Chippinge

Arthur Vaughan's political ambitions seem destined to be short lived when his radical opinions find him first disowned then disinherited by his powerful cousin, Sir Robert Vermuyden, patron of Chippinge - a key borough to both parties in the bitter election battles. (Chippinge is really Malmesbury in Wiltshire.) How Vaughan goes to Parliament, overcomes the suspicions of both Whigs and Tories, finds himself a rival for the love of Mary Smith, a pretty governess with a secret, and behaves with great gallantry during the Bristol Riots, when the fate of a frightened city and a divided nation lay in the balance, makes a gripping story which has delighted lovers of historical romance for over sixty years


Genre: Literary Fiction