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Frideswide in Oxford. That’s the monastery Cardinal Wolsey dissolved and Henry the Eighth subsequently re-founded as the College of Christ Church after he broke with Rome in order to divorce his wife and wed the Boleyn girl. The parchments with the monk’s writings were found some years ago in a trunk under a pile of rubble in the basement of Oxford’s Bodleian library. The monk’s assignment, as he describes it in his own hand, is to piece together personal stories from what’s left of some earlier parchments and form them into one great history of the kingdom. Whoever commissioned the history wants something similar to that which the great Livy wrote for Rome so many years ago with both its use of the current idiom to make it more readable and its emphasis both on what actually happened and what everyone is actually thinking when they are doing and saying whatever it is that they are doing and saying. Among the problems the monk says he has to overcome, of course, is that the exciting tales in the earlier parchments contain so many surprises and often have missing parts where the mice have eaten them. Another problem is that the parchments are written in various languages. Some are written in Latin and Greek while others are in various versions of what is now called Middle English and Old French – which means he must both piece them together and rewrite them into today’s English just as Livy did for Rome when the Latin spoken by the city’s religious leaders and aristocracy gave way to the Italian spoken elsewhere in the civilized world. What follows is mostly taken from the writings of the scribe Yoram of Damascus. Almost all of what survived of Yoram’s writings are related to his friend, William, the Yorkshire serf who rose as a result of deaths in its ranks to become the captain of what was left of a company of English archers. One hundred and ninety two archers were in the company when it left to go crusading with King Richard; William ended up captaining the company and its 18 survivors during their desperate efforts to return to England years later.
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