The Caged Lion Author:Charlotte Mary Yonge General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1870 Original Publisher: Macmillan Subjects: James I, King of Scotland, 1394-1437 -- Fiction Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get... more » free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER IV. THE TIDINGS OF BEAUGE. Malcolm understood it at last. In the great chamber where he was bidden to wait with " Nigel" till " Sir James" came from a private conference with " Harry," he had all explained to him, but with a curtness and brevity that must not be imitated in the present narrative. The squire Nigel was in fact Sir Nigel Baird, Baron of Bairdsbrae, the gentleman to whom poor King Robert II. had committed the charge of his young son James, when at fourteen he had been sent to France, nominally for education, but in reality to secure him from the fate of his brother Rothsay. Captured by English vessels on the way, the heir of Scotland had been too valuable a prize to be resigned by the politic Henry IV., who had lodged him at Windsor Castle, together with Edmund Mortimer, earl of March, and placed both under the nominal charge of the Prince of Wales, a youth of a few years older. Unjust as was the detention, it had been far from severe; the boys had as much liberty as their age and recreation required, and received the choicest training both in the arts of war and peace. They were bred up in close intercourse with the King's own four sons, and were united with them by the warmest sympathy. In fact, since usurpation had filled Henry of Lancaster's mind with distrust and jealousy, his eldest son had been inno such enviable position as to be beyond the capacity of fellow-feeling for the royal prisoner. Of a peculiarly frank, open, and affectionate nature, young Henry had so warmly loved the ge...« less