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Sir Christopher
Sir Christopher
A Romance of a Maryland
Manor in 1644
BY
MAUD WILDER GOODWIN
Author of "The Head of a Hundred," "White Aprons,"
"The Colonial Cavalier," etc.
Illustrated by
HOWARD PYLE, AND OTHER ARTISTS
Boston
Little, Brown, and Company
1901
Copyright, 1901,
By Little, Brown, and Company.
All rights reserved
Entered at Stationers' Hall
UNIVERSITY PRESS · JOHN WILSON
AND SON · CAMBRIDGE, U. S. A.
TO
BLANCHE WILDER BELLAMY
AND
FREDERICK PUTNAM BELLAMY
Preface
On a bluff of the Maryland coast stand achurch, a school, a huddle of gravestones,and an obelisk raised to the memory of LeonardCalvert. These alone mark the site of St. Mary's,once the capital of the Palatinate.
It is near this little town, about the middle ofthe seventeenth century, that my story begins,among the feuds then raging between Catholicand Protestant, Cavalier and Roundhead, Marylanderand Virginian. The Virginians of thatday were but a generation removed from thepioneers who suffered in the massacre of 1622;and the sons and daughters of those early settlerswhose lives were traced in "The Head of aHundred"[A] appear in the present romance.
The adventures of Romney Huntoon, of theBrents, and, most of all, of Christopher Nevilleand Elinor Calvert, furnish t