Also I have other tidings.

Fisher and More being murdered, Parliament next month will be moved to strike at the lesser monasteries and steal their goods, and after them our turn will come.

But we will not bear it tamely, for ere this new year is out all England shall be ablaze, and I, Clement Maldon, I--I will light the fire.

Now you have the truth, Martin.

Will you betray me, as that dead knight would have done ?" "Nay, my Lord Abbot, your secrets are safe with me.