# The Last of the Barons — Volume 02

Author: Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron, 1803-1873

Genre: Historical Fiction

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/7716

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Last+of+the+Barons+Lytton&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

The young men entered the Strand, which, thanks to the profits of a toll-bar, was a passable road for equestrians, studded towards the river, as we have before observed, with stately and half-fortified mansions; while on the opposite side, here and there, were straggling houses of a humbler kind,--the mediaeval villas of merchant and trader (for, from the earliest period since the Conquest, the Londoners had delight in such retreats), surrounded with blossoming orchards, [On all sides, without the suburbs, are the citizens' gardens and orchards, etc.--FITZSTEPHEN.] and adorned in front with the fleur-de- lis, emblem of the vain victories of renowned Agincourt. But by far the greater porti...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-last-of-the-barons-volume-02-7716/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-last-of-the-barons-volume-02-7716/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-last-of-the-barons-volume-02-7716/chapters/3/index.md)