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I fear, mon gar., that they have taught thee but
badly at Beaulieu, for surely a bishop knows more of what is
right and what is ill than an abbot can do, and I myself with
these very eyes saw the Bishop of Lincoln hew into a Scottish
hobeler with a battle-axe, which was a passing strange way of
showing him that he loved him."
Alleyne scarce saw his way to argue in the face of so decided an
opinion on the part of a high dignitary of the Church. "You have
borne arms against the Scots, then?" he asked.
"Why, man, I first loosed string in battle when I was but a lad,
younger by two years than you, at Neville's Cross, under the Lord
Mowbray. Later, I served under the Warden of Berwick, that very
John Copeland of whom our friend spake, the same who held the
King of Scots to ransom. Ma foi! it is rough soldiering, and a
good school for one who would learn to be hardy and war-wise."
"I have heard that the Scots are good men of war," said Hordle
John.
"For axemen and for spearmen I have not seen their match," the
archer answered.


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