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Bladys of the Stewponey

Bladys of the Stewponey

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Number of Chapters: 27

Length: 6 hours and 45 minutes

Language: English

The setting, geography and history of this story by Rev'd Sabine Baring-Gould, author of Onward Christian Soldiers and a number of other well-known hymns, are all accurate, or at least as accurate as local lore will allow. Kinver has long been a midlands beauty spot, and the UK National Trust own and open one of the rock-dwellings mentioned. The 'Stewponey' too was an inn until a year or two into the twenty-first century: http://www.blackcountrybugle.co.uk/News/Reminder-of-the-heyday-of-the-old-Stewponey-2.htm - the present reader having stopped there for a drink and a meal many times.

The story, whether you call it a romance, a historical novel or a horror story - comprising as it does a young woman being offered as a prize in a bowling match, a wife-burning, highwaymen and buried treasure - is of course wholly fiction. (Introduction by AJM)

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Chapter 01 - Oyez! (Andy Minter (1934-2017))
Chapter 02 - In the Cellar (Andy Minter (1934-2017))
Chapter 03 - Crispin (Andy Minter (1934-2017))
Chapter 04 - The Bowling Green (Andy Minter (1934-2017))
Chapter 05 - The Jack (Andy Minter (1934-2017))
Chapter 06 - A Mad Wedding (Andy Minter (1934-2017))
Chapter 07 - Stand! Deliver! (Andy Minter (1934-2017))
Chapter 08 - The Rock Tavern (Andy Minter (1934-2017))
Chapter 09 - Nan (Andy Minter (1934-2017))
Chapter 10 - Castle Foregate (Andy Minter (1934-2017))
Chapter 11 - A White Devil (Andy Minter (1934-2017))
Chapter 12 - Petty Treason (Andy Minter (1934-2017))
Chapter 13 - The Last in England (Andy Minter (1934-2017))
Chapter 14 - A Challenge (Andy Minter (1934-2017))
Chapter 15 - Vashti (Andy Minter (1934-2017))
Chapter 16 - Drie (Andy Minter (1934-2017))
Chapter 17 - Kynaston's Cave (Andy Minter (1934-2017))
Chapter 18 - A Crooked Finger (Andy Minter (1934-2017))
Chapter 19 - A Second Flight (Andy Minter (1934-2017))
Chapter 20 - The Tally Stick (Andy Minter (1934-2017))
Chapter 21 - A Protector (Andy Minter (1934-2017))
Chapter 22 - Holy Austin Rock (Andy Minter (1934-2017))
Chapter 23 - Meg-A-Fox Hole (Andy Minter (1934-2017))
Chapter 24 - At The Rock Foot (Andy Minter (1934-2017))
Chapter 25 - Nan, Farewell! (Andy Minter (1934-2017))
Chapter 26 - The Crooked Finger Again (Andy Minter (1934-2017))
Appendix - Burning for Petty Treason (Andy Minter (1934-2017))
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