Produced by Tor Martin Kristiansen, KD Weeks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE: Please visit the Notes at the end of this text for details of any corrections made during the preparation of this text. Italics in the original are indicated here as _italics_. The World's Classics CXIX MARGARET CATCHPOLE BY RICHARD COBBOLD OXFORD: HORACE HART PRINTER TO THE UNIVERSITY [Illustration] [Illustration] HISTORY OF MARGARET CATCHPOLE BY RICHARD COBBOLD THE HISTORY OF MARGARET CATCHPOLE A SUFFOLK GIRL BY RICHARD COBBOLD WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY CLEMENT SHORTER [Illustration] HENRY FROWDE OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS LONDON, NEW YORK, TORONTO AND MELBOURNE Richard Cobbold Born, Ipswich 1797 Died January 5, 1877 _'Margaret Catchpole' was first published in 1845. In 'The World's Classics' it was first published in 1907 and reprinted in 1912._ INTRODUCTION