Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from When Charles the First Was King: A Romance of Osgoldcross, 1632-1649
If you will take your chart Of Yorkshire and draw with your pen a straight line from Doncaster to Wakefield, from Wakefield to Wetherby, from Wetherby to York, from York to Goole, and from Goole to Doncaster again, you will have enclosed the tract of land of which I have Spoken. I question if you can find throughout the length and breadth Of England a Similar piece Of country more rich in historical associations, more odorous of national life, more beautiful in its own quiet way. Here we have no great mountains, no rushing rivers, no awesome valleys, but the land rolls along in richness Of wood and stream, thorpe and hamlet, the gray spires and towers Of village churches rising heavenward here and there, the red roofs of farmsteads, the tall gables of manors and halls peeping from the great groves of elm and beech and chestnut which stud the land everywhere in prodigal luxuriance. Right through this land runs the Great North Road like a Silver streak, straight and direct, SO that as I stand at my door 0' nights I can hear the carriers' waggons rumbling north and south, and.
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