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Elizabeth of Tudor:


The Girl of the Hertford Manor.


[Afterward Queen Elizabeth of England; the "Good Queen Bess."]
A.D. 1548.


The iron-shod hoofs of the big gray courser rang sharply on the frozen ground, as, beneath the creaking boughs of the long-armed oaks, Launcelot Crue, the Lord Protector's fleetest courser-man, galloped across the Hertford fells or hills, and reined up his horse within the great gates of Hatfield manor-house.

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