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By Martin Archer PREFACE This is the fourth of the great medieval stories taken from the parchments written by an unknown monk of the Priory of St. 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 in a trunk under a pile of rubble in the Bodleian library basement some years ago. 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 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 its use of the current idiom so everyone could read it and its emphasis both on what actually happened and, most importantly, 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. What follows in this volume is mostly from the tales of William, the captain of a company of English archers, as they were faithfully recorded by his friend and scribe, Yoram of Damascus. The position of the Church is that the changes and excitement the archers caused in England and the Holy Land are God’s Will. The monk is obviously not so sure. According to him, sharp blades and ambitious men are a much more likely explanation.
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