{"product_id":"2940013289048","title":"BOTH SIDES THE BORDER","description":"Contents\u003cbr\u003e               Preface.\u003cbr\u003e   Chapter  1: A Border Hold.\u003cbr\u003e   Chapter  2: Across The Border.\u003cbr\u003e   Chapter  3: At Alnwick.\u003cbr\u003e   Chapter  4: An Unequal Joust.\u003cbr\u003e   Chapter  5: A Mission.\u003cbr\u003e   Chapter  6: At Dunbar.\u003cbr\u003e   Chapter  7: Back To Hotspur.\u003cbr\u003e   Chapter  8: Ludlow Castle.\u003cbr\u003e   Chapter  9: The Welsh Rising.\u003cbr\u003e   Chapter 10: A Breach Of Duty.\u003cbr\u003e   Chapter 11: Bad News.\u003cbr\u003e   Chapter 12: A Dangerous Mission.\u003cbr\u003e   Chapter 13: Escape.\u003cbr\u003e   Chapter 14: In Hiding.\u003cbr\u003e   Chapter 15: Another Mission To Ludlow.\u003cbr\u003e   Chapter 16: A Letter For The King.\u003cbr\u003e   Chapter 17: Knighted.\u003cbr\u003e   Chapter 18: Glendower.\u003cbr\u003e   Chapter 19: The Battle Of Homildon Hill.\u003cbr\u003e   Chapter 20: The Percys' Discontent.\u003cbr\u003e   Chapter 21: Shrewsbury.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe four opening years of the fifteenth century were among the most\u003cbr\u003estirring in the history of England. Owen Glendower carried fire and\u003cbr\u003eslaughter among the Welsh marches, captured most of the strong places\u003cbr\u003eheld by the English, and foiled three invasions, led by the king\u003cbr\u003ehimself. The northern borders were invaded by Douglas; who, after\u003cbr\u003edevastating a large portion of Northumberland, Cumberland, and Durham,\u003cbr\u003ewas defeated and taken prisoner at the battle of Homildon, by the Earl\u003cbr\u003eof Northumberland, and his son Hotspur. Then followed the strange and\u003cbr\u003eunnatural coalition between the Percys, Douglas of Scotland, Glendower\u003cbr\u003eof Wales, and Sir Edmund Mortimer--a coalition that would assuredly\u003cbr\u003ehave overthrown the king, erected the young Earl of March as a puppet\u003cbr\u003emonarch under the tutelage of the Percys, and secured the independence\u003cbr\u003eof Wales, had the royal forces arrived one day later at Shrewsbury, and\u003cbr\u003eso allowed the confederate armies to unite.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKing Henry's victory there, entailing the death of Hotspur and the\u003cbr\u003ecapture of Douglas, put an end to this formidable insurrection; for,\u003cbr\u003ealthough the Earl of Northumberland twice subsequently raised the\u003cbr\u003ebanner of revolt, these risings were easily crushed; while Glendower's\u003cbr\u003epower waned, and order, never again to be broken, was at length\u003cbr\u003erestored in Wales. The continual state of unrest and chronic warfare,\u003cbr\u003ebetween the inhabitants of both sides of the border, was full of\u003cbr\u003eadventures as stirring and romantic as that in which the hero of the\u003cbr\u003estory took part.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eG. A. Henty.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1: A Border Hold.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA lad was standing on the little lookout turret, on the top of a border\u003cbr\u003efortalice. The place was evidently built solely with an eye to defence,\u003cbr\u003ecomfort being an altogether secondary consideration. It was a square\u003cbr\u003ebuilding, of rough stone, the walls broken only by narrow loopholes;\u003cbr\u003eand the door, which was ten feet above the ground, was reached by broad\u003cbr\u003ewooden steps, which could be hauled up in case of necessity; and were,\u003cbr\u003ein fact, raised every night.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe building was some forty feet square. The upper floor was divided\u003cbr\u003einto several chambers, which were the sleeping places of its lord and\u003cbr\u003emaster, his family, and the women of the household. The floor below,\u003cbr\u003eonto which the door from without opened, was undivided save by two rows\u003cbr\u003eof stone pillars that supported the beams of the floor above. In one\u003cbr\u003ecorner the floor, some fifteen feet square, was raised somewhat above\u003cbr\u003ethe general level. This was set aside for the use of the master and the\u003cbr\u003efamily. The rest of the apartment was used as the living and sleeping\u003cbr\u003eroom of the followers, and hinds, of the fortalice.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47181765574896,"sku":"2940013289048","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013289048_p0.jpg?v=1763579448","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013289048","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}