# The Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green Author: Bede, Cuthbert, 1827-1889 Genre: Category: Humour Language: English License: Public domain Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4644 Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Adventures+of+Mr.+Verdant+Green+Bede&tag=cyberlibrar00-20 ## Summary IF you will refer to the unpublished volume of "Burke's Landed Gentry", and turn to letter G, article "GREEN," you will see that the Verdant Greens are a family of some respectability and of considerable antiquity. We meet with them as early as 1096, flocking to the Crusades among the followers of Peter the Hermit, when one of their number, Greene surnamed the Witless, mortgaged his lands in order to supply his poorer companions with the sinews of war. The family estate, however, appears to have been redeemed and greatly increased by his great-grandson, Hugo de Greene, but was again jeoparded in the year 1456, when Basil Greene, being commissioned by Henry the Sixth to enrich his sovereig... ## Chapters - [Chapter 44](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-adventures-of-mr-verdant-green-4644/chapters/44/index.md) - [Chapter 18](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-adventures-of-mr-verdant-green-4644/chapters/18/index.md) - [Chapter 33](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-adventures-of-mr-verdant-green-4644/chapters/33/index.md) - [Chapter 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-adventures-of-mr-verdant-green-4644/chapters/10/index.md) - [Chapter 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-adventures-of-mr-verdant-green-4644/chapters/11/index.md) - [Chapter 19](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-adventures-of-mr-verdant-green-4644/chapters/19/index.md) - [Chapter 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-adventures-of-mr-verdant-green-4644/chapters/6/index.md) - [Chapter 20](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-adventures-of-mr-verdant-green-4644/chapters/20/index.md) - [Chapter 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-adventures-of-mr-verdant-green-4644/chapters/13/index.md) - [Chapter 17](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-adventures-of-mr-verdant-green-4644/chapters/17/index.md) - [Chapter 30](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-adventures-of-mr-verdant-green-4644/chapters/30/index.md) - [Chapter 42](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-adventures-of-mr-verdant-green-4644/chapters/42/index.md) - [Chapter 22](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-adventures-of-mr-verdant-green-4644/chapters/22/index.md) - [Chapter 41](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-adventures-of-mr-verdant-green-4644/chapters/41/index.md) - [Chapter 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-adventures-of-mr-verdant-green-4644/chapters/8/index.md) - [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-adventures-of-mr-verdant-green-4644/chapters/4/index.md) - [Chapter 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-adventures-of-mr-verdant-green-4644/chapters/9/index.md) - [Chapter 35](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-adventures-of-mr-verdant-green-4644/chapters/35/index.md) - [Chapter 15](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-adventures-of-mr-verdant-green-4644/chapters/15/index.md) - [Chapter 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-adventures-of-mr-verdant-green-4644/chapters/12/index.md) - [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-adventures-of-mr-verdant-green-4644/chapters/5/index.md) - [Chapter 29](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-adventures-of-mr-verdant-green-4644/chapters/29/index.md) - [Chapter 37](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-adventures-of-mr-verdant-green-4644/chapters/37/index.md) - [Chapter 21](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-adventures-of-mr-verdant-green-4644/chapters/21/index.md) - [Chapter 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-adventures-of-mr-verdant-green-4644/chapters/7/index.md) - [Chapter 14](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-adventures-of-mr-verdant-green-4644/chapters/14/index.md) - [Chapter 38](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-adventures-of-mr-verdant-green-4644/chapters/38/index.md) - [Chapter 36](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-adventures-of-mr-verdant-green-4644/chapters/36/index.md) - [Chapter 39](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-adventures-of-mr-verdant-green-4644/chapters/39/index.md) - [Chapter 43](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-adventures-of-mr-verdant-green-4644/chapters/43/index.md) - [Chapter 23](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-adventures-of-mr-verdant-green-4644/chapters/23/index.md) - [Chapter 34](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-adventures-of-mr-verdant-green-4644/chapters/34/index.md) - [Chapter 32](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-adventures-of-mr-verdant-green-4644/chapters/32/index.md) - [Chapter 16](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-adventures-of-mr-verdant-green-4644/chapters/16/index.md) - [Chapter 24](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-adventures-of-mr-verdant-green-4644/chapters/24/index.md) - [Chapter 40](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-adventures-of-mr-verdant-green-4644/chapters/40/index.md) - [Chapter 31](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-adventures-of-mr-verdant-green-4644/chapters/31/index.md) - [Chapter 28](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-adventures-of-mr-verdant-green-4644/chapters/28/index.md) - [Chapter 25](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-adventures-of-mr-verdant-green-4644/chapters/25/index.md) - [Chapter 27](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-adventures-of-mr-verdant-green-4644/chapters/27/index.md) - [Chapter 26](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-adventures-of-mr-verdant-green-4644/chapters/26/index.md) - [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-adventures-of-mr-verdant-green-4644/chapters/1/index.md) - [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-adventures-of-mr-verdant-green-4644/chapters/2/index.md) - [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-adventures-of-mr-verdant-green-4644/chapters/3/index.md)