE BANKS OF THE META 396
XXIV. HOW AMYAS WAS TEMPTED OF THE DEVIL 412
XXV. HOW THEY TOOK THE GOLD-TRAIN 432
XXVI. HOW THEY TOOK THE GREAT GALLEON 457
XXVII. HOW SALVATION YEO FOUND HIS LITTLE MAID AGAIN 486
XXVIII. HOW AMYAS CAME HOME THE THIRD TIME 499
XXIX. HOW THE VIRGINIA FLEET WAS STOPPED BY THE QUEEN'S COMMAND 512
XXX. HOW THE ADMIRAL JOHN HAWKINS TESTIFIED AGAINST CROAKERS 536
XXXI. THE GREAT ARMADA 551
XXXII. HOW AMYAS THREW HIS SWORD INTO THE SEA 568
XXXIII. HOW AMYAS LET THE APPLE FALL 585
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