The Gentleman Pensioner

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Excerpt from The Gentleman Pensioner: A Romance of the Year 1569 It was an hour or two before noon on the twentieth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand five hundred and sixty-nine, when I rode up full speed to the Temple Gate, and called for some one to Show the way to the house Of Master William Tucker, the Mayor of Bristol. And Why? Cried a stout-built warden. Who is my lord that he should be so big, and demand an escort to the worshipful magistrate's abode? And SO saying, the man, with a derisive smile upon his face, drew back to look critically at the mud-bespattered rider, whose horse was panting, and looked for all that he was sadly Spurred and bleeding at the sides, and fit to drop upon the stones from sheer exhaustion. Nay, sirrah! I cried, for my errand was a pressing one, as the state Of my horse might well tell. There is no time for jesting. I come on urgent business for the Queen, and it will not hold. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.