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Title: The Loyalists, Vol. 1-3
An Historical Novel

Author: Jane West

Release Date: October 4, 2006 [EBook #19458]

Language: English

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THE LOYALISTS:

_AN HISTORICAL NOVEL._

IN THREE VOLUMES.

By Jane West

The Author of "LETTERS TO A YOUNG MAN," "A TALE OF THE TIMES," &c.

Preserve your Loyalty, maintain your Rights.

_Inscription on a Column at Appleby._

Strahan and Preston,
Printers-Street, London.

LONDON:
PRINTED FOR LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, AND BROWN,
PATERNOSTER-ROW.
1812.

Transcriber's Note: The variant and inconsistant spellings in this
text have been retained and Tables of Contents has been created.

VOLUME I

TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER.
CHAP. II.
CHAP. III.
CHAP. IV.
CHAP. V.
CHAP. VI.
CHAP. VII.
CHAP. VIII.
CHAP. IX.
CHAP. X.
CHAP. XI.

THE LOYALISTS.

INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER.

Abate the edge of Traitors, gracious Lord,
That would reduce these bloody days again,
And make poor England weep in streams of blood!

Shakspeare.

Those who have but an indifferent banquet to offer, are not usually
inclined to discourage their guests, by a repulsive bill of fare; yet
surely, when a public invitation is given, there is honesty, and
prudence too, in simply stating the kind of regale we are going to
spread, lest a palled and sickly appetite should expect stimulants, or a
perverted taste should pine for foreign luxuries and modern cookery,
when we have nothing to set before them but plain old English food.
Church and King now look as obsolete in a publication, as beef and
pudding would at a gala dinner; yet let us remember, that as the latter
hav