Chapter I: Front Matter

"HE DEALT A CRASHING BLOW AT THE RECREANT KNIGHT."

_Frontispiece._
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UNDER KING HENRY'S
BANNERS

A STORY OF THE DAYS OF AGINCOURT

By
PERCY F. WESTERMAN

Author of
"The Winning of the Golden Spurs,"
etc.

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY JOHN CAMPBELL

LONDON
THE PILGRIM PRESS
16, PILGRIM STREET, E.C.

_Fair stood the wind for France
When we our sails advance,
Nor now to prove our chance
Longer will tarry;
But putting to the main
At Kaux, the mouth of Seine,
With all his martial train,
Landed King Harry._

_And taking many a fort
Furnish'd in warlike sort
March'd towards Agincourt
In happy hour;
Skirmishing day by day
With those that stop'd his way,
Where the French Gen'ral lay
With all his power._

* * * * *

_Upon Saint Crispin's day
Fought was this noble fray,
Which fame did not delay
To England to carry;
O when shall Englishmen
With such acts fill a pen,
Or England breed again
Such a King Harry?_

MICHAEL DRAYTON (1563-1631.)

CONTENTS

CHAP. PAGE

I HOW NEWS CAME TO WARBLINGTON CASTLE 1

II THE RETURN OF THE "GRÂCE À DIEU" 12

III HOW A FRIAR AND A LOLLARD MET ON THE HIGHWAY 20

IV HOW GEOFFREY LYSLE CROSSED THE CHANNEL 30

V HOW THE MERCHANTS TRIED CONCLUSIONS WITH LA
BARRE 41

VI THE AFFRAY BY THE RIVER 51

VII HOW GEOFFREY CAME TO TAILLEMARTEL 61

VIII OF THE AMBUSH LAID BY THE MEN OF TAILLEMARTEL 71

IX CONCERNING GEOFFREY'S DESPERATE RESOLVE 85

X THE EVE OF ST. SILVESTER 91

XI HOW SIR OLIVER GAINED HIS FREEDOM 101

XII IN WHICH GEOFFREY IS LAID BY THE HEELS 106

XIII THE POSTERN FACED WITH POINTS OF STEEL 116

XIV HOW ARNOLD GRIPWELL WAS FREED FROM HIS BONDS 130

XV HOW THE THREE COMRADES SEIZED THE FISHING
BOAT 143

XVI THE WRECK OF "L'ETOILE" 153

XVII OF THE COMPANY AT THE "SIGN OF THE BUCKLE" 161

XVIII SQUIRE GEOFFREY 168

XIX TREASON 176

XX THE TRAITORS' DOOM 189

XXI HOW GEOFFREY FARED AT THE SIEGE OF HARFLEUR 198

XXII THE MARCH OF THE FORLORN SEVEN THOUSAND 214

XXIII THE EVE OF AGINCOURT 224

XXIV THE BATTLE OF AGINCOURT 240

XXV THE MASSACRE 254

XXVI AT THE CASTLE OF SIR RAOUL D'AULX 267

XXVII THE SIEGE OF ROUEN 280

XXVIII THE FATE OF MALEVEREUX 288

XXIX THE GOLDEN SPURS 303

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

MACE IN HAND, HE DEALT A CRUSHING BLOW AT THE _Frontispiece in
RECREANT KNIGHT Colours_

IT DID NOT TAKE LONG FOR THE ENGLISHMEN TO
GRASP THE SITUATION 48

"THROW ME YON ROPE!" HE SHOUTED 144

"SIRE, WERE THERE ANY WHO DWELT IN FEAR OF
THE ISSUE OF THE BATTLE, WOULD THEY SLEEP SO
QUIETLY?" 224

WITH SPEAR THRUST AND SWEEP OF AXE THEY FELL
UPON THE STORMERS 288

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