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There shall be an end to her torment then. It is something to think that there shall be no end to his." So, in a tone of bitter, passionate vindictiveness, Joan La Despenser closed her story. Philippa sat silent, wondering many things. If Guy of Ashridge knew any thing of this, if Giles de Edingdon were yet living, if Agnes the lavender had ever found out what became of her revered mistress.
It only remains to be added, that the fictitious characters of the tale are Giles de Edingdon and Guy of Ashridge, the nurse Alina, Agnes the lavender, the nuns Laura and Senicula, and the woodcutter's children Elaine and Annora.
The Lord of Hereford gave an asylum for young Richard. "Those were peaceful, quiet days we passed at Sempringham; and they were the last Isabel was to know. Meanwhile, the Friars Predicants, and in especial the men of Edingdon and Ashridge, were spreading themselves throughout the land, working well to bring back the King.
I suppose He allowed him to suffer previously, in punishment for his allying himself with the wicked men of Edingdon: but I trust his suffering purified his soul, and that God received him. "Her vengeance thus satiated, Dame Isabelle set out for London. But when we reached London, we found all changed.
Her mother did it for her; for Isabel had been solidly and elaborately instructed by Giles de Edingdon, under the superintendence of the King's Confessor, Luke de Wodeford, also a Predicant Friar. The letter had to be directed very much at random, to "Sir Richard Sergeaux, of the Duke of Lancaster's following, at Bordeaux, or wherever he may be found."
But when the Friars Predicants were first set up by the blessed Dominic, under leave of our holy Father the Pope, many of these sectaries crept in among them. A company went forth from Ashridge, and another from Edingdon the two houses of this brood of serpents. "Against my grandfather and others, but especially against these men of Edingdon and Ashridge, Dame Isabelle the Queen set herself up.
But that century was not content with transforming the nave, it littered it with the first of its various delights, those chantries which are among the greatest splendours of this Cathedral, and which still, in some sort, commemorate Bishop Edingdon , Bishop Wykeham , Bishop Beaufort , Bishop Waynflete , Bishop Fox and Bishop Gardiner the last Catholic Bishop to fill the See.
I cared for all that came from her, but I cared nought for what came only through her from Giles de Edingdon. But she said God had given her a draught of that Living Water, and she was at rest. I know nothing about it. But I am glad if anything gave her rest from that anguish even a fairy tale. "Well, after that I saw her no more again.
"Now and then I used to notice that there came to the castle an aged man, in the garb of the Friars Predicants; unto whom and to him only Isabel used to confess. So changed was he from his old self, that I never knew till long after that this was our father's old confessor, Giles de Edingdon. She only said to me that he taught her good things. If he taught her her saintly endurance, it was good.
But do you, then, count Archbishop Bradwardine, or Bishop Grosteste, or William de Edingdon, Bishop of Winchester and Chancellor of England, among the common people?" "They were not among them?" exclaimed Philippa in contemptuous surprise. "Trust me, but they were, two of them at least; and the third preached their doctrines, though he went not out from them." "I could not have believed it!"
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