The Traitor's Wife
“MARY IN SOUTHWARK, HAMO HETHE, BISHOP of Rochester, leaned back and looked at the parchment in his hand. Signed by Queen Isabella, it put a price of two thousand pounds on Hugh le Despenser's head, double the amount that the king had placed on Mortimer's a few days before. Copies of the queen's offer had been placed around London, whose citizens had become so boisterous in their enthusiasm for the queen since the king's departure that Hethe, having come to the city for a meeting with the archbi...shop on October 13, had refused to cross the Thames. Archbishop Reynolds had obliged by moving the meeting to Southwark. Though the conference had been called some time ago to discuss routine church matters, the topic of the day could be none other than the king and the queen.
“I don't know what is to be done,” said Bishop Stapeldon. He gestured with the odd devices, called spectacles, that a friend in Italy had sent him and that the bishop had warmed to immediately. Why every man over forty did not own a pair was beyond him.MoreLess
“I don't know what is to be done,” said Bishop Stapeldon. He gestured with the odd devices, called spectacles, that a friend in Italy had sent him and that the bishop had warmed to immediately. Why every man over forty did not own a pair was beyond him.MoreLess
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