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"My very venerable brother," exclaimed old Father Nicholas, who came hobbling with a third summons to the Sub-Prior, "I pray thee to hasten to our worshipful Lord Abbot. The holy patroness be with us! never saw I Abbot of the House of St. Mary's in such consternation; and yet I remember me well when Father Ingelram had the news of Flodden-field."
Among those addressed as his allies were the Earls Comyn of Badenoch, Comyn of Buchan, Patrick of Dunbar, Umfraville of Angus, Alexander of Menteith, Malise of Strathearn, Malcolm of Lennox, and William of Sutherland, together with James the Steward, Nicholas de la Haye, Ingelram de Umfraville, Richard Fraser, and Alexander de Lindsay of Crawford.
In his second story he traced his descent to Sir Ingelram Percy, stating that his grandfather Henry was the eldest of the four children of Sir Ingelram, and that these children were sent from the north in hampers to Dame Vaux of Harrowden, in Northamptonshire.
"God be with the soul of Abbot Ingelram!" said old Father Nicholas, "there were no such doings in his days. They say we are to be put forth of the cloisters; and how I am to live any where else than where I have lived for these seventy years, I wot not the best is, that I have not long to live any where."
He advanced no proof, however, of the correctness of this story, while the other side showed conclusively that Sir Ingelram had never been married, and at his death had only left an illegitimate daughter. At any rate, whether James Percy was honest or dishonest, "the game was worth the candle" the Percy honours and estates were worth trying for.
Count Ingelram was killed; the other princes withdrew to devise greater efforts against Normandy. Count William lost his castle and part of his estates, and left the duchy of his free will. The Duke's politic forbearance at last won him the general good will of his subjects. We hear of no more open revolts till that of William's own son many years after.
King Edward, who saw this, called out, "They kneel down they are asking forgiveness." "Yes," said a celebrated English baron, called Ingelram de Umphraville, "but they ask it from God, not from us these men will conquer, or die upon the field." The English king ordered his men to begin the battle.
"In the name of Our Lady, do nothing hastily, my lord!" said Father Nicholas "I do remember that when the worthy Abbot Ingelram, being in his ninetieth year for I warrant you he could remember when Benedict the Thirteenth was deposed and being ill at ease and bed-rid, the brethren rounded in his ear that he were better resign his office.
"Yes," said a celebrated English baron, called Ingelram de Umphraville, "but they ask it from God, not from us; these men will conquer, or die upon the field." The English king ordered his men to begin the battle. The archers then bent their bows, and began to shoot so closely together that the arrows fell like flakes of snow on a Christmas-day.
Neither have I enriched either mine own relations nor strange women, at the expense of the Patrimony." "There hath not been such a Lord Abbot," said Father Nicholas, "to my knowledge, since the days of Abbot Ingelram, who " At that portentous word, which always preluded a long story, the Abbot broke in. "May God have mercy on his soul! we talk not of him now.
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