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The White Company

by Sir Arthur Conan DOYLE (1859 - 1930)

How the Black Sheep Came forth from the Fold

Set during the Hundred Years' War with France, The White Company tells the story of a young Saxon man who is learning what it is to be a knight. Raised by Cistercian Monks and rejected by a violent elder brother, Alleyn Edricson takes service with one of the foremost knights in the country. When Alleyn falls in love with the knight's daughter, he must prove himself to be a courageous and honourable knight before he can win her hand. Alleyn and his friends set forth with the other men-at-arms to join Prince Edward in Bordeaux, from where they will take part in the Prince's campaign into Spain. It is in Spain that Alleyn and others must prove themselves to be very valiant and hardy cavaliers. (Summary by Clive Catterall)

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Listen next episodes of The White Company:
How a Champion came forth from the East , How a Strange Company Gathered at the "Pied Merlin" , How a Young Shepherd had a Perilous Flock , How Agostino Pisano Risked his Head , How Alleyne Edricson came out into the World , How Alleyne Learned More than he could Teach , How Alleyne Won his Place in an Honorable Guild , How England held the Lists at Bordeaux , How Five Men held the Keep of Villefranche , How Hordle John Cozened the Fuller of Lymington , How Hordle John Found a Man Whom He Might Follow , How Roger Club-foot was Passed into Paradise , How Samkin Aylward Wagered his Feather-bed , How Sir Nigel Hawked at an Eagle , How Sir Nigel Loring put a Patch upon his Eye , How Sir Nigel sought for a Wayside Venture , How Sir Nigel Took the Patch from his Eye , How Sir Nigel wrote to Twynham Castle , How Strange Things Befell in Minstead Wood , How the Army made the Passage of Roncesvalles , How the Bailiff of Southampton Slew the Two Masterless Men , How the Blessed Hour of Sight Came to the Lady Tiphaine , How the Bowmen held Wassail at the "Rose de Guienne" , How the Brushwood Men came to the Chateau of Villefranche , How the Company Made Sport in the Vale of Pampeluna , How the Company took Counsel Round the Fallen Tree , How the Comrades came over the Marches of France , How the Three Comrades Gained a Mighty Treasure , How the Three Comrades Journeyed through the Woodlands , How the White Company came to be Disbanded , How the White Company set forth to the Wars , How the Yellow Cog crossed the Bar of Gironde , How the Yellow Cog fought the Two Rover Galleys , How the Yellow Cog sailed forth from Lepe , How there was Stir at the Abbey of St. Andrew's , Of the Home-coming to Hampshire , The Three Friends