![]() ![]() Meanwhile, Sir Daniel is staying at an inn, waiting for reinforcements and declining to join his ally Lord Risingham's fighting troops while the battle's outcome remains undetermined. Since the message accuses his targets, among others crimes, of killing Sir Harry Shelton, Dick starts wondering how his father died.ĭick is dispatched to Kettley, where Sir Daniel is quartered, to carry a message from Sir Oliver. Shortly after, another Black Arrow pins a message to the church's door, warning that his leader Jon Amend-All has four black arrows under his belt for the black hearts of Daniel Brackey and his retainers Nicholas Appleyard, Bennet Hatch, and Oliver Oates. As Dick is visiting the village, Sir Daniel's old retainer Nicholas Appleyard is murdered by an outlaw of "the Black Arrow". Richard "Dick" Shelton, ward of Sir Daniel Brackley, goes to Tunstall hamlet to talk the villagers into joining Sir Daniel's forces in the Battle of Risingham. The story begins in 1460, when England is being torn apart by the war between the Houses of York and Lancaster. The Black Arrow is a historical novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, set in the English Wars of the Roses (1455-1487). ![]()
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