The history of Richard Raynal, solitary (1912). By: Robert Hugh Benson: Historical novel

The History of Richard Raynal, Solitary is a historical novel by Robert Hugh Benson, first published in 1906.The novel is presented as if it had been edited from a fifteenth-century manuscript. It describes the life of Richard Raynal, an English solitary or hermit, whose quiet life is interrupted by a vision he interprets as a call from God to deliver a message to the king (seemingly Henry VI). Although the character of Raynal is fictitious, he bears some similarity to the real English myst...