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Always in trouble with authority, the climax came when he robbed Herluin, steward of Peterborough, of a sum of sixteen silver pennies collected for the use of the monastery, and for this exploit he was outlawed. Accordingly, he left his home and went north, to Siward, who was engaged in war with Macbeth, and for aught we know he may have helped to bring great Birnam Wood to high Dunsinane Hill.
Prior Herluin grew bold; and coming to the leads of the gateway tower, looked over cautiously, and holding up a certain most sacred emblem, not to be profaned in these pages, cursed them in the name of his whole Pantheon. "Aha, Herluin! Are you there?" asked a short, square man in gay armor.
I fear I shall do it; I fear I must do it. Ten years ago come Lammas, Herluin bade light the peat-stack under me. Do you recollect?" "And so he did, the hound!" quoth Brand. "I had forgotten that." "Little Hereward never forgets foe or friend. Ever since, on Lammas night, hold still, horse! I dream of fire and flame, and of Goldenborough in the glare of it.
In this way, there being no one left to watch the corpse, the Archbishop of Rouen discovered that the house and even the bed had been pillaged, so that the royal body was lying in great disorder until reverently tended by a Norman gentleman named Herluin. Having fulfilled William's wishes and brought the remains to Caen, a stately funeral was arranged.
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