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 A KEY TO THE 
 
 WAVERLEY NOVELS 
 
 IN CHRONOLOGICAL SEQUENCE 
 WITH INDEX OF THE PRINCIPAL CHARACTERS 
 
 HENRY GREY 
 
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 PREFACE 
 
 TFIESE brief sketches of the Historical Novels by Sir 
 Walter Scott, whom Lord Meadowbank eulogised as 
 'The mighty magician, who has rolled back the current 
 of time, and conjured up before our living senses the 
 men and manners of days which have long since passed 
 away,' are offered to the public with the hope that, 
 to those who have read the Tales (which fill ten 
 thousand closely printed pages, and extend over a 
 period of more than seven hundred years), they may 
 serve as a memento of the principal scenes and char- 
 acters ; and to those who have not, as an appetising 
 foretaste of the intellectual feast in store for them.
 
 CON TENTS 
 
 Date of 
 
 the Story. I-AGIC 
 
 1098. COUNT ROBERT OF PARIS . 1 
 
 1187. THE BETROTHED .... .5 
 
 1191. THE TALISMAN 9 
 
 1194. 'IVANHOE 14 
 
 1306. CASTLE DANGEROUS 18 
 
 1402. THE FAIR MAID OF PERTH . . 22 
 
 1468. OUENTIN DURWARD 27 
 
 1474. ANNE OF GEIERSTEIN 31 
 
 1550. THE MONASTERY . 35 
 
 1567. THE ABBOT . .... 39 
 
 1575. KENILWORTH 43 
 
 1600. DEATH OF THE LAIRD'S JOCK . . .48 
 
 1604. THE FORTUNES OF NIGEL . . . .50 
 
 1645. A LEGEND OF MONTROSE .... 54 
 
 1652. WOODSTOCK .58 
 
 1678. PEVERIL OF THE PEAK ... 02 
 
 1679. OLD MORTALITY 67 
 
 1695. THE BRIDE OF LAMMERMOOR ... 71 
 
 1700. THE PIRATE 75 
 
 1702. MY AUNT MARGARET'S MIRROR 80
 
 viii CONTENTS 
 
 Date of 
 
 the Story. PAGE 
 
 1706. THE BLACK DWARF ... 82 
 
 1715. ROB ROY 86 
 
 1736. THE HEART OF MID-LOTHIAN . 90 
 
 1745. WAVERLEY . . 94 
 
 1763. REDGAUNTLET . 98 
 
 1765. GUY MANNERING ... . 103 
 
 1775. THE HIGHLAND WIDOW .... 107 
 
 1780. THE SURGEON'S DAUGHTER . . . 109 
 
 1782. THE TAPESTRIED CHAMBER . . . 113 
 
 1795. THE Two DROVERS 115 
 
 1795. THE ANTIQUARY 117 
 
 1812. ST RONAN'S WELL 121 
 
 INDEX OF THE PRINCIPAL CHARACTERS . 125
 
 A KEY TO THE 
 
 WAVERLEY NOVELS 
 
 COUNT ROBERT OF PARIS 
 
 Principal Characters 
 
 ALEXIUS COMNENUS, Greek 
 Emperor of Constantinople. 
 
 THE EMPRESS IRENE, his 
 wife. 
 
 PRINCESS ANNA, their daughter. 
 
 NICEPHORUS BRENNIUS, her 
 husband. 
 
 ASTARTE, 
 
 ACHII.LES TATIUS, officer of the 
 
 Imperial Varangian Guard. 
 HEREWARD, an Anglo-Saxon, 
 
 his subaltern. 
 
 STEPHANOS CASTOR, a -wrestler. 
 LYSIMACHUS, a designer. 
 HARPAX, centurion of the city 
 
 guard. 
 SEBASTES, a recruit in the 
 
 corps. 
 NICANOR, commander-in-chiefof 
 
 tlic Greek army. 
 Zos I M us, Greek patriarch. 
 
 MICHAEL AGELASTES, an old 
 
 sage. 
 
 GODFREY DE BOUILLON,^ 
 PETER THE HERMIT, 
 COUNT BALDWIN, 
 COUNT DE VERMANDOIS, 
 BOHEMOND OF ANTIOCH, 
 PRINCE TANCRED OF 
 
 OTRANTO, s C 
 
 RAYMOND, COUNT OF 
 
 TOULOUSE, 
 
 COUNT ROBERTOF PARIS/ 
 BKENHILDA, Countess of Paris. 
 TOXARTIS, a Scythian chieftain. 
 AGATHA, afterwards BERTHA, 
 
 Here-ward's betrothed. 
 DIOGENES, a negro slave. 
 ZEDEKIAS URSEL, a rival for 
 
 the throne. 
 DOUBAN, a slave skilled in 
 
 medicine. 
 SYLVAN, an ourang-outang. 
 
 Greek citizens, courtiers, military officers, seamen, soldiers, priests 
 and slaves. Army of Crusaders. 
 
 Period, 1098. Localities: Constantinople and Scutari. 
 
 EIGHT hundred years ago Constantinople then 
 as now unrivalled as regards the beauty of it? 
 situation on the confines of Europe and Asia 
 
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 was threatened by barbarians from the east, and 
 by the Franks from the west. Unable to rely on 
 his Greek subjects to repel their incursions, the 
 emperor was obliged to maintain a body-guard of 
 Varangians, or mercenaries from other nations, of 
 whom the citizens and native soldiers were very 
 jealous. One of these, Hereward, had just been 
 attacked by Sebastes, when Tatius intervened and 
 led him to the palace. Here he was introduced to 
 the imperial family, surrounded by their attend- 
 ants ; and the Princess Anna was reading a roll of 
 history she had written, when her husband entered 
 to announce the approach of the armies composing 
 the first Crusade. Convinced that he was power- 
 less to prevent their advance, the emperor offered 
 them hospitality on their way ; and, the leaders 
 having agreed to acknowledge his sovereignty, the 
 various hosts marched in procession before his 
 assembled army. 
 
 As Comnenus, however, moved forward to re- 
 ceive the homage of Count Bohemond, his vacant 
 throne was insolently occupied by Count Robert 
 of Paris, who was with difficulty compelled to 
 vacate it, and make his submission. The defiant 
 knight, accompanied by Brenhilda, afterwards met 
 the sage Agelastes, who related the story of an 
 enchanted princess, and decoyed them to his her- 
 mitage overlooking the Bosphorus. Here they 
 were introduced to the empress and her daughter, 
 who, attended by Brennius, came to visit the sage, 
 and were invited to return with them to the palace 
 to be presented to the emperor. At the State 
 banquet which followed, the guests, including Sir
 
 COUNT ROBERT OF PARIS 3 
 
 Bohemond, were pledged by their royal host, and 
 urged to accept the golden cups they had used. 
 On waking next morning, Count Robert found 
 himself in a dungeon with a tiger, and that Ursel 
 was confined in an adjoining one. Presently an 
 ourang-outang descended through a trap-door, 
 and afterwards Sebastes, both of whom the count 
 had overpowered, when Hereward made his ap- 
 pearance, and undertook to release his Norman 
 adversary. 
 
 A treasonable conference was meanwhile taking 
 place between Tatius and Agelastes, who had 
 failed in endeavouring to tamper with the Anglo- 
 Saxon ; and the countess had been unwillingly 
 transported by Diogenes to a garden-house for a 
 secret interview with Brennius, whom she chal- 
 lenged to knightly combat in the hearing of her 
 husband. Having hidden the count, Hereward 
 encountered his sweetheart Bertha, who had fol- 
 lowed Brenhilda as her attendant, and then ob- 
 tained an audience of the imperial family, who 
 were discussing recent events, including a plot in 
 which Brennius was concerned for seizing the 
 throne, and received permission to communicate 
 with the Duke de Bouillon. Bertha volunteered 
 to be his messenger, and, at an interview with 
 the council of Crusaders at Scutari, she induced 
 them to promise that fifty knights, each with ten 
 followers, should attend the combat to support 
 their champion. 
 
 Having made his confession to the Patriarch, 
 while Agelastes was killed by Sylvan as he argued 
 with Brenhilda respecting the existence of the-
 
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 devil, the emperor led his daughter to the cell in 
 which Ursel was confined, with the intention of 
 making him her husband, instead of Brennius. 
 She had, however, been persuaded by her mother 
 to intercede for the traitor, and Ursel was merely 
 placed under the care of Douban to be restored to 
 health after his long imprisonment. Alexius had 
 decided that Brennius should fight the Count of 
 Paris, instead of the countess, and all the prepara- 
 tions for the combat had been made, when the 
 ships conveying the Crusaders hove in sight ; and, 
 after defeating the Greek fleet, they landed in 
 sight of the lists. Brennius, in the meantime, was 
 pardoned, and, in answer to shouts of discontent 
 from the assembled crowd, Ursel was led forth to 
 announce his restoration to liberty and the imperial 
 favour, and the conspiracy was crushed. Hereward 
 then appeared to do battle with Count Robert, 
 and, saved from the knight's axe by Bertha, he 
 joined the Crusaders, obtaining on his return the 
 hand of his betrothed, and, ultimately, a grant of 
 land from William Rufus, adjacent to the New 
 Forest in Hampshire, where he had screened her 
 when a girl from the tusk of a wild boar.
 
 THE BETROTHED 
 
 Principal Characters 
 
 GWENWYN, Prince of Powys- 
 
 land. 
 
 BRENGWAN, his -wife. 
 FATHER EINION, his chaplain. 
 CADWALLON, his principal bard. 
 JORWORTH AP JEVAN, a mes- 
 . senger. 
 BALDWIN, Archbishop of Canter- 
 
 bury. 
 SIR RAYMOND BERENGER, of 
 
 Garde Doloureuse. 
 His daughter, EVELINE. 
 His sister, A BENEDICTINE 
 
 ABBESS. 
 FATHER AI.DROVAND, his chap- 
 
 lain. 
 
 DENNIS MOROI.T, his squire. 
 REINOLD, his butler. 
 RAOUL GILLIAN, his huntsman. 
 DAMP. GILLIAN, his wife. 
 SIR HUGO DE LACY, Constable 
 
 DAMIAN LACY, his nephew. 
 
 RANALD LACY, their kinsman. 
 
 PHILIP GUARINE, Sir Hugo's 
 squire. 
 
 AMELOT, Damian Lucy's page. 
 
 RALPH GENVIL, his banner- 
 bearer. 
 
 WILLIAM TF'LfMM.QCK., a Flemish 
 weaver. 
 
 His daughter, ROSE, Eveline's 
 waiting- maid. 
 
 ERMINGARDE, the Lady of 
 Baldringham . 
 
 BERWINE, her housekeeper. 
 
 HUNDWOLF, her steward. 
 
 SIR GUY MONTHERMER, in 
 command of the King's troops. 
 
 THE EARL OF GLOUCESTER. 
 
 KING HENRY II. 
 
 PRINCE RICHARD. 
 
 PRINCE JOHN, 
 
 of Chester. 
 
 Norman cavaliers, M'elsh borderers, soldiers, camp followers, 
 minstrels, pedlars, mendicants, outlaws, peasants ; general 
 assembly. 
 
 Period, 1187. Locality: Wales. 
 
 THE archbishop, as he travelled and preached 
 among them, had exhorted the Britons, and the 
 Anglo-Normans who were settled on the borders 
 of the Welsh principalities, to lay aside their feuds, 
 and join in the third Crusade. Accordingly, the 
 Prince of Powys-land and the Knight of Garde 
 
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 6 A KEY TO THE WAVERLEY NOVELS 
 
 Doloureuse had accepted each other's hospitality, 
 and Gwenwyn, at the suggestion of his chaplain, 
 had arranged to divorce his wife, in order that he 
 might marry Sir Raymond's daughter. In reply 
 to his proposal, however, a messenger brought a 
 letter stating that she was promised to the Con- 
 stable of Chester, which being taken by the Welsh 
 as an affront, the call to war was sung by the bards, 
 the Norman castle was attacked, and its owner 
 slain in a combat with his would-be son-in-law. 
 Nerved by the presence of Eveline on the battle- 
 ments, and supplied with food by a ruse of her 
 father's vassal the Flemish weaver, the garrison, 
 assisted by the military predilections of their 
 chaplain, held out until Damian Lacy arrived with 
 a large force, when the brave but unarmoured 
 Britons were repulsed, and their prince was killed. 
 Having granted an interview to her deliverer, 
 Eveline was escorted by her suitor the Constable, 
 and a numerous retinue, to her aunt's nunnery. 
 On her way thither she passed a night at the house 
 of a Saxon kinswoman, the Lady of Baldringham, 
 where she occupied a haunted chamber, and saw 
 the ghost of an ancestor's wife, who foretold that 
 she would be 
 
 ' Widowed wife, and married maid, 
 Betrothed, betrayer, and betrayed.' 
 
 During her visit to the abbess she was formally 
 espoused to Sir Hugo ; but the archbishop having 
 the next day commanded him to proceed to 
 Palestine for three years, he offered to annul their 
 engagement. Eveline, contrary to her aunt's
 
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 advice, promised to await his return ; and it was 
 arranged that she should reside in her castle, with 
 Rose and Dame Gillian as her attendants, and 
 Damian as her guardian. Wearied with her 
 monotonous life during this seclusion, she was 
 induced one day to join in a hawking expedition 
 unaccompanied by her usual escort, and was seized 
 by rebels secretly instigated by Ranald Lacy. In 
 attempting to rescue her Damian was severely 
 wounded, and she insisted on nursing him in the 
 castle, while Amelot led his men-at-arms in pursuit 
 of the outlaws, whose disaffection had reached the 
 king's ears, with a rumour that Damian was their 
 captain. Sir Guy Monthermer was, accordingly, 
 sent to demand admittance to Garde Doloureuse, 
 where he was reported to be concealed ; and when 
 Eveline ordered the portcullis to be dropped 
 against him, a herald proclaimed her, and all who 
 aided and abetted her, as traitors. 
 
 The constable and his squire, who were sup- 
 posed to be dead, returned from Syria, disguised 
 as palmers, just as the royal troops, headed by 
 Prince Richard, had occupied the castle, Eveline 
 at the same time being sent to a convent, and 
 Damian consigned to a dungeon. Having learnt 
 the ill news from old Raoul and his wife, Sir Hugo 
 made his way towards King Henry's camp, near 
 which, surrounded by an assembly of spectators, 
 Ranald Lacy, who by fal.se representations had 
 obtained a grant of Eveline's forfeited lands, and 
 assumed his kinsman's dress and title, was about 
 to present a royal charter of immunities to a pro- 
 cession of the Flemish settlers. Cadwallon, the
 
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 Welsh bard, had, however, attached himself to 
 Sir Hugo as a Breton minstrel, in order that he 
 might avenge the death of Gwenwyn ; and mis- 
 taking Ranald for the returned constable, suddenly 
 sprang behind him as he leant forward in his 
 saddle, and stabbed him in the back. Sir Hugo 
 now made himself known, and was welcomed by 
 the king, the assassin was executed, and, con- 
 vinced that his betrothed's love had been given 
 to Damian, the old Crusader resigned her to him, 
 and consoled himself by taking part in the sub- 
 jugation of Ireland.
 
 THE TALISMAN 
 
 Principal Characters 
 
 SIR KENNETH OF THE COUCH- 
 ANT LEOPARD, Prince Royal 
 of Scotland. 
 
 STRAUCHAN, his squire. 
 
 ILDEKIM SUEERKOHF, a Sara- 
 cen Emir. 
 
 THEODORIC OF ENGADDI, a 
 Christian hermit. 
 
 KING RICHARD I., one of the 
 Council of the third Crusade. 
 
 QUEEN BERENGAKIA, his wife. 
 
 LADY CAUSTA OF MOUNT- 
 FAUCON, her attendant. 
 
 LADY EDITH PLANTAGENET, 
 Richard's kinswoman. 
 
 NKCBATANUS,//^ Queen 's dwarf. 
 
 GUENKVRA, his lady-love. 
 
 EL HAKIM, a physician; after- 
 wards SULTAN SALADIN. 
 
 THE ARCHBISHOP OF ^ 
 TYKE, 
 
 THE GRAND-MASTER OF 
 THE TEMPLARS, 
 
 THE MARQUIS CONRADE 
 OF MONTSERRAT, 
 
 THE ARCHDUKE LEO- 
 POLD OF AUSTRIA, 
 
 KING PHILIP AUGUSTUS) _ 
 OF FRANCE, 
 
 EARL WALLENRODE, an Hun- 
 garian warrior. 
 
 A MARABOUT, or Turkish 
 fanatic. 
 
 BLONDEL, King Richard's min- 
 strel. 
 
 SIR THOMAS DE MULTON, 
 
 SIR THOMAS DE VAUX OF ]- in attendance on the King, 
 
 GlLSLAND, 
 
 Choir of boys and maidens ; knights and soldiers of the Christian 
 and Mohammedan armies. 
 
 Period, 1191. Locality: Syria. 
 
 DURING a truce between the Christian armies 
 taking part in the third Crusade, and the infidel 
 forces under Sultan Saladin, Sir Kenneth, on his 
 way to Syria, encountered a Saracen Emir, whom he 
 unhorsed, and they then rode together, discoursing 
 
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 10 A KEY TO THE WAVERLEY NOVELS 
 
 on love and necromancy, towards the cave of the 
 hermit, who was in correspondence with the pope, 
 and to whom the knight was charged to com- 
 municate secret information. Having provided 
 the travellers with refreshment, the anchorite, as 
 soon as the Saracen slept, conducted his com- 
 panion to a chapel, where he witnessed a pro- 
 cession, and was recognised by the Lady Edith, 
 to whom he had devoted his heart and sword. 
 He was then startled by the sudden appearance 
 of the dwarfs, and, having reached his couch again, 
 watched the hermit scourging himself until he fell 
 asleep. 
 
 About the same time Richard Cceur de Lion 
 had succumbed to an attack of fever, and as he 
 lay in his gorgeous tent at Ascalon, the Scot 
 arrived accompanied by a Moorish physician, who 
 had cured his squire, and who offered to restore 
 the king to health. After a long consultation, 
 and eliciting from Sir Kenneth his visit to the 
 chapel, the physician was admitted to the royal 
 presence ; and, having swallowed a draught which 
 he prepared from a silken bag or talisman, Richard 
 sank back on his cushions. While he slept Con- 
 rade of Montscrrat secretly avowed to the wily 
 grand-master his ambition to be King of Jeru- 
 salem ; and, with the object of injuring Richard's 
 reputation, incited Leopold of Austria to plant 
 his banner by the side of that of England in 
 the centre of the camp. When the king woke 
 the fever had left him, and Conrade entered to 
 announce what the archduke had done. Spring- 
 ing from his couch, Richard rushed to the spot
 
 THE TALISMAN II 
 
 and defiantly tore down and trampled on the 
 Teuton pennon. Philip of France at length per- 
 suaded him to refer the matter to the council, and 
 Sir Kenneth was charged to watch the English 
 standard until daybreak, with a favourite hound 
 as his only companion. Soon after midnight, 
 however, Necbatanus approached him with Lady 
 Edith's ring, as a token that his attendance was 
 required to decide a wager she had with the 
 queen ; and during his absence from his post 
 the banner was carried off, and his dog severely 
 wounded. Overcome with shame and grief, he 
 was accosted by the physician, who dressed the 
 animal's wound, and, having entrusted Sir Ken- 
 neth with Saladin's desire to marry the Lady 
 Edith, proposed that he should seek the Saracen 
 ruler's protection against the wrath of Richard. 
 The valiant Scot, however, resolved to confront 
 the king and reveal the Sultan's purpose ; but it 
 availed him not, and he was sentenced to death, 
 in spite of the intercessions of the queen and 
 his lady -love; when the hermit, and then the 
 physician, arrived, and Richard having yielded to 
 their entreaties, Sir Kenneth was simply forbidden 
 to appear before him again. 
 
 Having, by a bold speech, revived the drooping 
 hopes of his brother Crusaders, and reproved the 
 queen and his kinswoman for tampering with the 
 Scot, Richard received him, disguised as a Nubian 
 slave, as a present from Saladin, with whom he 
 had been induced to spend several days. Shortly 
 afterwards, as the king was reposing in his pavilion, 
 the slave saved his life from the dagger of an
 
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 assassin secretly employed by the grand-master, 
 and intimated that he could discover the purloiner 
 of the standard. A procession of the Christian 
 armies and their leaders had already been ar- 
 ranged in token of amity to Richard ; and as 
 they marched past him, seated on horseback, with 
 the slave holding the hound among his attendants, 
 the dog suddenly sprang at the Marquis Conrade, 
 who was thus convicted of having injured the 
 animal, and betrayed his guilt by exclaiming, ' I 
 never touched the banner.' Not being permitted 
 to fight the Teuton himself, the king undertook 
 to provide a champion, and Saladin to make all 
 needful preparations for the combat. Accompanied 
 by Berengaria and Lady Edith, Richard was met 
 by the Saracen with a brilliant retinue, and dis- 
 covered, in the person of his entertainer, the 
 physician who had cured his fever, and saved 
 Sir Kenneth, whom he found prepared to do 
 battle for him on the morrow, with the hermit 
 as his confessor. The encounter took place soon 
 after sunrise, in the presence of the assembled 
 hosts, and Conrade, who was wounded and un- 
 horsed, was tended by the Sultan in the grand- 
 master's tent, while the victorious knight was 
 unarmed by the royal ladies, and made known 
 by Richard as the Prince Royal of Scotland. At 
 noon the Sultan welcomed his guests to a banquet, 
 but, as the grand-master was raising a goblet to 
 his lips, Necbatanus uttered the words accipe Jioc, 
 and Saladin decapitated the templar with his 
 sabre ; on which the dwarf explained that, hidden 
 behind a curtain, he had seen him stab his
 
 THE TALISMAN 13 
 
 accomplice the Marquis of Montserrat, obviously 
 to prevent him from revealing their infamous 
 plots, while he answered his appeal for mercy 
 in the words he had repeated. The next day 
 the young prince was married to Lady Edith, 
 and presented by the Sultan with his talisman, 
 the Crusade was abandoned, and Richard, on his 
 way homewards, was imprisoned by the Austrians 
 in the Tyrol.
 
 / VANHOE 
 
 Principal Characters 
 
 CEDRIC THE SAXON, of Rother- 
 ivood Grange. 
 
 WILFRED OK IVANHOE, his dis- 
 inherited son. 
 
 THE LADY ROVVENA, his ward, 
 beloved by Jvanhoe. 
 
 GURTH, his swineherd. 
 
 WAMBA, his jester. 
 
 SIR PHILIP DE MALVOISIN, a 
 neighbour, 
 
 THE PRIOR OF AYMER, Abbot 
 ofjourvaulx. 
 
 SIR BRIAN DE Bois GILBERT, 
 a Norman knight-templar. 
 
 ISAAC OF YORK, a Jew money- 
 lender. 
 
 His daughter, REBECCA. 
 
 PRINCE JOHN, brother of Rich- 
 ard I. 
 
 ATHELSTANE, a Saxon knight, 
 Ivanhoe's rival. 
 
 Servants, knights, and squires 
 Period, 1194. Localities: 
 
 LOCKSLEY, alias ROBIN HOOD, 
 
 an outlaid. 
 REGINALD FRONT DE 
 
 BCEUF, 
 RICHARD DE MAL- 
 
 VOISIN, 
 HUGH DE GRANT- 
 
 MESNEL, 
 
 RALPH DE VIPONT, 
 MAURICE DE BRACY, 
 FRIAR TUCK, of CopmanJntrst. 
 DAME ULRICA, of Torquilstone. 
 KING RICHARD I., returned 
 from the third Crusade. 
 
 master of the Templars. 
 
 CONRADE DE MALVOISIN, his 
 
 attendant knight. 
 HiGG, a Saxon peasant, 
 
 at a tournament, Saxon outlaws. 
 Yorkshire and Leicestershire. 
 
 THE Anglo-Saxons had not yet overcome their 
 antipathy to their Norman conquerors ; and when 
 the prior and Sir Brian, with a pilgrim as their 
 guide, sought the hospitality of Rotherwood on 
 their way to a tournament, they were received 
 with haughty dignity. At the evening meal 
 Lady Rowena was inquiring the latest news from
 
 IVAN HOE 15 
 
 Palestine, whither her lover had gone, and Isaac 
 had craved shelter from the stormy night, when 
 Cedric elicited that Ivanhoe had gained as much 
 renown as any of King Richard's Norman knights, 
 and Sir Brian offered to fight him ; on which the 
 pilgrim exclaimed, ' I'll be his surety,' and Lady 
 Rowena gaged her honour on his behalf. The 
 Jew was conducted by Wamba to his cell, and 
 during the night, with Gurth's assistance, he and 
 the pilgrim started for Ashby, near which town 
 rich and poor were assembling to witness a 
 passage of arms between several knights-templar, 
 led by Sir Brian, in the presence of Prince John. 
 The champions entered the lists attended by pur- 
 suivants and heralds, and, after several encounters, 
 the conquerors challenged any other knights 
 present to meet them, when one in sable armour, 
 with the word ' disinherited ' on his shield, defied 
 Sir Brian. At the second charge the Norman 
 was unhorsed ; and, having with equal prowess 
 disposed of four other antagonists, the unknown 
 victor exercised his privilege by naming Lady 
 Rowena as the queen of the day. 
 
 Isaac had provided him with a horse and 
 armour, and Gurth was now sent to pay him 
 for them with the money with which the van- 
 quished knights had redeemed theirs. In the 
 next day's sports Ivanhoe was recognised by his 
 father and Lady Rowena, and, having received 
 a wound, was taken charge of by the Jew and 
 his daughter, the chief honours being awarded 
 to Locksley and another knight in black armour. 
 The latter, however, disappeared, and made his
 
 1 6 A KEY TO THE WAVERLEV NOVELS 
 
 way to the hermitage of Friar Tuck, a disguised 
 bandit. Meanwhile, Cedric and his ward, as well 
 as Isaac, Rebecca and Ivanhoe, had been seized 
 in the adjacent forest by Front de Bceuf and his 
 followers, dressed as outlaws, and carried to the 
 castle of Torquilstone, where De Bracy and Sir 
 Brian demanded the hands of their female cap- 
 tives, and the Jew was threatened with torture 
 unless he agreed to pay a heavy ransom. Rebecca 
 was about to throw herself from a window, when 
 the sound of a bugle announced the arrival of 
 Locksley and his followers, accompanied by the 
 black knight. Having escaped from Sir Brian, 
 the Jewess found Ivanhoe in an adjoining room, 
 and with him watched the attack on the castle. 
 After a desperate struggle the defenders were 
 overpowered, the prisoners released, and the 
 stronghold set on fire. Having thanked their 
 preservers, Cedric and Rowena returned home, 
 leaving Wamba to attend the black knight; and 
 the Jew went in search of his daughter, who had 
 been carried off by Sir Brian, bearing a letter to 
 him from Prior Aylmer, who had also been con- 
 fined in the castle, intimating that he had better 
 give her up. 
 
 The following morning Prince John, who hoped 
 to usurp the throne, received intelligence that his 
 brother was in England ; and, the prior's letter 
 having fallen into the hands of the grand-master, 
 preparations were made for the trial of Rebecca 
 as a witch. The peasant Higg was unwillingly 
 brought forward to prove that she had cured 
 him of a sore disease, and other witnesses falsely
 
 IVANIIOE 17 
 
 deposed to acts of sorcery which she had prac- 
 tised. She, however, claimed trial by combat, 
 and was allowed to send a messenger to her 
 father. The same evening the black knight was 
 attacked in the forest by several armed men, and, 
 just as he was unhorsed, Locksley with a band 
 of yeomen came to his rescue. Ivanhoe also 
 rode up, and having done homage to him as 
 King Richard, announced Rebecca's need of a 
 champion. 
 
 The bell was tolling at the castle occupied by 
 the knights-templar, the fagots were ready, and 
 the lists prepared for her doom or rescue, the 
 grand-master was seated on his throne, and Sir 
 Brian had whispered her to escape with him, when 
 a mounted knight was seen advancing. A herald 
 demanded his name, and he answered ' Wilfred of 
 Ivanhoe'; the trumpets sounded the charge, and 
 although the Saxon's horse fell, the templar rolled 
 from his saddle, and on his helmet being raised 
 he was dead. The silence of the spectators was 
 broken by the arrival of the king, at whose com- 
 mand Conrade de Malvoison was arrested for high 
 treason, and the grand-master, having threatened 
 to appeal to Rome, withdrew with his knights and 
 followers ; Rebecca at the same time leading her 
 father away lest Richard should incarcerate him 
 in order to obtain a loan, and fearful also of 
 betraying her secret love for her deliverer. The 
 nuptials of Ivanhoe and Rowena quickly followed ; 
 and, having presented the bride with a casket of 
 jewels of immense value, the Jew and his daughter 
 quitted England to take up their abode at Granada. 
 
 B
 
 CASTLE DANGEROUS 
 
 Principal Characters 
 
 SISTER URSULA ; afterwards 
 LADY MARGARET DE HAUT- 
 
 VILLE. 
 
 SIR MALCOLM FLEMING, her 
 lover. 
 
 MICHAEL TURNBULL, a border 
 foi ester. 
 
 LAZARUS TOWHEID, sexton of 
 Douglas Kirk. 
 
 THE KNIGHT OF THE TOMBS ; 
 afterwards SIR JAMES DOUG- 
 LAS. 
 
 THE BISHOP OK GLASGOW. 
 
 THE EARL OF PEMBROKE. 
 
 BERTRAM, an English minstrel. 
 
 AUGUSTINE, his supposed son ; 
 afterwards LADY AUGUSTA 
 of Berkely. 
 
 TOM DICKSON OF HAZELWOOD, 
 a vassal of the Douglas estate. 
 
 His son, CHARLES. 
 
 SIR JOHN DE WALTON, Gover- 
 nor of Castle Douglas. 
 
 SIR AYMER DE VALENCE, De- 
 puty Governor. 
 
 FABIAN HARBOTHEL,/'.T squire. 
 
 GILBERT GREENLEAF, an old 
 archer. 
 
 ABBOT JEROME, of St Bride's 
 convent. 
 
 English soldiers, squires and pages, inhabitants of Douglas, 
 Scottish knights and fighting men. 
 
 Period, 1306. Localities: Ayrshire and Lanarkshire. 
 
 DURING the struggle for the Scottish crown 
 between Edward I. and Robert Bruce, the strong- 
 hold of his adherent Sir James Douglas, known 
 as Castle Dangerous, had been taken by the 
 English, and Lady Augusta had promised her 
 hand and fortune to Sir John de Walton, on 
 condition that he held it for a year and a day. 
 Anxious to curtail this period, she determined to 
 make her way thither, accompanied by her father's 
 minstrel, disguised as his son, and they were 
 
 18
 
 CASTLE DANGEROUS 19 
 
 within three miles of their destination, when 
 fatigue compelled them to seek shelter at Dick- 
 son's farm. Two English archers, who were 
 quartered there, insisted that the youth should 
 be left at the neighbouring convent of St Bride's, 
 until Bertram satisfied Sir John as to the object 
 of their journey, and this arrangement was ap- 
 proved of by Sir Aymer, who arrived to visit the 
 outpost. As they proceeded together towards the 
 castle, the minstrel entertained the young knight 
 with some curious legends respecting it, including 
 the supernatural preservation of an ancient lay 
 relating to the house of Douglas, and the future 
 fate of the British kingdom generally. De Valance 
 would at once have passed the stranger into the 
 stronghold as a visitor ; but Gilbert Greenleaf de- 
 tained him in the guard room until the arrival of 
 the governor, who, in the hearing of Fabian, ex- 
 pressed his disapproval of his deputy's imprud- 
 ence, and thus the seeds of disagreement were 
 sown between them. 
 
 Sir John, however, wished to be indulgent to his 
 young officers, and accordingly arranged a hunt- 
 ing party, in which the Scottish vassals in the 
 neighbourhood \vcre invited to join ; but, at the 
 mid-day repast, Turnbull behaved so rudely to 
 the governor that he ordered him to be secured, 
 when he suddenly plunged into a ravine and dis- 
 appeared. The young knight took fresh offence 
 at being ordered to withdraw the archers from the 
 sport to reinforce the garrison, and appealed to 
 his uncle, the Earl of Pembroke, who, instead of 
 taking his part, wrote him a sharp reproof. He
 
 2O A KEY TO THE WAVERLEY NOVELS 
 
 then opposed the governor's wish that the minstrel 
 should terminate his visit, which induced Sir John 
 to threaten Bertram with torture unless he instantly 
 revealed his purpose in coming to the castle. The 
 minstrel declined to do so without his son's per- 
 mission ; and, the Abbot having pleaded for delay 
 on account of the boy's delicate health, Sir Aymer 
 was ordered to meet a detachment at an outpost, 
 and then to bring him to the castle to be examined. 
 As he passed through the town he encountered a 
 mounted warrior in full armour, whom neither the 
 inhabitants nor his followers would admit having 
 seen. The old sexton, however, declared that the 
 spirits of the deceased knights of Douglas could 
 not rest in their graves while the English were at 
 enmity with their descendants. On reaching the 
 convent, De Valence roused Father Jerome, and 
 insisted that the youth should at once accompany 
 him. He was, however, allowed to return to his 
 bed till daybreak, and upon the door of his room 
 being then forced open, it was empty. During the 
 night, Sister Ursula, who had hidden in the room, 
 elicited Lady Augusta's secret, which she had 
 already guessed, and, having narrated the circum- 
 stances under which she had entered the convent 
 without taking the vows, they escaped through a 
 concealed postern and found a guide with horses 
 waiting for them. A scroll which his lady-love 
 had left behind her explained matters to Sir John, 
 who, in his despair, was comforted by the sym- 
 pathy of his lieutenant ; and the faithful minstrel, 
 having been admitted to their confidence, steps 
 were at once taken to track the fugitives.
 
 CASTLE DANGEROUS 21 
 
 Having reached a thicket, Lady Margaret dis- 
 appeared to join her friends, and Lady Augusta 
 was escorted, first by the celebrated Douglas, and 
 then by Turnbull, to a spot where they met Sir 
 John, to whom the forester delivered a message 
 with which he refused to comply, and mortally 
 wounded the man when he attempted to lead the 
 lady away. But Sir James was at hand, and the 
 two knights fought until summoned by the church 
 bells to Palm Sunday service, at which the old 
 bishop officiated in the presence of an excited 
 assemblage of armed English and Scotch warriors 
 eager to attack each other. Bertram met Lady 
 Augusta in the churchyard, and was arranging for 
 her safety, when De Walton and The Douglas 
 renewed their combat, and an encounter also took 
 place between De Valence and Sir Malcolm 
 Fleming. The life of the latter was saved by 
 the intercession of Lady Margaret, and Sir John 
 surrendered his sword and governorship on the 
 arrival of a messenger with the intelligence that 
 an English force, commanded by the Earl of 
 Pembroke, which was advancing to prevent an 
 anticipated attack on the castle, had been utterly 
 defeated by Bruce and his followers. He and his 
 troops, however, were allowed to retire with their 
 arms, Sir James having chivalrously transferred 
 his claim upon her lover to the Lady Berkely, 
 who, in return for his courtesy, decorated the 
 brave Scotchman with a chain of brilliants which 
 had been won in battle by her ancestor.
 
 THE FAIR MAID OF PERTH 
 
 Principal Characters 
 
 OLD SIMON, a glover in the 
 Couvrefeu, Perth. 
 
 His daughter, CATHARINE. 
 
 His apprentice, CONACHAR ; 
 afterwards EACHIN M'lAN, 
 Chief of the Clan Quhele. 
 
 HENRY Go\v, an armourer and 
 burgess of Perth. 
 
 FATHER FRANCIS, a Dominican 
 monk. 
 
 FATHER CLEMENT, a Car- 
 thusian monk. 
 
 OLIVER PROUDFUTE, a bonnet- 
 maker. 
 
 BAILIE CRAIGDALLIE. 
 
 HENBANE DWINING, an apothe- 
 cary. 
 
 SIR PATRICK CHARTKRIS, of 
 A'i fauns, Provost of Perth. 
 
 KIT HENSHAW, his servant. 
 
 THE DEVIL'S DICK, of Hell- 
 gaith, a follower of The 
 Douglas. 
 
 PRIOR ANSLEM, of St Dominic 's 
 Convent. 
 
 Midnight revellers, neighbours, council of citizens, men-at-arms, 
 Highlanders, morrice dancers, funeral procession on Loch 
 Tay, pages, servants, rival clansmen, inhabitants of Perth. 
 
 Period, 1402. Locality: Perthshire. 
 
 THE armourer had excited the jealousy of Conachar 
 by spending the evening with the glover and his 
 daughter, and was returning to their house at 
 
 KING ROBERT III. 
 
 DAVID, DUKE OF ROTHSAY, 
 his son. 
 
 THE DUKE OF ALBANY, the 
 king's brother. 
 
 THE EARL OF MARCH. 
 
 LOUISE, a minstrel from Pro- 
 vence. 
 
 ARCHIBALD, EARLOF DOUGLAS. 
 
 SIR JOHN RAMORNY,//^/;-?'//^'^ 
 master of the horse. 
 
 EVICT, his page. 
 
 ANTHONY BONTHRON, an as- 
 sassin. 
 
 SIR Louis LUNDEN, town-clerk 
 of Perth. 
 
 LINDSEY, EARL OF CRAWFORD. 
 
 THE EARL OF ERROL, Lord 
 High Constable. 
 
 TOROUIL OF THE OAK, Fachins 
 foster father. 
 
 MAcGiLLiE CHATTANACH, 
 Chkf of the Clan Chattan.
 
 THE FAIR MAID OF PERTH 23 
 
 dawn, that he might be the first person she saw 
 on St Valentine's morning, when he encountered 
 a party of courtiers in the act of placing a ladder 
 against her window. Having cut off the hand of 
 one, and seized another, who, however, managed 
 to escape, he left the neighbours to pursue the rest, 
 and was saluted by Catharine as her lover. The 
 citizens waited on the provost, who, having heard 
 their grievance, issued a challenge of defiance to 
 the offenders. 
 
 Meanwhile the king, who occupied apartments 
 in the convent, had confessed to the prior, and 
 was consulting with his brother, when the Earl of 
 March arrived to intimate his withdrawal to the 
 English Border, followed into the courtyard by 
 Louise, and afterwards by the Duke of Rothsay, 
 whose dalliance with the maiden was interrupted 
 by the Earl of Douglas ordering his followers to 
 seize and scourge her. Henry Gow, however, was 
 at hand, and the prince, having committed her to 
 his protection, attended his father's council, at 
 which it was determined that the hostile Clans 
 Chattan and Quhele should be invited to settle 
 their feud by a combat between an equal number 
 of their bravest men in the royal presence, and 
 a commission was issued for the suppression of 
 heresy. The old monarch, having learnt that his 
 son was one of those who had attempted to force 
 their way into the glover's house, insisted that he 
 should dismiss his master of the horse, who en- 
 couraged all his follies ; and while Catharine, who 
 had listened to the Lollard teaching of Father 
 Clement, was being urged by him to favour the
 
 24 A KEY TO THE WAVERLEY NOVELS 
 
 secret suit of the prince, her other lover, Conachar, 
 who had rejoined his clan, appeared to carry off 
 her counsellor from arrest as an apostate reformer. 
 
 The armourer had maimed Sir John Ramorny, 
 whose desire for revenge being encouraged by the 
 apothecary, Bonthron undertook to waylay and 
 murder him. On Shrovetide evening old Simon 
 was visited by a party of morrice-dancers, headed 
 by Proudfute, who lingered behind to confirm a 
 rumour that Henry Gow had been seen escorting 
 a merry maiden to his house, and then proceeded 
 thither to apologise for having divulged the secret. 
 On his way home in the armourer's coat and cap, 
 as a protection against other revellers, he received 
 a blow from behind and fell dead on the spot. 
 About the same time Sir John was roused from 
 the effects of a narcotic by the arrival of the prince, 
 who made light of his sufferings, and whom he 
 horrified by suggesting that he should cause the 
 death of his uncle, and seize his father's throne. 
 
 The fate of the bonnet-maker, whose body was 
 at first mistaken for that of the armourer, excited 
 general commotion in the city ; while Catharine, 
 on hearing the news, rushed to her lover's house 
 and was folded in his arms. Her father then 
 accompanied him to the town council, where he 
 was chosen as the widow's champion, and the 
 provost repaired to the king's presence to demand 
 a full inquiry. At a council held the following 
 day, trial by ordeal of bier-right, or by combat, 
 was ordered ; and suspicion having fallen on 
 Ramorny's household, each of his servants was 
 required to pass before the corpse, in the beliei
 
 THE FAIR MAID OF PERTH 25 
 
 that the wounds would bleed afresh as the culprit 
 approached. Bonthron, however, chose the alter- 
 native of combat, and, having been struck down 
 by Gow, was led away to be hanged. But Dwin- 
 ing had arranged that he should be suspended so 
 that he could breathe, and during the night he and 
 Evict cut him down and carried him off. 
 
 Catharine had learnt that ehe and her father 
 were both suspected by the commission ; and the 
 provost having offered to place her under the care 
 of The Douglas's daughter, the deserted wife of 
 the prince, the old glover sought the protection of 
 his former apprentice, who was now the chieftain 
 of his clan. Having returned from his father's 
 funeral, Conachar pleaded for the hand of Catha- 
 rine, without which he felt he should disgrace him- 
 self in the approaching combat with the Clan 
 Chattan. Simon, however, reminded him that she 
 was betrothed to the armourer, and his foster 
 father promised to screen him in the conflict. At 
 the instigation of his uncle, the prince had been 
 committed to the custody of the Earl of Errol ; 
 but, with the duke's connivance, he was enticed by 
 Ramorny and the apothecary to escape to the 
 castle of Falkland, and, with the help of Bonthron, 
 starved to death there. Catharine and Louise, 
 however, discovered his fate, and communicated 
 with The Douglas, who overpowered the garrison, 
 and hung the murderers. 
 
 The meeting of the hostile champions had been 
 arranged with great pomp, and Henry Gow, having 
 consented to supply Eachin with a suit of armour, 
 volunteered to take the place of one of the Clan
 
 26 A KEY TO THE WAVERLEY NOVELS 
 
 Chattan who failed to appear, A terrible conflict 
 ensued, during which Torquil and his eight sons all 
 fell defending their chief, who at last fled from the 
 battle-ground unvvounded and dishonoured. On 
 hearing of Rothsay's death, Robert III. resigned 
 his sceptre to his wily and ambitious brother, 
 and died broken-hearted when his younger son 
 James was captured by the English king. Albany 
 transferred the regency to his son ; but, nineteen 
 years afterwards, the rightful heir returned, and 
 the usurper expiated his own and his father's guilt 
 on the scaffold. The warrants against Simon and 
 his daughter, and Father Clement, were cancelled 
 by the intervention of the Earl of Douglas, and the 
 Church was conciliated with Dvvining's ill-gotten 
 wealth. Conachar either became a hermit, or was 
 spirited away by the fairies ; and Scotland boasts 
 of many distinguished descendants from Henry 
 Govv and his spouse the Fair Maid of Perth
 
 QUENTIN DURWARD 
 
 Principal Characters 
 
 QUENTIN DURWARD, a Scotch 
 cadet. 
 
 Lunovic LESLEY, I.E BALAFRE, 
 fit's maternal uncle. 
 
 MAITRE PIERRE, a merchant ; 
 afterwards KING Louis XI. 
 
 TRISTAN L'HERMITE, his pro- 
 vost-marshal. 
 
 DAME PERRETTE, hostess of 
 ' The Fleur de Lys.' 
 
 JACQUELINE, her servant; after- 
 wards ISABELLE, COUNTESS 
 OF CROYE. 
 
 LADY HAMEI.INE, her aunt. 
 
 LORD CRAWFORD, commander 
 of Scottish archers. 
 
 COUNT DE DUNOIS, grand 
 huntsman. 
 
 LOUIS, DUKE OF ORLEANS. 
 
 CARDINAL foiiN OF BEI.UF,. 
 
 THE Bisiior OK AUXERRE. 
 
 OLIVER LE DAIX, the court 
 barber. 
 
 PRINCESS BEAU-! ., , . , 
 JEAU, \thekrnss 
 
 PRINCESS JOAN, j *>8**"*< 
 
 COUNT PHILIP CREVECCEUR OF 
 BURGUNDY. 
 
 THE COUNTESS, his wife. 
 
 ToiSON D'OR, his herald. 
 
 WILLIAM DE LA MARCK, a 
 Flemish outlaw. 
 
 CARL EBERSON, his son. 
 
 HAYRADDIN MANGRABIN, a 
 Bohemian. 
 
 ZAMET, his brother. 
 
 MARTHON, a gipsy woman. 
 
 Louis OF BOURBON, Bishop of 
 Liege. 
 
 PAVII.I.ON, a currier and syndic. 
 
 His daughter, GERTRUDE. 
 
 PETERKIN GIESLAER, his de- 
 puty. 
 
 NIKKEI, BLOK, a butcher. 
 
 DUKE CHARLES OF BURGUNDY. 
 
 LE Gl.ORiEUX, his jester. 
 
 Scottish archers, peasants, gipsies, soldiers, citizens, guards, abbess, 
 nuns, courtiers, etc. 
 
 Period, 1468. Localities: France and Flanders, 
 
 THE age of feudalism and chivalry was passing 
 away, and the King of France was inciting the 
 wealthy citizens of Flanders against his own re- 
 bellious vassal the Duke of Burgundy. Ouentin 
 
 27
 
 28 A KEY TO THE WAVERLEY NOVELS 
 
 Durward had come to Tours, where his uncle was 
 one of the Scottish body guard maintained by 
 Louis XL, to seek military service, and was in- 
 vited by the king, disguised as a merchant, to 
 breakfast at the inn, and supplied by him with 
 money. Having narrowly escaped being hung 
 by the provost-marshal for cutting down Zamet, 
 whom he found suspended to a tree, he was en- 
 listed by Lord Crawford, and learned the history 
 of Jacqueline. In the presence-chamber he was 
 recognised by Louis, and the royal party were pre- 
 paring for a hunting excursion, when the Count of 
 Crevecceur arrived with a peremptory demand for 
 the instant surrender of the duke's ward, the 
 Countess of Croye, who had fled from Burgundy 
 with her aunt to escape a forced marriage ; and 
 proclaimed that his master renounced his allegi- 
 ance to the crown of France. In the chase which 
 followed Durward saved the king's life from a 
 boar, for which service Louis, after consulting with 
 his barber, entrusted him with the duty of con- 
 ducting the Countess and Lady Hameline, osten- 
 sibly to the protection of the Bishop of Liege, 
 but really that they might fall into the hands of 
 William de la Marck. After proceeding some 
 distance they were overtaken by Dunois and the 
 Duke of Orleans, who would have seized the 
 countess, but were prevented by Lord Crawford, 
 who arrived in pursuit and made prisoners of 
 them. Then Hayraddin came riding after them, 
 and under his guidance they journeyed for nearly 
 a week, when Quentin discovered that the 
 Bohemian was in league with De la Marck.
 
 QUENTIN DURWARD 29 
 
 He accordingly altered their route, and they 
 reached the bishop's castle in safety. 
 
 A few days afterwards, however, it was assaulted 
 by the citizens, and Hayraddin having effected 
 Lady Hameline's escape with Marthon, Ouentin 
 rushed back to save the countess, and, at Gieslaer's 
 suggestion, Pavilion passed them as his daughter 
 and her sweetheart into the great hall where the 
 outlaw, who was known as the Boar of Ardennes, 
 was feasting with the rioters. The bishop, who 
 was also governor of the city, was then dragged in, 
 and, having denounced his captor, was murdered 
 by a stroke of Nikkei Blok's cleaver. There was 
 a shout for vengeance, but De la Marck sum- 
 moned his soldiers, upon which Quentin held a 
 dirk at the throat of his son Carl, and exhorted 
 the citizens to return to their homes. With the 
 syndic's help Lady Isabella and her protector 
 reached Charleroi, where she was placed in a con- 
 vent, while he carried the news to the Duke of 
 Burgundy, at whose court Louis, with a small 
 retinue, was a guest. Charles, in a furious rage, 
 accused the king of being privy to the sacrilege, 
 and caused him to be treated as a prisoner. 
 
 At a council the following day he was charged 
 with abetting rebellion among the vassals of Bur- 
 gundy, and the countess was brought as a witness 
 against him. She admitted her fault, and Quentin 
 Durward was being questioned respecting his 
 escort of her, when a herald arrived with a demand 
 from De la Marck to be acknowledged as Prince- 
 Bishop of Liege, and for the release of his ally the 
 King of France. Louis replied that he intended
 
 30 A KEY TO THE WAVERLEY NOVELS 
 
 to gibbet the murderer, and the messenger, who 
 was discovered to be Hayraddin, was sentenced to 
 death, the quarrel between the duke and the king 
 being at the same time adjusted, on the under- 
 standing that the Duke of Orleans should marry 
 Lady Isabelle. Crevecceur, however, interceded for 
 her, and it was arranged that whoever should bring 
 the head of the Boar of Ardennes might claim her 
 hand. Quentin, who had learnt his plans from the 
 Bohemian, advanced with the allied troops of 
 France and Burgundy against his stronghold, and 
 a desperate battle ensued. At length the young 
 Scot was in the act of closing with De la Marck, 
 when Pavilion's daughter implored his protection 
 from a French soldier ; and, while placing her in 
 safety, his uncle La Balafre fought the ruffian, 
 and carried his head to the royal presence. Lord 
 Crawford declared him to be of gentle birth, but 
 the old soldier having resigned his pretensions to 
 his nephew, King Louis vouched for Quentin's 
 services and prudence, and the duke being satisfied 
 as to his descent, remarked that it only remained 
 to inquire what were the fair lady's sentiments 
 towards the young emigrant in search of honour- 
 able adventure, and who, by his sense, firmness 
 and gallantry, thus became the fortunate possessor 
 of wealth, rank and beauty.
 
 ANNE OF GEIERSTEIN 
 
 Principal Characters 
 
 JOHN PHIUPSON, an English, 
 merchant; afterwards EARL 
 
 OK OXFORD. 
 
 ARTHUR DE VERB, his son. 
 
 ANTONIO, their young Swiss 
 guide. 
 
 ARNOLD BlEDERMAN, a magis- 
 trate of Unterwalden. 
 
 RUDIGER, "I 
 
 ERNEST, \his sons. 
 
 SIUISMUND, J 
 
 ANNE OF GEIERSTEIN, his niece. 
 
 ANNETTE VEILCHEN, her at- 
 tendant. 
 
 RUDOLPH OF DONNERSIIUGEL, 
 a Bernese. 
 
 COUNT ALBERT OF GEIER- 
 STEIN, Anne's father. 
 
 ITAL SCHRECHWALD, his 
 steward. 
 
 CHARLES THE BOLD, DUKE OF 
 BURGUNDY. 
 
 COUNT ARCHIBALD VON 
 
 NICHOLAS BONSTE- | 
 
 TEEN, Siviss de- 
 
 MELCHIOR STURM- \ piities to 
 THAI,, the duke, 
 
 ADAM ZIMMERMAN, j 
 
 DANNLSCHEMEND, a Persian 
 sorcerer. 
 
 His daughter, HERMIONE. 
 
 JAN MENGS, landlord of the 
 ' Golden Fleece ' in Rhenish 
 Prussia. 
 
 KNIGHTS AND BURGHERS OF 
 THE VEHMIQUE TRIBUNAL. 
 
 MARGARET OF ANJOU, widoiv 
 0/KiNG HENRY VI. 
 
 KING RENE, of Provence, her 
 father. 
 
 FERRAND DE VAUDEMOND, 
 Duke of Lorraine, his grand- 
 son. 
 
 COUNT CAMTO BASSO, com- 
 mander of Italian mer- 
 cenaries. 
 
 IlAGENBACH, his steward. 
 
 Swiss youths and mountaineers, executioner, citizens and soldiers, 
 guests at inn, army at Dijon, troubadours at Piovencc, Bur- 
 gundian nobles and troops, Swiss patriots. 
 
 Period, 1474. Localities : Switzerland, Germany and France. 
 
 As the merchant and his son were travelling to- 
 wards Basle they were overtaken by a storm, and 
 found themselves at the edge of a precipice caused 
 by a recent earthquake. Arthur was making his 
 
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 32 A KEY TO THE WAVERLEY NOVELS 
 
 way towards a tower indicated by Antonio, when 
 he was rescued from imminent danger by Anne, 
 who conducted him to her uncle's mountain home, 
 whither his father had been brought in safety by 
 Biederman and his sons. During their evening 
 games Rudolph, who had joined in them, became 
 jealous of the young Englishman's skill with the 
 bow, and challenged him ; but they were over- 
 heard by Anne, and the duel was interrupted. 
 The travellers were invited to continue their journey 
 in company with a deputation of Switzers, com- 
 missioned to remonstrate with Charles the Bold 
 respecting the exactions of Hagenbach ; and the 
 magistrates of Basle having declined to let them 
 enter the city, they took shelter in the ruins of a 
 castle. During his share in the night watches, 
 Arthur fancied that he saw an apparition of Anne, 
 and was encouraged in his belief by Rudolph, who 
 narrated her family history, which implied that her 
 ancestors had dealings with supernatural beings. 
 Hoping to prevent a conflict on his account between 
 the Swiss and the duke's steward, the merchant 
 arranged that he and his son should precede them ; 
 but on reaching the Burgundian citadel they were 
 imprisoned by the governor in separate dungeons. 
 Arthur, however, was released by Anne with the 
 assistance of a priest, and his father by Biederman, 
 a body of Swiss youths having entered the town 
 and incited the citizens to execute Hagenbach, 
 just as he was intending to slaughter the deputa- 
 tion, whom he had treacherously admitted. A 
 valuable necklace which had been taken from the 
 merchant was restored to him by Sigismund, and
 
 ANNE OF GEIERSTEIN 33 
 
 the deputies having decided to persist in seeking 
 an interview with the duke, the Englishman under- 
 took to represent their cause favourably to him. 
 
 On their way to Charles's headquarters father 
 and son were overtaken by Anne disguised as a 
 lady of rank, and, acting on her whispered advice 
 to Arthur, they continued their journey by different 
 roads. The elder fell in with a mysterious priest 
 who provided him with a guide to the 'Golden 
 Fleece,' where he was lowered from his bedroom 
 to appear before a meeting of the Vehmique or 
 holy tribunal, and warned against speaking of their 
 secret powers. The younger was met and con- 
 ducted by Annette to a castle, where he spent the 
 evening with his lady-love, and travelled with her 
 the next day to rejoin his father at Strassburg. 
 In the cathedral there they met Margaret of Anjou, 
 who recognised Philipson as the Earl of Oxford, 
 a faithful adherent of the house of Lancaster, and 
 planned with him an appeal to the duke for aid 
 against the Yorkists. On reaching Charles's camp 
 the earl was welcomed as an old companion in 
 arms, and obtained a promise of the help he sought, 
 on condition that Provence was ceded to Burgundy. 
 Arthur was despatched to Aix to urge Margaret 
 to persuade her father accordingly, while the earl 
 accompanied his host to an interview with his 
 burghers and the Swiss deputies. 
 
 King Rene's preference for the society of trou- 
 badours and frivolous amusements had driven his 
 daughter to take refuge in a convent. On hear- 
 ing from Arthur, however, the result of the earl's 
 mission to the duke, she returned to the palace, 
 
 C
 
 34 A KEY TO THE WAVERLEY NOVELS 
 
 and had induced her father to sign away his 
 kingdom, when his grandson Ferrand arrived 
 with the news of the rout of the Burgundian 
 army at Neufchatel, and Arthur learned from his 
 squire, Sigismund, that he had not seen Anne's 
 spectre but herself during his night-watch, and 
 that the priest he had met more than once was 
 her father, the Count Albert of Geierstein. The 
 same evening Queen Margaret died in her chair 
 of state ; and all the earl's prospects for England 
 being thwarted, he occupied himself in arranging a 
 treaty between her father and the King of France. 
 He was still in Provence when he was summoned 
 to rouse the duke from a fit of melancholy, caused 
 by the Switzers having again defeated him. After 
 raising fresh troops, Charles decided to wrest Nancy 
 from the young Duke of Lorraine, and during the 
 siege Arthur received another challenge from 
 Rudolph. The rivals met, and, having killed 
 the Bernese, the young Englishman obtained 
 Count Albert's consent to his marriage with 
 Anne, with strict injunctions to warn the duke 
 that the Secret Tribunal had decreed his death. 
 By the treachery of the Italians the Swiss were 
 enabled the same night to gain another victory, 
 Charles was slain, and their independence was 
 established. Being still an exile, the earl accepted 
 the patriot Biederman's invitation to reside with 
 his countess at Geierstein, until the battle of Bos- 
 worth placed Henry VII. on the throne, when 
 Arthur and his wife attracted as much admiration 
 at the English Court as they had gained among 
 their Swiss neighbours.
 
 THE MONASTERY 
 
 Principal Characters 
 
 WIDOW EI.SPETH BRYDONE 
 C-I.ENDINMNG, of Glcudearg. 
 
 HALUERT, 
 
 EDWARD, 
 
 CAPTAIN STAWARTH BOLTON, 
 in co >n viand of English 
 dragoons. 
 
 BRITTSON, his sergeant. 
 
 WIDOW ALICE AVENEL, of Esk- 
 dale. 
 
 Her daughter, MARY. 
 
 JULIAN AVENEL, her brother- 
 in-law. 
 
 MARTIN TACKET, a shepherd. 
 
 TIBB, his wife. 
 
 THE LORD ABBOT BONIFACE, 
 of St J\fiiry' 's Monasteiy, 
 
 FATHER I'HILIP, the sacristan. 
 
 FATHER EUSTACE, the snl>- 
 prior. 
 
 CHRISTIE OF THE CLINTIIII.L, 
 a freebooter. 
 
 IlAPPER, the miller. 
 
 His daughter, MYSIE. 
 
 SIR PIERCIE SHAFTON, an 
 English courtier. 
 
 REV. HENRY WARDEN, a Pro- 
 testant preacher. 
 
 THE EARL OF MURRAY, Regent 
 of Scotland. 
 
 LORD MORTON. 
 
 Spectre of the White Lady of Avenel, monks of St Marys, vassals 
 and neighbours, inhabitants of the village of Kennaquhair, 
 English and Scottish soldiers. 
 
 Period, 1550. Locality ; Melrose on the Tweed and neighbourhood. 
 
 IN the many conflicts between England and Scot- 
 land the property of the Church had hitherto 
 always been respected ; but her temporal pos- 
 sessions, as well as her spiritual influence, were 
 now in serious danger from the spread of the 
 doctrines of the Reformation, and the occupants 
 of the monasteries were dependent on the military 
 services of their tenants and vassals for protec- 
 tion against the forays of Protestant barons and 
 other heretical marauders. Dame Elspeth's htis- 
 
 35
 
 36 A KEY TO THE WAVERLEY NOVELS 
 
 band had fallen in the battle of Pinkie, and the 
 hospitality of her lonely tower had been sought 
 by the widow of the Baron of Avenel and her 
 daughter, whose mansion had been seized and 
 plundered by invaders, and subsequently taken 
 possession of by her brother-in-law. While con- 
 fessing the baroness on her death - bed, Father 
 Philip discovered that she possessed a Bible, and 
 as he was carrying it to the Lord Abbot, it was, 
 he declared, taken from him by a spectral White 
 Lady. Disbelieving the sacristan's tale, the sub- 
 prior visited the tower, where he met Christie of 
 the Clinthill, charged with an insolent message 
 from Julian Avenel, and learnt that the Bible 
 had been mysteriously returned to its owner. 
 Having exchanged it for a missal, he was un- 
 horsed on his return by the apparition ; and, on 
 reaching the monastery, the book had disappeared 
 from his bosom, and he found the freebooter de- 
 tained in custody on suspicion of having killed him. 
 The White Lady was next seen by Halbert, who 
 was conducted by her to a fairy grotto, where he 
 was allowed to snatch the Bible from a flaming altar. 
 During his absence from the tower the miller 
 and his daughter arrived on a visit, and soon after- 
 wards Sir Picrcic, as a refugee from the English 
 Court. The next day the abbot came to dine with 
 them, and offered Halbert, who had quarrelled 
 with the knight for his attentions to Mary, the 
 office of ranger of the Church forests. lie, how- 
 ever, refused it, and startled his rival with a token 
 lie had obtained from the mysterious spectre. The 
 following morning they fought in a glen, and
 
 THE MONASTERY 37 
 
 Halbcrt fled to the Baron of Avcnel, leaving Sir 
 Piercie apparently mortally wounded. His com- 
 panion thither was Henry Warden, who offended 
 the laird, and assisted Halbert in his determina- 
 tion to escape from the castle, rather than serve 
 under his host's standard. The knight, however, 
 had miraculously recovered, and on making his 
 way back to the tower, was accused by Edward 
 of having murdered his missing brother, in spite 
 of his assurance that the youth was alive and 
 uninjured. With the sub-prior's approval he was 
 treated as a prisoner ; but during the night Mysie 
 assisted him to escape, and accompanied him 
 northwards, dressed as his page. Mary Avenel, 
 meanwhile, in the midst of her grief at the sup- 
 posed death of her lover, was visited by the White 
 Lady, who comforted her by disclosing the place 
 where he had hidden the Bible, which she had 
 secretly read with her mother. 
 
 The rest of the family were astounded by the 
 arrival of Christie, who confirmed Sir Piercie's 
 assertion, and announced that he had brought 
 Henry Warden to be dealt with as a heretic by 
 the lord abbot. But the preacher and Father 
 Eustace had been intimate friends at college, and 
 the sub-prior was urging him to save his life by 
 returning to the bosom of the Church, when 
 Edward interrupted them to confess his jealousy 
 of his brother, and his resolution to become a 
 monk, in obedience to the White Lady who had 
 appeared to him. Father Eustace then decided 
 to leave his prisoner at the tower, under promise 
 to surrender when summoned to the monastery ;
 
 38 A KEY TO THE WAVERLEY NOVELS 
 
 and, having learnt from the freebooter that Julian 
 Avenel would fight for the Church, despatched him 
 in search of Sir Piercie and the miller's daughter. 
 That same night the lord abbot, alarmed by 
 intelligence that English and Scottish soldiers 
 were advancing with hostile intentions against the 
 monastery, resigned his office to the sub-prior. 
 Having taken the road to Edinburgh, Halbert 
 had joined a squadron commanded by the Earl 
 of Murray, who sent him forward to prevent an 
 engagement between the English, under Sir John 
 Forster, and the supporters of the Church, under 
 the Baron of Avenel. He arrived too late, but 
 the earl induced Sir John, who had won the battle, 
 to withdraw, and marched his troops to St Mary's. 
 Here the new abbot had assembled his brother- 
 hood in the village, in anticipation of the de- 
 struction of their home. The regent and his 
 followers formed up facing them, and the first 
 matter settled was the marriage of Halbert with 
 the heiress of Avenel. Father Eustace was then 
 summoned to produce Sir Piercie, who surrendered 
 voluntarily, and a flaw in his pedigree having 
 been proved, Mysie was declared a fitting wife 
 for him, and they were shipped off to Flanders. 
 The monks, at the intercession of Henry Warden, 
 were allowed to retain their monastery and lands 
 on condition of being laid under contribution ; 
 while Edward, who had sought another interview 
 with the White Spirit, was told that the knot of 
 fate was tied, and impressed with the belief that 
 the marriage of his brother with Mary Avenel 
 might prove fatal to both of them.
 
 THE ABBOT 
 
 Principal Characters 
 
 SIR HAI.UERT GLENDINNING, 
 of Avcncl Castle, a Puritan. 
 
 LADY GLENDINNING, his wife, 
 
 ROLAND GR/EME, her page; 
 afterwards HEIR OF AVENEL. 
 
 MAGDALEN GR/EME, his grand- 
 mother, 
 
 REV. HENRY WARDEN, a 
 Puritan preacher. 
 
 FATHER AMBROSE (Edward 
 Glendinning), Abbot of St 
 Mary's. 
 
 ADAM WOODCOCK, Sir Hal- 
 berfs falconer. 
 
 LORD SEYTON, an adherent of 
 Afary Queen of Scots. 
 
 His son, HENRY SEYTON. 
 
 His daughter, CATHERINE. 
 
 THE EARL OF MURRAY, Regent 
 
 of Scotland. 
 
 LORD RUTHVEN, \ T j t 
 LORD LINDESAY, I tfT f t 
 
 SlRROBERTMEL-f * 7 
 
 VILLE, ) CoU " Cil ' 
 
 SIR WILLIAM DOUGLAS, of 
 
 Lock/even Castle. 
 THE LADY OF LOCHLEVEN, 
 
 his mother. 
 
 LADY DOUGLAS, his wife. 
 GEORGE DOUGLAS, their son. 
 DRYFESDALE, their steward. 
 RANDAL, their boatman. 
 MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS. 
 LADY FLEMING, her attendant. 
 REV. ELIAS HENDERSON, a 
 
 Puritan chaplain. 
 
 TEN years had passed away, during which Halbert 
 had been knighted for his services to the regent, 
 and Lady Avenel had adopted Roland, whom her 
 dog had saved from drowning. The boy grew up 
 petted by his mistress, but disliked by her chaplain 
 and servants, and at length, having threatened to 
 dirk the falconer, he was dismissed to seek his 
 fortune. He had been secretly taught the Romish 
 
 39
 
 40 A KEY TO THE WAVERLEY NOVELS 
 
 faith by Father Ambrose, and led by his grand- 
 mother to believe that he was of gentle birth. She 
 now introduced him to Catherine Seyton, and then 
 accompanied him to the abbey, where the revels of 
 some masqueraders were interrupted by the arrival 
 of Sir Halbert on his way to Edinburgh, who 
 attached the youth to his train. On reaching the 
 capital he aided Lord Seyton in a street fray, and 
 was introduced to the Earl of Murray, who desired 
 him to be ready to travel at short notice. In 
 company with Adam Woodcock he adjourned to 
 an inn, and was entrusted by Henry Seyton (whom 
 he believed to be Catherine in male attire) with a 
 sword, which he was not to unsheath until com- 
 manded by his rightful sovereign. He then learnt 
 that he was to be attached to the household of 
 Queen Mary, and accompanied Lord Lindesay to 
 the castle of Lochleven, situated on an island, 
 where he found Catherine in attendance on her, 
 and was present when, in compliance with a note 
 contained in his sword-sheath, she signed her 
 abdication at the behest of the Secret Council. 
 
 After a lapse of several months, during which 
 Henderson attempted to convert him, Roland 
 learnt from Catherine that Father Ambrose had 
 been evicted from his monastery, and he pledged 
 himself, for her sake, to assist the imprisoned 
 queen in recovering her freedom. A plan of 
 escape arranged by George Douglas having failed 
 through the vigilance of the Lady of Lochleven, 
 Roland undertook to forge a false set of keys, and 
 the abbot arrived disguised as a man-at-arms sent 
 by Sir William to take part in guarding the castle.
 
 THE ABBOT 41 
 
 As soon as the curfew had tolled, a preconcerted 
 signal was made from the shore, and Roland con- 
 trived to substitute his forged keys for the real 
 ones. At midnight the garden gate was unlocked, 
 a boat was in waiting, Henry Seyton came forward, 
 and the queen, with all her adherents, was safely 
 afloat, when the alarm was given. Roland, how- 
 ever, had run back, ere they started, to turn the 
 locks on their jailers, and, until they were out of 
 reach of musketry, George Douglas protected 
 Mary by placing himself before her. On landing, 
 horses were in readiness, and before daybreak they 
 reached Lord Seyton's castle in West Lothian, 
 which was strongly garrisoned. The next morn- 
 ing, as the queen was endeavouring to make peace 
 between Roland and Henry Seyton, who treated 
 the page as a churl, his grandmother emerged 
 from a recess and declared him to be the son of 
 Julian Avenel, who was killed in the battle with 
 Sir John Foster ; Lord Seyton also recognised 
 him, and insisted that his son should shake hands 
 with him. 
 
 Supported by a considerable number of ad- 
 herents in battle array, and accompanied by the 
 abbot, the royal party moved onwards for Dum- 
 barton, where help from France was expected. 
 They were, however, intercepted by the regent's 
 forces, and a desperate battle ensued. The queen 
 stood near a yew tree, guarded by her devoted 
 admirer George Douglas in close armour, while 
 her page pushed forward to watch the conflict. It 
 had lasted nearly an hour, when Sir Halbert 
 attacked the flank of Mary's supporters, and they
 
 42 A KEY TO THE WAVERLEY NOVELS 
 
 were completely routed, Henry Seyton was killed, 
 and Douglas, who was mortally wounded, expired 
 without withdrawing his eyes from her face. 
 Hopeless of further aid, the queen adopted the 
 fatal resolution of trusting to Elizabeth's mercy, 
 and, having bid adieu to her followers, took ship 
 for England. Roland soon afterwards succeeded 
 in obtaining proofs of his claim as the heir of 
 Avenel, and was married to Catherine on her 
 return from two years residence with her unhappy 
 mistress.
 
 KEN IL WORTH 
 
 Principal Characters 
 
 DOCTOR DouooiiiK, alias ALAS- 
 CO, an astrologer. 
 
 SIR HUGH ROHSART, of Lidcote 
 Hall, Devonshire, 
 
 His daughter ; AMY. 
 
 JANET FOSTER, her attendant at 
 Cumnor. 
 
 QUEEN ELIZABETH, at Kenil- 
 worlh. 
 
 LORD IIuNSDON, 
 
 LORD I5URLEIGH, 
 
 SIR WALTER 
 RALEIGH, 
 
 In attend- 
 > ance on Her 
 \ Majesty. 
 
 GILES GOSLING, host of the 
 
 ' Black BessJ at Ciimnor. 
 MICHAEL LAMHOURNE, his 
 
 nephew. 
 MASTER TRESSILIAN, a Cornish 
 
 gentleman, Amy's lover. 
 WAVLAND SMITH, his servant. 
 DUDLEY, EARL OF LEICESTER. 
 RICHARD VARNEY, his squire. 
 ANTHONY FOSTER, steward of 
 
 Cum nor Place. 
 MASTER ERASMUS HOLIDAY, a 
 
 village pedagogue. 
 DICKIE SLUDGE, alias FLIB- 
 BERTIGIBBET, one of his 
 
 pupils. 
 
 Villagers and travellers at the inn, people on their way to the revels 
 at Ketiilwoi'th, servants, etc. 
 
 Period, 1575. Localities: Oxfordshire and Warwickshire, 
 
 THE innkeeper had just welcomed his scape-grace 
 nephew on his return from Flanders, and invited 
 Tressilian and other guests to drink with them, 
 when Lambourne made a wager he would obtain 
 an introduction to a young lady under Foster's 
 charge at the Hall, and the Cornish stranger 
 begged permission to accompany him. On arriv- 
 ing there Tressilian found his lady-love, whom he 
 would have carried back to her home, but she 
 refused ; and as he was leaving he encountered 
 
 43
 
 44 A KEY TO THE WAVERLEY NOVELS 
 
 Varney, whose life he might have taken had not 
 Lambourne intervened. Amy was soothed in her 
 seclusion by costly presents from the earl, and 
 during his next visit she pleaded that she might 
 inform her father of their secret marriage, but he 
 was afraid of Elizabeth's resentment. Warned by 
 his host against the squire, and having confided to 
 him how Amy had been entrapped, Tressilian left 
 Cumnor by night, and, after several adventures 
 by the way, reached the residence of Sir Hugh 
 Robsart, to assist him in laying his daughter's 
 case before the queen. Returning to London, his 
 servant, Wayland Smith, cured the Earl of Sussex 
 of a dangerous illness, on hearing of which from 
 Walter Raleigh, Elizabeth at once set out to visit 
 Leicester's rival, by whom the petition, in Amy's 
 behalf, was handed to her. Varney was accord- 
 ingly summoned to the royal presence, when he 
 boldly declared that Amy was his wife, and 
 Leicester was restored to the queen's favour. 
 
 Tressilian's servant then gained access to the 
 countess as a pedlar, and, having hinted that 
 Elizabeth would shortly marry the earl, sold her 
 a cure for the heartache, warning Janet at the 
 same time against an attempt to poison her 
 mistress. Meanwhile Leicester was preparing to 
 entertain the queen at Kenilworth, where she had 
 commanded that Amy should be introduced to 
 her, and Varney was, accordingly, despatched with 
 a letter begging the countess to appear at the 
 revels as his bride. Having indignantly refused 
 to do so, and recovered from the effects of a 
 cordial which had been prepared for her by
 
 KENILWORTH 45 
 
 Alasco, she escnped, with the help of her maid, 
 from Cumnor, and started for Kenilworth, escorted 
 by Wayland Smith. Travelling thither as brother 
 and sister, they joined a party of mummers, and 
 then, to avoid the crowd of people thronging the 
 principal approaches, proceeded by circuitous by- 
 paths to the castle. Having, with Dickie's help, 
 passed into the courtyard, they were shown into 
 a room, where Amy was waiting while her atten- 
 dant carried a note to the earl, when she was 
 startled by the entrance of her lover, whom she 
 entreated not to interfere until after the expira- 
 tion of twenty-four hours. On entering the park, 
 Elizabeth was received by her favourite attended 
 by a numerous cavalcade bearing waxen torches, 
 and a variety of entertainments followed. During 
 the evening she enquired for Varney's wife, and 
 was told she was too ill to be present, when 
 Tressilian offered to lose his head if within 
 twenty-four hours he did not prove the statement 
 to be false, notwithstanding which the ostensible 
 bridegroom was knighted by the queen. 
 
 Receiving no reply to her note, which Wayland 
 had lost, Amy found her way the next morning to 
 a grotto in the gardens, where she was discovered 
 by Elizabeth, who had just told her host that 'she 
 must be the wife and mother of England alone.' 
 Falling on her knees the countess besought protec- 
 tion against Varncy, who she declared was not her 
 husband, and added that the Earl of Leicester 
 knew all. He was instantly summoned to the 
 royal presence, and would have been committed 
 to the Tower, had not Amy recalled her words,
 
 46 A KEY TO THE WAVERLEY NOVELS 
 
 when she was consigned to Lord Hundson's care 
 as bereft of her reason, Varney coming forward 
 and pretending that she had just escaped from 
 special treatment. Leicester insisted on an inter- 
 view with her, when she implored him to confess 
 their marriage to Elizabeth, and then, with a 
 broken heart, she would not long darken his 
 brighter prospects. Varney, however, succeeded 
 in persuading him that Amy had acted in con- 
 nivance with her lover, and in obtaining medical 
 sanction for her custody as mentally disordered, 
 asking only for the earl's signet-ring as his 
 authority. The next day a duel between Tres- 
 silian and the earl was interrupted by Dickie, who 
 produced the countess's note, and, convinced of 
 her innocence, Leicester confessed that she was 
 his wife. With the queen's permission he at once 
 deputed his rival and Sir Walter Raleigh to 
 proceed to Cumnor, whither he had already de- 
 spatched Lambourne, to stay his squire's further 
 proceedings. 
 
 Varney, however, had shot the messenger on 
 receiving his instructions, and had caused Amy 
 to be conducted by Foster to an apartment 
 reached by a long flight of stairs and a narrow 
 wooden bridge. The following evening the tread 
 of a horse was heard in the courtyard, and a 
 whistle like the earl's signal, upon which she 
 rushed from the room, and the instant she stepped 
 on the bridge, it parted in the middle, and she 
 was dead. Her murderer poisoned himself, and 
 the skeleton of his accomplice was found, many 
 years afterwards, in a cell where lie secreted his
 
 KENILWORTH 47 
 
 money. The news of the countess's fate put an 
 end to the revels at Kenilworth, Leicester retired 
 for a time from Court, and Sir Hugh Robsart, 
 who died very soon after his daughter, settled his 
 estate on Tressilian.
 
 DBA TH OF THE LAIRD'S JOCK 
 
 Principal Characters 
 
 JOHN ARMSTRONG, the Laird of Mangerto-wn. 
 
 His SON. 
 
 His DAUGHTER. 
 
 FOSTER, an English champion. 
 
 Scottish and English Spectators. 
 Period, 1600. Locality; Liddesdale in Roxburghshire, 
 
 ARMSTRONG had been known during his father's 
 lifetime as the Laird's Jock, or son ; and being 
 possessed of great strength and courage, had dis- 
 tinguished himself in the use of a two-handed 
 sword, bequeathed to him by a Saxon outlaw, 
 in many of the single combats which took place 
 between the English and Scottish borderers during 
 the reign of Queen Elizabeth. 
 
 He had, however, grown old, and was bed- 
 ridden, when his only son accepted the challenge 
 of an English champion. But his heart swelled 
 with joy at the news, and having entrusted the 
 lad with his celebrated weapon, he insisted on 
 being wrapped in plaids and carried to the spot 
 selected for the encounter, attended by his 
 daughter. II is followers gazed sadly on their 
 chieftain's withered features and shrunken form ; 
 but when the combatants met, and the English-
 
 DEATH OF THE LAIRD'S JOCK 49 
 
 man brandished the sword over his fallen antagon- 
 ist, the old laird, reanimated for an instant with 
 his former vigour, sprang from the rock on which 
 he was seated, and, having uttered a cry like that 
 of a dying lion rather than a human being, sank 
 into the arms of his clansmen broken-hearted, not 
 at the death of his boy, but at their wounded 
 honour, and the irreparable loss of his weapon. 
 
 D
 
 THE FORTUNES OF NIGEL 
 
 Principal Characters 
 
 DAVID RAMSAY, a watchmaker 
 in Fleet Street. 
 
 His daughter, MARGARET. 
 
 JENKIN VINCENT, ) his ap- 
 
 FRANCIS TuNSTALL,//mz&V&r. 
 
 GEORGE HERIOT, a goldsmith 
 of Lombard Street. 
 
 LORD GLENVARLOCH, alias 
 NIGEL OLIFAUNT. 
 
 RICHIE MONOPLIES, his ser- 
 vant. 
 
 LAURENCE LINKLATER, a yeo- 
 man of the royal kitchen. 
 
 JOHN CHRISTIE, a ship chandler. 
 
 DAME NELLY, his wife. 
 
 BENJAMIN SUDDLECHOP, a 
 barber in Fleet Street. 
 
 DAME URSULA, his -wife. 
 
 KING JAMES I. 
 
 MAXWELL, his gentleman usher. 
 
 STEPHEN, DUKE of BUCKING- 
 HAM. 
 
 LORD DALGARNO, his son. 
 REGINALD LOWESTOFFE, a 
 
 barrister. 
 BEAUJEU, host of a gambling 
 
 tavern. 
 SIR MUNGO MALLAGROWTHER, 
 
 a friend of NigeF s father. 
 CHARLES, PRINCE OF WALES. 
 OLD TRAPBOIS, a lodging-house 
 
 keeper at Whitefriars. 
 His daughter, MARTHA. 
 LADY HEUMIONE ; afterwards 
 
 LADY DALGARNO. 
 MONNA PAULA, her servant. 
 CAPTAIN COLEPEPPER, a cut- 
 throat adventurer. 
 HILDEBROD, a bailiff. 
 THE GOVERNOR OF THE 
 
 TOWER. 
 
 LADY MANSELL, Jus wife. 
 ANDREW SKURLIEWHITTER, a 
 
 scrivener. 
 
 LORD HUNTINGLEN. 
 
 Courtiers and men of fashion, promenaders in the park, rangers 
 and keepers, watermen, guards, servants, etc. 
 
 Period, 1604. Localities: London, Greenwich and Enficld Chase. 
 
 THE two apprentices had started off to join in a 
 street fray, and Ileriot was gossiping with Ramsay, 
 when they brought in Monoplies with a broken 
 head and very tattered garments. His wound 
 having been dressed, he explained that he had 
 
 So
 
 THE FORTUNES OF NIGEL 51 
 
 come to London with his master to obtain pay- 
 ment of a debt owing to him by the king, and 
 had been set upon as a stranger. Next morning 
 Nigel received a visit, at his lodging with the 
 chandler and his wife, from the goldsmith, who 
 had known his father, and, having warned him 
 that his estate was in danger, lent him money 
 to appear in proper attire in Court. Heriot pro- 
 ceeded to Whitehall, and, having presented the 
 young lord's petition, James authorised him to 
 advance part of the sum due, and promised to 
 interest himself in his affairs. Dining with him 
 the same day at the goldsmith's, in company 
 with her father and Sir Mungo, Margaret lost 
 her heart to Nigel, and employed Dame Ursula 
 to ascertain all particulars respecting him. On 
 being presented at Court by Lord Huntinglen 
 he obtained an order for payment of his claim, 
 and was introduced to the Duke of Buckingham, 
 who announced himself as his enemy, and to 
 Lord Dalgarno, by whom he was initiated in 
 all the vices of the aristocracy of that period, 
 although warned by Richie, and by an anony- 
 mous letter. Meeting the Prince of Wales in St 
 James's Park, attended by several courtiers, Nigel 
 learnt from their manner, as well as from Sir 
 Mungo, that he had been ill spoken of to Charles, 
 upon which he challenged Dalgarno in the pre- 
 cincts of the Court, and was compelled to take 
 refuge in Whitefriars to avoid arrest. 
 
 Here he renewed his acquaintance with Lowes- 
 toffe, whom he had met at Beaujeu's, and was 
 assigned to the care of old Trapbois and his
 
 52 A KEY TO THE WAVERLEY NOVELS 
 
 daughter. On hearing of Nigel's trouble Margaret 
 sought an interview with Lady Hermione, who 
 occupied a suite of apartments in Heriot's man- 
 sion, and, having revealed her secret, was supplied 
 with money to help him, being told at the same 
 time by her confidant of the ill usage she had 
 suffered from Lord Dalgarno. Vincent, who was 
 in love with his master's daughter, and had been 
 encouraged by Dame Ursula in extravagant habits, 
 was now engaged by her to act as his rival's guide 
 in effecting his escape from London. The same 
 night old Trapbois was murdered by two ruffians 
 who came to rob him ; and, just as he had rescued 
 the daughter, whom Hildebrod had advised him 
 to marry, Nigel was accosted by the apprentice, 
 dressed as a waterman, from whom he learnt that 
 a warrant had been issued for his apprehension, 
 and that a boat was in readiness for him to give 
 the king's officers the slip. Martha begged that 
 she might accompany him, and, having secured 
 her father's treasure, they were conducted by Vin- 
 cent to the Temple Stairs. Having landed his 
 companion at Paul's Wharf, where she was taken 
 charge of by Monoplies, Nigel insisted on disem- 
 barking at Greenwich, instead of joining a Scotch 
 vessel which was waiting for him at Gravesend ; 
 and having made his way to the park, he attended 
 the king while he killed a deer, when he was recog- 
 nised and consigned to the Tower. 
 
 Presently Margaret, dressed as a boy, was shown 
 into the same room ; then the chandler came to 
 claim his wife, whom he accused Nigel of having 
 carried off; and, after he had dined, his friend
 
 THE FORTUNES OF NIGEL 53 
 
 Heriot arrived to reproach him with the position 
 in which he had placed himself. He had also lost 
 the king's warrant for his debt, and when his 
 companion's disguise was detected, she saved him 
 from further embarrassment by a full confession. 
 One of her acts had been to present a petition to 
 the king from Lady Hermione, on reading which 
 he had commanded that Lord Dalgarno should 
 instantly marry her ; and another to offer such 
 explanations respecting Nigel as induced his 
 Majesty to pardon him. One hour only, however, 
 remained within which to redeem his estates, when 
 Monoplies appeared with the money, and Lord 
 Dalgarno, who hoped to have secured them, was 
 deprived of his revenge. The next day he was 
 shot in Enfield Chase, where Captain Colepepper 
 had planned to waylay him, as he was waiting, 
 in company with Dame Nelly, and a page in 
 charge of the treasure, to fight a duel with Nigel. 
 Vincent and Lowestoffe, however, arrived in time 
 to put two of the robbers to flight, while Monoplies 
 killed the captain, who was suspected of having 
 murdered Trapbois, and Christie recovered his 
 wife. Nigel and Margaret were soon afterwards 
 married ; and as King James was honouring the 
 feast with his presence, Richie presented Martha 
 as his bride, who, at the same time, handed to 
 the preserver of her life the deeds of the Glcn- 
 varloch estates, which she had freed from all 
 liabilities, and the royal sign-manual which had 
 been found among her father's papers.
 
 A LEGEND OF MONTROSE 
 
 Principal Characters 
 
 EVAN DHU, a Highland chief- 
 tain. 
 
 SIR DUNCAN CAMPBELL, of 
 Ardenvohr, a Covenanter. 
 
 ANNOT LYLE, a harpist ; after- 
 wards his daughter. 
 
 MACCALLUM MORE, MARQUIS 
 OF ARGYLE. 
 
 RANALD MACEAGH, a son of 
 the Mist. 
 
 K E N N ET H , h is grandson. 
 
 MAcIl.iniY, chieftain of the 
 Camerons. 
 
 THE YOUNG EARL OF MEN- 
 TEITH. 
 
 ANDERSON, his servant; after- 
 wards THE EARL OF MON- 
 TROSE. 
 
 SIR DUGALD DALGETTY, of 
 Drumth wacket . 
 
 ANGUS MACAULAY, laird of 
 Kintail. 
 
 His brother, ALLAN. 
 
 SIR MILES MUL- \ r . , 
 
 GRAVE, I G St *f 
 
 SIR CHRISTOPHER ( , , "^ lls , 
 TT \J\IacAitlay. 
 
 11 ALL, / 
 
 THE CHILDREN OF THE MIST, 
 freebooters. 
 
 Highland chieftains and clansmen, women and children ; 
 Royalist army, Highland army. 
 
 Period, 1645. Local Hies: Various parts of Scotland. 
 
 TllE Civil War between Charles I. and his Parlia- 
 ment was raging in England ; and, as the Earl of 
 Menteith was on his way to a political gathering 
 at Darnlinvarach Castle, he met Dalgetty, who 
 talked of his service as a soldier of fortune 
 abroad, and to whom he offered quarters for the 
 night, with the option of joining the Royalist 
 cause if he should feel so inclined. After supper 
 the carl related to the captain a story concerning 
 their guests, Angus and Allan MacAulay, whose 
 uncle having been murdered by a tribe of High- 
 
 54
 
 A LEGEND OF MONTROSE 55 
 
 landers called the Children of the Mist, the shock 
 affected their mother's reason, and Allan inherited 
 a gloomy and superstitious temperament, which 
 Annot, who had been captured in one of their 
 reprisals against the freebooters, and adopted by 
 them, was in the habit of soothing with her harp. 
 Dugald decided to take service on the king's side; 
 and several chieftains and their followers having 
 assembled at the castle, the Earl of Montrose, 
 throwing off his disguise as a servant, accepted 
 the command of the forces to be raised for the 
 service of His Majesty in Scotland. As he was 
 making his arrangements, Sir Duncan Campbell 
 arrived to demand, in the Marquis of Argyle's 
 name, an explanation of the meeting, and the 
 captain was selected to return with him to In- 
 verary to propose a truce. 
 
 After a halt at Sir Duncan's castle, Dalgetty 
 was escorted to the stronghold of the Argyles, 
 where he was received as the bearer of a traitorous 
 message, and consigned to a dungeon. Here he 
 found Ranald MacEagh, and had just learnt from 
 him that Sir Duncan's daughter, whom he believed 
 had been murdered, was alive, when they were 
 interrupted by a stranger, who brought the captain 
 some refreshment, and elicited from the High- 
 lander that she was the little harpist. He then 
 made dishonourable proposals to Dalgetty, but, 
 recognising him as the marquis, the captain 
 secured him, and escaped with Ranald, who 
 undertook to guide him safely back to Montrose's 
 headquarters. While crossing a dark ravine they 
 heard the baying of a hound, and on reaching
 
 56 A KEY TO THE WAVERLEY NOVELS 
 
 the summit of the pass, where they were sur- 
 rounded by the Children of the Mist, their pur- 
 suers overtook them. Their first assailant was 
 transfixed with an arrow, but the captain was 
 wounded, and carried away insensible by the 
 Highland women. In two battles which ensued, 
 the Covenanters were defeated by the Royalists, 
 and Montrose was hesitating as to his further 
 plans, when Dalgetty reappeared in his camp with 
 Ranald. The earl decided to avail himself of the 
 mountaineer's knowledge of Argyle's movements, 
 but, remembering the MacAulays' enmity against 
 his tribe, he was attached to the army under an 
 assumed name, and as a seer. Annot had followed 
 her protectors in the campaign, but now Allan be- 
 came anxious for her safety, and possessed with a 
 foreboding that he was doomed to stab Menteith. 
 
 After considerable manoeuvring on both sides, 
 Montrose was, at length, induced by Macllduy to 
 make a sudden advance against Argyle, who 
 watched the battle from the deck of a galley. 
 The struggle was long and desperate, but the 
 Royalists gained the day, and, having been un- 
 horsed by Ranald, Sir Duncan Campbell was 
 attacker! by Allan MacAulay, who would have 
 killed him had not Dalgetty interposed. Mon- 
 trose rode up in time to prevent a further scuffle, 
 and having knighted Sir Dugald, despatched him 
 and his antagonist in opposite directions. He 
 then cautioned the young Earl of Menteith 
 against his love for Annot, whom he could not 
 marry, and that he had a dangerous rival. She 
 was preparing dressings for the wounded, when
 
 A LEGEND OF MONTROSE 57 
 
 Allan suddenly entered the room, and, taxing her 
 with reciprocating the carl's love, warned her that 
 never was an injury offered him for which he 
 exacted not tenfold vengeance. Sir Dugald now 
 fetched her to examine Sir Duncan's wound, 
 which she pronounced beyond her skill, when 
 MacEagh begged that he might be allowed an 
 interview with them, and revealed the secret that 
 they were father and daughter. While Menteith 
 was collecting the proofs of his statements, Ranald 
 sent for his grandson, Kenneth, and despatched 
 him with the news to MacAulay, enjoining the 
 lad, with his dying breath, to pursue the wild life 
 of his forefathers, to requite kindness, and avenge 
 the injuries of his race. 
 
 Montrosc still advised his kinsman to abandon 
 the idea of making the old knight's heiress his 
 wife, but Sir Duncan, having satisfied himself that 
 her happiness depended on it, consented that they 
 should be married, on the understanding that she 
 returned to his castle until her husband could retire 
 with honour from his military service. Everything 
 was arranged accordingly, when Allan MacAulay 
 presented himself in the ante-room of the chapel, 
 and, having stabbed his rival in the breast, carried 
 the reeking dirk to the Marquis of Argyle, and 
 was never seen again. The earl recovered and 
 was united to Annot, and Sir Dugald Dalgetty, 
 having escaped the fate of his fellow-prisoners 
 after the battle of Philiphaugh, consented, at the 
 expiration of his engagement with the king, to 
 take service with his enemies, and ultimately re- 
 gained his paternal estate.
 
 WOODSTOCK 
 
 Principal Characters 
 
 COLONEL DESBO- Commis- 
 ROUGH, I sioners 
 
 GENERAL HARRI- r of the 
 SON, Council 
 
 JOSHUA BLETSON, } of State. 
 
 JOSEPH TOMKINS, their steward. 
 
 CAPTAIN ROGER WILDRAKE, 
 of Sq uatllesea mere . 
 
 SPITFIRE, his page. 
 
 OLIVER CROMWELL. 
 
 CAPTAIN PEARSON, his aide-de- 
 camp. 
 
 Louis KERNEGUY, a page; 
 afterwards KING CHARLES 
 II. 
 
 BEVIS, a wolf-dog. 
 
 SIR HENRY LEE, of Ditchley, 
 
 keeper of Woodstock Park. 
 His son, ALBERT, a Royalist 
 
 colonel. 
 
 His daughter, ALICE. 
 DK ANTHONY ROCHECLIFFE, 
 
 late rector of Woodstock. 
 REV. N EH EM i AH HOLD- 
 ENOUGH, a Presbyterian 
 
 minister. 
 COLONEL MARKHAM EVERARD, 
 
 a Roundhead, Sir Henry's 
 
 nepheiv. 
 JOCELINE Joi.lFFE, a Royalist 
 
 forester, and Sir Henry's 
 
 servant. 
 PHCEBE MAYFLOWER, hissiveet- 
 
 heart. 
 
 Congregation in Woodstock Church, officers and soldiers of 
 
 Cromwell's army, servants, etc. 
 Period, 1652. Localities: Woodstock in Oxfordshire, and Windsor. 
 
 AT a thanksgiving service in Woodstock church 
 for the victory at Worcester, the Rev. Xehemiah 
 Holdenough was compelled to cede the pulpit, 
 which he had usurped from the late rector, to 
 Tomkins, who, in military attire, declaimed against 
 monarchy and prelacy, and announced the seques- 
 tration of the royal lodge and park by Crom- 
 well and his followers. Proceeding thither, he 
 
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 WOODSTOCK 59 
 
 encountered Sir Henry, accompanied by Alice, 
 prepared to surrender his charge, and was con- 
 ducted through the principal apartments by Joliffe, 
 who managed to send Phcebe and Bevis with some 
 provisions to his hut, in which the knight and 
 his daughter had arranged to sleep. On arriving 
 there they found Everard, who had come to offer 
 them his own and his father's protection ; but Sir 
 Henry abused and spurned him as a rebel, and 
 at Alice's entreaty he bade them farewell, as he 
 feared, for ever. On his way to the lodge he met 
 his Royalist friend, Wildrake, whom he was shelter- 
 ing in spite of his politics, and determined to send 
 him with an appeal to Cromwell to reinstate his 
 uncle at Woodstock. On reaching Windsor, the 
 captain, disguised as a Roundhead, obtained an 
 interview with the general, and a compliance with 
 Everard's request, on condition that he would aid 
 in securing the murdered king's son, in the event 
 of his seeking refuge with the Lees. 
 
 Armed with the warrant of ejectment, the colonel 
 and Wildrake, accompanied by the mayor and the 
 minister, visited the Commissioners during their 
 evening carouse, and took part in endeavouring 
 to ascertain the cause of some startling occur- 
 rences by which they had been disturbed. Everard 
 made his way alone to a dark gallery, in which he 
 fancied he heard his cousin's voice, and suddenly 
 felt a sworcl at his throat. Meeting Wildrake as 
 he regained the hall, they hurried off to the hut 
 where they found Dr Rochccliffe reading the 
 Church service to Sir Henry and his daughter ; 
 and, after a reconciliation between uncle and
 
 6o A KEY TO THE WAVERLEY NOVELS 
 
 nephew, the cousins were allowed a private inter- 
 view, during which Alice warned her lover against 
 betraying the king. Returning to the lodge they 
 were told of other unaccountable events ; and 
 during the night Everard was ordered by an 
 apparition to change his quarters. The sentinels 
 also declared that they had heard strange sounds, 
 and the Commissioners decided to retire to the 
 village inn. Master Holdenough, too, confessed 
 that he had been terribly shocked by the reflec- 
 tion in a mirror of the figure of a college friend 
 whom he had seen drowned. 
 
 The following day the old knight was induced 
 to resume his post, and his son Albert arrived 
 with Louis Kerneguy, whom he introduced as his 
 Scotch page. Sir Henry having no suspicion who 
 his guest really was treated him without ceremony; 
 and while Dr Rochecliffe and the colonel were 
 planning for his escape to Holland, Charles amused 
 himself by endeavouring to gain Alice's love ; but, 
 in spite of a declaration of his rank, she made 
 him ashamed of his suit. A quarrel, however, 
 having arisen between him and Everard, she 
 evinced her loyalty by preventing a duel they 
 had arranged, at the risk of her reputation and 
 the loss of her cousin's affection. A similar 
 attempt by Tomkins to trifle with Phcebe was 
 punished by a death-blow from Joliffe. The next 
 evening Everard and his friend, and Holdenough, 
 were unexpectedly made prisoners by Cromwell, 
 who, having received intelligence of their know- 
 ledge of the king's sojourn at Woodstock, had 
 brought a large force to secure him. Wildrake,
 
 WOODSTOCK 6 1 
 
 however, managed to send warning to the lodge 
 by Spitfire, and while Alice acted as Charles's 
 guide to take horse, Albert, in his dress, concealed 
 himself in Rosamond's tower. Cromwell and his 
 soldiers arrived soon afterwards with Dr Roche- 
 cliffe and Joliffe, whom they had seized as they 
 were burying Tomkins, and, having searched all 
 the rooms and passages in vain, they proceeded 
 to blow up the tower. Albert, however, leapt 
 from it just before the explosion, and Cromwell 
 was furious when he discovered the deception. 
 In his rage he ordered the execution of the old 
 knight and all his abettors, including his dog ; 
 but afterwards released them, with the exception 
 of Albert, who was imprisoned, and subsequently 
 fell in the battle of Dunkirk. Alice returned in 
 safety, with the news that the king had effected 
 his escape, and a letter from him to Sir Henry, 
 approving of her marriage with Everard, whose 
 political opinions had been considerably influenced 
 by recent events. 
 
 Eight years later Wildrake arrived at Brussels 
 with a message for Charles that his restoration 
 had been voted by Parliament ; and in his pro- 
 gress to London, escorted by a brilliant retinue, 
 amidst shouts of welcome from his assembled 
 subjects, he dismounted to salute a family group 
 in which the central figure was the old knight 
 of Ditchley, whose venerable features expressed 
 his appreciation of the happiness of once more 
 pressing his sovereign's hand, and whose death 
 almost immediately followed the realisation of 
 his anxious and long-cherished hopes.
 
 PEVERIL OF THE PEAK 
 
 Principal Characters 
 
 FENELLA, alias ZARAH, his 
 daughter. 
 
 CHAKLKS TOPHAM, officer of the 
 Black Rod. 
 
 CHIFFINCH, alias WILL SMITH, 
 servant to Charles II. 
 
 MISTRESS CHIFFINCH. 
 
 VILLIERS, DUKE OF BUCKING- 
 HAM. 
 
 JERNINGHAM, his secretary. 
 
 KING CHARLES II. 
 
 MASTER MAULSTATUTE, a Jus- 
 tice. 
 
 SIR GEOFFREY HUDSON, the 
 Queen's Dwarf. 
 
 COLONEL BLOOD, an adventurer. 
 
 THE DUKE OF ORMOND. 
 
 SIR GEOFFREY PEVERIL, of 
 Martindale Castle, 77te Peak, 
 Derbyshire. 
 
 LADY MARGARET, his -wife. 
 
 JULIAN, their son. 
 
 LANCE OUTRAM, their game- 
 keeper. 
 
 MAJOR BRIDGENORTH, ofMotd- 
 trassie Hall, a Puritan. 
 
 His daughter, ALICE. 
 
 DEBORAH DEBHITCH, her nurse. 
 
 REV. NEIIEMIAH SOLSGROVE, 
 a Presbyterian minister. 
 
 CHARLOTTE, COUNTESS OF 
 DERBY. 
 
 THE YOUNG EARL, her son. 
 
 EDWARD CHRISTIAN, alias 
 RICHARD GANLESSE, a Demp- 
 ster of Man. 
 
 Servants, innkeepers, Roundheads, miners, watermen, constables, 
 judge and jury, witnesses, conspirators and musicians. 
 
 Period, 1678. Localities; Derbyshire, Isle of Man and London. 
 
 SIR GEOFFREY and Bridgenorth had been boys 
 together ; and although they adopted different 
 views in religion and politics, the major's influ- 
 ence had saved the Royalist's life after the battle 
 of Bolton-le-Moor, and Lady Peveril had brought 
 up his motherless girl with her own son. After 
 the Restoration, the Countess of Derby, who, 
 through treachery, had suffered a long imprison- 
 
 62
 
 PEVERIL OF THE PEAK 63 
 
 ment by the Roundheads, sought protection at 
 Martindale Castle, where Bridgenorth would have 
 arrested her for having caused his brother-in-law, 
 William Christian, to be shot as a traitor, had not 
 the knight interfered by tearing up the warrant, 
 and escorting her through Cheshire on her return 
 to the Isle of Man. Alice was of course with- 
 drawn from his wife's care, and it was supposed 
 the major had emigrated to New England. Several 
 years afterwards Julian became the companion of 
 the young earl, and, with Deborah's connivance, 
 renewed his intimacy with his foster sister, who 
 was under the care of her widowed aunt, Dame 
 Christian. At one of the secret interviews be- 
 tween them, they were surprised by the entrance 
 of her father, who related some of his religious 
 experiences, and vaguely hinted that his consent 
 to their marriage was not impossible. The next 
 night, having undertaken to proceed to London, 
 to clear the countess and her son from the sus- 
 picion of being concerned in Oates's pretended 
 Popish plot, Julian was conducted to a sloop by 
 Fenella, his patron's deaf and dumb dwarf, and, 
 as she was being taken ashore against her will 
 while he was asleep, he dreamt that he heard 
 Alice's voice calling for his help. 
 
 At Liverpool he met Topham with a warrant 
 against Sir Geoffrey, and on his way to the Peak- 
 to warn him, he travelled with Edward Christian, 
 passing as Ganlesse, a priest, who led him to an 
 inn, where they supped with Chiffinch. On reach- 
 ing Martindale Castle, he found his father and 
 mother in the custody of Roundheads, and he was
 
 64 A KEY TO THE WAVERLEY NOVELS 
 
 taken by Bridgenorth as a prisoner to Moultrassie 
 Hall, where Alice received them, and he recog- 
 nised Ganlesse among a number of Puritan visitors. 
 During the night the Hall was attacked by the 
 dependents and miners of the Peveril estate, and, 
 having regained his liberty, Julian started, with 
 Lance as his servant, in search of his parents, 
 who he ascertained were on their way to London 
 in charge of Topham. At an inn where they 
 halted, Julian overheard Chiffinch revealing to a 
 courtier a plot against Alice, and that he had 
 been robbed of the papers entrusted to him by 
 the countess, which, however, he managed to 
 recover the next morning. 
 
 Meanwhile, Christian, under whose care Bridge- 
 north had placed his daughter, communicated to 
 the Duke of Buckingham a design he had formed 
 of introducing her to Charles II., and, at an inter- 
 view with her father, endeavoured to persuade him 
 to abandon the idea of marrying her to young 
 Peveril. Having reached London, Julian met 
 Fenella, who led him into St James's Park, where 
 she attracted the notice of the king by dancing, 
 and he sent them both to await his return at 
 Chiffinch's apartments. Alice was already under 
 the care of Mistress Chiffinch, and escaped from 
 an interview with the duke to find herself in the 
 presence of Charles and her lover, with whom, 
 after he had placed the countess's papers in the 
 king's hands, she was allowed to depart. Julian, 
 however, lost her in a street fray, and having 
 been committed to Newgate for wounding his 
 assailant, he was placed in the same cell with
 
 PEVERIL OF THE PEAK 65 
 
 the queen's dwarf, and conversed with an in- 
 visible speaker. After startling Christian with 
 the news that his niece had disappeared, the 
 duke bribed Colonel Blood to intercept his move- 
 ments, so that he might not discover where she 
 was, and was then himself astonished at finding 
 Fenella instead of Alice, who had been captured 
 by his servants in his house, and at her equally 
 unexpected defiance of and escape from him. 
 
 A few days afterwards, Sir Geoffrey Peveril, his 
 son and the dwarf were tried for aiding and abet- 
 ting Oates's Plot, and were all acquitted. In 
 order, however, to avoid the mob, they took refuge 
 in a room, where they encountered Bridgenorth, 
 who convinced Julian that they were in his power, 
 and allowed Christian to propose to the Duke of 
 Buckingham that several hundred Fifth-Monarchy 
 men, led by Colonel Blood, should seize the king, 
 and proclaim his Grace Lord-Lieutenant of the 
 kingdom. The same afternoon Charles had just 
 granted an audience to the Countess of Derby, 
 when the dwarf emerged from a violoncello case 
 and revealed the conspiracy which Fenella had 
 enabled him to overhear. It then transpired that 
 Bridgenorth had released the Peverils, and that 
 Christian had trained his daughter, whose real 
 name was Zarah, to feign being deaf and dumb, 
 in order that she might act as his spy ; but that 
 her secret love for Julian had frustrated the execu- 
 tion of his vengeance against the countess. He 
 was allowed to leave the country, and the major, 
 who. on recovering Alice by Fenella's aid, had 
 placed her under Lady Pevcril's care, having 
 
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 66 A KEY TO THE WAVERLEY NOVELS 
 
 offered to restore some of Sir Geoffrey's domains 
 which had passed into his hands as her dowry, 
 the king's recommendation secured the old 
 knight's consent to the marriage which within a 
 few weeks united the Martindale - Moultrassie 
 families and estates.
 
 OLD MORTALITY 
 
 Principal Characters 
 
 MR MORTON, the Squire of 
 Milnwood, a Presbyterian. 
 
 HKNRY MORTON, his nephew. 
 
 DAME ALISON WILSON, his 
 housekeeper. 
 
 LADY MARGARET BEI.LENDEN, 
 of Tnllietudlem. 
 
 Her grand-daughter, EniTH. 
 
 MAJOR BELLENDEN, her brother- 
 in-law, a Cavalier. 
 
 GUYDILL, her butler. 
 
 JENNY DKNNISON, Edith's maid. 
 
 LORD EVANDALE. 
 
 LADY EMILY HAMILTON, his 
 sister. 
 
 FRANCIS STEWART, alias BOTH 
 WELL, sergeant of Claver- 
 hoitse's Life Guards. 
 
 TAM HALLIDAY, his comrade. 
 
 JOHN BALFOUR OF BURLEY, a 
 Covenanter. 
 
 CORNET GRAHAM, a kinsman 
 of Claverhouse. 
 
 MAUSE UFADRIGO, an old 
 
 fanatic. 
 
 CUDDIE, her son, a ploughman. 
 COLONEL GRAHAM OF CLAVER- 
 
 HOUSE, afterwards VISCOUNT 
 
 OK DUNDEE. 
 G A URIEL KETTLE- 1 
 
 DRUMLE.POUND- Covenant 
 
 THE DUKE OF MONMOUTH, 
 
 commander of the English 
 
 army. 
 GENERAL DALZELL, his aide-de- 
 
 camp. 
 
 MUCKLEWRAITH, a fanatic. 
 DUKE OF LAUDERDALE, Presi- 
 
 dent of Council at Edinburgh. 
 BASIL OLIFANT, a renegade 
 
 Covenanter. 
 BESSIE MAcCLURE, a blind 
 
 widow. 
 WITTENBOI.D, commander of 
 
 Dutch Dragoons. 
 
 Army of rebel Whigs, English and Scotch soldiers, procession through 
 the streets of Edinburgh, servants, etc. 
 
 Period, 1679. Localities: Scotland and Holland. 
 
 ' OLD MORTALITY' was a native of Dumfries, who 
 devoted himself, for many years, to restoring the 
 gravestones of the Covenanters who had suffered 
 during the religious persecutions in the seventeenth 
 century, and he furnished the author with many of 
 the incidents upon which this tale is founded. 
 
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 68 A KEY TO THE WAVERLEY NOVELS 
 
 Henry Morton had beaten Lord Evandale in 
 shooting at the figure of a bird called a popinjay, 
 in the presence of all the aristocracy of Lanark- 
 shire, and was entertaining his companions at the 
 village inn, where Bothwell and Ilalliday insisted 
 on Balfour toasting the archbishop. Having done 
 so with a qualification, he overpowered the ser- 
 geant in a wrestle, 'and rode away with Morton, 
 whose father's life he had saved. Shortly after- 
 wards the cornet arrived with the news that the 
 primate had been murdered, and in search of the 
 Covenanter, who, however, was warned by Bessie 
 MacClure to defer proceeding on his journey, and 
 passed the night in a loft at Milnwood, where, 
 at Edith's request, Cuddie and his mother were 
 afforded shelter from the bigotry of her grand- 
 mother. Next day the red-coats came to arrest 
 Henry for sheltering Balfour, and carried him to 
 Lady Bellenden's castle, to be dealt with by 
 Claverhouse, who ordered him to be shot ; but 
 Edith entreated Lord Evandale's intercession, and 
 her lover's life was spared. Information had been 
 received of a large gathering of armed Whigs in 
 the neighbourhood, and, during a fierce encounter 
 between them and the Royalist troops, Balfour shot 
 the cornet, and transfixed Bothwell with his sword, 
 upon which Claverhouse charged the rebels and 
 unhorsed the Covenanter. The king's forces, how- 
 ever, were compelled to retire, and Lord Evandale's 
 life was saved by Morton, who took service under 
 Balfour. 
 
 A detachment of the insurgents now invested 
 the castle of Tullictudlem, while Henry marched
 
 OLD MORTALITY 69 
 
 \vith the main body against Glasgow, which the 
 Royalists evacuated in order to reach Edinburgh, 
 where the Duke of Monmouth was commander-in- 
 chief. Me managed, however, to get back to 
 Milnwood, and, having rescued Lord Evandale 
 from hanging, employed him to suppress a mutiny 
 among the troopers in the castle, and to induce 
 Major Bellenden to surrender it, on the promise 
 of a safe-conduct in charge of a petition to the 
 Government. While Balfour was making free 
 with Lady Bellenden's property, Morton obtained 
 a fruitless audience at the duke's camp, and re- 
 turned to prepare the rebel army for battle, instead 
 of listening to their Cameronian preachers. In the 
 fight which ensued, the king's forces prevailed, 
 Balfour was disabled, and all Henry's efforts to 
 rally the Covenanters having failed, he and his 
 servant Cuddie escaped with their lives, and 
 reached a solitary farmhouse. Here a party of 
 fanatical western Whigs had assembled, and Morton, 
 having been denounced by Macbriar and Muckle- 
 wraith as a prelatist, was sentenced to die at mid- 
 night. Ere that hour arrived, however, Claverhpuse 
 and a party of soldiers forced an entrance, and he 
 became their prisoner. From a window at Edin- 
 burgh he witnessed the triumphant entry of the 
 royal troops with their prisoners, preceded by the 
 civil authorities, and followed by an excited mob. 
 He was then summoned to the council chamber, 
 and, on pledging himself to remain abroad during 
 the king's pleasure, he was pardoned, Claverhouse 
 accompanying him to Leith, where he embarked 
 for Holland.
 
 70 A KEY TO THE WAVERLEY NOVELS 
 
 Nine years afterwards, on revisiting the old 
 neighbourhood, he learnt that Olifant, a discarded 
 suitor for the heiress, was in possession of the 
 Bellenden estate, and that Edith was betrothed to 
 his rival. He was urging her to consent to their 
 marriage before he joined the Scottish rising 
 against William III., when she declared that she 
 had seen her lost lover, and was taken dangerously 
 ill. Balfour was hiding in a cavern near the widow 
 MacClure's cottage, and, at an interview with him, 
 Morton saved himself with difficulty from his 
 religious frenzy. As he returned he overheard a 
 plot to surprise Lord Evandale ; and, while he was 
 on his way to Glasgow to obtain military aid, a 
 party of horsemen, headed by Olifant, approached 
 the mansion where his lordship was taking leave 
 of Edith, in despair of gaining her affection. 
 Followed by his servants he rode to meet them, 
 and fell from his horse mortally wounded. The 
 renegade was killed at the same time, and as 
 Balfour was attacking Halliday, a troop of Dutch 
 dragoons came to the rescue. All the assailants 
 surrendered except the Covenanter, who was pur- 
 sued, and, after a desperate struggle, was drowned 
 with one of the soldiers in his grasp. Lord Evan- 
 dale, as he was dying, joined Edith's and Morton's 
 hands, and Lady Margaret recovered her castle 
 and lands.
 
 THE BRIDE OF LAMMERMOOR 
 
 Principal Characters 
 
 EDGAR, heir of the late Master 
 
 of Ravenswood. 
 CALEB BAI.DERSTON, his steward 
 
 at Wolf s Crag 7^ower. 
 MYSIE, Caleb's wife. 
 SIR WILLIAM ASIITON, the 
 
 Scottish Lord Keeper. 
 LADY ASHTON, his wife. 
 
 SHOLTO DOUGLAS 
 
 ASHTON, 
 HENRY ASHTON, 
 Their daughter, LUCY. 
 
 their 
 sons. 
 
 AILSIE GOURLAY, her nurse. 
 
 CAPTAIN CRAIGENFELT, a 
 Jacobite adventurer, 
 
 FRANK HAYSTON, laird of 
 Bucklaiv. 
 
 LADY GERNINGTON, his aunt. 
 
 LADY BLEKENSOP, his kins- 
 woman. 
 
 ALICE, a blind servant of the 
 Ravenswood family. 
 
 REV. MR BlDE-THE-BENT, a 
 
 Presbyterian minister. 
 
 Funeral procession, foresters, servants, grave-diggers, villagers, 
 surgeon and physicians. 
 
 Period, 1695. Locality: East Lothian. 
 
 THE ancient scat of the Ravenswood family had 
 been purchased by Sir William Ashton, and the 
 late lord, who was under attaint as a Jacobite, had 
 inspired his son with a hatred towards him, which 
 was enhanced by the lord keeper granting a 
 warrant to prevent the use of the Episcopalian 
 service at his father's funeral. The next day, as 
 Sir William and his daughter were returning from 
 a visit to old Alice, they were pursued by a bull, 
 which was shot by Kdgar, who carried Lucy to a 
 fountain, but declined her father's thanks. He had 
 
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 72 A KEY TO THE WAVERLEY NOVELS 
 
 arranged to seek his fortune abroad with Bucklaw 
 and the captain, but, on meeting them at an inn, 
 he announced that he had changed his mind, and 
 invited the young laird to Wolf's Crag. Here 
 Caleb and Mysie made amusing efforts to maintain 
 their master's hospitality with a very slender stock 
 of provisions ; and were still more disconcerted 
 when he returned home from a stag hunt with the 
 lord keeper and his daughter, to whom he had 
 offered shelter from a storm. The old steward, 
 however, managed by a ruse to shut the gates 
 against the huntsmen, who were entertained by 
 Bucklaw and Craigenfelt ; and having abstracted 
 some wild fowl from a neighbour's spit, and pro- 
 cured other supplies, he was able to set a credit- 
 able meal before the guests, who passed the night 
 in the tower. 
 
 Sir William had been troubled with serious fears 
 of Edgar's inherited resentment, but they were 
 dissipated by his evident admiration of Lucy, and 
 his acceptance, in spite of Caleb's remonstrances, 
 of an invitation to spend a few days at Ravens- 
 wood. During this visit he was taken by Lucy 
 and her brother Henry to see old Alice, who 
 warned him that he came either in fatal anger or 
 in fatal love; but instead of saying farewell for 
 ever, as he had resolved, her tears prevailed, and 
 their troth was plighted to each other. Lady 
 Ashton, however, had arranged a match for her 
 daughter with Bucklaw, who had just inherited 
 his aunt's fortune, and, on returning home, wrote a 
 note to Edgar which left him no alternative but 
 to quit the house at once. On his way through
 
 THE BRIDE OF LAMMERMOOR 73 
 
 the park he encountered an apparition of old 
 Alice, and, on reaching her cottage, he found that 
 she had died a short time previously, expressing 
 an eager desire to speak to him. Having received 
 an evasive reply from Sir William, and an insolent 
 one from her ladyship, to the letters he addressed 
 to them, and a few lines assuring him of her con- 
 stancy from Lucy, Ravcnswood departed on a 
 mission abroad which his kinsman, the Marquis of 
 A., had confided to him. 
 
 During his absence Lady Ashton extorted a 
 promise from her daughter that she would marry 
 Bucklaw, on condition that Edgar released her, or 
 failed to answer the letter she had sent him, by 
 St Jude's day. In the meantime she learnt that 
 the marquis was exerting his power to reverse 
 the judgments by which her father had become 
 possessed of the Ravenswood property, and was 
 told that Edgar, whose reply her mother had in- 
 tercepted, was engaged to another lady. Her 
 nurse had also filled her mind with melancholy 
 forebodings, and on Bucklaw presenting himself 
 again, at the expiration of the interval she had 
 agreed to, Lucy had just signed the marriage con- 
 tract, when the tramp of a horse was heard at the 
 gate, and .she exclaimed, ' He is come ! ' Edgar 
 forced his way into the room, and having been 
 assured by the minister that she had executed the 
 deed without fraud or compulsion, he placed before 
 her their written engagement, with the portion he 
 had retained of the coin they had broken, and, at 
 his request, she returned him the tokens in her 
 possession. Her mother determined that the
 
 74 A KEY TO THE WAVERLEY NOVELS 
 
 wedding with Bucklaw should take place on the 
 appointed day, and Henry was censured for hav- 
 ing lost the dagger he should have worn on the 
 the occasion. In the midst of the ball which 
 followed their marriage, a piercing cry was heard, 
 the bridegroom had been stabbed, and the bride 
 was crouching in the chimney corner bereft of her 
 reason. She died the following evening ; and, on 
 recovering from his wound, her husband declared 
 he had neither story to tell nor injury to avenge. 
 Ravenswood attended the funeral in disguise ; and, 
 having accepted a challenge from Colonel Ashton, 
 was riding to meet him, when he disappeared in 
 the sand knolls he was crossing, the only vestige 
 of his fate being the sable feather he had worn in 
 his hat.
 
 THE PI RA TE 
 
 Principal Characters 
 
 MR BASIL MERTOUN, alias 
 VAUGHAN, of Jarlshof Castle, 
 Sumburgh Head. 
 
 His son, MORDAUNT. 
 
 SWERTHA, their housekeeper. 
 
 SWEYN ERICKSON, a fisherman. 
 
 MAGNUS TROIL, a Zetland 
 itdaller, or landholder. 
 
 MINNA, "jr., , 
 ' \his aagh 
 
 ters. 
 
 NEIL KONALDSON, Ranzclman 
 
 of Jarlshof . 
 MR TRIPTOLEMUS YELLOWLEY, 
 
 of Harfra-Sto urburgh, a Scotch 
 
 factor. 
 
 His sister, BARBARA. 
 TRONDA DRONSDAUGHTER, 
 
 their servant. 
 
 BRYCE SNAILSFOOT, a pedlar. 
 CLAUD HALCRO, an old bard. 
 CLEMENT CLEVELAND, alias 
 
 VAUGHAN, a pirate captain. 
 JOHN BUNCE, alias FREDERICK 
 
 ALTAMONT, his lieutenant. 
 CAPTAIN WEATHERPORT, of 
 
 II. M.S. 'Halcyon.' 
 
 BRENDA, 
 
 EUPHANE FEA, his housekeeper. 
 
 ERIC SCAMBESTER, his servant. 
 
 ULLA TROIL, alias NORNA, of 
 the Fitful Head, his kins- 
 woman. 
 
 NICHOLAS STRUMPFER, alias 
 PACOLET, her servant. 
 
 Inhabitants of Shetland, guests at Burgh- IVestra, masquers, provost 
 and citizens of Kirkwall and Strotmiess, pirate officers and 
 seamen. 
 
 Period, 1700. Localities: Shetland and Orkney Islands. 
 
 MR MEKTOUN and his son had arrived as strangers, 
 and resided for several years in the old mansion 
 of the Earls of Orkney, the father leading a very 
 secluded life, while Mordaunt became a general 
 favourite with the inhabitants, and especially with 
 the udaller and his daughters. On his way home 
 from a visit to them, he and the pedlar sought 
 shelter from a storm at the Yellowleys' farmhouse, 
 
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 76 A KEY TO THE WAVERLEY NOVELS 
 
 where they were amused with their penurious ways, 
 and encountered Norna, who was supposed to be 
 in league with the fairies, and to possess super- 
 natural powers. The next day a ship was wrecked 
 on the rocky coast, and, at the risk of his life, 
 Mordaunt rescued Cleveland as he was cast on the 
 beach clinging to a plank, while Norna prevented 
 his sea-chest from being pillaged. The captain 
 promised his preserver a trip in a consort ship 
 which he expected would arrive shortly, and went 
 to seek the udaller's help in recovering some of 
 his other property that had been washed ashore. 
 After the lapse of several weeks, however, during 
 which the Troils had discontinued their friendly 
 communications with him, Mordaunt heard that 
 the stranger was still their guest, and that they 
 were arranging an entertainment for St John's Eve, 
 to which he had not been bidden. 
 
 As he was brooding over this slight, Norna 
 touched his shoulder, and, assuring him of her 
 goodwill, advised him to join the party uninvited. 
 Warned by his father against falling in love, and 
 with some misgivings as to his reception, he called 
 at Harfra on his way, and accompanied the factor 
 and his sister to the feast. Minna and Brenda 
 replied to their discarded companion's greeting 
 with cold civility, and he felt convinced that Cleve- 
 land had supplanted him in their esteem. The 
 bard endeavoured to cheer him with his poetry and 
 reminiscences of Dryclen ; and, in the course of 
 the evening, Brenda, disguised as a masquer, told 
 him they had heard that he had spoken unkindly 
 of them, but that she did not believe he had done
 
 THE PIRATE 77 
 
 so. She also expressed her fear that the stranger 
 had won Minna's love, and begged Mordaunt to 
 discover all he could respecting him. During an 
 attempt to capture a whale the following day, 
 Cleveland saved Mordaunt from drowning, and, 
 being thus released from his obligation to him, 
 intimated that henceforth they were rivals. The 
 same evening the pedlar brought tidings that a 
 strange ship had arrived at Kirkwall, and Cleve- 
 land talked of a trip thither to ascertain whether it 
 was the consort he had been so long expecting. 
 
 After the sisters had retired to bed, Norna 
 appeared in their room, and narrated a startling 
 tale of her early life, which led Minna to con- 
 fess her attachment to the captain, and to elicit 
 Brenda's partiality for Mordaunt. At a secret 
 interview the next morning, Cleveland admitted 
 to Minna that he was a pirate, upon which she 
 declared that she could only still love him as a 
 penitent, and not as the hero she had hitherto 
 imagined him to be. He announced, in the pres- 
 ence of her father and sister, his intention of start- 
 ing at once for Kirkwall ; but at night he serenaded 
 her, and then, after hearing a struggle and a groan, 
 she saw the shadow of a figure disappearing with 
 another on his shoulders. Overcome with grief 
 and suspense, she was seized with a fit of melan- 
 choly, for the cure of which the udaller consulted 
 Norna in her secluded dwelling ; and, after a 
 mystic ceremony, she predicted that the cause 
 would cease when 'crimson foot met crimson hand' 
 in the Martyr's Aisle in Orkney land, whither she 
 commanded her kinsman to proceed with his
 
 78 A KEY TO THE WAVERLEY NOVELS 
 
 daughters. Mordaunt had been stabbed by the 
 pirate, but had been carried away by Norna to 
 Hoy, where she told him she was his mother, and, 
 after curing his wound, conveyed him to Kirkwall. 
 Here Cleveland had joined his companions, and, 
 having been chosen captain of the consort ship, 
 he obtained leave from the provost for her to take 
 in stores at Stromness and quit the islands, on 
 condition that he remained as a hostage for the 
 crew's behaviour. 
 
 On their way they captured the brig containing 
 the Troils, but Minna and Brenda were sent safely 
 ashore by Bunce, and escorted by old Halcro to 
 visit a relative. The lovers met in the cathedral 
 of St Magnus, whence, with Norna's aid, Cleveland 
 escaped to his ship, and the sisters were trans- 
 ferred to the residence of the bard's cousin, where 
 their father joined them, and found Mordaunt in 
 charge of a party of dependents for their protec- 
 tion. When all was ready for sailing, the captain 
 resolved to see Minna once more, and having sent 
 a note begging her to meet him at the Standing 
 Stones at daybreak, he made his way thither. 
 Brenda persuaded Mordaunt to allow her sister to 
 keep the appointment, and as the lovers were taking 
 their last farewell, they and Brenda were seized by 
 Bunce and his crew from the boat, and would have 
 been carried off, had not Mordaunt hastened to 
 the rescue, and made prisoners of the pirate and 
 his lieutenant. Norna had warned Cleveland 
 against delaying his departure, and his last hopes 
 were quenched when, from the window of the 
 room in which he and Bunce were confined, they
 
 THE PIRATE 79 
 
 witnessed the arrival of the Halcyon, whose captain 
 she had communicated with, and the capture, after 
 a desperate resistance, of their ship. 
 
 The elder Mcrtoun now sought Norna's aid to 
 save their son, who, he declared, was not Mordaunt, 
 as she imagined, but Cleveland, whom he had 
 trained as a pirate under his own real name of 
 Vaughan, her former lover ; and having lost trace 
 of him till now, had come to Jarlshof, with his 
 child by a Spanish wife, to atone for the misdeeds 
 of his youth. On inquiry it appeared that Cleve- 
 land and Bunce had earned their pardon by acts of 
 mercy in their piratical career, and were allowed 
 to enter the king's service. Minna was further 
 consoled by a penitent letter from her lover; 
 Brenda became Mordaunt's wife ; and the aber- 
 ration of mind, occasioned by remorse at having 
 caused her father's death, having passed away, 
 Norna abandoned her supernatural pretensions and 
 peculiar habits, and resumed her family name.
 
 MY AUNT MARGARET'S MIRROR 
 
 Principal Characters 
 
 SIR FHII.IP FORESTER. 
 
 His wife, LADY JEMIMA. 
 
 His wife's sister, LADY BOTH- 
 
 MAJOR FALCON'ER, their brofher. 
 BAPTISTA DAMIOTTI,C Pad nan 
 
 doctor. 
 
 WELL. 
 
 Servants , a physician. 
 Period, 1702. Localities: Edinburgh and Flanders. 
 
 SlR PHILIP, who had married for money and 
 quarrelled with his brother-in-law, determined to 
 join the Duke of Marlborough's army in Flanders 
 as a volunteer. Receiving no tidings of him for 
 many months, Lady Jemima resolved to consult a 
 doctor from Padua, who had the reputation of 
 being able to show his visitors their absent friends, 
 and what they were doing. Accordingly she and 
 her sister, disguised as soldiers' wives, went to him 
 secretly, when he at once told them their real 
 names and the information they desired. Having 
 enjoined absolute silence, and changed his dress to 
 that of an eastern necromancer, he led them into 
 a room hung with black and lighted with torches, 
 containing a large mirror behind an altar, on which 
 were two swords, an open book, and a human 
 skull. Gradually the mirror ceased to reflect these 
 objects, and they saw the interior of a foreign 
 
 So
 
 MY AUNT MARGARET'S MIRROR Si 
 
 church, in which Sir Philip was about to be 
 married to a beautiful girl, when a group of 
 officers entered, one of whom advanced towards 
 the bridal party, arid swords were drawn on both 
 sides. The scene then vanished, and the mirror 
 again reflected the contents of the room. Restora- 
 tives were now offered to the ladies, and they were 
 conducted to their carriage, the professor handing 
 Lady Bothwcll a composing draught for her sister. 
 A few days afterwards news arrived from 
 Holland that Sir Philip's nuptials with the 
 daughter of a rich burgo-master were actually 
 about to be celebrated, when Major Falconer, 
 who happened to be in the town, and had come 
 with some brother officers to witness the ceremony 
 as an amusement, recognised and denounced the 
 would-be bigamist, accepted a challenge from him, 
 and was killed. Lady Jemima never recovered 
 from the shock, the Italian disappeared to escape 
 arrest as a Jacobite, and Sir Philip having, in his 
 old age, sought in vain a reconciliation with Lady 
 Bothwell, eluded pursuit as a murderer and died 
 abroad.
 
 THE BLACK DWARF 
 
 Principal Characters 
 
 HOBBIE ELLIOT, of the Hcugh- 
 
 foot lai'in. 
 
 His GRANDMOTHER. 
 OLD ANNAPPLE, his foster 
 
 mother. 
 LILIAS, 1 
 
 JEAN, \his misters. 
 AN NOT, ) 
 GRACE ARMSTRONG, his cousin 
 
 a>ni sweetheart. 
 PATRICK EARNSCLIFF, a young 
 
 squire. 
 ELS H IE, the Dwarf of Muckle- 
 
 stane Moor; afterwards SIR 
 
 EDWARD MAULEY. 
 
 MR RICHARD VERE. the laird 
 
 of El Us I aw. 
 His daughter, ISABEL. 
 SIR FREDERICK LANGLEV, her 
 
 suitor. 
 
 LUCY ILDERTON, her friend. 
 WILLIE GR/EME, of Westerfatm- 
 
 ftat, a freebooter. 
 MR HUBERT RATCLIKFE, a 
 
 friend of Sir William Mauky. 
 RALPH MARESCHAL, Mr Vere's 
 
 cousin. 
 DR HoBBLER, a priest. 
 
 Elliot's brothers and neighbour 
 comrades, Jacobite friends 
 
 Period, 1 706. Locality : the Lowlands of Scotland. 
 
 s, Westerburnflafs mother and 
 and servants of Mr Vere. 
 
 As Elliot was returning over a wild moor from a 
 day's sport, thinking of the legends he had heard 
 of its supernatural occupants after nightfall, he 
 was overtaken by Earnscliff, whose father had 
 been killed in a quarrel with the laird of Ellislaw, 
 when the moon suddenly revealed the figure of a 
 human dwarf, who, on being spoken to, refused 
 their offers of assistance, and bid them begone. 
 Having invited Earnscliff to sup with his women 
 folks, and pass the night at his farm, Hobbie 
 
 82
 
 THE BLACK DWARF 83 
 
 accompanied him next morning to confront the 
 strange being by daylight ; and having assisted 
 him in collecting stones for constructing a hut, 
 they supplied him with food and other necessaries. 
 In a short time he had completed his dwelling, 
 and became known to the neighbours, for whose 
 ailments he prescribed, as Elshender the Recluse. 
 Being visited by Isabel and two of her friends, he 
 told their fortunes, and he gave her a rose, with 
 strict injunctions to bring it to him in her hour of 
 adversity. As they rode homewards, their con- 
 versation implied that she loved young Earnscliff, 
 but that Mr Vere intended her to marry Sir 
 Frederick. Another of his visitors was West- 
 burnflat, on his way to avenge an affront he had 
 received from Elliot, whose dog the next day 
 killed one of the dwarfs goats, for which he 
 warned him that retribution was at hand. 
 
 Shortly afterwards the freebooter brought word 
 that he and his companions had fired Robbie's 
 farm, and carried off his sweetheart and cattle ; 
 on hearing which Elshie despatched him with an 
 order for some money, and insisted that Grace 
 should be given up uninjured. Having dispersed 
 his neighbours in search of her, Elliot went to con- 
 sult Elshie, who handed him a bag of gold, which 
 he declined, and intimated that he must seek her 
 whom he had lost in the iccst. Earnscliff and his 
 party had tracked the cattle as far as the English 
 border, but on finding a large Jacobite force as- 
 sembling there they returned, and it was decided 
 to attack Westburn flat's stronghold. On approach- 
 ing it, a female hand, which her lover swore was
 
 84 A KEY TO THE WAVERLEY NOVELS 
 
 Grace's, waved a signal to them from a turret, and 
 as they were preparing a bonfire to force the 
 door, Graeme agreed to release his prisoner, who 
 proved to be Isabel. On reaching home, however, 
 Elliot found his cousin had been brought back, and 
 at dawn he started off to accept the money which 
 the dwarf had offered him to repair his homestead. 
 Isabel had been seized by ruffians while walking 
 with her father, who appeared overcome with grief, 
 and under the impression that Earnscliff was the 
 offender ; whereas Mr Ratcliffe, who managed his 
 affairs, suggested that Sir Frederick had stronger 
 motives for placing her under restraint. Mr Vere's 
 suspicion seemed justified by their meeting his 
 daughter returning under her lover's care ; but she 
 confirmed his version of the circumstances under 
 which he had intervened, to the evident discom- 
 fiture of his rival and her father. 
 
 At a large gathering, the same day, of the Pre- 
 tender's adherents in the hall of Ellieslaw Castle, 
 Mareschal produced a letter which dissipated all 
 their hopes, and Sir Frederick insisted that his 
 marriage with Isabel should take place before 
 midnight. She had consented, on her father's 
 representation that his life would be forfeited if 
 she refused, when Mr Ratcliffe persuaded her to 
 make use of the token which KLshie had given her, 
 and escorted her to his dwelling. He promised 
 that at the foot of the altar he would redeem her ; 
 and, just as the ceremony was commencing in the 
 chapel, a voice, which seemed to proceed from her 
 mother's tomb, uttered the word ' Forbear.' The 
 dwarfs real name and rank were then revealed, as
 
 THE BLACK DWARF 85 
 
 well as the circumstances under which he had 
 acquired the power of thus interfering on Isabel's 
 behalf; while Hobbie and his friends supported 
 Mr Ratcliffe in dispersing the would-be rebels. 
 Sir Edward at the same time disappeared from 
 the neighbourhood, and Mr Vcre retired, with an 
 ample allowance, to the Continent, all the Ellieslaw 
 property, as well as the baronet's, being settled on 
 Earnscliff and his bride. Sir Frederick Langley 
 was, a few years afterwards, executed at Preston, 
 and Westburnflat earned a commission in Marl- 
 borough's army by his services in providing cattle 
 for the commissariat.
 
 ROB ROY 
 
 Principal Characters 
 
 MR WILLIAM OSBALDISTONE, 
 
 of the firm of Osbaldistone &* 
 
 Tresham. 
 
 FRANK OSBALDISTONE, his son. 
 MR OWEN, principal clerk to 
 
 the firm. 
 ANDRKW FAIRSERVICE, Frank's 
 
 servant. 
 SIR FREDERICK VERNON, a 
 
 Jacobite. 
 His daughter, DIANA. 
 
 SIR HlLDEKRAND OSBALDI- 
 
 STONE, his maternal uncle. 
 
 RASHLEIGH OSBALDISTONE, his 
 son. 
 
 MARTHA, Diana 's maid. 
 
 SQUIRE INGLEWOOD, a North- 
 umbrian justice of the peace. 
 
 MR JOSEPH JOBSON, his clerk. 
 
 MAcViTTlE & MAcFlN, traders 
 in Glasgow. 
 
 DOUGAL, a turnkey in the Tol- 
 booth. 
 
 BAILIE NICOL JARVIE, a weaver. 
 
 MATTIE, his servant. 
 
 JEAN MACALPINE, hostess f 
 inn at Aberfoil. 
 
 MAJOR GALBRAITH, of the 
 Lennox militia. 
 
 MAcSTUART, one of his troopers. 
 
 CAPTAIN THORNTON, of the 
 Royals. 
 
 ROB ROY MACGREGOR CAMP- 
 BELL, a Scottish outlaw. 
 
 His wife, HELEN. 
 
 ROBERT, 1 ., . 
 
 J- their sons. 
 IlAMISH, ) 
 
 Highlanders and soldiers, servants, etc. 
 
 Period, 1715. 
 
 Localities: Northumberland, Glasgow and 
 neighbourhood. 
 
 FRANK OSBALDISTONE had declined a partnership 
 in his father's business; and as he was journeying 
 nothwards, on a visit to his uncle Sir Hildebrand, 
 he travelled with a very nervous man, and dined 
 at an inn with Mr Campbell, a cattle salesman. 
 During a hunting expedition with his cousins, he- 
 learned from Diana that he was charged with 
 having committed a highway robbery, and she 
 86
 
 ROB ROY 87 
 
 escorted him to Squire Inglewood's, where he en- 
 countered his travelling companion as his accuser, 
 and was acquitted on the testimony of the Scotch 
 dealer. Having fallen in love with Diana, he dis- 
 covered that she was destined for Rashleigh, or a 
 cloister, and that he was a hypocrite. During his 
 rival's absence from home, Frank gained his 
 cousin's confidence and became her constant com 
 panion. He also obtained important information 
 from Andrew Fairservice, and on returning from a 
 talk with him, witnessed an interview between his 
 lady-love and a male stranger. He next learnt 
 from her that Rashleigh was in charge of his 
 father's business while he was gone to Holland ; 
 and, a few days later, she handed him a letter 
 announcing that his cousin had robbed the firm 
 and disappeared. Having advised his immediate 
 departure for Glasgow, she entrusted him with 
 another letter to be used under certain circum- 
 stances, and he started with Andrew as his servant. 
 In the cathedral there, some one whispered be- 
 hind him, ' Meet me at midnight on the bridge,' 
 and, having done so, he was conducted to the 
 Tolbooth, and admitted by Dougal to a cell in 
 which he found Owen, who had been imprisoned 
 by MacVittie and MacFin. Presently his guide 
 hurried in, followed by Mr Jarvie, who was Mr 
 Osbaldistone's agent, and the stranger proved to 
 be Mr Campbell, alias Rob Roy, the bailie's 
 kinsman. The Highlander, to whom Diana's letter 
 was addressed, invited his relative and Frank to 
 dine with him at Aberfoil, and intimated that he 
 miijht be able to arrange Mr Osbaldistone's affairs.
 
 88 A KEY TO THE WAVERLEY NOVELS 
 
 Having been interrupted in a duel with Rashleigh, 
 whom he met in the city, Frank started with Mr 
 Jarvie and Andrew for the inn named by Camp- 
 bell, where the bailie fought MacStuart with a red- 
 hot poker, and they were arrested by Captain 
 Thornton and his troops for being in communica- 
 tion with a proscribed robber. Dougal was also 
 brought in as a spy, and accepted a bribe to betray 
 Rob Roy's hiding-place. The red-coats, however, 
 had scarcely disappeared with their prisoners, 
 when the outlaw emerged from behind the inn 
 with Rashleigh, upon a signal from whom he was 
 seized by Galbraith and his troopers. 
 
 Captain Thornton and his party were led by 
 their guide to a narrow pass, on entering which 
 they were challenged by Roy's wife, and fired 
 upon by a hidden force. In the scramble which 
 ensued the bailie was suspended by his coat-tails 
 to the branch of a tree, and they were surrounded 
 by Highlanders. Mr Jarvie claimed relationship 
 with his kinsman's spouse, but she scornfully 
 ordered all the prisoners to be bound, and thrown 
 into an adjacent lake. Suddenly her sons brought 
 news of their father's capture, and, having de- 
 nounced Rashleigh, she had despatched Frank 
 with a message to the Duke of Argyle, when a 
 shout echoed through the gorge, and Rob Roy 
 rushed into his wife's arms. He had managed, 
 with the connivance of one of the troopers, to set 
 himself free as they crossed the river, and, by his 
 expertness in swimming and diving, to escape 
 pursuit. Frank was making his way back to the 
 inn at Aberfoil, when he was overtaken by Diana
 
 ROB ROY 89 
 
 with an elderly escort, who bade her restore to her 
 cousin the papers Rashleigh had stolen from his 
 father, and they parted. Then he met MacGregor, 
 who accompanied him to the clachan, where they 
 found the bailie solacing himself for the rough 
 treatment he had undergone, and anxious to make 
 the outlaw's sons his apprentices. 
 
 On reaching Glasgow again Frank was welcomed 
 by his father, who had come thither with the inten- 
 tion of punishing his nephew ; and, on their return 
 to London, he was allowed to join the army which 
 was being raised to put down the rebellion of 
 1715, in which Sir Hildebrand was taken prisoner 
 and died in Newgate, leaving Frank his heir. He 
 accordingly went to take possession of the estate ; 
 and having learnt from Squire Inglewood that 
 the stranger who visited Diana was her father, 
 disguised as a priest, he was startled by their 
 sudden appearance in the library to claim his 
 protection as Papists. The next day Rashleigh 
 entered with them as prisoners ; but they were 
 rescued by a party of Highlanders led by Mac- 
 Gregor, who plunged his sword into the traitor, 
 and the Vernons embarked for France. Mr 
 Osbaldistone was not a little shocked that his 
 son should entertain the idea of marrying a 
 Roman Catholic ; but after some hesitation he 
 consented, under the belief that a dutiful daughter 
 could not but prove a good wife ; and Rob Roy, 
 notwithstanding his many daring and perilous 
 adventures, died a peaceful death at a good old 
 age, remembered by his countrymen as the dread 
 of the wealthy, but the friend of the poor.
 
 HEART OF MID-LOTHIAN 
 
 Principal Characters 
 
 CAPTAIN PORTEOUS, an officer 
 
 of the city guard. 
 DAVID DEANS, a dairy-farmer 
 
 at St Leonard's Crags. 
 TEANIE, "j , . , , , 
 EFFIE, } hls d Shters. 
 
 THE LAIRD OF DUMBIEDYKES, 
 
 Jeanie's admit er, 
 REUBEN BUTLER, a schoolmaster, 
 
 her real lover. 
 MR BARTOLINI SADDLETREE, 
 
 Deans 's cousin. 
 SIR EDMUND STAUNTON, Rector 
 
 of Willingham, 
 GEORGE STAUNTON, alias 
 
 ROBERTSON, his son. 
 ANDREW WILSON, a smuggler, 
 
 his companion. 
 MEG MURDOCKSON, George's 
 
 nurse. 
 
 MADGE WILDFIRE, her crazy 
 
 daughter. 
 
 SHARPITLAW, a constable. 
 JIM RATCLIFFE, his subordinate. 
 THE KING'S ADVOCATE. 
 MR FAIRBROTHER, counsel for 
 
 Effie. 
 MRS BlCKERTON, landlady of the 
 
 ' Seven Stars ' at York. 
 MRS GLASS, a tobacconist. 
 MACCALLUM MORE, DUKE OF 
 
 ARGYLE. 
 MR ARCHIBALD, his groom of 
 
 the chamber. 
 QUEEN CAROLINE, WIFE OF 
 
 KING GEORGE II. 
 MRS DUTTON, a dairyu'oman. 
 DUNCAN KNOCK, the Captain 
 
 of Knockdunder. 
 DONOCHA DHU, a robber. 
 
 Rioters, neighbottrs of the Deans, lords of justiciary, officers of the 
 court and To/booth at Edinburgh, robbers, servants, etc. 
 
 Period, 1736. Localities: Edinburgh, Alidland Counties, London 
 and Dumbartonshire. 
 
 DURING the Porteous riots at Edinburgh, which 
 arose from the escape of a convict named Robert- 
 son, and an attempt to rescue the body of his com- 
 panion Wilson from the gallows, Effie Deans was 
 arrested on suspicion of having murdered her newly- 
 born child, and imprisoned in the Tolbooth. While 
 Porteous was being dragged thence by the mob 
 for execution, Robertson, disguised as a woman, 
 
 90
 
 HEART OF MID-LOTHIAN 91 
 
 urged her in vain to escape ; and subsequently, 
 meeting Butler, arranged an interview with Jeanie, 
 to whom he confessed that he was Effie's lover, 
 and explained how she might save her sister's 
 life. Neither he, however, nor her father, nor 
 even her sister's entreaties, could induce Jeanie 
 to bear false witness at the trial. Effie's reply to 
 the indictment was ' Not guilty of my poor 
 bairn's death ; ' but the verdict of the jury was 
 against her, and she was condemned to be 
 hanged. Jeanie at once determined to seek the 
 queen's intercession for her sister ; and having 
 accepted a loan from Dumbiedykes, and obtained 
 a letter from Butler to the Duke of Argyle, she 
 started on foot for London. 
 
 Near Grantham her money was demanded by 
 two ruffians, but on producing a pass which Rat- 
 cliffe had given her, they led the way to a barn, 
 where she found Meg Murdockson and her 
 daughter, and, during the night, overheard a con- 
 versation, from which she learnt that Robertson 
 had deserted Madge for Effie. The next morn- 
 ing Jeanie gathered fuller particulars from Madge's 
 rambling outbursts, and they came to Sir Edmund's 
 church. Having parted with her crazed companion, 
 Jeanie had an interview with the rector, and was 
 then shown into a room, where Robertson proved 
 to be his son. In a conversation which followed, 
 George Staunton related all his misdeeds ; and, 
 having declined to tell her errand to his father, 
 she proceeded on her journey, and reached London 
 without any further adventure. 
 
 Having found her relation, Mrs Glass, JeamV
 
 92 A KEY TO THE WAVERLEY NOVELS 
 
 obtained admission to the Duke of Argyle, to 
 whom she delivered Butler's letter, which con- 
 tained a testimonial that an ancestor of his had 
 saved the life of his grace's grandfather, and he 
 promised that he would do his best for her. Two 
 days afterwards Mr Archibald came to escort her 
 to the duke, whose chariot was in waiting, and 
 with whom she travelled to the garden of the 
 royal lodge at Richmond, where she was allowed 
 to plead for her sister's pardon with Queen Caro- 
 line. In simple but pathetic sentences she ap- 
 pealed with such success that the queen assured 
 her she should not want her warm intercession 
 with His Majesty, and placed in her hand a 
 housewife, containing a bill for fifty pounds, as 
 a memento of their interview. She at once wrote 
 the joyful news to George Staunton, her father 
 and Butler ; and then the duke called to tell 
 her that the pardon had been granted, with the 
 qualification that Effie should banish herself from 
 Scotland for fourteen years. He also arranged 
 that Jeanie should return under the care of Mr 
 Archibald and Mrs Button, and presented her 
 to his duchess and daughters. As the travellers 
 approached Carlisle a woman was being hanged 
 as a witch, and presently Madge Wildfire clung 
 to their carriage, entreating to be allowed to cut 
 down her mother. She was, however, seized and 
 ducked in a pool by the mob, and then carried 
 to the hospital, where Jeanie was with her when 
 she died. 
 
 In compliance with the duke's wish, instead of 
 going direct to Edinburgh, they proceeded to
 
 HEART OF MID-LOTHIAN 93 
 
 Roseneath, where old Deans welcomed back his 
 daughter, and she learnt that her sister had dis- 
 appeared with Staunton. She was, however, con- 
 soled on hearing that his grace had engaged her 
 father to superintend a farm in Dumbartonshire, 
 and nominated Butler to the neighbouring kirk 
 of Knocktarlitie. After an entertainment on the 
 occasion of his ordination, as Jeanie lingered alone 
 by the seashore, she was embraced by Effie, who 
 had come with her lover to announce their marri- 
 age and say farewell. The minister's wedding 
 soon followed ; and five years afterwards came a 
 letter from Lady Staunton, who was moving in 
 the highest society in London, but in constant 
 fear of the events of her early life transpiring. 
 One day Mrs Butler, whose only unhappiness 
 arose from the religious differences between her 
 father and husband, discovered in her children's 
 hands a broad-sheet containing the dying confes- 
 sion of Meg Murdockson, which strengthened her 
 belief that her sister's child was living; and the 
 same afternoon the Captain of Knockdunder 
 brought her a visitor, who proved to be Effie. 
 Sir George was on his way to the manse with 
 Butler when he was shot in a skirmish by his 
 son, who, Ratcliffe ascertained, had been sold to 
 a ruffian named Donocha Dhu, and trained to 
 a life of robbery and violence. 
 
 The secret was kept from his mother, who 
 after a while, sought solace for an aching heart 
 by resuming her place in the world of fashion, 
 and eventually died in the convent where she 
 had received her post-nuptial education.
 
 WA VERLEY 
 
 Principal Characters 
 
 Sin EYKRAKD WAVKRLEY, of 
 \\'\ii\'rley Honour, a Tory. 
 
 His brother, RICHARD, a Whig. 
 
 His sister, RACHEL. 
 
 His nephew, EDWARD, an officer 
 of English dragoons. 
 
 MR PEMBROKE, his tutor. 
 
 HUMPHREY HOUGHTON',1 .-- <I : 
 
 DUGAI.D MAHONY, I S= S 
 
 JOHN HODGES, j ^ 
 
 Al.ICK POLWARTH, J^ ^ 
 
 COSMO COMYNE BRADWARD- 
 INE, Baron of Tnlly- Veolan. 
 
 His daughter, ROSE. 
 
 DAI i. IE MACWHEEBLE, his 
 steward. 
 
 DAVID GELLATLEY, his Intller. 
 
 His wife, JANET. 
 
 COLONEL GARDINER, com- 
 mander of Edward's regiment. 
 
 MR FALCONER, of Balata- 
 whapple, a Whig laird. 
 
 FERGUS MAC!VOR, VICH IAN 
 
 His sister, FLORA. 
 CALLUM BEG, his page. 
 
 CAT.', LKKN, 
 
 EVAN DHU MACCOMBICH, 
 
 Mac Ivor s lieutenant. 
 DONALD BEN ~Lv.\*i,afi-ccln>oter. 
 His daughter, ALICE. 
 EBENEXER CRUICKSHAXKS, an 
 
 innkeeper and guide. 
 REV. MR MORTON, a Presby- 
 terian minister. 
 MAJOR MELVILLE, a justice of 
 
 the peace. 
 MR GILFILLAN, a Cameraman 
 
 leader. 
 CHARLES EDWARD, THE YOUNG 
 
 PRETENDER. 
 COLONEL TAI.BOT, a friend of 
 
 Sir Everard. 
 LADY EMILY BLANDEVILLE, 
 
 his wife. 
 RUTHVEN, a pedlar. 
 
 VOHR, a Highland chieftain. 
 Highland clansmen, a blacksmith and his wife, English army, High- 
 land army, a farmer and his family, clergymen, high sheriff, 
 servants, etc. 
 
 Period, 1745. Localities: Scotland and England. 
 
 EDWARD WAVERLEY, who had been brought up 
 as his uncle's heir, was on a visit to Bradwardine 
 of Tully- Veolan and his daughter, when all their 
 cows were driven off by armed Highlanders, in 
 
 94
 
 WAVERLEY 95 
 
 consequence of the baron having ceased paying 
 blackmail to Vich Ian Vohr. During the day 
 Evan Dhu arrived to compromise the matter, 
 and invited Waverley to spend a few days with 
 him in the mountains. Having made acquaint- 
 ance with Ben Lean and Alice, he was met by 
 the chieftain, who entertained him at his High- 
 land mansion, and introduced him to his sister 
 Flora. After spending three weeks most enjoy- 
 ably in her society, he went with Fergus to a 
 stag hunt, in which a large gathering of the clan 
 took part, and, having been disabled by a severe 
 sprain, he was left under the care of an old leech 
 and Callum Beg, while the chieftain and his fol- 
 lowers proceeded on a distant expedition. On 
 returning to his host's house he found several 
 letters awaiting him, and among them an order 
 to join his regiment. In compliance, however, 
 with his father's and uncle's desire, he resigned 
 his commission, and then learnt from a newspaper 
 that he was already superseded. This cleared the 
 way for him to declare his love to Flora, who 
 shared her brother's attachment to the Stuarts ; 
 but she advised him to seek a more suitable wife, 
 and to serve the cause of his exiled sovereign 
 among his own countrymen. 
 
 Next morning a letter from Rose informed him 
 that the baron had joined the rising against the 
 Hanoverian dynasty, and he started for Edinburgh, 
 attended as far as a lowland village by Callum 
 Beg, who secured him the services of Cruick- 
 shanks. On their way southwards he was seized 
 as a Jacobite, and, at Mr Morton's suggestion,
 
 96 A KEY TO THE WAVERLEY NOVELS 
 
 taken before Major Melville, who handed him 
 over to Gilfillan to be lodged in Stirling Castle. 
 He was, however, rescued by two Highlanders, 
 and after being nursed through a fever by old 
 Janet, was escorted to the capital, where he was 
 introduced by Fergus to the Pretender, who ac- 
 cepted his allegiance, and girded him with the 
 sword he was wearing. At Holyrood he met 
 Flora and Rose; and, having joined the Highland 
 army, he distinguished himself at the battle of 
 Prestonpans, and saved the life of Colonel Talbot, 
 from whom he learnt that his father and uncle 
 were attainted of treason. He also ascertained 
 the circumstances under which he had incurred 
 the displeasure of Colonel Gardiner. Some weeks 
 afterwards he obtained a pass for Colonel Talbot, 
 who was his prisoner, to join his sick wife, and 
 Charles Edward resolved to advance into Eng- 
 land. During the march the prince had to adjust 
 a quarrel between Maclvor and Waverley relating 
 to Rose ; and at a council of war it was decided 
 to return northwards, on which Fergus declared 
 he should be dead or a captive before the morrow. 
 At sunset they encountered a troop of English 
 cavalry, and the chieftain was surrounded. Edward 
 escaped to a farmhouse, where he heard of his 
 father's death, and made his way to London. 
 
 Acting, however, on Colonel Talbot's advice, he 
 returned to Scotland just after the battle of Cul- 
 loden ; and, on reaching Tully-Veolan, he was led 
 by old Gellatley to a hut, where the baron was in 
 hiding with Janet, from whom he learnt how 
 greatly Rose had secretly helped him, and that
 
 WAVERLEY 97 
 
 she was safe. He also heard that Fergus was 
 in Carlisle jail, and Flora with a lady there. In 
 a few days the colonel sent him protections for 
 himself and Bradwardine, upon which he at once 
 proposed for the baron's daughter, and was ac- 
 cepted. The next day they went to see her, and 
 VVaverley's anxiety now was the fate of Vich Ian 
 Vohr and his foster brother Evan Dhu. He sup- 
 plied money for their defence, but ere he reached 
 Carlisle they had been found guilty of treason. 
 At an interview with Flora she reproached herself 
 with having spurred her brother to his ruin, and 
 sent Rose a chain of diamonds as a wedding gift. 
 On the morning of the execution Waverley was 
 allowed to take leave of Fergus, who begged him 
 to befriend his clan, and bravely met his fate. 
 Sir Everard and his sister received their nephew 
 as a hero on his return to Waverley Honour, and 
 his marriage was celebrated as soon as the legal 
 settlements were completed. The baron was then 
 invited to accompany the bride and bridegroom to 
 his estate at Tully-Veolan, which he was led to 
 suppose had been purchased by Colonel Talbot; 
 but on arriving there he found that Waverley had 
 advanced the money to place him in full posses- 
 sion again, and had even succeeded in recovering 
 his ancestral drinking-cup, which had become the 
 spoil of King George's soldiers. 
 
 G
 
 REDGA UNTLET 
 
 Principal Characters 
 
 MR DARSIE LATIMER, after- 
 wards SIR ARTHUR DARSIE 
 REDGAUNTLET. 
 
 MR SAUNDERS FAIRFORD, a 
 Writer to the Signet. 
 
 His son, ALAN, an advocate. 
 
 MR HERRIES OF BIRRENS- 
 WORK, alias the LAIRD OF 
 REDGAUNTLET. 
 
 His niece, LILIAS. 
 
 CRISTAL NIXON, \ their ser- 
 
 MABEL MOFFAT, / vanls. 
 
 BENJIE, a village lad. 
 
 JOSHUA GEDDES, of Mount 
 Sharon, a Quaker tacksman. 
 
 His sister, RACHEL. 
 
 WILLIE STEENSON, a blind 
 fiddler. 
 
 PETER PEEBLES, Alans first 
 client. 
 
 MR WILLIAM CROSBIE, Provost 
 
 SQUIRE Fox LEY, of Foxley Hall 
 Cumberland. 
 
 MASTER NICHOLAS FAGGOT, his 
 clerk. 
 
 MR PETER MAXWELL, of 
 Summerirees, alias PATE-IN- 
 PERIL. 
 
 TAM TRUMBULL, of Annan, a 
 contraband trader. 
 
 NANTY EWART, captain of the 
 ' Jumping Jenny.' 1 
 
 FATHER CRACKENTHORP, a 
 Cumberland innkeeper and 
 smuggler. 
 
 THE SISTERS ARTHURET, of 
 Fair ladies' House. 
 
 FATHER BUONAVENTURE, after- 
 wards THE YOUNG PRETEN- 
 DER. 
 
 GENERAL CAMPBELL, an Eng- 
 lish officer. 
 
 of Dumfries. 
 
 A fishers' merry-making, judges and advocates of Supreme Court at 
 Edinburgh, armed fishermen, smugglers, guests at the inn, con- 
 ference of Jacobite leaders, servants, etc. 
 
 Period, 1 763. Localities : Scotland and Cumberland. 
 
 DARSIE had been Alan's favourite schoolfellow, 
 and, to please his son, Mr Fairford had consented 
 that the youth, who received an ample allowance 
 on the understanding that he was to make no in- 
 quiries respecting his family until he completed his 
 
 98
 
 KEDGAUNTLET 99 
 
 twenty-fifth year, should live with them. Alan 
 was studying for the law, but his companion had 
 started for his first country ramble, and the story 
 commences with a long correspondence between 
 them. As he returned from fishing in the Solway 
 Firth, with Benjie as his instructor, Darsie was 
 overtaken by the tide, and carried by Mr Herries, 
 dressed as a fisherman, on horseback to a cottage, 
 where Lilias said grace at supper-time ; and next 
 morning he was placed under the guidance of 
 Joshua Geddes. The Quaker, who was part owner 
 of some fishing nets in the river, invited him to 
 spend a few days at his house ; and while there 
 he heard from Alan that a young lady had called 
 to warn him that his friend was in considerable 
 danger, and to urge that he should at once return 
 to Edinburgh. A letter, however, from old Fair- 
 ford determined him not to do so ; and having made 
 acquaintance with the blind fiddler, who told him 
 a tale of the Redgauntlet family, Darsie went with 
 him to a fishers' merry-making, where he danced 
 with Lilias, who reproached him for leading an 
 idle life, and begged him to leave the neighbour- 
 hood. 
 
 Mr Fairford had arranged that Peter Peebles, an 
 eccentric suitor, should be his son's first client, and 
 he was pleading the cause before the Lords Ordin- 
 ary when his father, by mistake, handed him a 
 letter from Mr Crosbie, announcing that Darsie 
 had mysteriously disappeared. Alan instantly 
 rushed out of court, and started in search of his 
 friend, who had accompanied the Quaker to await 
 an attack on his fishing station, and been made
 
 100 A KEY TO THE WAVEKLEY NOVELS 
 
 prisoner by the rioters, of whom Mr Herries was 
 the leader. After being nearly drowned, and re- 
 covering from a fever, he awoke in a strange 
 room, to which he was confined for several days, 
 when he was visited by his captor, and conducted 
 by him to an interview with Squire Foxley, who, 
 acting as a magistrate, declined to interfere with 
 Mr Herries' guardianship. As the squire was leav- 
 ing, however, Mr Peebles arrived to apply for a 
 warrant against Alan for throwing up his brief, 
 and startled Mr Herries by recognising him as a 
 Redgauntlet and an unpardoned Jacobite. Darsie 
 obtained a partial explanation from him, and was 
 told to prepare for a journey disguised as a woman. 
 Meanwhile, Alan had applied to the provost, and, 
 having obtained from his wife's relation, Mr Max- 
 well, a letter to Herries, he started for Annan, 
 where, under the guidance of Trumbull, he took 
 ship for Cumberland. On landing at Craken- 
 thorp's inn, he was transported by Nanty Ewart, 
 and a gang of smugglers, to Fair-ladies' House, 
 where he was nursed through a fever, and intro- 
 duced to Father Buonaventure. After being closely 
 questioned and detained for a few days, he was 
 allowed to return with a guide to the inn. 
 
 Darsie was also travelling thither with Herries 
 and his followers, when he discovered that Lilias, 
 who accompanied them, was his sister, and learnt 
 from her his own real name and rank. He was 
 also urged by his uncle to join a rising in favour 
 of the Pretender ; and, having hesitated to do so, 
 was detained in custody when they reached their 
 destination, where Alan, as well as other visitors
 
 REDGAUNTLET IOI 
 
 and several of the neighbouring gentry, had already 
 arrived. He was then introduced to a conference 
 of Charles Edward's adherents, and afterwards to 
 the prince himself, who refused to agree to their 
 conditions, and decided to abandon the contem- 
 plated attempt in his favour. Ewart was, accord- 
 ingly, ordered to have his brig in readiness, when 
 Nixon suggested that he should turn traitor, upon 
 which they fought and killed each other. Sir 
 Arthur now learned that Fairford and Gcdclcs 
 were in the house ; but, before he was allowed to 
 see them, they had been shown into the room 
 where Lilias was waiting, when Alan became 
 aware that his fair visitor at Edinburgh was his 
 friend's sister, and heard from her lips all the 
 particulars of her brother's history. Their con- 
 versation was interrupted by the entrance of 
 Bcnjie, in whose pocket a paper was found in- 
 dicating that Nixon had communicated with the 
 Government ; and, during the confusion which en- 
 sued, General Campbell arrived, and announced 
 that he was sufficiently supported with cavalry 
 and infantry. His instructions, however, from 
 King George were to allow all concerned in the 
 plot to disperse, and he intimated that as many 
 as wished might embark in the vessel which was 
 in waiting. 
 
 The Pretender was, accordingly, led by the 
 Laird of Rcdgauntlet to the beach, and Lilias 
 offered to accompany her uncle in his voluntary 
 exile. This, however, he would not permit, and, 
 after an exchange of courtesies with the general, 
 the prince departed amidst the tears and sobs of
 
 IO2 A KEY TO THE WAVERLEY NOVELS 
 
 the last supporters of his cause, and henceforward 
 the term Jacobite ceased to be a party name. Lilias, 
 of course, married Alan, and Herries, who had 
 asked his nephew's pardon for attempting to make 
 a rebel of him, threw away his sword, and became 
 the prior of a monastery.
 
 GUY MANNERING 
 
 Principal Characters 
 
 MR GUY MANNERING, after- 
 wards a colonel in the Indian 
 army. 
 
 MRS MANNFJIING, his -wife. 
 
 Their daughter, JULIA. 
 
 LIEUTENANT ARCHER, a 
 favourite of Mrs Mannering. 
 
 MR GODFREY BERTRAM, of 
 Ellangowan. 
 
 His sister, MARGARET BER- 
 TRAM. 
 
 His son, HARRY, alias VAN- 
 PEEST BROWN. 
 
 His daughter, LUCY. 
 
 MR CHARLES HAZLEWOOD, her 
 lover. 
 
 DOMINIE SAMPSON, a village 
 schoolmaster, and afterwards 
 Harry' 's tutor. 
 
 MEG MERRILIES, a gipsy. 
 
 GILBERT GLOSSIN, an attorney. 
 
 DIRK HATTERAICK, a Dutch 
 
 smuggler. 
 
 MR FRANK KENNEDY, a super- 
 visor of Excise. 
 
 MR MACMORLAN, Sheriff- 
 Substitute of Dumfries. 
 
 MRS MACMORLAN, his wife. 
 
 MR AND MRS MERVYNj/r/ewa'.i- 
 of Colonel Mannering. 
 
 DANDIE DINMONT, a farmer. 
 
 MRS MACCANDLISH, hostess of 
 ' The Gordon Arms ' at 
 Kippletringan . 
 
 DEACON BEARSCLIFF, a villager. 
 
 BROWN, a smuggler. 
 
 TIB MUMPS, mistress of a public- 
 house. 
 
 MAcGuFFOG, a constable. 
 
 TOD GABRIEL, a fox-hunter. 
 
 MR FAULUS PLEYDELL, an 
 advocate from Edinburgh. 
 
 SCROW, his clerk. 
 
 Smugglers t constables, soldiers and villagers. 
 
 Period, 1 765. Localities : Scotland, Cumberland, Holland and 
 India. 
 
 Guv MANNERING, after leaving Oxford, had been 
 Mr Godfrey Bertram's guest on the night of his 
 son's birth, when he made acquaintance with 
 Dominic Sampson, and with Meg Merrilies, who 
 came to tell the infant's fortune. The young 
 student, however, offered to do this from the stars, 
 and predicted that three periods of the boy's life 
 
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 104 A KEY TO THE WAVERLEY NOVELS 
 
 would be very hazardous. Five years afterwards 
 he was kidnapped while riding with Kennedy, 
 whose dead body was found on the beach ; and 
 the same night, after giving birth to a daughter, 
 Mrs Bertram left her husband a widower. 
 
 Sixteen more years had elapsed when Colonel 
 Mannering returned from India just in time to be 
 present at his friend's death, and Glossin, who had 
 been concerned in Harry's abduction, became the 
 possessor of the Ellangowan estate. Lucy and the 
 dominie accepted the hospitality of Mr and Mrs 
 MacMorlan ; but the colonel, having learnt from 
 Mr Mervyn, at whose house his daughter was 
 staying, that she had a lover, who afterwards 
 proved to be Brown, hired a house in the neigh- 
 bourhood of Kippletringan, and invited Miss Ber- 
 tram to be Julia's companion, and the tutor his 
 librarian. 
 
 As he was following Miss Mannering to Scot- 
 land, Brown, whom the colonel believed he had 
 shot in a duel in India, dined with Dinmont at an 
 inn, where he also met Meg Merrilies, who recog- 
 nised him ; and, having rescued the farmer from 
 some robbers, he spent a few days at his house. 
 Proceeding on his journey, he came to a ruined 
 hut, in which the gipsy was tending a dying man ; 
 and, hidden by her, he saw a gang of ruffians 
 divide the contents of his portmanteau, and bury 
 their comrade. When they had gone she pointed 
 out his road, and gave him a purse, exacting at 
 the same time a promise that he would come with 
 her whenever she called for him. 
 
 Writing to a friend, Julia made great fun of the
 
 GUY MANNERING IO5 
 
 dominie's peculiarities, and mentioned Lucy's dis- 
 couragement of young Hazlewood because she 
 had no fortune. In her next letter she described 
 an attack upon their house at Woodbournc by 
 smugglers ; and in another the sudden appear- 
 ance of Brown, who had wounded Ilazlcwood and 
 escaped. Glossin, now a justice of the peace, was 
 indefatigable in endeavouring to trace him, and 
 heard with pleasure that MacGuffog had a man in 
 custody. He, however, was Hattcraick, in whose 
 smuggling ventures the attorney had largely shared, 
 and who told him that Harry Bertram was in the 
 neighbourhood. Having connived at his escape 
 from custody, Glossin met him in a cave, and 
 learnt that the young heir had been carried to 
 Holland, where he was adopted by a merchant 
 named Vanbeest, who afterwards sent him to 
 India. The attorney then called at Woodbournc 
 to announce that Miss Bertram had left her 
 fortune to Lucy, and the colonel at once started 
 with the dominie to Edinburgh, to place the 
 matter in Mr Pleydell's hands. 
 
 Harry had retreated to Cumberland, but he 
 managed to correspond with Julia ; and, having 
 returned to Ellangowan, he was wandering among 
 the ruins when he encountered Glossin, who had 
 him arrested for shooting at Ha/clewood, and 
 lodged in the bridewell adjoining the custom- 
 house at Portanferry. Here he was visited by 
 Dinmont, who had heard from Gabriel of his being 
 in trouble, and was allowed to pass the night with 
 him. Mcamvhile Meg Mcrrilics had sent a paper 
 to the colonel by the dominie, and urged young
 
 106 A KEY TO THE WAVEKLEY NOVELS 
 
 Hazlewood to cause the soldiers who had been 
 withdrawn from Portanferry to be sent back there 
 instantly. During the night the custom-house 
 was fired by a gang of ruffians ; but one of them 
 helped Bertram and his friend to escape, and led 
 them to a carriage, which conveyed them to 
 Woodbourne, where Mr Pleydell had previously 
 arrived. Having been recognised by the colonel 
 as Brown, and questioned by the lawyer, his 
 identity as the heir of Ellangowan was established, 
 and he was hugged by the dominie as ' his little 
 Harry.' The next morning Lucy embraced her 
 long-lost brother, and Julia acknowledged him as 
 her lover. 
 
 As he was walking with them, Meg Merrilies 
 sent Dinmont to claim Bertram's compliance with 
 his promise to her ; and, followed also by Hazle- 
 wood, she led the way to a room where she armed 
 them, and thence to the smugglers' cave, where, 
 after a struggle, in which the gipsy was mortally 
 wounded, they seized Hatteraick and handed him 
 over to the village constables. Meg's dying reve- 
 lations furnished sufficient evidence for arresting 
 Glossin, who, by bribing the jailer, obtained access 
 to the smuggler's cell, where he was found strangled, 
 and his accomplice in crime committed suicide. 
 Having recovered the property of his ancestors, 
 Harry Bertram was able to discharge all his father's 
 debts, and, with the help of Julia's dowry, to erect 
 a new mansion, which contained a snug chamber 
 called ' Mr Sampson's apartment.' His aunt's 
 estate also reverted to him, but he resigned it to 
 his sister on her marriage with Ilazlewood.
 
 THE HIGHLAND WIDOW 
 
 Principal Characters 
 
 HAMISH MACTAVISII MOHR, 
 
 an outlaw. 
 ELSPAT, his vaifa. 
 HAMISH BEAN, their son. 
 MILES PHADRAICK, a farmer. 
 
 REV. MICHAEL TYRIE, a Pres- 
 byterian minister. 
 
 GREEN COLIN, captain oj 
 Hamish Bearfs regiment. 
 
 ALLAN BREAK CAMERON, his 
 
 sergeant. 
 Private soldiers, Highland women, a regimental parade. 
 
 Period, 1775. Locality : Scotland, near Oban. 
 
 HAMISII MOHR, a daring freebooter, had met his 
 death in an encounter with the Saxon red-coats, 
 by whom the Highlands were garrisoned after the 
 battle of Culloden. His wife, who had shared all 
 his dangers, strove to inspire their only son with 
 his father's love of adventure and hatred of servile 
 toil ; but as he grew up the lad evinced no inclina- 
 tion for lawless pursuits, and, unable to endure his 
 mother's taunts at his want of spirit, enlisted in 
 one of the regiments formed in Scotland to oppose 
 the French in the American war of independ- 
 ence. Before sailing he sent her some money by 
 Phadraick, and returned to spend a few days with 
 her, when she fiercely reproached him for daring 
 to act in opposition to her will, and, failing to alter 
 his purpose, drugged his parting-cup, thus causing 
 him to exceed his furlough, and render himself 
 
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 IO8 A KEY TO THE \VAVERLEY NOVELS 
 
 liable to the lash as a deserter. She then urged 
 him to flee to her kinsmen, while she baffled his 
 pursuers ; but he resolved to await the arrival of 
 the sergeant and men of his regiment who, he felt 
 sure, would be sent to arrest him. They came, 
 and, on being summoned to surrender, he shot the 
 sergeant dead. The other soldiers secured him, 
 and he was marched as a prisoner to Dumbarton 
 castle, where he was tried by court-martial and 
 condemned to be shot. His captain and a Presby- 
 terian minister interceded for him ; but the Eng- 
 lish general in command was determined to make 
 an example, and the next morning his sentence 
 was carried out in the presence of his comrades. 
 
 His mother, who had attempted to follow him, 
 was met by the minister wandering in a wild glen, 
 and on hearing her son's fate, she uttered terrible 
 imprecations, and renounced all further intercourse 
 with the world. She lived, however, for many 
 years in her lonely cottage, regarded with awe 
 and pity by her neighbours as the victim of 
 destiny, rather than the voluntary cause of her 
 son's death and her own wretchedness. At length, 
 while two women, who had been set to watch her 
 last moments, were sleeping, she disappeared from 
 her bed, and was never heard of again.
 
 THE SURGEON'S DAUGHTER 
 
 Principal Characters 
 
 MR GIDEON GRAY, of Middle- 
 mas, a village surgeon. 
 
 His wife, JEAN. 
 
 Their daughter, MENIE. 
 
 MR RICHARD TRESHAM, after- 
 wards GENERAL WITHER- 
 
 INGTON. 
 
 MDLLE. ZILIA DE MONCJADA, 
 
 afterwards his wife. 
 Their son, RICHARD. 
 MATHIAS DE MONCADA, a 
 
 Portuguese Jew. 
 MR LAW FORD, 7'uwn Clerk of 
 
 Middlemas. 
 
 TOM HILLARY, his apprentice. 
 Village nurses, king's mcssenge 
 
 ADAM HARTLEY, Mr Gray'! 
 
 apprentice. 
 MR M'Frrrocii, a dancing 
 
 master. 
 
 CAPTAIN SEKLKNCOOPER, Gov- 
 ernor of Military Hospital at 
 
 Ryde. 
 BARAK EL HADJI, an assent of 
 
 Hyder Ali. 
 MADAME DE MONTREVILLE, a 
 
 Beg un i. 
 PAUPIAH, steward to the British 
 
 resident. 
 
 HYDER ALI, Rajah of Mysore. 
 TiPi'OO SAIU, his son. 
 
 messenger, servants, English residents at 
 Madras, natives, courtiers and officers of Tippoo Saib's house- 
 hold, retinue of the Begum. 
 
 Period, 1780. Localities: Fifeshirc, Isle of IV ight and India. 
 
 THE surgeon's services were unexpectedly sought 
 by Richard's parents, who arrived in the village, 
 as strangers, just before his birth. The following 
 day the father left, and within a month the mother 
 was carried off by her father, who persuaded Mr 
 Gray to undertake the care and education of the 
 boy, and deposited a thousand pounds in trust 
 for him. Four years afterwards Mrs Gray died 
 in giving birth to a daughter, and the two children 
 were brought up together. At the age of fourteen 
 
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 110 A KEY TO THE WAVERLEY NOVELS 
 
 Richard, who had been led by his nurse to believe 
 himself born to wealth and honour, was informed 
 by his guardian of his real position, and, after 
 consulting with Mr Lawford and his companion 
 Hillary, he decided to remain an inmate of Mr 
 Gray's family as his apprentice, with Hartley as 
 a fellow pupil. As they grew up both the young 
 men fell in love with Menie, and when the doctor 
 proposed that Hartley should become his partner, 
 and endeavour to secure her affections, it trans- 
 pired that she and Richard were already secretly 
 engaged. Hartley determined to make a voyage 
 to India, and learnt with astonishment that his 
 rival, at the instigation of Hillary, who was now 
 a captain in the Company's service, intended to 
 spend two years there before marrying, in the 
 hope of realising a fortune. 
 
 Having obtained the money left by his grand- 
 father in Mr Gray's hands, and enlisted as a 
 recruit, he sailed from Edinburgh with his friend 
 for the depot at Ryde ; but, on recovering from 
 a drinking bout before landing, he found himself 
 in the military hospital, deserted by Hillary, and 
 robbed of all his belongings. Hartley, however, 
 was acting as one of the medical officers, and, 
 having earned the gratitude of the commandant, 
 General Witherington, by successfully treating two 
 of his children who were suffering from small-pox, 
 was able to obtain a commission for his fellow- 
 student. The general and his wife had discovered 
 that Richard was their first-born, and when he 
 was introduced to them the shock of hearing him 
 describe himself as an orphan, deserted by his
 
 THE SURGEON'S DAUGHTER 1 1 1 
 
 parents, caused the death of his mother, upon 
 which the father was seized with a fit of fren/y, 
 and on recovering could not face his son again. 
 Hartley had, however, been previously entrusted 
 with his history, as well as a gift of money for 
 him, and they sailed together for Madras. Hav- 
 ing killed his colonel in a duel, Richard fled 
 to the court of a native prince, while Hartley 
 obtained great reputation as a medical prac- 
 titioner. One of his patients was Barak el Hadji, 
 who promised him his influence with Hyder Ali, 
 should he at any time need it. 
 
 Some months afterwards he was startled by the 
 presence of Menie Gray at a public breakfast, 
 chaperoned by the Begum, who, he learnt, was 
 the wealthy widow of a Rajah. At a private 
 interview with his old master's daughter, Hartley 
 elicited from her that she had come out at 
 Richard's invitation to be married, and was on 
 her way to meet him in Mysore. Mistrusting 
 her lover, he offered his protection should she 
 need it, and the next day he received a note 
 from her telling him she was sold to Tippoo Saib. 
 Unable to obtain an audience of the governor, 
 Hartley resolved to solicit the intervention of 
 Ilyder Ali, and, having reached Seringapatam, 
 he sought the aid of El Hadji, who introduced 
 him to another Fakir of higher rank. Following 
 his directions, he accompanied a troop of native 
 cavalry to Tippoo's encampment near Bangalore, 
 and witnessed his return thither, escorted by a 
 magnificent bodyguard, including artillery and 
 elephants. The Begum, who had previously
 
 112 A KEY TO THE WAVERLEY NOVELS 
 
 arrived with her retinue, and Menie under her 
 protection, was at once invited to an interview 
 with the prince in his garden the following day. 
 Accordingly at noon the discharge of cannon 
 announced that he had left his palace ; and on 
 the arrival of his visitor, attended by Richard 
 as her principal officer, she was conducted to a 
 cushion on his right hand. An attendant then 
 proclaimed the appointment of Richard as gover- 
 nor of the city, and the Begum in return pre- 
 sented Tippoo with the litter containing Menie. 
 
 The old Fakir, however, came forward, and, 
 throwing off his disguise, ascended the throne as 
 Hyder AH. Having reproved his son, he com- 
 manded him to restore the gift to the care of 
 Hartley, but allowed the ceremony of investiture 
 to proceed. As Richard, however, who had 
 plotted with Paupiah to betray his trust, was 
 about to mount the elephant in waiting for him, 
 the Rajah made a sign, upon which the animal 
 seized him by the neck with its trunk, and crushed 
 him to death with its foot. The Begum was then 
 ordered to bear her share in compensating her 
 intended victim for the indignity she had suffered, 
 and afterwards deprived of her power and riches. 
 Menie returned to her native village, and the 
 gallant Hartley died from a distemper caught in 
 the courageous pursuit of his profession.
 
 THE TAPESTRIED CHAMBER 
 
 Principal Characters 
 
 CF.NF.RAT, BROWNE, rf turned 
 
 frinii the American war. 
 THF, LANDLORD of an inn. 
 
 LORD WOODVILI.E, of H'wtfviUe 
 
 Castle. 
 TIFF, APPARITION OF A WOMAN. 
 
 Visitors at the castle, servants. 
 Period, 1 782. Locality : the -west of England. 
 
 THIS is a ghost story. While travelling through 
 the western counties, the general's attention was 
 attracted by a picturesquely situated old castle, 
 and, on inquiry at the inn where he changed 
 horses, he learnt that its owner was a nobleman 
 who had been his schoolfellow. He accordingly 
 determined to call upon his lordship ; and, having 
 been persuaded to be his guest for a week, he was 
 conducted at bedtime to an old-fashioned room, 
 hung with tapestry, but comfortably furnished, and 
 well lighted by two large candles and a blazing 
 fire. The next morning Lord Woodville was in- 
 formed by his servant that the general had been 
 wandering in the park since an early hour and 
 when he appeared at the breakfast table his 
 countenance was haggard, his clothes carelessly 
 put on, and his manner abstracted ; moreover, he 
 announced that he must depart immediately. 
 Drawing him aside from the other visitors, his 
 
 H
 
 114 A KEY TO TIIE WAVERLEY NOVELS 
 
 host pressed him for an explanation, and, after 
 declaring that he would rather face a battery than 
 recall the events of the night, he reluctantly 
 narrated what he had undergone. 
 
 Just as he was falling asleep he heard the rust- 
 ling of a silk gown, and the tapping of high-heeled 
 shoes, and then the figure of a woman passed 
 between the bedstead and the fireplace. At first 
 her back was towards him, but she slowly turned, 
 and he distinctly saw the features of a corpse, 
 bearing traces of the most hideous passions. He 
 started up, and she sat on the bed, advancing her 
 face within half a yard of his, upon which all his 
 courage forsook him and he swooned. On re- 
 covering his senses she had disappeared, but he 
 was afraid to move until daybreak, when he 
 hurried from the room thoroughly unnerved. 
 Lord Woodville was deeply impressed, for the 
 chamber had the reputation of being haunted ; 
 and as he conducted the general through his 
 picture gallery, he suddenly started as he caught 
 sight of a portrait, exclaiming, ' There she is ! ' 
 and it proved to be the likeness of an ancestress 
 whose crimes, he was told, had been too horrible 
 for recital.
 
 THE TWO DROVERS 
 
 Principal Characters 
 
 ROTUN OlO MACCOMBICH, a 
 
 Highland drm>cr. 
 JANKT OF TO.MAIIOURICH, his 
 
 aunt. 
 HUGH MORRISON OK C.I.ANAE, 
 
 a Lowland drover. 
 
 MR IREI?Y, a Cumberland squire. 
 
 JOHN Fl.KKCElHTMI'KlN, his 
 
 bailiff. 
 RAT. 1'ii HESKETT, host of an 
 
 alehouse. 
 DAME HESKETT, his wife. 
 
 HARRY WAKEFIELD, an Eng- 
 lish drover. 
 Company at the alehouse, constables, judge and jury at Carlisle. 
 
 Period, 1795. Localities : Perthshire and Cumberland. 
 
 ROBIN Old was just starting from Dounc with a 
 drove of cattle for England, when his father's 
 sister, who was supposed to be gifted with second 
 sight, drew his dirk from the folds of his plaid, 
 and, exclaiming that there was Saxon blood on it, 
 induced him to entrust the weapon to Morrison, 
 who undertook to return it when asked for. At 
 Falkirk the Highlander met his bosom friend, 
 Wakefield, and they travelled southwards to- 
 gether. Having reached Cumberland, they separ- 
 ated to hire pasturage for their beasts, and it 
 happened that while the Englishman bargained 
 with the bailiff, the Highlander came to terms 
 with the squire, and they thus both secured the 
 same enclosure. On discovering this, Wakefield 
 
 "5
 
 Il6 A KEY TO THE WAVERLEY NOVELS 
 
 reproached his comrade with having played him 
 false, and, angrily refusing his offer that they 
 should share the field, had to be content with a 
 barren moor belonging to the landlord of the ale- 
 house, where they had agreed to pass the night. 
 
 The squire had invited Oig to sup with him, 
 and mentioned having passed Morrison a few miles 
 off. On reaching the inn the Highlander met 
 with a cold reception from the assembled com- 
 pany, who sided with Wakefield, and egged him 
 on to challenge Oig to a Cumberland tussle. But 
 the Highlander would have shaken hands, and, 
 refusing to fight except with swords, he attempted 
 to leave the room. Wakefield, however, opposed 
 his doing so, and struck him senseless to the 
 ground. Frantic with rage when he revived, and 
 prevented by the hostess from attacking his com- 
 rade, Oig sullenly went out, warning him to 
 beware. Striding over the moonlit moor to meet 
 Morrison, he obtained his dirk on the pretence 
 that he had enlisted, and, returning to the ale- 
 house, he stabbed Wakefield through the heart. 
 
 At his trial the judge made every allowance for 
 the provocation Oig had received, but pointed out 
 to the jury that, as he went to recover possession 
 of his weapon, there was ample time for his passion 
 to have subsided, and for him to have reflected 
 on the guilt of his meditated revenge. He was, 
 accordingly, convicted of murder, and having been 
 sentenced to be hung, he met his fate with the 
 observation, ' I give a life for the life I took, and 
 what can I do more ? '
 
 THE ANTIQUARY 
 
 Principal Characters 
 
 His daughter, ISABELLA. 
 HERMAN DOUSTEKSWIVEL, a 
 
 charlatan professor. 
 MRS MAILSETTER, postmistress 
 
 of Fairport. 
 REV. DOCTOR BLATTERGOWL, 
 
 minister of Trotcosey. 
 Miss REBECCA BLATTERGOWL, 
 
 his sister. 
 
 Ei.si'KTii, of the Craigburnfoot. 
 SAUNDERS MUCKLEBACKIT, 
 
 her son, a fisherman. 
 THE COUNTESS OF GLENALLAN. 
 THE EARL, her son. 
 EVELI NE NEVILLE, his betrothed. 
 BAILIE LITTLEJOHN. 
 MESSRS GREENHORN & GRIND- 
 
 ERSON, Writers to the Signet 
 
 MR WILLIAM LOVELL, after- 
 wards LORD GERALDIN. 
 MRS MACLEUCHAR, proprietress 
 
 of the Qncensfcrry diligence. 
 MR JONATHAN OI.DBUCK, of 
 
 Monkbarns, an Antiquary. 
 Miss GRISELUA OLUBUCK, his 
 
 sister. 
 CAPTAIN HECTOR MAC!NTYRE, 
 
 their nephew. 
 Miss MARIA MAC!NTYRE, their 
 
 niece. 
 
 CAXON, a barber. 
 His daughter, JENNY. 
 LIEUTENANT TAFFRIL, her 
 
 lover. 
 
 EDIE OCIIILTREE, a mendicant. 
 SIR ARTHUR WARDOUR, of 
 
 Knockivinnock Castle. 
 His son, CAPTAIN REGINALD 
 
 WARDOUR. 
 
 Servants, neighbours, fishermen, funeral procession, foresters, 
 bowl-players, constables, bailiff's, etc. 
 
 Period, 1795- Locality: Fifeshire. 
 
 MR OLDBUCK, having made acquaintance with 
 Lovell as they travelled together from Edin- 
 burgh tu Fairport, invited him to Munkbarns, 
 and finding him an intelligent listener to his 
 antiquarian talk, introduced him to Sir Arthur 
 and to Miss Isabella, with whom he had fallen 
 in love in Yorkshire. On their way home from 
 
 117
 
 Il8 A KEY TO THE WAVERLEY NOVLLb 
 
 meeting him at dinner, the baronet and his 
 daughter were overtaken by the tide, and Lovell, 
 with Ochiltree's help, rescued them from a ledge 
 of rock. Passing the night in a haunted room 
 at Monkbarns, he dreamt that he saw an old 
 burgomaster emerge from the tapestry, and point 
 to a motto in a book meaning that 'skill wins 
 favour.' When he called, however, the next day 
 at the castle, Miss Wardour declined his ad- 
 dresses, and he learnt from Mr Oldbuck that her 
 father was being swindled by Dousterswivel. A 
 letter he received caused him to seclude himself 
 in his lodgings for a fortnight, when he accepted 
 an invitation from Sir Arthur to a picnic at St 
 Ruth's Priory, where he was called upon to read 
 a legend transcribed by his lady-love, and chal- 
 lenged by Maclntyre for passing under an assumed 
 name. 
 
 Having wounded the captain, he was carried off 
 by the mendicant to a gallery in the ruins until he 
 could take refuge on board Lieutenant Taffril's 
 brig ; and from their hiding-place they witnessed 
 an interview between the baronet and the pro- 
 fessor, during which the latter pretended to un- 
 earth a ram's horn filled with coins. Believing 
 that more treasure was concealed in the ruins, 
 Sir Arthur, who had already borrowed largely 
 from his friend, came tu ask for another hundred 
 pounds, which Dousterswivel demanded for con- 
 tinuing the search ; but the antiquary insisted 
 that they should hire diggers and proceed at once 
 to the spot, where they were joined by Ochiltree, 
 and in an old grave found a chest containing
 
 THE ANTIQUARY 119 
 
 several ingots of silver, which had been secretly 
 placed there by Lovell's direction. The same 
 night, as the professor, accompanied by the men- 
 dicant, was digging in the hope of finding another 
 chest, he received a violent blow from a dark 
 figure, and fell insensible into the hole. 
 
 On recovering, he was startled by witnessing the 
 funeral service of the Countess of Glenallan in the 
 transept by torchlight, and was assisted to the 
 forester's lodge vowing vengeance for the trick 
 that had been played him. Shortly afterwards 
 Mucklebackit's son Steenie reached the fisher- 
 man's cottage, followed by Ochiltree, and pro- 
 duced the professor's pocket-book from his pouch. 
 The next morning old Elspeth sent the beggar 
 to tell the Earl of Glenallan she must see him 
 instantly, and, while he was settling a dispute 
 among the village bowl-players on his return, the 
 news arrived that Steenie was drowned, and he 
 was arrested on a charge of robbing and assault- 
 ing Dousterswivel. 
 
 As Hector was accompanying his uncle to the 
 lad's funeral, he was thrown down by a seal, and 
 to escape his raillery returned home. Mr Old- 
 buck, however, proceeded, and won the respect of 
 all the mourners by heading the procession to the 
 grave. The same afternoon the earl had an inter- 
 view \\ ith Elspeth, and learnt from her that, having 
 married Eveline against his mother's wish, he had 
 been falsely told by her that she was his sister, 
 which had caused the poor girl to throw herself 
 from a cliff, and had for twenty years overwhelmed 
 him with grief and horror. The old woman also
 
 I2O A KEY TO THE WAVERLEY NOVELS 
 
 led htm to hope that his infant son was still 
 living. Meeting the antiquary, he opened his 
 heart to him, notwithstanding he had been a 
 rival for Eveline's hand, and at once received 
 the promise of his help in clearing up the 
 mystery. 
 
 Meanwhile Sir Arthur was on the point of leav- 
 ing Knockwinnock Castle in possession of his 
 creditors, when Ochiltree, who had been bailed 
 by Mr Oldbuck, brought a letter from his son 
 Reginald enclosing funds and a bill of suspension. 
 The same night old Caxon having mistaken a 
 bonfire of the professor's laboratory for a beacon- 
 signal that the French were coming, the yeomanry 
 and volunteers were called out, and a Major 
 Neville arrived to take command of them. The 
 magistrates received him, and to their surprise 
 recognised their late visitor Lovell, who had dis- 
 appeared after his duel with Maclntyre. The 
 antiquary took an opportunity of questioning him 
 privately, and, satisfied as to his identity, presented 
 him to the Earl of Glenallan as his son and heir. 
 Miss Wardour made no objection to become Lady 
 Geraldin, the old mendicant passed most of his 
 time with the barber, whose daughter was married 
 to the lieutenant, and Mr Oldbuck was ahvays a 
 welcome visitor both at Knockwinnock and Glen- 
 allan House.
 
 T RONAN'S WELL 
 
 Principal Characters 
 
 MEG "Dons, hostess of the Clcikum 
 Inn. 
 
 VALENTINE BUI.MER, after- 
 wards EARL OF ETHRINGTON. 
 
 FRANCIS TYRREL, his half- 
 brother. 
 
 MASTER BINDI.OOSE, sheriff's 
 clerk and banker. 
 
 MR JOHN MOWBRAY of Shaw's 
 Castle, laird of St Konaii's. 
 
 His sister, CLARA. 
 
 HANNAH IRWIN, their cousin. 
 
 NELLY TROTTER, a fish-woman. 
 
 LADY PENELOPE PENKEATHER. 
 
 MRS MARGARET BLOWER, a 
 widow. 
 
 Miss MARIA DIGUES. 
 
 SIR BINGO LINKS, an English 
 baronet. 
 
 Miss RACHEL BONNYRIUG, 
 afterwards LADY BINKS. 
 
 DR CjUACKLEUEN, 
 
 MR PHILIP WIN- 
 TERBLOSSOM, 
 
 MR S A U N D E R S 
 MEIKI EHAM, 
 
 CAPTAIN HECTOR 
 MACTURK, 
 
 REV. SIMON CHAT- 
 TER LY, 
 
 M R MlC II A E L 
 
 MEREDITH, 
 MR BEREGRINE SCROGIE 
 
 TOUCHWOOD. 
 REV. JOSIAH CARGII.L, minister 
 
 of St Konati s. 
 
 CA PTAI N J EK vi. ,///< carts friend. 
 SOLMES, 'the carCs valet. 
 
 TU'LMKk and Tyrrcl had been Mrs Dud's guests as 
 students from Edinburgh, and she gladly welcomed 
 Francis when he arrived, some years afterwards, to 
 stay at the inn again, that he might fish and sketch 
 in the neighbourhood. A mineral spring had, in 
 the meantime, been discovered at St Ronan's, and 
 he was invited by the fashionable visitors to dine
 
 122 A KEY TO THE WAVERLEY NOVELS 
 
 with them at the Fox Hotel, where he quarrelled 
 with Sir Bingo, and, on his way back to the 
 Cleikum, met Clara Mowbray, to whom he had 
 been secretly engaged during his former visit, but 
 was prevented from marrying her by the treachery 
 of Bulmer, who had now succeeded to the earldom, 
 and was expected at the Spa. Tyrrel having been 
 waited upon by Captain MacTurk, accepted a 
 challenge from the baronet, but failed to keep his 
 appointment, and was posted as an adventurer by 
 the committee of management. He also disap- 
 peared from the inn, which led hfs hostess to 
 consult Mr Bindloose, under the belief that he 
 had been murdered. Their conference was inter- 
 rupted by Mr Touchwood, who came to change a 
 bill, and talked of having been abroad for many 
 years. He also evinced great interest in the affairs 
 of the Mowbray family, and having taken up his 
 quarters at the Cleikum, made friends with Mr 
 Cargill, who had been disappointed in love, and 
 startled him with a rumour that Clara was about 
 to be married. 
 
 Soon after the earl's arrival it was reported that 
 he had been shot in the arm by a foot-pad ; and, 
 while his wound was healing, he spent his time in 
 gambling with the young laird of St Ronan's, who 
 had borrowed his sister's money for the purpose of 
 retrieving his luck. Having allowed him to win a 
 considerable sum, his lordship made proposals ior 
 Clara's hand, explaining that his grand-uncle had 
 disinherited his only son, and devised his estate to 
 him, on condition that he chose as a wife a lady of 
 the name of Mowbray. In a letter to his friend
 
 ST RONAN'S WELL 123 
 
 Jckyl, the carl confessed that he had been winged 
 in a duel with Tyrrel, whom he met on his way 
 to fight Sir Bingo, and that he had wounded his 
 brother. A few days afterwards the company at 
 the Well assembled at Shaw's Castle to take part 
 in a dramatic entertainment, and Mr Touchwood 
 persuaded Mr Cargill to accompany him as one 
 of the guests. While they were walking in the 
 grounds the minister took an opportunity to 
 remind Clara of a secret in his keeping, which 
 made it impossible for her to marry. He also 
 encountered the earl, and, believing him to be 
 Bulmer, attempted to warn him. 
 
 The next morning, as Mowbray was endeavour- 
 ing to induce Clara to consent to the match, he 
 received an anonymous communication that the 
 earl was an impostor ; and, in an interview with 
 him, she rejected his suit with loathing and scorn. 
 His lordship then wrote to Jekyl, telling him the 
 circumstances under which, when he was only 
 sixteen, he had arranged with Mr Cargill for a 
 secret marriage between her and Tyrrel ; but, 
 learning subsequently the contents of his uncle's 
 will, had incurred their life-long hatred by per- 
 sonating his brother at the ceremony. Tyrrel, who 
 after the duel had retired to an adjacent village to 
 be cured of his wound, reappeared just in time to 
 rescue Mr Touchwood from drowning; and, at an 
 interview with Jekyl, who undertook to clear his 
 character, offered to forego his claim to the earldom, 
 of which he had proofs, if his brother would refrain 
 from molesting Clara any further. This proposal 
 the earl sneered at, and, as he was forming fresh
 
 124 A KEY TO THE WAVEKLEY NOVELS 
 
 schemes for attaining his end, he discovered that 
 Hannah Irwin, who had been Clara's companion, 
 was dying at St Ronan's, and anxious to confess 
 her share in the secret marriage. Solmes was 
 instructed to carry her off, while his master got 
 the brother into his power by ruining him at play, 
 and then promised to cancel the debt if Clara 
 consented to acknowledge him as her husband 
 within four-and-twenty hours. 
 
 Mowbray believed he had prevailed with his 
 sister, when Mr Touchwood unexpectedly arrived, 
 and announced himself as Scrogie, the disinherited 
 son, who by bribing Solmes, and in other ways, 
 had learnt everyone's secrets, and was ready with 
 his fortune to arrange all their difficulties. But he 
 was too late. Clara had escaped from her room 
 during the night, and, after appearing at the manse 
 to forgive her cousin, who had been confided to 
 Mr Cargill's care, had made her way to the Cleikum, 
 where, in a seeming trance, she had a final inter- 
 view with Tyrrel, and died soon afterwards from 
 congestion of the brain. Mowbray, meanwhile, in 
 his search for her, encountered the earl and his 
 companions engaged in a shooting match, and 
 killed him in a duel arranged on the spot by 
 Captain MacTurk, with whom he fled to the Con- 
 tinent to escape imprisonment. Mr Touchwood 
 had consequently to seek some other outlet for his 
 wealth, and the Etherington estates were never 
 claimed by the rightful heir, who determined to 
 pass the remainder of his life in a Moravian 
 mission.
 
 INDEX OF THE 
 PRINCIPAL CHARACTERS 
 
 A BENEDICTINE ABBESS, 5 
 
 Advocate, The King's, . 90 
 
 Agatha (a servant), . . i 
 
 Agelastes, Michael, . . i 
 
 Alasco, Doctor, . . 43 
 
 Albany, Duke of, . . 22 
 
 Aldrovand, Father, . . 5 
 
 Alexius Comnenus, . . i 
 
 Alice Ben Lean, . . 94 
 
 Alice Bridgenorth, . . 62 
 
 Alice Lee, ... 58 
 
 Alice, of Ravenswood, . 71 
 
 Altramont, Frederick, . 75 
 
 Ambrose, Father, . . 39 
 
 Amelot (a page), . . 5 
 
 Amy Robsart, ... 43 
 
 Anderson (a servant), . 54 
 
 Anjou, Margaret of, . 31 
 
 Anna, Princess, . . i 
 
 Annaple, Dame, . . 82 
 
 Anne of Geierstein, . . 31 
 
 Annot Lylc, ... 54 
 
 Anselm, Prior, . , 22 
 
 Antioch, Bohemond of, . i 
 
 Antonio (a guide), . . 31 
 
 Apparition of a Woman, . 113 
 
 Archer, Lieutenant, . 105 
 
 Archibald, Mr, . . 90 
 Argyle, Duke of, . .90 
 Argyle, Marquis of, . . 54 
 Armstrong, Grace, . . 82 
 Armstrong, John, . . 48 
 Arthuret, The Sisters, . 98 
 Ashton, Henry, . . 71 
 Ashton, Lady, . . .71 
 Ashton, Lucy, . . 71 
 Ashton, Sholto Douglas . 71 
 Ashton, Sir William, . 71 
 Astarte (an attendant), . i 
 Athelstane (a Saxon), . 14 
 Augusta of Berkely, Lady. 18 
 Austria, Leopold, Arch- 
 duke of, ... 9 
 Auxerre, Bishop of, . . 27 
 Avenel, Julian, . . 35 
 Avenel, Mary, 35 
 Avenel, White Lady of, . 35 
 Avenel, Widow Alice, . 35 
 Aymer, Prior of, . . 12 
 
 BAT.DKRSTON, Caleb, . 71 
 Baldcrston, Mysie, . . 71 
 Baldringham, Lady of . 5 
 
 125
 
 126 
 
 INDEX 
 
 Baldwin, Archbishop, . 5 
 Baldwin, Count, . . i 
 Balfour of Burley, John, . 67 
 Balmawhapple, Mr Fal- 
 coner of, . <)4 
 Barak El Hadji, . . 109 
 Bcarscliff, Deacon, . . 103 
 Beaujeau, Princess of 
 
 France, ... 27 
 
 Beaujcu (a tavern-keeper), 50 
 
 Beaumanoir, Lucas de, . 14 
 
 Beg, Callum (a page), . 94 
 
 Bellenden, Edith, . . 67 
 Bellendcn, Lady Margaret 
 
 of, . . . . 67 
 
 Bellenden, Major, . . (>- 
 
 Belue, Cardinal John of, . 27 
 
 Benjic (a village lad), . 9S 
 
 Ben Lean, Alice, . . 94 
 
 Ben Lean, Donald, . . 94 
 
 Berengaria, Queen, . . 9 
 
 Bcrenger, Eveline, . . 5 
 
 Berenger, Sir Raymond de. 5 
 
 Berkely, Lady Augusta of, 1 6 
 
 Bertha (a servant), . . i 
 
 Bertram (a minstrel), . 18 
 
 Bertram, Augustine, . 18 
 
 Bertram, Harry, . . 105 
 Bertram, Lucy, . .103 
 
 Bertram, Miss Margaret. . 103 
 
 Bertram, Mr Godfrey, . 103 
 
 Berwine (a servant), . 5 
 
 Bevis (a wolf dog), . . 58 
 
 Bickerton, Mrs, . . 90 
 
 Bide-the-Bent, Rev. Mr, . 71 
 
 Biederman, Arnold, . 31 
 
 Biederman, Ernest, . . 31 
 
 Biederman, Rudiger, . 31 
 
 Biederman, Sigismund, . 31 
 
 Bindloose, Master, . . 121 
 Binks, Lady, . . .121 
 
 Binks, Sir Bingo, . . 121 
 Birrenswork, Mr I ferries 
 
 of, .... 98 
 
 Blandeville, Lady Emily, . 94 
 
 Blattergowl,Miss Rebecca, 1 17 
 
 Blattergowl, Rev. Doctor, 117 
 
 Blekcnsop, Lady, . . 71 
 
 Bletson, Joshua, . , 58 
 
 Blok, Nikkei, ... 27 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Blondel (a minstrel), . 9 
 
 I Hood, Colonel, . . 62 
 
 Blower, Mrs Margaret, . 121 
 
 Bohemond, of Antioch, . i 
 
 Bois Gilbert, Sir Brian de, 14 
 
 Bolton, Captain Stawarth, 315 
 
 Boniface, Lord Abbot, . 35 
 
 Bonnyrigg, Miss Rachel, . 121 
 
 Bonsteteen, Nicholas, . 31 
 
 P.onlhron, Anthony, . 22 
 
 Hothwell, Lady, . . So 
 
 Bothwell, Sergeant, . . 67 
 
 Bouillon, Godfrey dc. . i 
 Bourbon, Louis, Bishop of 
 
 Liege, . . . .27 
 
 Bracy, Maurice de, . . 14 
 Bradwardine, Cosmo 
 
 Comyne, ... 94 
 
 Bradwardine, Rose, . . 94 
 
 Brenda Troil, ... 75 
 Brengwan (wife of Gwen- 
 
 wyn), .... 5 
 Brenhilda, Countess of 
 
 Paris, .... I 
 
 Brcnnius, Nicephoms, . i 
 
 Bridgenorth, Alice, . . 62 
 
 Bridgenorth, Major, . 62 
 
 Brittson, Sergeant, . . 35 
 
 Brown (a smuggler), . 103 
 
 Brown, Vanbeest, . . 103 
 Browne, General, . .113 
 Buckingham, Stephen, 
 
 Duke of, . . . 50 
 Buckingham, Villiers, 
 
 Duke of. . . . 62 
 
 Bucklaw, Laird of. . . 71 
 
 Bulmer, Valentine, . . 121 
 
 Bunce, John, ... 75 
 
 Buonaventure, Father, . 98 
 Burgundy, Duke Charles 
 
 of, ... 27, 31 
 
 Burleigh, Lord, . . 43 
 
 Butler, Reuben, . . 90 
 
 ('ADWAT.I.ON (a bard), . 5 
 Calista of Mountfaucon, 
 
 Lady, . . . ' . 5 
 
 Callum Beg (a page), . 94 
 
 Cameron, Allan Break, . 107
 
 INDEX 
 
 127 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Campbell, General, . . 98 
 
 Campbell, Ilamish, . . 86 
 Campbell, Helen Mac- 
 
 Gregor, . . .86 
 
 Campbell, Robert, . . 86 
 Campbell, Rob Roy M:u> 
 
 Grcgor, ... 86 
 
 Campbell, Sir Duncan, . 54 
 
 Campo Risso, Count, . 31 
 
 Cargill, Rev. Josiah, . 121 
 Caroline, (")uccn of George 
 
 II 90 
 
 Castor, Stephanos, . . i 
 
 Catharine of Perth, . . 22 
 
 Catherine Scyton, . . 39 
 
 Cathlecn (a servant), , <).\ 
 
 Caxon (a barber), . . 117 
 
 Caxon, Jenny, . . 117 
 
 Ccclric, the Saxon, . . 14 
 Charles II., . . 58, 62 
 
 Charles, Prince of Wales, 50 
 Charles the Bold, of liur- 
 
 gundy, . . . 27,31 
 
 Charles Edward, the 
 
 Young Pretender, 94, 98 
 Charteris, Sir Patrick, . 22 
 Chattanach, MacGillic, . 22 
 Chatterly, Rev. Simon, . 121 
 Chaffinch, Mistress, . . 62 
 Chiffinch, William, . . 62 
 Christian, Edward, . , 62 
 Christie, Dame Nelly, . 50 
 Christie, John, . . 50 
 Christie of the Clinthill, . 35 
 Clara Movvbray, . . 121 
 Claverhouse, Colonel Gra- 
 ham of. ... 67 
 Clement, Father, . . 22 
 Cleveland, Clement, . 75 
 Colepepper, Captain, . 50 
 Colin, Captain Green, . 107 
 Comnenus, Alexius, . . i 
 Conachar (an apprentice), 22 
 Conrade of Montserrat, 
 
 Marquis, ... 9 
 
 Crackenthorp, Father, . 98 
 
 Craigdallie, I'ailie, . . 22 
 
 Craigenfelt, Captain, . 71 
 
 Crawford, Lindsay, Earl of, 22 
 
 Crawford, Lord, . . 27 
 
 PACE 
 Crevccoeur, Count Philip, 27 
 
 Crevecoeur, Countess, 
 Cromwell, Oliver, . . 
 Crosbic, Mr William, . 
 Croye, Isabella, Countess 
 of, .... 
 Cruickshanks, Ebcmver. . 
 
 DAIN, Oliver le, . . 
 
 Dalgarno, Lady, . . 
 
 1 >algarno, Lord, . 
 
 Dalgetty, Sir Dugald, . 
 
 Dalxell, General, . . 
 
 Damiotti, Uaptista, . . 
 
 Dannischemcnd (a sor- 
 cerer), 
 
 Dannischemcnd, ller- 
 mione, . . . 
 
 Deans, David, ... 
 
 Deans, Effie, ... 
 
 Deans, Jeanie, . . 
 
 Debbitch, Deborah, 
 
 Dennison, Jenny, . . 
 
 Derby, Charlotte, Coun- 
 tess of, ... 
 
 Derby, Earl of, . . 
 
 Desborough, Colonel, . 
 
 Dhu, Evan, ... 
 
 Diana Vernon, . , 
 
 Dick, The Devil's, . . 
 
 Dickie Sludge, . . 
 
 Dickson, Charles. . . 
 
 Dickson, Tom, of lla/le- 
 wood, . . . . 
 
 Digges, Miss Maria. . 
 
 Dinmont, Dandle, . 
 
 Diogenes (a negro), . 
 
 Doboobie, Doctor, . 
 
 Dods, Meg, 
 
 Donnershugel, Rudolph of, 
 
 Donocha Dhu, 
 
 Douban (a slave-), 
 
 Dougal (a turnkey), . 
 
 Douglas, Archibald, Earl 
 of, 
 
 Douglas, George, 
 
 Douglas, Lady, 
 
 Douglas, Sir James, . 
 
 Douglas, Sir William. 
 
 27 
 58 
 
 98 
 
 27 
 94 
 
 27 
 5 r J 
 5 
 54 
 67 
 So 
 
 y 
 
 31 
 90 
 90 
 
 9 
 
 62 
 
 67 
 
 62 
 62 
 
 54 
 86 
 
 22 
 
 43 
 1 8 
 
 1 8 
 
 121 
 I 
 
 43 
 
 121 
 
 31 
 
 90 
 
 I 
 
 86 
 
 3 r > 
 30 
 1 8 
 
 39
 
 128 
 
 INDEX 
 
 Dousterswivel, Herman, 
 Dronsdaughter, Tronda, 
 Dryfesdale (a steward), 
 Dumbiedykes, Laird of, 
 Dundee, Viscount of, 
 Dunois, Count de, . 
 Durward Quentin, . 
 Dutton, Mrs, . 
 Dwining, Henbane, 
 
 EARNSCT.IFF, Patrick, 
 
 Eberson, Carl, 
 
 Edith Bellcnden, 
 
 Eflie Deans, . , 
 
 Einion, Father, 
 
 El Hadji, Barak, . 
 
 Elizabeth, Queen, 
 
 Elliot, Annot, . 
 
 Elliot, Dame, . 
 
 Elliot, Hobbie, 
 
 Elliot, Jean, 
 
 Elliot, Lilias, . 
 
 Elshie, The Dwarf, . 
 
 Elspeth, Widow, 
 
 Elspeth, of Craigburn- 
 foot, . 
 
 Engaddi, Theodoric of, 
 
 Erickson, Sweyne, . 
 
 Ermingarde,Lady of Bald- 
 ringham, 
 
 Errol, Earl of, . 
 
 Etherington, Earl of, 
 
 Eustace, Father, 
 
 Evandale, Lord, 
 
 Eveline Berenger, 
 
 Eveline Neville, 
 
 Everard, Colonel Murk- 
 ham, . . . . 
 
 Eviot (a pnge), 
 
 Ewart, Nanty, 
 
 FAGGOT, Nicholas, . 
 Fairbrother, Mr, 
 Fairford, Alan, 
 Fairford, Mr Saunders, 
 Fair Maid of Perth, . 
 Fairservice, Andrew, 
 Falconer, Major, 
 
 PAGE 
 
 
 PAGE 
 
 117 
 
 Falconer, Mr, of Balma- 
 
 
 75 
 
 whapple, 
 
 94 
 
 39 
 
 Fea, Euphane, 
 
 75 
 
 90 
 
 Fenella (a dwarf), . 
 
 62 
 
 67 
 
 Flammock, Rose, 
 
 5 
 
 27 
 
 Flammock, William, 
 
 5 
 
 27 
 
 Fleecebumpkin, John, 
 
 "5 
 
 90 
 
 Fleming, Lady, 
 
 39 
 
 22 
 
 Fleming, Sir Malcolm, 
 
 iS 
 
 
 Flibbertigibbet, 
 
 43 
 
 
 Flora Maclvor, 
 
 94 
 
 S2 
 
 Forester, Lady Jemima, . 
 
 80 
 
 27 
 
 Forester, Sir Philip, 
 
 80 
 
 6? 
 
 Foster (a champion), 
 
 48 
 
 9 
 
 Foster, Anthony, 
 
 43 
 
 5 
 
 Foster, Janet, . 
 
 43 
 
 109 
 
 Foxley, Squire, 
 
 98 
 
 43 
 
 France, Louis XI. of, 
 
 27 
 
 82 
 
 France, Philip Augustus 
 
 
 82 
 
 of, . . : . 
 
 9 
 
 82 
 
 Francis, Father, 
 
 22 
 
 82 
 
 Front de Bceuff, Reginald, 
 
 14 
 
 82 
 
 
 
 82 
 
 
 
 35 
 
 GABRIEL TOD, 
 
 103 
 
 
 Galbraith, Major, . 
 
 86 
 
 117 
 
 Ganlesse, Richard, . 
 
 62 
 
 9 
 
 Gardiner, Colonel, . 
 
 94 
 
 75 
 
 Geddes, Joshua, 
 
 98 
 
 
 Geddes, Rachel, 
 
 98 
 
 5 
 
 Geierstein, Anne of, 
 
 3i 
 
 22 
 
 Geierstein, Count Albert 
 
 
 121 
 
 of, .... 
 
 3i 
 
 35 
 
 Gellatley, David, 
 
 94 
 
 67 
 
 Gellatley, Janet, 
 
 94 
 
 5 
 
 Genvil, Ralph, 
 
 5 
 
 117 
 
 Geraldin, Lord, 
 
 117 
 
 Gernington, Lady, . 
 
 7i 
 
 58 ' Gertrude Pavilion, . 
 
 27 
 
 22 Gieslaer, Peterkin, . 
 
 27 
 
 98 . (iilfillan, Mr, . 
 
 94 
 
 
 Gillian, Dame, 
 
 5 
 
 
 Gillian, Raoul, 
 
 5 
 
 98 
 
 Gilsland, Sir Thomas de 
 
 
 90 
 
 Vaux of, . 
 
 9 
 
 98 
 
 Glasgow, Bishop of, 
 
 1 8 
 
 98 
 
 Glass, Mrs, 
 
 90 
 
 22 
 
 Glenallan, Countess of, 
 
 117 
 
 86 
 
 Glenallan, Earl of, . 
 
 117 
 
 So Glendinning, Edward, 
 
 35
 
 INDEX 
 
 129 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Glendinning, Halbert, . 35 
 
 Glendinning, Lady, . . 39 
 
 Glendinning, Sir Halbert, 39 
 Glendinning, Widow El- 
 
 speth 35 
 
 Glenvarlock, Lord, . . 50 
 
 Glorieux, Le (a jester), . 27 
 
 Glossin, Gilbert, . . 103 
 
 Gloucester, Earl of, . . 5 
 
 Gosling, Giles, . . 43 
 
 Gourlay, Ailsie, . . 71 
 Gow, Henry, . . .22 
 
 Grace Armstrong, . . 82 
 
 Grceme, Magdalen, . . 39 
 
 Grreme, Roland, . . 39 
 Graeme, Willie, of West- 
 
 burnflat, ... 82 
 Graham, Colonel, of 
 
 Claverhouse, . . 67 
 
 Graham, Cornet, . . 67 
 
 Grantmesnel, Hugh de, . 14 
 
 Gray, Gideon, . . . 109 
 
 Gray, Jean, . . . 109 
 
 Gray, Menie, . . . 109 
 Greenhorn & Grinderson, 
 
 Messrs, . . 117 
 
 Greenleaf, Gilbert, . . 18 
 
 Guarine, Philip, . . 5 
 
 Guenevra (a dwarf), . 9 
 
 Gurth (a swineherd), . 14 
 
 Guydill (a butler), . . 67 
 Gwenwyn, Prince of 
 
 Powysland, ... 5 
 
 HAGENBACH, Count 
 
 Archibald von, . . 31 
 
 Hakim, El, . . . 9 
 
 Ilalcro, Claud, . . 75 
 
 Hall, Sir Christopher, . 54 
 
 Ilalliday, Tarn, . . 6? 
 
 Hameline, Lady, . . 27 
 
 Hamilton, Lady Emily, . 67 
 
 Harbothel, Fabian, . . 18 
 
 Happer (a miller), . . 35 
 
 Happer, Mysie, . . 35 
 
 I larpax (a centurion), , i 
 
 Harrison, General, . . 5^ 
 
 Hartley, Adam, . . 109 
 
 Ilatteraick, Dirk, . . 103 
 
 Hautville, Lady Margaret 
 de 
 
 Hayraddin Mangrabin, . 
 
 Hayston, Frank, 
 
 Hazlewood, Charles, 
 
 Headrigg, Cuddie, . 
 
 Headrigg, Mausc, . 
 
 Helen MacGregor Camp- 
 bell, .... 
 
 Henderson, Rev. Elias, . 
 
 Henry II., 
 
 Henshaw, Kit, . . 
 
 Hercward (a Saxon), , 
 
 Heriot, George, 
 
 Hermione Dannischemend, 
 
 Hermione, Lady, 
 
 IlerricS; Mr, of Birrens- 
 work, .... 
 
 Heskett, Dame, 
 
 Heskett, Ralph, 
 
 Higg (a peasant), 
 
 Hildebrod (a bailiff), 
 
 Hillary, Tom, . 
 
 Hobbler, Doctor, 
 
 Hodges, John, . 
 
 Holdenough, Rev. Nehe- 
 miah, .... 
 
 Holiday, Master Erasmus, 
 
 Houston, Humphrey, . 
 
 Hudson, Sir Geoffrey, 
 
 Ilundwolf (a steward), 
 
 Hunsdon, Lord, 
 
 Iluntinglen, Lord, . 
 
 Hyder Ali, 
 
 II.DERIM SHEERKOHF, 
 
 Ildcrton, Lucy, 
 Inglewood, Squire, . 
 Ireby, Mr, 
 
 Irene, The Empress, 
 Irwin, Hannah, 
 Isaac of York, . 
 Isabel Vere, 
 Isabella Wardour, . 
 Ivanhoe, Wilfrid of, . 
 
 TACQUEI.INE (a servant), 
 James I., 
 
 86 
 
 "5 
 
 i 
 
 121 
 
 14 
 
 82 
 
 II? 
 
 14
 
 130 
 
 INDEX 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Janet of Tomahourich, . 115 
 
 Jarvie, Bailie Nicol, . . 86 
 
 Jekyl, Captain, . . 121 
 
 Jerningham (a secretary), . 62 
 
 Jerome, Abbot, . . 18 
 
 Joan, Princess of France, . 27 
 
 Jobson, Joseph, . . 86 
 John, Prince, brother of 
 
 Richard I., . . . 14 
 John, Prince, son of 
 
 Henry II., ... 5 
 
 Joliffe, Jocelin, . . 58 
 
 Jorworth ap Jevan, . . 5 
 
 Jourvaulx, Abbot of, . 14 
 
 Julia Mannering, . . 103 
 
 KENNEDY, Frank, . . 103 
 Kenneth, Sir, of the 
 
 Couchant Leopard, . 9 
 
 Kerneguy, Louis, . . 58 
 
 Keltledrurnle, Gabriel, . 67 
 
 Knock, Duncan, . . 90 
 
 LACY, Damian, . . 5 
 
 Lacy, Ranald, ... 5 
 
 Lacy, Sir Hugo de, . . 5 
 
 Lambourne, Michael, . 43 
 
 Langley, Sir Frederick, . 82 
 
 Latimer, Darsie, . . 98 
 
 Lauderdale, Duke of, . 67 
 Lawford, Mr, . . .109 
 
 Lee, Albert, ... 58 
 Lee, Alice, . . -58 
 
 Lee, Sir Henry, . . 58 
 
 Leicester Dudley, Earl of, 43 
 Leopold, Archduke of 
 
 Austria, ... 9 
 
 Lesley, Ludovic, le Balafre, 27 
 Liege, Louis Bourbon, 
 
 Bishop of, . . . 27 
 
 Lilias Redgauntlet, . . 98 
 
 Lindesay, Lord, . . 39 
 
 Linklater, Lawrence, . 50 
 
 Littlejohn, Bnilie, . 117 
 
 Lochleven, Lady of, . 39 
 
 Locksley (an outlaw), . 14 
 
 Louis XI. of France, . 27 
 
 Louise (a minstrel), . . 22 
 
 Lovell, Mr William, 
 Lowestofie, Reginald, 
 Lucy Ashton, . 
 Lunden, Sir Louis, . 
 Lyle, Annot, . 
 Lysimachus (a designer), . 
 
 PAGE 
 
 117 
 
 50 
 
 71 
 
 22 
 
 54 
 
 MACALPINE, Jean, . , 86 
 
 MacAulay, Allan . . 54 
 
 MacAulay, Angus, . . 54 
 
 MacBriar (a preacher), . 67 
 MacCallum More, Duke 
 
 of Argyle, . . . 90 
 MacCallum More, Marquis 
 
 of Argyle, ... 54 
 
 MacCandlish, Mrs, . . 103 
 
 MacClure, Bessie, . . 67 
 
 MacCombich, Evan Dhu, . 94 
 
 MacCombich, Robin Oig. 115 
 
 MacEagh, Kenneth, . 54 
 
 MacEagh, Ranald, . . 54 
 
 MacFittoch, Mr, . . 109 
 
 MacGuffog (a constable), . 103 
 
 Maclan, Eachin, . . 22 
 
 Macllduy (a chieftain), . 54 
 
 Maclntyre, Captain Hector, 117 
 
 Maclntyre, Miss Maria, . 117 
 Maclvor, Fergus, Vich 
 
 Ian Vohr, ... 94 
 
 Maclvor, Flora, . . 94 
 
 MacLeuchar, Mrs, . . 117 
 
 MacMorlan, Mr and Mrs, 103 
 
 MacStuart (a trooper), . 86 
 
 MacTurk, Captain Hector, 121 
 MacYittic and MacFin, 
 
 Messrs, ... 86 
 
 MacWhccble, Bailie, . 94 
 
 Madge Wildfire, . . 90 
 
 Mahony, Dugald, . . 94 
 
 Mailsetter, Mrs, . . 117 
 
 Malagrowther, Sir Mungo, 50 
 
 Malvoisin, Conrade de, . 14 
 
 Malvoisin, Richard de, . 14 
 
 Malvoisin, Sir Philip de, . 14 
 
 Mangrabin, Ilayraddin, . 27 
 
 Mannering, Colonel Guy, . 103 
 Mannering, Julia, . -103 
 Mannering, Mrs, . .103 
 
 Mansell, Lady. . . 50
 
 INDEX 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Marabout (a fanatic), . 9 
 
 March, Earl of, . . 22 
 
 Marck, William dc la, . 27 
 
 Marcschal, Ralph, . . 82 
 
 Margaret of Anjou, . . 31 
 
 Margaret Ramsay, . . 50 
 
 Martha (a servant), . . 86 
 
 Martha Trapbois, . . 5 
 
 Marthon (a gipsy woman), 27 
 Mary Avenel, . . -35 
 
 Mary, Queen of Scots, . 39 
 
 Mattie (a servant). . . ^6 
 
 Mauley, Sir Edward, . 82 
 
 Maulstatute, Master, . 62 
 
 Maxwell (an usher), . . 50 
 
 Maxwell, Mr Peter, . . 98 
 
 Mayflower, Phujbe, . . 58 
 Meg Dods, . . .121 
 
 Meg Mcrrilies, . . . 103 
 
 Meg Murdockson, . . 90 
 
 Meikleham, Mr Saunders, 121 
 
 Melville, Major, . . 94 
 
 Melville, Sir Robert, . 39 
 
 Mengs, Jan, . . 3 1 
 
 Menie Gray, . . . 109 
 
 Menteith, Earl of, . . 54 
 
 Meredith, Mr Michael, . 121 
 
 Merrilies, Meg, . . 103 
 
 Mertoun, Mr Basil, . . 75 
 
 Mertoun, Mordaunt, . 75 
 
 Mervyn, Mr and Mrs, . 103 
 
 Minna Troil, . . 75 
 
 Mist, Children of the, . 54 
 
 Moffat, Mabel, . . 98 
 Mohr, Elspct, . . .107 
 
 Mohr, Ilamish Benn, . 107 
 
 Mnhr, Ilamish MacTavish, 107 
 
 Mon$acla, Mddle. /ilia de, 109 
 
 Mon9ada, Mathias de, . 109 
 
 Moncada, Richard. . . 109 
 Monkbarns, Mr Oldbuck 
 
 of, . . . .117 
 Monmouth, Duke of, . 67 
 Monna Paula, ... 5 
 Monoplies, Richie, . . 5 
 Monthcrmcr, Sir Guy, . 5 
 Montreville, Madame de, . 109 
 Montrosc, Earl of. . . 54 
 Montscrrat. Conrade, Mar- 
 quis of, - . 9 
 
 PAGE 
 
 5 
 
 115 
 
 67 
 35 
 67 
 94 
 
 Morolt, Dennis, 
 Morrison, Hugh, of Glanae, 
 Morton, Henry, 
 Morton, Lord, . 
 Morton, Mr, . 
 Morton, Rev. Mr, . 
 Mountfaufon, LadyCalista 
 
 of, .... 9 
 Mowbray, Clara, . . 12 1 
 Mowbray, John, . . 121 
 Muckiebackit, Saunders, . 117 
 Mucklewraith (a fanatic), . 67 
 Mulgrave, Sir Miles, . 54 
 Multon, Sir Thomas de, . 9 
 Mumps, Tib, . . . 103 
 Murdockson, Meg, . . 90 
 Murray, Earl of, . 35, 39 
 Mysie Ilapper, . . 35 
 
 NECBATANUS (a dwarf), . 9 
 Neville, Eveline, . . 117 
 Neville, Major, . .117 
 Nicanor (a Greek), . . i 
 Nixon, Cristal, . . 98 
 Norna of the Fitful Head, 75 
 
 OCHILTREE, Edie, . .117 
 
 Oldbuck, Miss Griselda, . 117 
 
 Oldbuck, Mr Jonathan, of 
 
 Monkbarns, . . 117 
 
 Olifant, Basil, ... 67 
 
 Olifaunt, Nigel, . . 50 
 
 Oliver Cromwell, . . 5^ 
 
 Orleans, Duke Louis of, . 27 
 
 Ormond, Duke of, . . 62 
 
 Osbaldistone, Frank, . 86 
 
 Osbaldistone, Mr William, 86 
 
 Osbaldistone, Rashleigh, . 86 
 Osbaldistone, Sir Ililde- 
 
 brand, .... 86 
 
 Otranto, Prince Tancred of, i 
 
 Out ram, Lance, . . 62 
 Oxford, Earl of, . .31 
 
 Owen, Mr, ... 86 
 
 PACOLET, Nicholas, . . 75
 
 132 
 
 INDEX 
 
 
 PAGE PAGE 
 
 Paris, Brenhilda, Countess 
 
 
 Redgauntlet, Sir Arthur 
 
 
 of, .... 
 
 I 
 
 Darsie, 
 
 98 
 
 Paris, Count Robert of, . 
 
 i 
 
 Reinold (a butler), . 
 
 5 
 
 Pate in Peril, . 
 
 98 
 
 Rene, King of Provence, . 
 
 3i 
 
 Paula, Monna, . 
 
 50 
 
 Richard I., . . 9, 
 
 14 
 
 Paupiah (a steward), 
 
 109 
 
 Richard, Prince, son of 
 
 
 Pavilion (a currier), . 
 
 27 
 
 Henry II., . 
 
 5 
 
 Pearson, Captain, . 
 
 58 
 
 Robert, Count of Paris, 
 
 i 
 
 Peebles, Peter, 
 
 98 
 
 Robert III., of Scotland, . 
 
 22 
 
 Pembroke. Earl of, . 
 
 18 
 
 Robertson, George, . 
 
 90 
 
 Pembroke, Mr, 
 
 94 
 
 Robin Hood, . 
 
 14 
 
 Penfeather, Lady Penelope, 
 
 121 
 
 Rob Roy MacGregor 
 
 
 Perrette, Dame, 
 
 27 
 
 Campbell, 
 
 86 
 
 Peter, the Hermit, . 
 
 I 
 
 Robsart, Amy, 
 
 43 
 
 Peveril, Julian, 
 
 62 
 
 Robsart, Sir Hugh, . 
 
 43 
 
 Peveril, Lady Margaret, . 
 
 62 
 
 Rochecliffe, Doctor An- 
 
 
 Peveril, Sir Geoffrey, 
 
 62 
 
 thony, .... 
 
 58 
 
 Phadraick, Miles, . 
 
 107 
 
 Ronaldson, Neil, 
 
 75 
 
 Philip, Father, 
 
 35 
 
 Rose Bradwardihe, . 
 
 94 
 
 Philip Augustus, of France, 
 
 9 
 
 Rose Flammock, 
 
 5 
 
 Philpson, John, 
 
 3i 
 
 Rothsay, David, Duke of, 
 
 22 
 
 Pierre, Maitre, . 
 
 27 
 
 Rowena, Lady, 
 
 14 
 
 Plantagenet, Lady Edith, 
 
 9 
 
 Rudolph of Donnershugel, 
 
 3 1 
 
 Pleydell, Mr Paulus, 
 
 103 
 
 Ruthven (a pedlar), . 
 
 94 
 
 Polwarth, Alick, 
 
 94 
 
 Ruthven, Lord, 
 
 39 
 
 Porteous, Captain, . 
 
 90 
 
 
 
 Poundtext (a preacher), . 
 
 67 
 
 
 
 Powheid, Lazarus, . 
 
 18 SADDLETREE, Mr Bartolini, 
 
 90 
 
 Pretender, The Young, 94 
 
 , 98 St Ronan's, Laird of, 
 
 121 
 
 Proudfute, Oliver, . 
 
 22 
 
 Saladin, Sultan, 
 
 9 
 
 
 
 Sampson, Dominie, . 
 
 103 
 
 
 
 Scambester, Eric. 
 
 75 
 
 QUACKLEBEN, Doctor 
 
 
 Schreechwald, Ital, . 
 
 3i 
 
 Quentin, 
 
 121 Scotland, Prince Royal of, 
 
 9 
 
 Quentin Durward, . 
 
 27 Scots, Mary Queen of, 
 
 39 
 
 
 
 Scrogie, Mr Peregrine 
 
 
 
 
 Touchwood, 
 
 121 
 
 RALEIGH, Sir Walter, 
 
 43 
 
 Scrow (a clerk), 
 
 103 
 
 Ramorny, Sir John. . 
 
 22 
 
 Sebastes (a recruit), . 
 
 I 
 
 Ramsay, David, 
 
 50 
 
 Seelencooper, Captain, 
 
 IO9 
 
 Ramsay, Margaret, . 
 
 5 
 
 Seyton. Catherine, . 
 
 39 
 
 Randal (a boatman). 
 
 39 
 
 Seyton, Henry, 
 
 39 
 
 Ratcliffe, Jim, . 
 
 90 
 
 Seyton, Lord, . 
 
 39 
 
 Ratcliffe, "Mr Hubert, 
 
 82 
 
 Shafton, Sir Piercie, 
 
 35 
 
 Ravenswood, Edgar, 
 
 7i 
 
 Sharpitlaw (a constable), 
 
 90 
 
 Raymond, Count of Tou- 
 
 
 Sheerkohf, Ilderim, 
 
 9 
 
 louse, .... 
 
 i 
 
 Simon (a glover). 
 
 22 
 
 Rebecca of York, 
 
 14 
 
 Skurliewhitter, Andrew, . 
 
 50 
 
 Redeauntlet, Lnird of, 
 
 98 Sludge, Dick, . 
 
 43 
 
 Redgauntlet, Lilias, 
 
 98 Smith, Wayland, 
 
 43
 
 INDEX 
 
 133 
 
 Smith, Will, . 
 Snailsfoot, Bryce, . . 
 Solmes (a valet), 
 Solsgroves, Rev. Neliemiali, 
 Spitfire (a page), 
 Staunton, George, . 
 Staunton, Sir Edmund, 
 Steenson, Willie, 
 Stewart, Francis, 
 Strauchan (a squire), 
 Strumpfer, Nicholas, 
 Sturmthal, Melchior, 
 Suddlecliop, Benjamin, 
 Suddlechop, Danie Ursula, 
 Swertha (a servant), 
 Sylvan (an ourang-outang) 
 
 TACKET, Martin, . 
 
 Tacket, Tibb, . 
 
 Taffril, Lieutenant, . 
 
 Talbot, Colonel, 
 
 Tancred, Prince of Otranto, 
 
 Tatius, Achilles, 
 
 Templars, Grand Master 
 of the, .... 
 
 Theodoric of Engaddi, 
 
 Thornton, Captain, . 
 
 Tippoo Saib, . 
 
 Tod, Gabriel, . 
 
 Toison d'Or (a herald), . 
 
 Tomahourich, Janet of, 
 
 Tombs, Knight of the, 
 
 Tomkins, Joseph, . 
 
 Topham, Charles, . 
 
 Torquil of the Oak, . 
 
 Touchwood, Mr Peregrine 
 Scrogie, 
 
 Toulouse, Count Ray- 
 mond of, . 
 
 Tower, Governor of the, . 
 
 Toxartis (a Scythian), 
 
 Traobois (a lodging-house 
 keeper), 
 
 Trapbois, Martha, . 
 
 Tresham, Richard, . 
 
 Tressilian, Master, . 
 
 Tristran, I'llermite, 
 
 Troil, Brenda, . 
 
 Troil, Magnus, 
 
 PACE 
 
 PAGE 
 
 62 
 
 Troil, Minna, . 
 
 75 
 
 75 
 
 Troil, Ulla, . 
 
 75 
 
 121 
 
 Trotter, Nelly, 
 
 121 
 
 62 
 
 Trumbull, Tarn, 
 
 9 8 
 
 5* 
 
 Tuck, Friar, . 
 
 14 
 
 90 
 
 Tunstall, Francis, 
 
 5 
 
 90 
 
 Turnbull, Michael, . 
 
 18 
 
 98 
 
 Tyre, Archbishop of, 
 
 9 
 
 67 
 
 Tyrie, Rev. Michael, 
 
 107 
 
 9 
 
 Tyrrel, Francis, . 
 
 121 
 
 75 
 
 
 
 3 1 
 
 
 
 So 
 
 ULRICA, Dame, 
 
 14 
 
 5 
 
 Una (a servant) 
 
 94 
 
 75 
 
 Ursel, Zedekias, 
 
 i 
 
 i 
 
 Ursula, Sister, 
 
 18 
 
 35 
 
 VALENCE, Sir Aymer de, 
 
 18 
 
 35 
 
 Vanbeest Brown, 
 
 103 
 
 117 
 
 Varney, Richard, 
 
 43 
 
 94 
 
 Vaudemond, Ferrand de, . 
 
 3i 
 
 i 
 
 Vaughan, Basil, 
 
 75 
 
 i 
 
 Vaughan, Clement, . 
 
 75 
 
 
 Vaux, Sir Thomas de, of 
 
 
 9, 14 
 
 Gilsland, 
 
 9 
 
 9 
 
 Vehemique, Tribunal 
 
 
 86 
 
 Knights and Burghers of, 
 
 3i 
 
 109 
 
 Veilchen, Annette, . 
 
 3i 
 
 103 
 
 Vere, Arthur de, 
 
 3i 
 
 27 
 
 Vere, Isabel, . 
 
 82 
 
 "5 
 
 Vere, Mr Richard, . 
 
 82 
 
 18 Vermandois, Count de, 
 
 i 
 
 58 Vernon, Diana, 
 
 86 
 
 62 Vernon, Sir Frederick, 
 
 86 
 
 22 
 
 Vich Ian Vohr, Fergus 
 
 
 
 Maclvor, 
 
 94 
 
 121 
 
 Vincent, Jenkin, 
 
 50 
 
 
 Violante (an attendant), . 
 
 i 
 
 I 
 
 Vipont, Ralph de, . . 
 
 14 
 
 50 
 
 
 
 I 
 
 
 
 
 WAKEFIEI.P, Harry, 
 
 H5 
 
 5 
 
 Wales, Prince Charles of, 
 
 5 
 
 50 
 
 Wallenrode, Earl, 
 
 9 
 
 109 
 
 Walton, Sir John de, 
 
 18 
 
 43 
 
 Warnba (a jester), . 
 
 14 
 
 27 
 
 Warden, Rev. Henry, 35 
 
 . 39 
 
 75 
 
 Wardour, Captain Regi- 
 
 
 75 
 
 nald, .... 
 
 117
 
 134 
 
 Wardour, Isabella, . 
 Wardour, Sir Arthur, 
 Waverley, Edward, . 
 Waverley, Miss Rachel, . 
 Waverley, Richard, 
 Waverley, Sir Everard, 
 Weatherport, Captain, 
 Westburnflat, Willie 
 
 Graeme of, . 
 Wildfire, Madge, . 
 Wildrake, Captain Roger, 
 Wilson, Andrew, 
 Wilson, Dame Alison, 
 Winterblossom,Mr Phillip, 
 Witherington, General, . 
 
 PAGIi 
 
 Witherington, Mrs . . 109 
 
 Wittenbold, Captain, . 67 
 
 Woodcock, Adam, . . 39 
 
 Woodville, Lord, . . 113 
 
 YEI.LOWI.EY, Barbara, . 75 
 Yellowley, Triptolemus, . 75 
 
 ZAMET (a gipsy), . . 27 
 Zarah (a dwarf), . . 62 
 Zimmerman, Adam, . 31 
 Zosimus (Greek Patri- 
 arch) .... i 
 
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