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We shall follow the account of the circumstance, given in a manuscript in the British Museum. Sir Michel Poole, second Earl of Suffolk, had several sons and daughters. First was Mighell, son and heir; then William, second son; and afterwards ten additional olive branches, of diverse names and both sexes all of whom, however, died, and went down unmarried to the cold tomb.
Born for the fight, he would have fulfilled his destiny by force if he might not by right. At the battle of Agincourt , he perished along with many other of England's nobles. Sir Mighell having died without a son, his titles and estates went to his brother, Sir William.
Dame Elizabeth, widow of Sir Mighell, and her daughter Katharine, shortly afterwards, as was usual in these times, went to reside in the Abbey of Brasenode; and there they ultimately died. Meanwhile, and for years afterwards, no one knew anything of Jane, who, though exiled from her rank and family, perhaps enjoyed more real happiness than those who had been guilty of her maltreatment.
Dame Katharine took the girl home; Sir Mighell and his wife consenting in gratitude to be so well delivered from such a heavy burden. Dame Elizabeth, the girl's mother, truly shed a few tears, quickly dried; and so young Jane parted for ever from her father's house.
'The house of Poole must have no charred mummy for its heiress, said old Dame Katharine; and Sir Mighell and his lady bowed their heads and acquiesced. It was agreed, then, that she should be sent to a house of 'close nuns, to be made a woman of religion, and so kept out of the sight of all men's eyes.
Suffice it to know, that Jane and her ploughman William had four children, three sons and one daughter; of whom William, the second son, married an honest man's daughter, whose name was Alice Gryse, and whose children were living in 1490, when this chronicle was written. Return we now to the puissant lord, Sir Mighell, Earl of Suffolk.
In due course of time, Sir Mighell married Elizabeth, daughter of the right noble knight, Thomas Duke of Norfolk; and these together had two children, Jane and Katharine, but, alas! no son. Years passed on, and the hope of an heir was at an end; but before that hope was quite laid aside, the tragedy of the house began.
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