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Updated: May 27, 2025
Here Sir Robert Gaiton, in full armour, with fifty stout men-at-arms, were awaiting them. "Good morrow, Sir Ralph, and you, young sirs," Sir Robert said, as they rode up. "Let me congratulate you on your armour, which becomes you mightily." "And for which," Sir Ralph put in, "I think we have somewhat to thank you for choosing."
He said that all he knew of arms he had acquired from Edgar, and that, while he was still but an indifferent swordsman, his friend was wonderfully skilled with his weapon, and fully a match for most men." "That he has proved for both of our benefits," Robert Gaiton said. "In truth, they are in all ways worthy youths.
We were clad in traders' dresses Master Gaiton had given us; and seeing that there was no chance of entering the Tower, while it would not have been safe to have mingled with the mob in such an attire, we knew not what to do until Edgar suggested that we might, if we went down to the wharf, obtain disguises from one of the vessels lying there.
Among them was the lord mayor, William Walworth, and many of the aldermen, Robert Gaiton among them. The mob were shouting, "Open the gates!" The uproar was great, but on the mayor holding up his hand there was silence. "Fellow-citizens," he said, "know ye not what has been done by these men at Southwark?
After staying there for some time they went to the house where Van Voorden was lodging, having obtained his address from Sir Robert Gaiton. They had not seen him since they had parted from him in Ghent, a year before. "I thought you intended to settle in Flanders, Mynheer," Edgar said, after the first greetings were over.
A great staircase led to the family apartments upstairs. The main room would have held four of either those of Van Voorden or Sir Robert Gaiton in London, and the rest of the house was on the same scale. All was dark, massive, and rich, with an air of great comfort.
You see he had already told the king that we were to accompany him, and perhaps he may have pointed out to him that it might be to the advantage of his mission that we should be made knights. He has great influence with the Court, seeing that he has frequently supplied the royal needs with money. First let us visit our good friend Sir Robert Gaiton." The knight received them most warmly.
Both expressed their thanks in suitable terms. "When do you sail?" the merchant asked Edgar. "To-morrow morning," he replied, "and the ship will unmoor at noon. We will come to say farewell to you in the morning." Mynheer Van Voorden and his family were no less delighted than Sir Robert Gaiton at the honour that had befallen them.
"'Tis like enough, father, that Sir Robert Gaiton may have gone with him to choose them when they left us yesterday.
"Van Voorden is not the only merchant in London that my son and Master Ormskirk have had the good fortune to aid since their arrival here, your Majesty, for they rescued from an attack by robbers outside Aldersgate Master Robert Gaiton, who is an alderman and a foreign merchant. He had his daughter with him, and had the lads arrived a minute later, the two would have been killed."
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