The book contains an account of many strange incidents that revolve around the life of Hardress Fitzgerald. Excerpt: He was a captain of horse in the army of James, and shared the fortunes of his master, enduring privations, encountering dangers, and submitting to vicissitudes the most galling and ruinous, with a fortitude and heroism which would if coupled with his other virtues have rendered the unhappy monarch whom he served, the most illustrious among unfortunate princes.