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1777
The Price of Treachery Clay Lane

A Danish soldier in the seventeenth century imposes the severest sentence he can think of.

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1778
The Princess on the Pea Clay Lane

A fastidious prince felt he deserved a girl of royal refinement, and he certainly found one.

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1779
The Prisoner from Provence Tighe Hopkins

When Saint-Mars arrived to take over as warden of the Bastille in 1698, staff at Paris’s most famous prison had eyes only for his prisoner.

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1780
The Prisoner’s Friend Clay Lane

Thomas Wright never earned more than a foreman’s wage, but he helped hundreds of prisoners back into society.

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1781
The Prophecy of Peter of Pomfret George McKinnon Wrong

Peter foretold that King John would cease to be England’s sovereign, and he was right, though John still wore his crown.

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1782
The Provisions of Oxford D. H. Montgomery

When King Henry III’s barons turned up to his council wearing full armour, he realised he had to mend his ways.

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