[Illustration: _A Musketeer._ _HANHART LITH._] With the KING at OXFORD _A TALE OF THE GREAT REBELLION_ BY THE Rev. Alfred J. Church, M.A. _Professor of Latin in University College, London_ _Author of "Stories from Homer"_ _With Sixteen Illustrations_ LONDON SEELEY & CO., 46, 47 & 48, ESSEX STREET, STRAND (_LATE OF 54, FLEET STREET_) 1886 _All Rights Reserved_ TO George William Fleetwood Bury, PHYSICIAN AND FRIEND, THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED. I cannot allow this book to appear without the expression of my thanks to the Rev. Andrew Clark, Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford, who very kindly put at my service a number of interesting records of the domestic history of the College. A. C. HADLEY GREEN, _October, 1885_. CONTENTS CHAP. PAGE I. OF MY BIRTH AND BRINGING-UP 1 II. OF MY SOJOURN IN LONDON 13 III. OF THE PLAGUE AND OTHER MATTERS 26 IV. OF THINGS AT HOME 40 V. OF THINGS AT OXFORD 52 VI. OF THE KING'S GOING TO WORCESTER 65 VII. OF THE FIGHT AT COPREDY BRIDGE 81 VIII. OF THE PLAGUE AT OXFORD AND OTHER MATTERS 93 IX. BEFORE NASEBY 105 X. OF NASEBY FIGHT 120 XI. AFTER NASEBY 131 XII. OF MY FATHER'S END AND OTHER MATTERS 152 XIII. OF MY COMING BACK TO OXFORD 174 XIV. OF BODLEY'S LIBRARY 185 XV. OF THE VISITORS AT OXFORD 197 XVI. OF MY KINSFOLK AT ENSTONE 209 XVII. OF MY GOING TO LONDON 224 XVIII. OF THE TRIAL OF THE KING 238 XIX. OF THE KING'S DEATH 252 XX. OF MATTERS AT ENSTONE 263 XXI. OF MY ADVENTURES AT SEA 275 EPILOGUE 293 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE A MUSKETEER _Frontispiece_ LONDON BRIDGE 14 FRIAR BACON'S HOUSE 70 KING CHARLES THE FIRST 72 HALT OF OFFICERS 76 A GUNNER 88 MERTON COLLEGE, OXFORD 96 A CAVALRY SKIRMISH 122 A PIKEMAN 126 GATEWAY OF CHRISTCHURCH, OXFORD 176 THE LAST ABBOT OF OSENEY 178 THE BODLEIAN LIBRARY, OXFORD 190