BY WHAT AUTHORITY? By Robert Hugh Benson _Author of_ "The Light Invisible," "The King's Achievement," "A Book of the Love of Jesus," etc. BENIZIGER BROS. PRINTERS TO THE HOLY APOSTOLIC SEE, NEW YORK, CINCINNATI, CHICAGO. _I wish to acknowledge a great debt of gratitude to the Reverend Dom Bede Camm., O.S.B., who kindly read this book in proof, and made many valuable corrections and suggestions._ ROBERT HUGH BENSON _Tremans Horsted Keynes October 27, 1904_ PENATIBVS · FOCISQVE · CARIS NECNON · TRIBVS · CARIORIBVS APVD · QVAS · SCRIPSI IN · QVARVM · AVRES · LEGI A · QVIBVS · ADMONITVS · EMENDAVI HVNC · LIBRVM D. CONTENTS PART I CHAP. I. The Situation II. The Hall and the House III. London Town IV. Mary Corbet V. A Rider From London VI. Mr. Stewart VII. The Door in the Garden Wall VIII. The Taking of Mr. Stewart IX. Village Justice X. A Confessor XI. Master Calvin XII. A Winding Up PART II I. Anthony in London II. Some New Lessons III. Hubert's Return IV. A Counter March V. The Coming of the Jesuits VI. Some Contrasts VII. A Message From the City VIII. The Massing-House IX. From Fulham to Greenwich X. The Appeal to Cæsar XI. A Station of the Cross XII. A Strife of Tongues XIII. The Spiritual Exercises XIV. Easter Day PART III I. The Coming of Spain II. Men of War and Peace III. Home-Coming IV. Stanfield Place V. Joseph Lackington VI. A Departure VII. Northern Religion VIII. In Stanstead Woods IX. The Alarm X. The Passage To the Garden-house XI. The Garden-house XII. The Night Ride XIII. In Prison XIV. An Open Door XV. The Rolling of the Stone BY WHAT AUTHORITY? PART I CHAPTER I THE SITUATION To the casual Londoner who lounged, intolerant and impatient, at the blacksmith's door while a horse was shod, or a cracked spoke mended, Great Keynes seemed but a poor backwater of a place, compared with the rush of the Brighton road eight miles to the east from which he had turned off, or the whirling cauldron of London City, twenty miles to the north, towards which he was travelling.