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One says that it was before Turold, the Norman Abbot, had entered upon possession: another says that Turold had in person joined Ivo Taillebois in an attempt to surprise Hereward and his men in the woods near Bourne, but had been taken prisoner and only released after paying a large ransom.
"I come," said Ingulf, in most courtly French, "noble knights, to ask a boon and in the name of the Most Merciful, on behalf of a noble and unhappy lady. Let it be enough to have avenged yourself on the living. Gentlemen and Christians war not against the dead." "No, no, Master Abbot!" shouted Taillebois; "Waltheof is enough to keep Crowland in miracles for the present.
He came to William at Brandon. "You are come in at last, young earl?" said William, sternly. "You are come too late." "I throw myself on your knightly faith," said Morcar. But he had come in an angry and unlucky hour. "How well have you kept your own, twice a rebel, that you should appeal to mine? Take him away." "And hang him?" asked Ivo Taillebois. "Pish! No, thou old butcher.
And Alftruda went with her, taking a goodly company of knights to be her escort, while Hereward remained at Bourne with few to guard it. And knowing this, to Bourne came Ascelin and Taillebois, Evermue, Raoul de Dol, and many another Norman, and burst in upon Hereward in some such fashion as he had done himself some ten years earlier. "Felons," he shouted, "your king has given me his truce!
"Have you had enough, Sir Tristram the younger?" quoth Hereward, wiping his sword, and walking moodily away. Oger went out of Bourne with his arm in a sling, and took counsel with Ivo Taillebois. Whereon they two mounted, and rode to Lincoln, and took counsel with Gilbert of Ghent. The fruit of which was this.
Ivo Taillebois bade drive them back again into the barge with whips. But Hugh of Evermue spoke up. "I am lord and master in Bourne this day, and if Ivo have a quarrel against St. Guthlac, I have none.
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