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Updated: June 26, 2025
"Robert, Earl of Mellent, to Ralph, and all his barons, French and English, of all his land in England, greeting: Know ye, that I have granted to my merchants of Leicester their Guild Merchant, with all customs which they held in the time of King William, of King William his son, and now hold in the time of Henry the king. "Witness: R., the son of Alcitil."
"With the eyes of an angel!" said Giles, pushing nearer where stood a maid young and shapely, trembling in the close grasp of one Gurth, a ragged, red-haired giant, whose glowing eyes stared lustfully upon her ripe young beauty. "'Tis Mellent!" cried the fellow. "'Tis the witch's daughter that hath escaped me thrice by deviltry and witchcraft "
Know that before you here assembled, hath been brought one Mellent that hath been denounced a notable witch and sorceress, who, by her fiendish arts and by the aid of demons foul and damned, doth seek the hurt of our lord the Duke, whom God and the saints defend.
Ah! spare aid for one that lieth in peril of death the maid Mellent they do proclaim her witch they will burn her " "O a woman!" quoth Beltane, wrinkling his brows; and beholding Sir Fidelis watching him, straightway frowned the blacker. "Nay, messire, hear me!" cried the witch, "ah, turn not away! This maid, indeed, is not of common blood a lady is she of birth and wide demesnes "
North and south, and east and west the challenge was repeated, and after each the trumpet sounded a warlike flourish, yet no horseman paced forth and no man leapt the barriers; and the witch Mellent drooped pale and trembling betwixt her warders.
Of a verity thou art only the witch Mellent, and so, by reason of thy sun-browned skin and raven hair aye, and for thy witchcraft thou, alack! must die unless thou find thee a champion. Verily I fear me no man will dare take up thy cause, for Sir Gilles is a lusty man and famous at the joust. Moreover my will is known in the matter, so do I fear there none shall come to fight on thy behalf.
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