The Golden Oath

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The Golden Oath

The ink was still wet on the parchment when the first cough sounded from the hall. Elias Thorne, Canon Lawyer of the Abbey of St. Jude, did not look up. He was forty years old, and in that year of the Black Death, 1348, he had spent the last three months drafting a tenure agreement for Lord Ashworth. The contract was a masterpiece of feudal precision. It secured the abbey’s grazing rights and,...

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