Crossword-Solution: TARLTON 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 7

Cornwallis had just destroyed the army of Gates at Camden, and his two formidable lieutenants, Tarlton the light horseman, and Ferguson the skilled rifleman, had destroyed or scattered all the smaller bands that had been fighting for the patriot cause.

Dunlop says that the same story has been translated is a collection entitled 'The Fortunate, Deceived, and Unfortunate Lovers,' and that Shakspeare may probably also have seen it in 'Tarlton's Newes out of Purgatorie,' where the incidents related in the Lovers of Pisa are given according to Straparola's story.

PAGE THE ORPHANS 1 LAZY LAWRENCE 19 THE FALSE KEY 41 SIMPLE SUSAN 61 THE WHITE PIGEON 114 THE BIRTHDAY PRESENT 123 ETON MONTEM 135 FORGIVE AND FORGET 173 WASTE NOT, WANT NOT; OR, TWO STRINGS TO YOUR BOW 185 OLD POZ 208 THE MIMIC 219 THE BARRING OUT; OR, PARTY SPIRIT 246 THE BRACELETS 279 THE LITTLE MERCHANTS 301 TARLTON 349 THE BASKET WOMAN 365 THE ORPHANS.

Loveit and another boy, called Tarlton, began to play a game of battledore and shuttlecock, and a large party stood by to look on, for they were the best players at battledore and shuttlecock in the school, and this was a trial of skill between them.

The shuttlecock began to waver in the air; now it almost touched the ground, and now, to the astonishment of the spectators, mounted again high over their heads: yet the strokes became feebler and feebler; and “Now, Loveit!” “Now, Tarlton!” resounded on all sides.