You have clean overshot
the butts this time, mon camarade. Give it to the little one. I
will wager my feather-bed that he makes more sense of it."
"Why, it is written in the French tongue," said Alleyne, "and in
a right clerkly hand. This is how it runs: `A le moult puissant
et moult honorable chevalier, Sir Nigel Loring de Christchurch,
de son tres fidele ami Sir Claude Latour, capitaine de la
Compagnie blanche, chatelain de Biscar, grand seigneur de
Montchateau, vavaseur de le renomme Gaston, Comte de Foix, tenant
les droits de la haute justice, de la milieu, et de la basse.'
Which signifies in our speech: `To the very powerful and very
honorable knight, Sir Nigel Loring of Christchurch, from his very
faithful friend Sir Claude Latour, captain of the White Company,
chatelain of Biscar, grand lord of Montchateau and vassal to the
renowned Gaston, Count of Foix, who holds the rights of the high
justice, the middle and the low.'"
"Look at that now!" cried the bowman in triumph. "That is just
what he would have said."
"I can see now that it is even so," said John, examining the
parchment again.
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