“Tell me. What news is there of Ellis of Westerbrook?” The imperious command came from John, king of England, the youngest of the Devil’s brood, as Henry II’s rebellious sons had come to be known, for they had been ever and always at odds with their father … and with each other. Gilbert of Lincoln crushed his cap in his hands and stared up into the black-bearded face of his king. Like so many ofEngland’s people, he, too, was weary of the king’s greed; the grumble of discontent was heard throughout the land. Many of John’s barons were outraged by his ceaseless demands to replenish his treasury that and the call to arms that John might continue his fight to regain his lands across the Channel in Normandyand the Angevin provinces. John had signed the Great Charter in early summer, yet still refused to be humbled. [download]
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