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"Filled with dread, the keepers returned home, and the next day Old Osmond again sought the forester, and told him what had occurred. "'You must obey the spirit's injunctions, or worse mischief will befall you, said Urswick. 'Go to the tree, mounted as for a hunting-party, and take the black steed given to Herne by the king, and the two black hounds with you.
"At the precise time promised, Herne, attended by Urswick, presented himself to the king. He looked thin and pale, but all danger was past. King Richard gave the forester a purse full of nobles, and added a silver bugle to the gift. He then appointed Herne his chief keeper, hung a chain of gold round his neck, and ordered him to be lodged in the castle.
The British Museum has a treatise of Chrysostom, translated by Selling, and written by Meghen for Urswick, afterwards Dean of Windsor and Rector of Hackney, to present to Prior Goldstone of Canterbury. Matthew, which Urswick, as executor to Sir John Huddelston, knight, caused Meghen to write in 1514 for presentation to the Cistercians of Hailes, in Gloucestershire.
"'We have little to give, save a fat buck on occasions,'replied Osmond; 'and, in all likelihood, thou canst help thyself to venison. "'Will you swear to grant the first request I may make of you provided it shall be in your power? demanded Urswick. "'Readily' they replied. "'Enough' said Urswick. 'I must keep faith with the king.
If you discover that Urswick is ill-disposed towards me perhaps he should not be troubled; otherwise, help me in the matter of a horse I shall need one just now when I am about to go to Basle or Venice, chiefly for the purpose of bringing out the New Testament. Such is my fate, dear More. I shall enact this part of my play also.
And quitting the choir, he entered the northern aisle, and casting his eyes down the line of noble columns by which it is flanked, and seeing no one, he concluded that the lady must have retired into the Urswick Chapel. And so it proved; for on reaching this exquisite little shrine he perceived a tall masked dame within it, clad in robes of the richest black velvet.
Four others were equally unfortunate, and it was now clear that the whole party were bewitched. "Luckily, the king had quitted the castle, but they felt certain they should be dismissed on his return, if not more severely punished. At last, after taking counsel together, they resolved to consult Urswick, who they doubted not could remove the spell.
As soon as it was Urswick vanished, as he came, in a flash of fire. Herne, then commanded the others to dismount, and made them prostrate themselves before him, and pay him homage. "This done, he blew a strike on his horn, rode swiftly up the hillside, and a stag being unharboured, the chase commenced.
Upon which the bleeding skull was fastened upon the head of the keeper with leathern thongs. "'I will now answer for his perfect cure in a month's time, said Urswick to the king; 'but I shall require to watch over him myself till all danger is at an end. I pray your highness to command these keepers to transport him to my hut.
The side of this building looking towards the terrace was originally decorated with two rich windows, but one of them has disappeared, and the other has suffered much damage. In 1500 the deanery was rebuilt by Dean Urswick.
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