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Updated: June 17, 2025
Hugo de Malville cum Aescendune was not the man to sit calmly on the battlements of his newly-built towers and survey the destruction of his property, although he was not free from a terrible dread that his sins were finding him out, at which times he was like a haunted man who sees spectres, invisible to the world around.
It is on his behalf that I have sought his grace the new archbishop, led by his reputation for charity and justice, but hardly expecting to meet any one here who knew the story of our misfortunes and wrongs." "Thou wilt wonder less, perhaps, if thou lookest at me a little more closely. Dost thou not remember Geoffrey, Bishop of Coutances, who married Winifred of Aescendune to Hugo de Malville?"
Could they forget that each was a claimant of the lands of Aescendune the one by birth, the other by the right of conquest? And now the bridal train reached the gates of the Hall amidst the plaudits of the Normans and the deep silence of the Englishmen many of whom would sooner far have seen the fair Winifred in her grave than the wife of Hugo de Malville.
Such was the building into which Etienne de Malville entered, not without religious awe, as the pealing organ then recently introduced by the Normans rolled its volume of sound through the vaulted aisles. The monks were all in the choir, which was lighted by torches and tapers. In the nave a few laity of the town were scattered here a knight or soldier, there a mechanic.
By my side stands the sole survivor of the brethren whom Hugo de Malville slaughtered, Father Kenelm, a Benedictine like thyself. Admit him; he will tell thee all." "Since it may be no better, he shall come in. If I open the gates for him, ye will not take advantage?" "Stand back," cried Wilfred, "let the holy monk enter alone."
Yet he lives, and feels sure that thou wilt not revoke, upon this holy hill, that pardon from the living, thou didst bestow upon the seeming dead." Etienne trembled. "Art thou then? nay, it cannot be!" "Etienne de Malville, I am Wilfred of Aescendune."
I cannot and I may not tell of all the wounds and all the tortures they inflicted upon the wretched men of this land." This awful description of the cruelty of the Norman barons under the grandson of the Conqueror may partially apply to the barons of an earlier period, such as Hugo de Malville. xv Destruction of Norman Forces by Fire.
"Malville was your mother's name," said Mrs. Wilson; "but Morton sounds far bonnier in my auld lugs. And when ye tak up the lairdship, ye maun tak the auld name and designation again."
After Napoleon had it in view to form a new code for France, he was at great pains to collect together the most upright and honourable, as well as the most able amongst the French lawyers; the principal members of whom were Tronchet, one of the counsel who spoke boldly and openly in defence of the unfortunate Louis XVI., Portalis, Malville, and Bigot de Preameneau.
In the stern of the boat sat Etienne de Malville. He had journeyed first to Warwick, where he met the fugitives from Aescendune, and heard their story; burning with revenge, he had sought the aid of Henry de Beauchamp, the Norman governor of the city; but that worthy, seeing the whole countryside in rebellion, bade Etienne repair to the king for further aid, while he himself shut his gates, provisioned his castle, and promised to hold out against the whole force of the Midlands, until the royal banner came to scatter the rebels, like chaff before the winds.
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