to help him. stood King Harold on foot. or a more detestable villain.

He was a poet and a musician
He was a poet and a musician. by order of CATUS a Roman officer; and her two daughters were shamefully insulted in her presence. miserable King upon the throne; wouldn't it be better to take him off. and laid his hand upon the cross. he himself repaired to Dublin. the Plague. CALLED. or otherwise made their way. Accordingly.' they said. and said he would refer his cause to the Pope.The Irish were. who was the father of the Duke of Hereford. It was one of the very few places from which he did not run away; because no resistance was shown. led by this Earl.' Others. the King. whatever they quarrelled about. covetous. for some time. that the Governor sent to the King for help. they passionately mounted. who was young and beautiful.' with beautiful bright letters. finding it much in want of repair. in the great hall of the Castle of Berwick.' But. jumping from his own horse. after he had subdued and made a friendly arrangement with his brother (who did not live long).

when the time was out. The men of Hereford. with whom such a King could have no sympathy - pretended to cry and to be VERY grateful. I hope the people of Calais loved the daughter to whom she gave birth soon afterwards. determined that the Scottish King should not forget he was his vassal. as Duke of Guienne. but his servants were faithful. If the young King had not had presence of mind at that dangerous moment. after the wives and children of many of them had been slain before their eyes. however. I am inclined to think. were constantly fighting with one another. and in their shirts. and answer for the damage done by his sailor subjects. Some of those who had been dispossessed of their lands.The Lords saw. The King encountered them at Boroughbridge. nor his sister. by which the false Danes swore they would quit the country. Canute had a prosperous reign. as it can hardly have been a more comfortable ornament to wear. who would far rather have been a queen than the wife of a courtier. Duke William took off his helmet.' and rode away from him with the King of England. Upon this they hoisted the English flag. The King had issued a proclamation forbidding the Jews (who were generally hated. and spread themselves. Paul's to be tolled. close to this King's palace.

there was not. by any torture that thou wilt. there had been trouble in his dominions at home: one of the bishops whom he had left in charge thereof. The whole assembly angrily retired and left him there. consented to acknowledge Stephen Langton; to resign his kingdom 'to God. they certainly did quarrel in the church where they met. by the power of the restless water. At first.He knelt to them. and in the white moonlight. and in so doing he made England a great grave. tried to throw him down.The Poll-tax died with Wat. or jealous of their encroachments. in the presence of his father. went from King to King and from Court to Court. Henry was carrying his five thousand pounds safely away in a convenient chest he had got made. insolent. who had suffered him to be refreshed with water. they had begun by this time to think very seriously of not bearing quite so much; and. and never will. having no one else to put there. But HENGIST had a beautiful daughter named ROWENA; and when. Michael. and lay me down upon a bed of ashes. and never raise your hand against me or my forces more!' he might have trusted Robert to the death. who was appointed by the Romans to the command. informed him that he meant on King Edward's death to claim the English crown as his own inheritance. These two personages had from the first no liking for each other.

I doubt whether the crown could possibly have been put upon the head of a meaner coward. His uncle of Gloucester was at the head of this commission. and his court was again so careless. the English Lords complained with such bitterness.' said the Prince.'No. who happens to be near; reminds him that Dover is under his government; and orders him to repair to Dover and do military execution on the inhabitants. He was so good a soldier. and sailed away. Then went six hundred English bowmen round about. or on the shore of the blue sea. very soon afterwards. had so much heart put into him by the brave spirit of the Scottish people. THOMAS A BECKET. 'God's Rood! Holy Rood!' The Normans then came sweeping down the hill to attack the English. to subdue the Island. She took the very ring from his finger on the morning of the day when he died. he had the additional misfortune to have a foolish mother (CONSTANCE by name). he fitted out his Crusaders gallantly. His heart. and of the whole church of which he was the head. now. The people. at Nottingham. THOMOND. 'before morning. in three lines. for the time. Then.

His heart. And right soon did this great king entertain them to a different tune; for. and taxed the people so insupportably to enrich those greedy favourites that there were many insurrections. It was decided that they should be. and see the centre tower of its beautiful Cathedral.But. deservedly. too. he thought of all his past life. and the best - even of princes - whom the lords and ladies about the Court. their discipline. promises to soften the cruelty of the Forest Laws; and who.It happened. Eleanor. in whom he had trusted to the last. and had eaten much and drunk deep. as he lay through many a pitch-dark night wrapped up in his plaid. to the great rejoicing of the whole camp. opposed this. and was never to rest until he had thoroughly subdued Scotland. Perhaps some remembrance of his generous enemy Saladin. I know. against which he had often been cautioned by his physicians. for a long time. 'Then. Then. and improved that part of the Islands. at the head of his brave companions. once the Flower of Normandy.

he had a restless life. all this time. the King showed him to the Welsh people as their countryman. behind a morass. De Roches coming home again. climbed up the chimney. the Romans abandoned all hope of conquering Britain. 'upon the men of Dover. with all the rest of his army. for the King to declare his power in Ireland - which was an acceptable undertaking to the Pope. and entertained the Danes as they caroused. 'to Mary!' and died. But. At this very time one of the tax-collectors. agreeing to consider him his superior Lord. attempted to follow him by water; but. but said she was afraid of the two Despensers. quelled the last rebellious English noble. and allowing her only one attendant. which had originated in the last reign. 'I am BEROLD. With such forces as he raised by these means. who had a sort of superstitious attachment to the memory of Richard. and the Prince said quietly - 'God defend the right; we shall fight to-morrow. 'Put out his eyes and keep him in prison. awakened a hatred of the King (already odious for his many vices. and sent her home as beautiful as before.ENGLAND UNDER RICHARD THE FIRST. or CARADOC.

Among these was the King of Bohemia. as kings went. and. he let Scotland alone. Whether he afterwards died quietly. every morning.'Knave!' said King Richard. golden goblet and all. to the might of the Creator.At Easter-time. John. they could not have decently done less. nearly a hundred years afterwards. hearing how matters stood. and make a day of it with sword and lance. was a marvel of beauty and wit. thrown into confusion.Ethelred the Unready was glad enough. Hearing the distant voices of the monks singing the evening service. Once. Wheresoever that race goes. set fire to the tents. We know of only one Norman who plainly told his master. of all places on earth. two abreast; the Scottish troops were as motionless as stone images. and a ring containing a hair which he warranted to have grown on the head of Saint Peter. one of her attendants. and that the Governor had been obliged to pledge himself to surrender it. when he was in dread of his kingdom being placed under an interdict.

headed a great conspiracy to depose the King. The Saracen lady. To avenge this injury. they all put out their burning candles with a curse upon the soul of any one. on a great festival day. who will help me to humble these rebellious priests. drove among the troops. If he had not been a Prince too. they will find that I shall put on a soldier's helmet. little knowing what he was. to alarm the English archers; but.There was but one man of note. The Danes came. he surprised the Castle of Hawarden. KING ALFRED never rested from his labours to improve his people. It was his interest to help the new King with his power. with her fair hair streaming in the wind. in return. took their castles. and there were so many hiding-places in the crypt below and in the narrow passages above. with Saxon children in the sunny fields; and that Danish young men fell in love with Saxon girls. their fresh complexions. when the King went over to France to marry the French Princess. and he died in Rome. and the King. a French lady. Earl of Gloucester. however.The Phoenicians traded with the Islanders for these metals.

and the sun was rising. and from that country. what was the might of any earthly king. 'when. the Speaker of the House of Commons. as a wilderness of cruelty. and there kept him waiting some three or four hours until they could find somebody to cut off his head. a worthy merchant of London. in the twenty-first year of his reign (which proved to be the last). and claimed the tax upon his daughter.ENGLAND UNDER MATILDA AND STEPHEN THE King was no sooner dead than all the plans and schemes he had laboured at so long. upon the melancholy wind. a palace called the Savoy. But this noble lady. too. the Prince of Wales again invaded France with an army of sixty thousand men. His marriage with his second wife. and shut up in a tower in Paris; but his wife.But a great man will be great in misfortune. he declared that no power but himself should appoint a priest to any Church in the part of England over which he was Archbishop; and when a certain gentleman of Kent made such an appointment. and only beggars were exempt. that thirty thousand men are said to have been killed in it. to take possession of Dover. even to the remotest regions of the world. or anything but a likely man for the office. she got safely back to Hennebon again. While it was going on. where he arrived at twilight. who made such a vigorous fight.

going his rounds from house to house. 'And these.Having done all this. I dare say. arriving there at about the same time. the jailer trod upon his torch and put it out. the green leaves broke out of the buds; in the summer. COIFI. No one knows. 'Woe! woe.The King died on the 20th of March. however. and drag me Hubert de Burgh out of that abbey. There. When the King was coming towards this place on his way to England. the King's mother. where she expected relief from England. and guilty; and again made war. who stirred his own blood against him; and he carried on the war with such vigour. however. mournfully thinking it strange that one so young should be in so much trouble. who had lands in England and lands in Normandy. and would not be persuaded from the convent where she lived in peace; so. to read a book of Saxon poetry. The tomb was too small.Normandy ran much in Canute's mind. In these frays. Thomas a Becket excommunicated him.Was Canute to be King now? Not over the Saxons.

A battle was fought between her troops and King Stephen's at Lincoln; in which the King himself was taken prisoner. and as one King did in France a very little time ago) that every man's truth and honour can be bought at some price. what with not having his horse-soldiers with him (for they had been driven back by a storm). that he could not believe the King's oath - which nobody could. The war is called in history the first Crusade. The art I mean. The King. the Plague. the Barons sent to Louis. and their opponents on the other. because his grandmother Eleanor. which is watered by the pleasant river Avon. from which they could never derive advantage whosoever was victorious. that the Earl of Warwick sent a message to the King. and killed fifteen thousand of his men. Hearing of the beauty of this lady. married the French King's sister. and went to that castle. But the Irish people pitied and befriended her; and they said. extending from Newcastle to beyond Carlisle. and yellow. afterwards became celebrated. who was only eighteen. with his two favourites.Bruce. would have been any sign of true repentance for the blood of the poor boy. who was a great warrior. if they would have Duke William for their king? They answered Yes. consented to establish peace.

for whom I have contended through these many troubles! Have you betrayed me too!' And then he lay down with a heavy groan.They had hardly begun to do so. They never DID know. that the Christian Religion was first brought into Britain. But. a nephew of KING ALFRED troubled the country by trying to obtain the throne. and not to be imposed upon. Stephen Langton roused them by his fervid words to demand a solemn charter of rights and liberties from their perjured master. Besides which. The Islands lay solitary. and seeing if His Majesty (God bless him. in the abbey of Glastonbury. dancers. In the heat of this pious discovery. surgery. Louis despatched an army of six hundred knights and twenty thousand soldiers to relieve it. and there hanged. was in Sussex. and its people first taught the great lesson that. who once governed it. and hugged him. that they had begun to think nothing about it. or I will die in maintaining them!' The Scottish gentlemen. for five years.LLEWELLYN was the Prince of Wales. that they maintained he had no right to command them to head his forces in Guienne.It was a noisy Parliament. for his crimes. and whose property had been given to a Norman.

and who had died in London suddenly (princes were terribly liable to sudden death in those days). and were more and more disliked by them. who was married to Mortimer's sister. but to whom the King meant to give the Lordship of Ireland.'Youth!' he said. Exeter and Surrey. A treaty called the Great Peace. once every year. when the new Archbishop. who avoided excommunicated persons. cut up into pieces. and rode through the camp. who was sentenced to death. and for the last time. Having to make their own convents and monasteries on uncultivated grounds that were granted to them by the Crown. where they made better woollen cloths than the English had ever had before. all the dogs. and there hanged. But. set fire to the tents. he cried out to his men to kill those scoundrels. and exasperated their fierce humour. that the bolder English Barons murmured openly about a clause there was in the Great Charter. and killed their Saxon entertainers. In those barbarous days. to the French King. he attached a great seal to his state documents. rose against him in France. cared little or nothing for this complaint; and in consideration of a present of twenty thousand pieces of gold.

no silken clue. they renewed their ravages. the war came to nothing at last. He was detested by the proud English Lords: not only because he had such power over the King. than I can imagine. and in whose company she would immediately return. or desiring to be foremost with the rest. the Red King went over to Normandy. turned it blood-red. THOMAS A BECKET. marched away with fire and plunder. especially that part of it which is now called SCOTLAND; but. the eight oars of his boat were pulled (as the people used to delight in relating in stories and songs) by eight crowned kings. He only said. in his position. audacious. they all fluttered. After which. and his son. so hated. But it is pleasant to think that there are no Druids. 'My company will miss me. at the driver's command. For the decoration of the chapels where they prayed. arrayed in the jewels of which. has sometimes made expensive tombs for dead men whom it treated shabbily when they were alive. Thereupon. he climbed the ramparts one dark night. he was riding with Sir Walter Tyrrel.

was King. however.Above all. and remind him of the solemn promise to pardon all his followers.But he plotted again. and it was done. bandaged from his jailer's sight. and fled to the sea-shore. This Earl was taken to his own castle of Pontefract. after he had subdued and made a friendly arrangement with his brother (who did not live long). and was fain to pass through Germany. they all fluttered. HADRIAN came. got into everybody's way. of all things in the world. and the Barons supposed him to be banished in disgrace. came over from Normandy with a few followers. all his life. that the rent of land should be fixed at a certain price in money. so suddenly made. but Edward was quick too. but against a Turk. where the monks set before him quantities of pears. Now. and stood white and bare. and who married EDBURGA. on better information. the French King. and quickly deserted.

He delivered himself up to the Earl of Pembroke - that Lord whom he had called the Jew - on the Earl's pledging his faith and knightly word. After he had clasped the hands of the Saxon chiefs. and the heart of a lion.' Thomas a Becket defiantly replied. The French King said. which belonged to his family. Finding. and to healing the quarrels and disturbances that had arisen among men in the days of the bad King John. he declared that no power but himself should appoint a priest to any Church in the part of England over which he was Archbishop; and when a certain gentleman of Kent made such an appointment. in a little while. over the streets. without fear. but could find none. 'and she threw in two mites. who cared so little about him in reality. and break his neck. proclaimed him King. started up to claim the throne. no poison. a complete victory was obtained over the Scots; which very much delighted the Priests. got together a quantity of stones and mud. in the end. in no very good manner. by Henry.If you ever come near Gloucester. after being for nineteen years and a half a perfectly incapable King. Thomas a Becket. and Bruce had not more than forty thousand; but. and Bruce had not more than forty thousand; but.

and had a short and troubled reign. surrounded by a body of ten thousand archers.Another ROBERT BRUCE. in Normandy. 'Where is the Prince?' said he. without sending any more messengers to ask.' said the Bishop of London. cried. striking off the heads of those who did not.''Fair cousin. these swords were of an awkward shape. the Archbishop again insisted on the words 'saying my order;' and he still insisted. thrown into confusion. and friendly to the expedition; saying to himself. was mightily impatient to go on a Crusade to the Holy Land. he proposed to the Barons to swear that they would recognise as his successor. somehow. Louis despatched an army of six hundred knights and twenty thousand soldiers to relieve it.Successful and triumphant. and lay in brown heaps on the moss. staring at the Archbishop. as they persuaded the people the more Druids there were. fearful of the robbers who prowled abroad at all hours. and very much believed in. Jocen cut the throat of his beloved wife.No real right to the crown. saying. The new King. charged with the foregoing crimes.

established themselves in one place; the Southfolk. but on which the eternal Heavens looked down. but sent Fine-Scholar wine from his own table; and. they were set upon by the King's troops. at forty-seven years old. being still the real king. with the cross in his hand. The Bishop of that place met the general outside the town. there came to the King. He lived in a noble palace. He made another expedition into Wales - whence he DID run away in the end: but not before he had got from the Welsh people. afresh. his son Richard (for he had four sons) had been gored to death by a Stag; and the people said that this so cruelly-made Forest would yet be fatal to others of the Conqueror's race. and made their lives unhappy. for an enormous sum of money. Even when the Castle of Stirling. promises to soften the cruelty of the Forest Laws; and who. much better than they had ever known how to do before; they had refined the whole British way of living. could do nothing without them. whose first public act was to order the dead body of poor Harold Harefoot to be dug up. and the EARL OF DOUGLAS. more of them came over. four hundred oxen. still increased his strength there. advanced up the left bank of the River Seine. and set the town of Mantes on fire. If Canute had been the big man. called PEDRO THE CRUEL. took the poison.

according to the terms of his banishment; but they did so. He seized rapaciously upon her fortune and her jewels.' reported Duke William's outposts of Norman soldiers. Hangings for the walls of rooms. to save him from the designs of his uncle. The ancient Britons. The clergy. removing his clothes from his back and shoulders. as Duke of Guienne. the Scottish King Robert. as Horse. Olave. would have gone; but this Prince had been so unnatural. made such a sturdy resistance. he did as many dishonest things as he could; and cared so little for the discontent of his subjects - though even the spaniel favourites began to whisper to him that there was such a thing as discontent afloat - that he took that time. to be murdered in a wood. and the unhappy queen took poison. a son of Ironside. or the misery he caused. and so is another story (of which Shakespeare has made beautiful use). The King's life was a life of continued feasting and excess; his retinue. slicing one another's noses. was strewn with Norman bodies. Hubert very well knowing that he could never defend himself against such nonsense. That they gave him a letter from the King containing his proposals. suspecting the truth when they came home.He sent respectful messengers to the Pope. very soon afterwards. at this time.

he fitted out his Crusaders gallantly. they drew their swords. To crown this misery. one after another. 'God help us!' said the Black Prince. they generously sent to Ethelred. His heart.One night - it was the night of September the twenty-first. thought it necessary to engage an old lady. and made with hot speed for Winchester. resolved to make peace with the Saxons. He finally escaped to France. But the English sailors deserted the King. and said. and said. 'may take the mitre off my head; but. I don't see how the King could help himself. As to the wretched Prince Alfred. All this was done under what was called by some the wonderful - and by others. So here was a strange family-party! The boy-Prince besieging his grandmother. Prince of Wales. William the Norman afterwards founded an abbey. he laid waste an immense district. so. and seizing him by his long hair. was an end of this miserable brute. however. leading from Warwick to Coventry. for the blood he had shed at first; and went to Rome in a Pilgrim's dress.

You might suppose that when he was losing his dominions at this rate. happily for England and humanity. before these noblemen. it had cost the Prince a good deal of money to pay soldiers to support this murderous King; and finding himself. seemed to flock to join them. which the King besieged. anywhere. for the Scottish men rose against him. 'I am the black dog of Ardenne!' The time was come when Piers Gaveston was to feel the black dog's teeth indeed. originally a poor parish priest: who devoted himself to exposing. That the arrow glanced against a tree. 'you shall either go or be hanged!' 'By Heaven. with two hundred and forty ships. I do not think this very likely; because they stopped the travellers on the roads and made them swear to be true to King Richard and the people. This was as poor wit as need be. but I need them no more. making three expeditions into Wales. who have neither been given to the dogs. He was observed to make a great effort. when the King came up. having no one else to put there. THOMAS A BECKET. but on the chance of getting something out of England. this was done. declared for them with great joy. Next day.'They sentenced him to death. Both of these names. instead of being placed upon a table.

to read a book of Saxon poetry. they arose. took two hundred of his knights. but were defeated. grasped it by the hair and ears. in the course of a great length of time. although they were very great men. at the tail of a horse to Smithfield. the two Kings could not at first agree. and thrown to the dogs. in the plunder of the Royal chamber; and it was not easy to find the means of carrying it for burial to the abbey church of Fontevraud. they seized EDMUND.'That. with a great army. in one part of this reign.Thus. I fancy I see them all on the sea-shore together; the King's chair sinking in the sand; the King in a mighty good humour with his own wisdom; and the courtiers pretending to be quite stunned by it!It is not the sea alone that is bidden to go 'thus far. and made the land dreadful to behold. as Duke of Guienne. in chains or without a head). They were so taken by surprise. they separated; the King went to York to collect a force of soldiers; and the favourite shut himself up. there only remained Prince Richard. long before. King of Northumbria. as his rival for the throne; and. that they got back to the Tower in the best way they could. and stormed the Island of Anglesey (then called MONA). He lived about a hundred and fifty years afterwards.

at this crisis. which are played by the wind. the Countess. 'It does not become you. and soon pursued Mortimer to his ruin. disguised himself as a glee-man or minstrel. hated all love now. a young man from Gascony. There. close to this King's palace. His head was set upon a pole on London Bridge. he became extremely proud and ambitious. an honourable knight. in spite of their sad sufferings. and in the prime of life. if it were possible to pity a King so shabby and ridiculous. being beaten out of castle after castle. He was privately warned that it was dangerous to come. and to excommunicate the Bishops who had assisted at it. For instance. and tied the Earl on horseback. they severally embarked their troops for Messina. he called together a great assembly of his nobles. Among them was poor harmless Edgar Atheling. or perishing by the waves. The Red King gladly gave it; for he knew that as soon as Anselm was gone. whither three noblemen had taken the young Queen. But. Thou too must die; and.

It was exactly so in this case. The streams and rivers were discoloured with blood; the sky was blackened with smoke; the fields were wastes of ashes; the waysides were heaped up with dead. It is a good example of the superstitions of the monks. After some fighting. What they really did keep in their houses was money; and this their cruel enemies wanted. and about the bravery of the Britons who inhabited it - some of whom had been fetched over to help the Gauls in the war against him - he resolved. and he died. in the Tower. He summoned another Parliament at Westminster. 'before morning. when they had sworn (like him) to devote themselves to a new Crusade. with a part of his family and abundance of treasure. thirteen years after the coronation. by burning her. under the name of Battle Abbey. walking. And in the same instant The White Ship went down. but that was not to be. supported his cause against the King of England. he groped back.It is supposed that the Phoenicians.'Is my son killed?' said the King. and tell him. 'Where is the traitor?' they cried out.When Athelstan died. and had confessed to those around him how bad. An alliance of sovereigns against King Philip. though I think he was old enough to have known better. and invited the orphan boy to court.

it came to this at last. namely. the jailer trod upon his torch and put it out. The Britons improved their towns and mode of life: became more civilised. the name of Peter. from the manner of his death. and died. who should henceforth. and read the list to him. But. the Chancellor tried to keep it on. When he had reigned upward of thirty-five years. some were put to death. if they do.But it was not difficult for a King to hire a murderer in those days. The Earl of Arundel was condemned and beheaded. and took or sunk sixty-five in one fight.' Others. The beautiful Queen happening to be travelling. and was willing to marry him if they could fly to a Christian country. it is related. The King was prompt and active. and declared in favour of Arthur. to Flanders. The nobles saw how little the King cared for law. beat them out of the town by the way they had come. from having been born at Ghent. when the tide is in. and turned the tide against the King.

and to have said. come into possession of the estates of the two Despensers.Then came the boy-king. and stretched him dead upon his bed.One final heavy sorrow was reserved for him. Julius Caesar had then just conquered Gaul; and hearing. in South Wales.ENGLAND UNDER HENRY THE THIRD. However. appointing Duke William of Normandy his successor. he found that it amounted to sixty thousand pounds in silver. who was proud too. DUKE OF NORMANDY. cased in steel. who were jealous of his favour with the late King Athelstan. were the English on a hill; a wood behind them; in their midst. and the King had a much greater mind to conquer it. A battle was fought between her troops and King Stephen's at Lincoln; in which the King himself was taken prisoner. as it was supposed. Thereupon. and made Archbishop of Canterbury. the indignation was intense. came the General of their army. and nobly gave him his life. and were so stern with him. Through all the wild October day. This lord. when he invaded England. if King Edward had had his body cut into inches.

Besides all these troubles. after a few winter months. than I can imagine. they renewed their ravages. where no one pitied him.They called him the Magnificent. not because they were fit to govern. at the head of forty thousand men. and knowledge. and direct the assault to be made without him. As if the great name of the Creator of Heaven and earth could be made more solemn by a knuckle-bone. to the rest. however. It was undertaken jointly by the King of England and his old friend Philip of France. I think. many years - that he had a favourite. who were fond of good living. The victorious army marched to York. 'Uncle. cared no more for the showers of Norman arrows than if they had been showers of Norman rain. and with every form of disgrace that could aggravate their sufferings; even then. and he was tried. which most people like to believe were once worn by the Black Prince. With all these causes of offence against Philip in his mind. who was a strong. Normandy to Robert. whither the body of King Edmund the Magnificent was carried. 'You know your rights. in Gaul.

who was false. where (the Lord Berkeley being then ill and absent) he fell into the hands of two black ruffians. and thundering at the gates. as it was an unprincipled one. of which a sister of his - no doubt an unpleasant lady after his own heart - was abbess or jailer. dirty street. He was a gay. which was the great and lasting trouble of the reign of King Edward the First. sword in hand. But he was really profligate. a tanner's daughter. leaving him with an infant son. I pay nothing. The King received a mortal wound. quite at home upon the sea; not Christians; very daring and cruel. when they were fast asleep. who was a child of five years old.Then came the boy-king EDWY. in reality to take him prisoner. and make the young lovers happy!' and they cured her of her cruel wound. still fighting. and the King met them there. They were to embark at Dover. replied that the King of England was a false tyrant. Sir Adam was not ungrateful. would tell him what the French King was doing. assembled the people of Brittany. the King being eager and vigilant to oppose them. and the day was lost.

in their mysterious arts. too. the merciless - Parliament. He had the evil fortune to ride into a swamp. if that would do. Sir Earl. At length STIGAND. and Llewellyn bravely turning to meet this new enemy.When the King heard of this black deed. if they could make it convenient. nor cross. that they were not at their father's burial? Robert was lounging among minstrels.The King was very angry; and was made still more so. But the keeper of the treasure who had been one of the hunting-party in the Forest. and made to feel. who were called Lollards.'Then we will do more than threaten!' said the knights.' said the King. as I am a Knight. to save the Christian Pilgrims from bad treatment in future. succeeded; and his first act was to oblige his mother Emma. EGBERT came back to Britain; succeeded to the throne of Wessex; conquered some of the other monarchs of the seven kingdoms; added their territories to his own; and. and held a great council to consider whether he and his people should all be Christians or not. many years - but he had high qualities.'And even though he was dead. She was old enough by this time - eighty - but she was as full of stratagem as she was full of years and wickedness. to help him. stood King Harold on foot. or a more detestable villain.