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"It purports to be the copy of a letter addressed to me three years ago, when I was at Oxenford, but which never reached me. Oh, what a story of damnable guilt! Tell me, man, where didst thou obtain this?" "I saw the original written by him, whose name it bears at the foot, and at his request took this copy, which he has attested by his name, for I was the chief calligrapher of the house of St.
Geuen at Westminster. An. Immediatlie after Christmasse, euen in the Octaues of the Epiphanie, the king and duke Henrie met againe Oxenford, where all the earls and barons of the land being assembled, sware fealtie vnto duke Henrie, their allegiance due vnto king Stephan, as to their souereigne lord and supreme gouernour so long as he liued, alwaies reserued.
The prisoner referred him to "a booke written in the old Saxon toong by one Sir John Malborne, a divine of Oxenford, three hundred yeares past," in which all these trickeries are cleared up. Scot put forth his best efforts to procure the work from the parson to whom it had been entrusted, but without success. In another case he attended the assizes at Rochester, where a woman was on trial.
"Nay, my brother, it cannot be; thou art jesting; not, at least, the Wilfred of Aescendune I once knew, and by whom I fear I dealt somewhat hardly; he died, and was buried at Oxenford thirty years agone. I saw his dead body; I beheld his burial; I have joined in masses for his soul; I have prayed for his repose; nay, it cannot be!"
Brother Luke hath given me some skill in damask work, and in the enamelling of shrines, tabernacles, diptychs and triptychs. For the rest, I know a little of the making of covers, the cutting of precious stones, and the fashioning of instruments." "A goodly list, truly," cried the superior with a smile. "What clerk of Cambrig or of Oxenford could say as much?
"Hast thou satisfied thyself of the authenticity of the copy?" "I have; it was attested by Prior Elphege himself, in the presence of the Benedictine from whom I received it." "Then read the letter." And amidst breathless attention, Geoffrey read: Elphege, prior of the house of St. Wilfred at Aescendune, to the noble prelate Geoffrey, Bishop of Coutances, now resident at Oxenford, sendeth greeting.
"Only as one, whom the world might yet contain in the body, or whose soul heaven might have received I knew not which. Well, my lady, this thy brother yet lives." "Wilfred?" "And is returning home with thy husband." "Wilfred alive! nay, thou jestest. He died at Oxenford and was buried there, nearly thirty years agone."
"I can do so with facility if I have the necessary drugs; but I am stripped of all. Were I in London " "Hast thou no brethren in Oxenford?" "Yea, verily, I remember Zacharias the Jew, who lives hard by the river, in the parish of St. Ebba." "Canst thou trust him with thy life?" "He is a brother." "Ye are better brothers than many Christians.
But in his eagerness he overshot the mark, the blade making only a trifling flesh wound, and the next instant Dom Gillian had him in his clutch. The two stood up together. It seemed a long time, hours indeed, that Dom Gillian waited for his injured wrist to recover its strength, holding Oxenford easily in his left hand and shaking the other incessantly to restore the interrupted circulation.
Andrew's day drew near, when a small but select party of friends met together in an old mansion hard by St. Frideswide's Cathedral, at Oxenford, to enjoy the evening banquet.
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