Micah Clarke: A Tale of the Bloody Monmouth Rebellion

by Arthur Conan Doyle

Overview

Narrated by the character for whom the title is named and set in the late 1600's, Micah Clarke describes the battle of peasants against the existing king of England in the hopes that they can replace the monarch with his brother who feels he has been unjustly denied the throne. Micah Clarke, a young, innocent peasant joins forces with other peasants, among the Puritans, to fight for this pathetic duke's cause. It was attempt by Conan Doyle to present the story of the Puritans in a more favorable light than generally thought of in England at the time the book was written – a historical romance about the Monmouth rebellion and 'Hanging Judge' Jeffries told by a humble adherent of the Duke of Monmouth – the whole story of the rising in Somerset, the triumphant advance towards Bristol and Bath, and the tragic rout at Sedgemoor (1685).

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9788835864097
Publisher:	Diamond Book Publishing
Publication date:	07/13/2020
Series:	Arthur Conan Doyle Collection , #25
Sold by:	StreetLib SRL
Format:	eBook
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

The life of Arthur Conan Doyle illustrates the excitement and diversity of the Victorian age unlike that of any other single figure of the period. At different points in his life he was a surgeon on a whaling ship; a GP; an apprentice eye-surgeon; an unsuccessful parliamentary candidate (twice); a multi-talented sportsman; one of the inventors of cross-country skiing in Switzerland; a formidable public speaker; a campaigner against miscarriages of justice; a military strategist; a writer in a range of forms; and the head of an extraordinary family. In his autobiography, he wrote: 'I have had a life which, for variety and romance, could, I think, hardly be exceeded.' He was not wrong. But Conan Doyle was also a Victorian with a twist, a man of tensions and contradictions. He was fascinated by travel, exploration, and invention, indeed all things modern and technological; yet at the same time he was also very traditional, voicing support for values such as chivalry, duty, constancy, and honour. By the time of his death in July 1930 he was a celebrity, achieving worldwide fame and notoriety for his creation of the rationalist, scientific super-detective Sherlock Holmes; yet at the same time his later decades were taken up with his advocacy of the new religion of Spiritualism, in which he was a devoted believer.

Date of Birth:

May 22, 1859

Date of Death:

July 7, 1930

Place of Birth:

Edinburgh, Scotland

Place of Death:

Crowborough, Sussex, England

Education:

Edinburgh University, B.M., 1881; M.D., 1885

Table of Contents

I.	Of Cornet Joseph Clarke of the Ironsides	9
II.	Of my Going to School and of my Coming Thence	17
III.	Of Two Friends of my Youth	28
IV.	Of the Strange Fish that we Caught at Spithead	32
V.	Of the Man with the Drooping Lids	39
VI.	Of the Letter that Came from the Lowlands	45
VII.	Of the Horseman that Rode from the West	57
VIII.	Of our Start for the Wars	63
IX.	Of a Passage of Arms at the Blue Boar	74
X.	Of our Perilous Adventure on the Plain	80
XI.	Of the Lonely Man and the Gold Chest	93
XII.	Of Certain Passages upon the Moor	103
XIII.	Of Sir Gervas Jerome, Knight Banneret of the County of Surrey	112
XIV.	Of the Stiff-legged Parson and his Flock	123
XV.	Of our Brush with the King's Dragoons	131
XVI.	Of our Coming to Taunton	142
XVII.	Of the Gathering in the Market-Square	149
XVIII.	Of Master Stephen Timewell, Mayor of Taunton	159
XIX.	Of a Brawl in the Night	178
XX.	Of the Muster of the Men of the West	189
XXI.	Of my Hand-gripes with the Bradenburger	198
XXII.	Of the News from Havant	213
XXIII.	Of the Snare on the Western Road	221
XXIV.	Of the Welcome that Met me at Badminton	237
XXV.	Of Strange Doings in the Boteler Dungeon	252
XXVI.	Of the Strife in the Council	266
XXVII.	Of the Affair near Keynsham Bridge	272
XXVIII.	Of the Fight in Wells Cathedral	281
XXIX.	Of the Great Cry from the Lonely House	291
XXX.	Of the Swordsman with the Brown Jacket	298
XXXI.	Of the Maid of the Marsh and the Bubble which Rose from the Bog	310
XXXII.	Of the Onfall at Sedgemoor	324
XXXIII.	Of my Perilous Adventure at the Mill	349
XXXIV.	Of the Coming of Solomon Sprent	361
XXXV.	Of the Devil in Wig and Gown	371
XXXVI.	Of the End of it All	394
	Appendix	399