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"
It
was
the
law
of
my
fathers
,
"
said
Rebecca
;
"
it
was
delivered
in
thunders
and
in
storms
upon
the
mountain
of
Sinai
,
in
cloud
and
in
fire
.
This
,
if
ye
are
Christians
,
ye
believe
--
it
is
,
you
say
,
recalled
;
but
so
my
teachers
have
not
taught
me
.
"
"
Let
our
chaplain
,
"
said
Beaumanoir
,
"
stand
forth
,
and
tell
this
obstinate
infidel
--
"
"
Forgive
the
interruption
,
"
said
Rebecca
,
meekly
;
"
I
am
a
maiden
,
unskilled
to
dispute
for
my
religion
,
but
I
can
die
for
it
,
if
it
be
God
's
will
.
--
Let
me
pray
your
answer
to
my
demand
of
a
champion
.
"
"
Give
me
her
glove
,
"
said
Beaumanoir
.
"
This
is
indeed
,
"
he
continued
,
as
he
looked
at
the
flimsy
texture
and
slender
fingers
,
"
a
slight
and
frail
gage
for
a
purpose
so
deadly
!
--
Seest
thou
,
Rebecca
,
as
this
thin
and
light
glove
of
thine
is
to
one
of
our
heavy
steel
gauntlets
,
so
is
thy
cause
to
that
of
the
Temple
,
for
it
is
our
Order
which
thou
hast
defied
.
"
"
Cast
my
innocence
into
the
scale
,
"
answered
Rebecca
,
"
and
the
glove
of
silk
shall
outweigh
the
glove
of
iron
.
"
"
Then
thou
dost
persist
in
thy
refusal
to
confess
thy
guilt
,
and
in
that
bold
challenge
which
thou
hast
made
?
"
"
I
do
persist
,
noble
sir
,
"
answered
Rebecca
.
"
So
be
it
then
,
in
the
name
of
Heaven
,
"
said
the
Grand
Master
;
"
and
may
God
show
the
right
!
"
"
Amen
,
"
replied
the
Preceptors
around
him
,
and
the
word
was
deeply
echoed
by
the
whole
assembly
.
"
Brethren
,
"
said
Beaumanoir
,
"
you
are
aware
that
we
might
well
have
refused
to
this
woman
the
benefit
of
the
trial
by
combat
--
but
though
a
Jewess
and
an
unbeliever
,
she
is
also
a
stranger
and
defenceless
,
and
God
forbid
that
she
should
ask
the
benefit
of
our
mild
laws
,
and
that
it
should
be
refused
to
her
.
Moreover
,
we
are
knights
and
soldiers
as
well
as
men
of
religion
,
and
shame
it
were
to
us
upon
any
pretence
,
to
refuse
proffered
combat
.
Thus
,
therefore
,
stands
the
case
.
Rebecca
,
the
daughter
of
Isaac
of
York
,
is
,
by
many
frequent
and
suspicious
circumstances
,
defamed
of
sorcery
practised
on
the
person
of
a
noble
knight
of
our
holy
Order
,
and
hath
challenged
the
combat
in
proof
of
her
innocence
.
To
whom
,
reverend
brethren
,
is
it
your
opinion
that
we
should
deliver
the
gage
of
battle
,
naming
him
,
at
the
same
time
,
to
be
our
champion
on
the
field
?
"
