IX. The Philter
X. Saint Cyprian's Cell
XI. The Bridal
XII. Alan Rookwood
XIII. Mr. Coates
XIV. Dick Turpin

BOOK IV. THE RIDE TO YORK
I. The Rendezvous at Kilburn
II. Tom King
III. A Surprise
IV. The Hue and Cry
V. The Short Pipe
VI. Black Bess
VII. The York Stage
VIII. Roadside Inn
IX. Excitement
X. The Gibbet
XI. The Phantom Steed
XII. Cawood Ferry

BOOK V. THE OATH
I. The Hut on Thorne Waste
II. Major Mowbray
III. Handassah
IV. The Dower of Sybil
V. The Sarcophagus

L'ENVOY

NOTES

_MEMOIR_

William Harrison Ainsworth was born in King Street, Manchester, February
4, 1805, in a house that has long since been demolished. His father was
a solicitor in good practice, and the son had all the advantages that
educational facilities could afford. He was sent to the Manchester
grammar-school, and in one of his early novels has left an interesting
and accurate picture of its then condition, which may be contrasted with
that of an earlier period left by the "English opium-eater." At sixteen,
a brilliant, handsome youth, with more taste for romance and the drama
than for the dry details of the law, he was articled to a leading
solicitor of Manchester. The closest friend of his youth was a Mr. James
Crossley, who was some years older, but shared his intellectual taste
and literary enthusiasm. A drama written for private theatricals, in his
father's house was printed in _Arliss's Magazine_, and he also
contributed to the _Manchester Iris_, the _Edinburgh Magazine_, and the
_London Magazine_. He even started a periodical, which received the name
of _The B[oe]otian_, and died at the sixth number. Many of the fugitive
pieces of these early days were collected in volumes now exceedingly
rare: "December Tales" (London, 1823), which is not wholly from his pen;
the "Works of Cheviot Tichburn" (London, 1822; Manchester, 1825),
dedicated to Charles Lamb; and "A Summer Evening Tale" (London, 1825).

"Sir John Chiverton" appeared in 1826, and for forty years was regarded
as one of his early works; but Mr. John Partington Aston has also
claimed to be its author. In all probability, both of these young men
joined in the production of the novel which attracted the attent