Amy Robsart and Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester and favorite of the Queen, try to keep their forbidden marriage a secret during the reign of Elizabeth I of England.
Sir Walter Scott's 1825 novel which dramatizes Scottish knight Simon Lockhart's acquisition, during the Crusades, of the medical talisman later known as the "Lee-penny.".
Francis Obaldistone, the novel's hero, contends with his jealous, unscrupulous cousin Rashleigh for the hand of a beautiful woman, and with the help of Rob Roy, Francis succeeds in exposing Rashieigh's villainy.
