Woodstock (novel)

Woodstock
"Bevis", on the frontispiece of the 1863 edition by A & C Black
AuthorSir Walter Scott
LanguageEnglish
SeriesWaverley Novels
GenreHistorical novel
PublisherArchibald Constable and Co. (Edinburgh); Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green]] (London)
Publication date
1826
Publication placeScotland
Media typePrint
Pages417 (Edinburgh Edition, 2009)
Preceded byThe Talisman 
Followed byChronicles of the Canongate 

Woodstock, or The Cavalier. A Tale of the Year Sixteen Hundred and Fifty-one (1826) is a historical novel by Sir Walter Scott, one of the Waverley novels. Set just after the English Civil War, it was inspired by the legend of the Good Devil of Woodstock, which in 1649 supposedly tormented parliamentary commissioners who had taken possession of a royal residence at Woodstock, Oxfordshire. The story deals with the escape of Charles II in 1652, during the Commonwealth, and his final triumphant entry into London on 29 May 1660.