armstrang

Updated: July 14, 2025

Ay, and I have seen the famous John the Armstrang a fair man he was and a goodly, the more pity that hemp was ever heckled for him I have seen him come into the Abbey-church with nine tassels of gold in his bonnet, and every tassel made of nine English nobles, and he would go from chapel to chapel, and from image to image, and from altar to altar, on his knees and leave here a tassel, and there a noble, till there was as little gold on his bonnet as on my hood you will find no such Border thieves now!"

Sir Walter Scott - The Monastery