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  BY

  WHAT AUTHORITY?

  By

  Robert Hugh Benson

  _Author of_

  "The Light Invisible," "The King's Achievement," "A Book of the Love of Jesus," etc.

  BENIZIGER BROS. PRINTERS TO THE HOLY APOSTOLIC SEE, NEW YORK, CINCINNATI, CHICAGO.

  _I wish to acknowledge a great debt of gratitude to the Reverend Dom Bede Camm., O.S.B., who kindly read this book in proof, and made many valuable corrections and suggestions._

  ROBERT HUGH BENSON

  _Tremans Horsted Keynes October 27, 1904_

  PENATIBVS . FOCISQVE . CARIS

  NECNON . TRIBVS . CARIORIBVS

  APVD . QVAS . SCRIPSI

  IN . QVARVM . AVRES . LEGI

  A . QVIBVS . ADMONITVS . EMENDAVI

  HVNC . LIBRVM

  D.

  CONTENTS

  PART I

  CHAP. PAGE

  I. The Situation 1

  II. The Hall and the House 8

  III. London Town 21

  IV. Mary Corbet 37

  V. A Rider From London 51

  VI. Mr. Stewart 64

  VII. The Door in the Garden Wall 79

  VIII. The Taking of Mr. Stewart 90

  IX. Village Justice 99

  X. A Confessor 108

  XI. Master Calvin 124

  XII. A Winding Up 140

  PART II

  I. Anthony in London 152

  II. Some New Lessons 168

  III. Hubert's Return 183

  IV. A Counter March 196

  V. The Coming of the Jesuits 213

  VI. Some Contrasts 235

  VII. A Message From the City 252

  VIII. The Massing-House 267

  IX. From Fulham to Greenwich 279

  X. The Appeal to Caesar 296

  XI. A Station of the Cross 313

  XII. A Strife of Tongues 334

  XIII. The Spiritual Exercises 351

  XIV. Easter Day 368

  PART III

  I. The Coming of Spain 384

  II. Men of War and Peace 390

  III. Home-Coming 404

  IV. Stanfield Place 421

  V. Joseph Lackington 429

  VI. A Departure 439

  VII. Northern Religion 453

  VIII. In Stanstead Woods 468

  IX. The Alarm 484

  X. The Passage To the Garden-house 492

  XI. The Garden-house 505

  XII. The Night Ride 521

  XIII. In Prison 526

  XIV. An Open Door 541

  XV. The Rolling of the Stone 552

  BY WHAT AUTHORITY?

  PART I