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The Grey Friar, and the Black Spirit of the Wye
The Grey Friar and the Black Spirit of the Wye Author:John English Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: "bare back, and was then committed to close custody, till the pleasure of Sir Hugh de Bolebec should be known. .The monks now preparing to return to the Prior... more »y, received at the hands of the Lady Bolebec a superb vase of massy silver, for the use of the prior, and then departed, with the same solemnity with ' which they had entered, chanting vespers as the procession marched slowly out of the Tower. !. !' f f!-., ;l. .' , ' .'',, .,. 1 : . . ... f.- ."c'. ;....'... ' ' ' . -,-.': ii i ;.'.'. ;. ..-.'' r .u .'".r .i-... .-i. ; i :.",. ' . ...-. t D 2 CHAP. chapter{Section 4CHAP. 111. The Lady Bolebec was become extremely anxious to receive some intelligence of Sir Hugh. Many days had now passed over, and every moment encreased her alarms. The messenger at length returned, with intelligence that the forces of the Earl of Glocester had marched towards Wales, and the left wing of the army, under the command of Hugh de Bolebec, was hastening with the utmost expedition to the relief Of Devizes, now invested by Montfort's forces. :.'-' 'Under these circumstances, it was not without difficulty that he could spare even ; -1 i. a smalla small detachment ; but the urgency of the case had suggested the necessity of immediate succour; and therefore he had directed. his brother-in-law, the Earl of St. Clair, who was raising a body of troops near ' Bristol, to proceed wilh as many of them as he could collect to Glandon Tower, to. act as exigences might require. Sir Hugh was so well satisfied respecting the strength of his own walls, and the prudence and resolution of his Lady, who added to all the virtues which adorn her own sex, the firmness and intrepidity of her father, the great Earl of St. Clair, that he .entertained no apprehensions wha...« less