# The hermit of the forest

Author: Anonymous

Genre: Category: Novels

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/70462

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+hermit+of+the+forest+Anonymous&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

In the romantic forest of Englewood, which formerly composed a great part of the county of Cumberland, lived a celebrated hermit, whose name was Honestus. He was once a very considerable farmer, possessed of very extensive lands, and of large flocks and herds; but the perpetual inroads of the Scots, who frequently plundered the northern parts of England, very much reduced him. At last those plunderers completely ruined him; for, in the last excursion they made on his estate, they carried off all his family, drove away his cattle, and set fire to his barns and houses, he himself escaping with great difficulty. See the representation of this deplorable scene.

## Chapters

- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-hermit-of-the-forest-70462/chapters/1/index.md)