NOVELS: The Dynham Chronicles: The Wars of the Roses As Recalled By A Devonshire Family: Chronicles 9, 10, 11 & 12 1469 -1472

The Dynham Chronicles: The Wars of the Roses As Recalled By A Devonshire Family: Chronicles 9, 10, 11 & 12 1469 -1472

It is 1469, and the Dynham clan are about to face another threatening challenge—the Exeter Rebellion, which came about as part of the Earl of Warwick’s plot...to depose King Edward and replace him with George, Duke of Clarence, his protégé and Edward’s younger brother.

This is a particularly trying time for the Carew family: Nicholas, married to John Dynham’s sister Margaret and his health deteriorating rapidly, is now Sheriff of Devon and has been appointed to spearhead a commission of array to apprehend the rebels—an arduous and dangerous task which ends catastrophically for Philip Atkyn, who recalls the horrors of the rebellion in Chronicle Nine, and his ordeal at the hands of Hugh Courtenay of Boconnoc, one of Warwick’s most violent and psychotic adherents. Chronicle Ten, recalled by Jed Corbett, tells of the family’s flight to Blegberry, the Atkyn stronghold on the Hartland Peninsular, in the wake of further civil unrest which sees King Edward temporarily ousted from the throne, and the so-called “readeption” of the deposed puppet-king, Henry VI—and John Dynham himself captured by Courtenay. Philip picks up the story in Chronicle Eleven, whilst Jed, closing this volume of the saga with Chronicle Twelve, recalls the biggest series of tragedies to befall the family thus far.