Chapter 11: An Adventure of Hardress Fitzgerald, a Royalist Captain

An Adventure of Hardress Fitzgerald, a Royalist Captain Being an Eleventh Extract from the Legacy of the Late Francis Purcell, P.P. of Drumcoolagh. The following brief narrative contains a faithful account of one of the many strange incidents which chequered the life of Hardress Fitzgerald—one of the now-forgotten heroes who flourished during the most stirring and, though the most disastrous, by no means the least glorious period of our eventful history. He was a captain of horse in t…