Haunted Hayride with Murder: An Otter Lake Mystery

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: John Gay, Katie Hopkins, Charles Curtis, Francis Chichester, Marc Edworthy, Phil Vickery, Rosemary West, Snowy White, Richard Roach Jewell, Cuthbert Mayne, Richard Eyre, William Lethaby, Frederick Richard Lee, Danny Seaborne, W. N. P. Barbellion, Luke Guttridge, Robert Chapman, Stephen Reed, Arthur Chichester, 1st Baron Chichester, Martin Barlow, Tim Wonnacott, Douglas Kendrew, Peter Griffiths, John Loosemore, Carrie Davis, Francis Carruthers Gould, Tim Mills, Simon Ireland, Hubert Bath, James Parsons. Excerpt: The Lord Chichester Arthur Chichester, 1st Baron Chichester (May 1563 19 February 1625), known between 1596 and 1613 as Sir Arthur Chichester , was an English administrator and soldier, best known as the Lord Deputy of Ireland from 1604 to 1615. Early life Chichester's parents were Sir John Chichester and the former Gertrude Courtenay, daughter of Sir William Courtenay, of the Earls of Devon . After attending Exeter College , Oxford , Chichester commanded HMS Larke against the Spanish Armada in 1588. In 1595 he accompanied Sir Francis Drake on his last expedition to the Americas. Later in the Anglo Spanish War he commanded a company during the 1596 raid on Cádiz , for which he was knighted. Ireland His career in Ireland began when the Earl of Essex appointed him Governor of Carrickfergus in 1598, upon the death of his brother Sir John Chichester. John Chichester had been killed at the Battle of Carrickfergus the previous year. It is said that John Chichester was decapitated, his head being used as a football by the MacDonnell clan after their victory. James Sorley MacDonnell, commander of the clan's forces at the Battle of Carrickfergus, was poisoned in Dunluce Castle on the orders of Robert Cecil to placate Chichester. During the Nine Years' War he commanded crown troop...