Should
France become more quiet, so that English folk can travel there in
safety, perchance Eve and I will journey to Avignon to lay her plaint
before the Holy Father. But as yet this seems scarcely possible.
Moreover, I trust that the traitor, Acour, may meet his end in this way
or in that, and so save us the necessity. For, as you know, such cases
take long to try, and the cost of them is great. Moreover, at the Court
of Avignon the cause of one of our country must indeed be good just now
when the other party to it is of the blood of France.
Soon I hope to write to you again, who at present have no more to say,
save that notwithstanding my years I am well and strong, and would that
I sat with you before the walls of Calais. God's blessing and mine be on
you, and to Richard the archer, greetings. Dunwich has heard how he
shot the foul-tongued Frenchman before the great battle closed, and the
townsfolk lit a bonfire on the walls and feasted all the archers in his
honour.
Andrew Arnold.
"I have found another letter," said Master de Cressi, when Hugh had
finished reading, "which I remember Sir Andrew charged me to give to you
also," and he handed him a paper addressed in a large, childish hand.
Hugh broke its silk eagerly, for he knew that writing.
"Hugh," it began simply, "Clement the Pope will not void my false
marriage unless I appear before him, and this as yet I cannot do because
of the French wars.
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