For Faith and Freedom. Walter Besant

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Название For Faith and Freedom
Автор произведения Walter Besant
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CHAPTER XXIX.

       ON WHAT CONDITIONS?

       CHAPTER XXX.

       A SLIGHT THING AT THE BEST.

       CHAPTER XXXI.

       THE VISION OF CONSOLATION.

       CHAPTER XXXII.

       THE MAN OF SAMARIA.

       CHAPTER XXXIII.

       ON BOARD THE JOLLY THATCHER.

       CHAPTER XXXIV.

       THE GOOD SAMARITAN.

       CHAPTER XXXV.

       THE WHITE SLAVE.

       CHAPTER XXXVI.

       THE FIRST DAY OF SERVITUDE.

       CHAPTER XXXVII.

       BY THE WATERS OF BABYLON.

       CHAPTER XXXVIII.

       HUMPHREY'S NARRATIVE.

       CHAPTER XXXIX.

       FOR TEN YEARS.

       CHAPTER XL.

       WITH THE HOE.

       CHAPTER XLI.

       ON CONDITIONS.

       CHAPTER XLII.

       ALICE.

       CHAPTER XLIII.

       BARNABY HEARS THE NEWS.

       CHAPTER XLIV.

       A SCARE.

       CHAPTER XLV.

       BARNABY THE AVENGER.

       CHAPTER XLVI.

       A PERILOUS VOYAGE.

       CHAPTER XLVII.

       TORTUGA.

       CHAPTER XLVIII.

       THE ISLAND OF PROVIDENCE.

       CHAPTER XLIX.

       HOME.

       CHAPTER L.

       THE GREAT LORD CHANCELLOR.

       CHAPTER LI.

       THE CONFESSION.

       CHAPTER THE LAST.

       Table of Contents

       Table of Contents

      The morning of Sunday, August 23, in the year of grace 1662, should have been black and gloomy with the artillery of rolling thunder, dreadful flashes of lightning, and driving hail and wind to strip the orchards and lay low the corn. For on that day was done a thing which filled the whole country with grief, and bore bitter fruit in after years, of revenge and rebellion. And, because it was the day before that formerly named after Bartholomew, the disciple, it hath been called the Black Bartholomew of England, thus being likened unto that famous day (approved by the Pope) when the French Protestants were treacherously massacred by their King. It should rather be called 'Farewell Sunday' or 'Exile Sunday,' for on that day two thousand godly ministers preached their last sermon in the churches where they had laboured worthily and with good fruit, some during the time of the Protector, and some even longer, because among them were a few who possessed their benefices even from the time of the late King Charles the First. And, since on that day two thousand ministers left their churches and their houses, and laid down their worldly wealth for conscience' sake, there were also, perhaps, as many wives who went with them, and, I dare say, three or four times as many innocent and helpless babes. And, further (it is said that the time was fixed by design and deliberate malice of our enemies), the ministers were called upon to make their choice only a week or two before