defeated by an appeal to the King.

This was accordingly Father Cyril's intention. It was unavoidable
that Fulk, the near kinsman of the deceased, should be present at
the funeral, but Father Cyril had intended to keep Arthur within
the sanctuary of the chapel until he could depart under the care
of twelve monks of Glastonbury, who were coming in the stead of
the Abbot--he being, unfortunately, indisposed. Sir Philip Ashton
had likewise been invited, in the hope that his presence might prove
a check upon Clarenham.






CHAPTER IX



With the first dawn of morning, the chapel bell began to toll, and
was replied to by the deeper sound of the bell of the parish church.
Soon the court began to be filled with the neighbouring villagers,
with beggars, palmers, mendicant friars of all orders, pressing to
the buttery-hatch, where they received the dole of bread, meat, and
ale, from the hands of the pantler, under the direction of the almoner
of Glastonbury, who requested their prayers for the soul of the noble
Sir Reginald Lynwood, and Dame Eleanor of Clarenham, his wife. The
peasantry of Lynwood, and the beggars, whose rounds brought them
regularly to the Keep of Lynwood, and who had often experienced the