In the Mayor's Parlour

CHAPTER I

THE MAYOR'S PARLOUR

Hathelsborough market-place lies in the middle of the town--a long, somewhat narrow parallelogram, enclosed on its longer side by old gabled houses; shut in on its western end by the massive bulk of the great parish church of St. Hathelswide, Virgin and Martyr, and at its eastern by the ancient walls and high roofs of its mediaeval Moot Hall....