# The Last of the Barons — Volume 05

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

Genre: Historical Fiction

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/7719

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

## Summary

Autumn had succeeded to summer, winter to autumn, and the spring of 1468 was green in England, when a gallant cavalcade was seen slowly winding the ascent of a long and gradual hill, towards the decline of day. Different, indeed, from the aspect which that part of the country now presents was the landscape that lay around them, bathed in the smiles of the westering sun. In a valley to the left, a full view of which the steep road commanded (where now roars the din of trade through a thousand factories), lay a long, secluded village. The houses, if so they might be called, were constructed entirely of wood, and that of the more perishable kind,--willow, sallow, elm, and plum- tree. Not one...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-last-of-the-barons-volume-05-7719/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-last-of-the-barons-volume-05-7719/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-last-of-the-barons-volume-05-7719/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-last-of-the-barons-volume-05-7719/chapters/2/index.md)