as representing his class. He is a POSSIBILITY modified to serve
the purposes of the story.

Into historical matters, however, I have only entered so far as my
story became involved with them. And here I have to apologize for
a few blunders, detected too late for alteration even in the
volumes. Sir Francis Walsingham was a young rising statesman in
1572, instead of the elderly sage he is represented; his daughter
Frances was a mere infant, and Sir Philip Sidney was not knighted
till much later. For the rest, I have tried to show the scenes
that shaped themselves before me as carefully as I could; though of
course they must not be a presentiment of the times themselves, but
of my notion of them.

C. M. Yonge

November 14th, 1868





THE CHAPLET OF PEARLS

or

THE WHITE AND BLACK RIBAUMONT