# The Splendid Spur — Chapters explained

> Chapter companions for The Splendid Spur by Arthur Quiller-Couch.

- [Dedication](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_splendid_spur_se/chapters/dedication.md): The author dedicates the book to Edward Gwynne Eardley-Wilmot, expressing the joy of pleasing a friend with one's work and the hope that the tale will find a warm welcome from new readers, while noting that the heart of 
- [The Splendid Spur](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_splendid_spur_se/chapters/the-splendid-spur.md): The opening chapter introduces Mr. John Marvel, a servant of King Charles I, and sets the stage for his memoirs during the years 1642-1643, hinting at the adventures and conflicts of the English Civil War.
- [The Bowling-Green of the Crown](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_splendid_spur_se/chapters/i-the-bowling-green-of-the-crown.md): The narrator, a scholar at Trinity College, Oxford, recounts how on November 29, 1642, he fell asleep in Mr. Robert Drury's fencing room and awoke to witness a mysterious man reading in the bowling-green behind the Crown
- [The Young Man in the Cloak of Amber Satin](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_splendid_spur_se/chapters/ii-the-young-man-in-the-cloak-of-amber-satin.md): Jack Marvel, distracted by the plot he overheard, struggles through a rhetoric lecture and later seeks shelter from a hailstorm in the Pig Market. There he encounters Anthony Killigrew, the young man from the bowling-gre
- [III: I Find Myself in a Tavern Brawl: And Barely Escape](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_splendid_spur_se/chapters/iii-i-find-myself-in-a-tavern-brawl-and-barely-escape.md): Jack Marvel receives a note from Anthony Killigrew to meet at the Crown tavern, but upon arrival a brawl erupts. Anthony is fatally wounded by Captain Settle and a trooper. Jack throws a tankard at the trooper, grabs a c

> 17 more chapter companions — [open a free preview](https://www.betterreads.dev/reader?bookId=the_splendid_spur_se_737kb&preview=1) to unlock the rest.

- [I Take the Road](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_splendid_spur_se/chapters/iv-i-take-the-road.md)
- [My Adventure at the Three Cups](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_splendid_spur_se/chapters/v-my-adventure-at-the-three-cups.md)
- [VI: The Flight in the Pine Wood](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_splendid_spur_se/chapters/vi-the-flight-in-the-pine-wood.md)
- [I Find a Comrade](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_splendid_spur_se/chapters/vii-i-find-a-comrade.md)
- [VIII: I Lose the King’s Letter; and Am Carried to Bristol](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_splendid_spur_se/chapters/viii-i-lose-the-king-s-letter-and-am-carried-to-bristol.md)
- [I Break Out of Prison](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_splendid_spur_se/chapters/ix-i-break-out-of-prison.md)
- [Captain Pottery and Captain Settle](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_splendid_spur_se/chapters/x-captain-pottery-and-captain-settle.md)
- [I Ride Down Into Temple: And Am Well Treated There](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_splendid_spur_se/chapters/xi-i-ride-down-into-temple-and-am-well-treated-there.md)
- [How Joan Saved the Army of the West; and Saw the Fight on Braddock Down](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_splendid_spur_se/chapters/xii-how-joan-saved-the-army-of-the-west-and-saw-the-fight-on-braddock-down.md)
- [XIII: I Buy a Looking Glass at Bodmin Fair: And Meet with Mr. Hannibal Tingcomb](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_splendid_spur_se/chapters/xiii-i-buy-a-looking-glass-at-bodmin-fair-and-meet-with-mr-hannibal-tingcomb.md)
- [XIV: I Do No Good in the House of Gleys](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_splendid_spur_se/chapters/xiv-i-do-no-good-in-the-house-of-gleys.md)
- [XV: I Leave Joan and Ride to the Wars](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_splendid_spur_se/chapters/xv-i-leave-joan-and-ride-to-the-wars.md)
- [The Battle of Stamford Heath](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_splendid_spur_se/chapters/xvi-the-battle-of-stamford-heath.md)
- [XVII: I Meet with a Happy Adventure by Burning of a Green Light](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_splendid_spur_se/chapters/xvii-i-meet-with-a-happy-adventure-by-burning-of-a-green-light.md)
- [XVIII: Joan Does Me Her Last Service](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_splendid_spur_se/chapters/xviii-joan-does-me-her-last-service.md)
- [The Adventure of the Hearse](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_splendid_spur_se/chapters/xix-the-adventure-of-the-hearse.md)
- [XX: The Adventure of the Ledge; and How I Shook Hands with My Comrade](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_splendid_spur_se/chapters/xx-the-adventure-of-the-ledge-and-how-i-shook-hands-with-my-comrade.md)

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