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Title: The King’s Minion
Date of first publication: 1930
Author: Rafael Sabatini
Date first posted: December 20, 2012
Date last updated: December 20, 2012
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THE KING’S MINION

BEING THE RISE AND FALL OF ROBERT CARR OF FERNIEHURST, EARL OF
SOMERSET, VISCOUNT ROCHESTER, BARON WINWICK, BARON BRANCEPETH,
KNIGHT OF THE MOST NOBLE ORDER OF THE GARTER, A MEMBER OF HIS
MAJESTY’S MOST HONORABLE PRIVY COUNCIL &c., &c., &c.

BY RAFAEL SABATINI

McCLELLAND & STEWART LIMITED
PUBLISHERS TORONTO

COPYRIGHT, CANADA, 1980
BY
MCCLELLAND & STEWART, LIMITED

PRINTED IN CANADA
T. H. BEST PRINTING CO., LIMITED
TORONTO, ONT.

CONTENTS

I. IN THE TILT-YARD 3

II. THE RISING SUN 13

III. THOMAS OVERBURY 28

IV. THE BOND 46

V. LADY ESSEX 56

VI. VENERY AND TENNIS 77

VII. PREFERMENT 92

VIII. IMPORTUNATE WOOERS 102

IX. MRS. TURNER 114

X. METHEGLIN 126

XI. MAGIC 141

XII. SCANDAL 152

XIII. AT AUDLEY END 164

XIV. THE EARL OF ESSEX 178

XV. ULTIMATUM 194

XVI. NECROMANCY 206

XVII. CONSTRAINT 218

XVIII. THE COMEDY AT CHARTLEY 231

XIX. CAPITULATION 242

XX. THE ALARM 252

XXI. SIR DAVID WOOD 262

XXII. THE QUARREL 276

XXIII. THE TRAP 288

XXIV. TEMPTATION 300

XXV. THE BISHOP’S MOVE 312

XXVI. THE KING’S MOVE 325

XXVII. MARRIAGE 333

XXVIII. MR. VILLIERS 344

XXIX. GATHERING CLOUDS 363

XXX. THE AVALANCHE 379

XXXI. VALEDICTION 391

XXXII. PRELUDE 405

XXXIII. THE AMBASSADOR 415

XXXIV. THE MERCY OF KING JAMES 429

THE KING’S MINION