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"
Those
,
"
replied
Essex
,
"
who
are
specially
careless
of
their
own
welfare
,
are
seldom
remarkably
attentive
to
that
of
others
--
But
let
us
haste
to
the
castle
,
for
Richard
meditates
punishing
some
of
the
subordinate
members
of
the
conspiracy
,
though
he
has
pardoned
their
principal
.
"
From
the
judicial
investigations
which
followed
on
this
occasion
,
and
which
are
given
at
length
in
the
Wardour
Manuscript
,
it
appears
that
Maurice
de
Bracy
escaped
beyond
seas
,
and
went
into
the
service
of
Philip
of
France
;
while
Philip
de
Malvoisin
,
and
his
brother
Albert
,
the
Preceptor
of
Templestowe
,
were
executed
,
although
Waldemar
Fitzurse
,
the
soul
of
the
conspiracy
,
escaped
with
banishment
;
and
Prince
John
,
for
whose
behoof
it
was
undertaken
,
was
not
even
censured
by
his
good-natured
brother
.
No
one
,
however
,
pitied
the
fate
of
the
two
Malvoisins
,
who
only
suffered
the
death
which
they
had
both
well
deserved
,
by
many
acts
of
falsehood
,
cruelty
,
and
oppression
.
Briefly
after
the
judicial
combat
,
Cedric
the
Saxon
was
summoned
to
the
court
of
Richard
,
which
,
for
the
purpose
of
quieting
the
counties
that
had
been
disturbed
by
the
ambition
of
his
brother
,
was
then
held
at
York
.
Cedric
tushed
and
pshawed
more
than
once
at
the
message
--
but
he
refused
not
obedience
.
In
fact
,
the
return
of
Richard
had
quenched
every
hope
that
he
had
entertained
of
restoring
a
Saxon
dynasty
in
England
;
for
,
whatever
head
the
Saxons
might
have
made
in
the
event
of
a
civil
war
,
it
was
plain
that
nothing
could
be
done
under
the
undisputed
dominion
of
Richard
,
popular
as
he
was
by
his
personal
good
qualities
and
military
fame
,
although
his
administration
was
wilfully
careless
,
now
too
indulgent
,
and
now
allied
to
despotism
.
But
,
moreover
,
it
could
not
escape
even
Cedric
's
reluctant
observation
,
that
his
project
for
an
absolute
union
among
the
Saxons
,
by
the
marriage
of
Rowena
and
Athelstane
,
was
now
completely
at
an
end
,
by
the
mutual
dissent
of
both
parties
concerned
.
This
was
,
indeed
,
an
event
which
,
in
his
ardour
for
the
Saxon
cause
,
he
could
not
have
anticipated
,
and
even
when
the
disinclination
of
both
was
broadly
and
plainly
manifested
,
he
could
scarce
bring
himself
to
believe
that
two
Saxons
of
royal
descent
should
scruple
,
on
personal
grounds
,
at
an
alliance
so
necessary
for
the
public
weal
of
the
nation
.
But
it
was
not
the
less
certain
:
Rowena
had
always
expressed
her
repugnance
to
Athelstane
,
and
now
Athelstane
was
no
less
plain
and
positive
in
proclaiming
his
resolution
never
to
pursue
his
addresses
to
the
Lady
Rowena
.
Even
the
natural
obstinacy
of
Cedric
sunk
beneath
these
obstacles
,
where
he
,
remaining
on
the
point
of
junction
,
had
the
task
of
dragging
a
reluctant
pair
up
to
it
,
one
with
each
hand
.
He
made
,
however
,
a
last
vigorous
attack
on
Athelstane
,
and
he
found
that
resuscitated
sprout
of
Saxon
royalty
engaged
,
like
country
squires
of
our
own
day
,
in
a
furious
war
with
the
clergy
.
It
seems
that
,
after
all
his
deadly
menaces
against
the
Abbot
of
Saint
Edmund
's
,
Athelstane
's
spirit
of
revenge
,
what
between
the
natural
indolent
kindness
of
his
own
disposition
,
what
through
the
prayers
of
his
mother
Edith
,
attached
,
like
most
ladies
,
(
of
the
period
,
)
to
the
clerical
order
,
had
terminated
in
his
keeping
the
Abbot
and
his
monks
in
the
dungeons
of
Coningsburgh
for
three
days
on
a
meagre
diet
.
For
this
atrocity
the
Abbot
menaced
him
with
excommunication
,
and
made
out
a
dreadful
list
of
complaints
in
the
bowels
and
stomach
,
suffered
by
himself
and
his
monks
,
in
consequence
of
the
tyrannical
and
unjust
imprisonment
they
had
sustained
.
With
this
controversy
,
and
with
the
means
he
had
adopted
to
counteract
this
clerical
persecution
,
Cedric
found
the
mind
of
his
friend
Athelstane
so
fully
occupied
,
that
it
had
no
room
for
another
idea
.
And
when
Rowena
's
name
was
mentioned
the
noble
Athelstane
prayed
leave
to
quaff
a
full
goblet
to
her
health
,
and
that
she
might
soon
be
the
bride
of
his
kinsman
Wilfred
.
It
was
a
desperate
case
therefore
.
There
was
obviously
no
more
to
be
made
of
Athelstane
;
or
,
as
Wamba
expressed
it
,
in
a
phrase
which
has
descended
from
Saxon
times
to
ours
,
he
was
a
cock
that
would
not
fight
.
There
remained
betwixt
Cedric
and
the
determination
which
the
lovers
desired
to
come
to
,
only
two
obstacles
--
his
own
obstinacy
,
and
his
dislike
of
the
Norman
dynasty
.
The
former
feeling
gradually
gave
way
before
the
endearments
of
his
ward
,
and
the
pride
which
he
could
not
help
nourishing
in
the
fame
of
his
son
.
Besides
,
he
was
not
insensible
to
the
honour
of
allying
his
own
line
to
that
of
Alfred
,
when
the
superior
claims
of
the
descendant
of
Edward
the
Confessor
were
abandoned
for
ever
.
Cedric
's
aversion
to
the
Norman
race
of
kings
was
also
much
undermined
,
--
first
,
by
consideration
of
the
impossibility
of
ridding
England
of
the
new
dynasty
,
a
feeling
which
goes
far
to
create
loyalty
in
the
subject
to
the
king
"
de
facto
"
;
and
,
secondly
,
by
the
personal
attention
of
King
Richard
,
who
delighted
in
the
blunt
humour
of
Cedric
,
and
,
to
use
the
language
of
the
Wardour
Manuscript
,
so
dealt
with
the
noble
Saxon
,
that
,
ere
he
had
been
a
guest
at
court
for
seven
days
,
he
had
given
his
consent
to
the
marriage
of
his
ward
Rowena
and
his
son
Wilfred
of
Ivanhoe
.
The
nuptials
of
our
hero
,
thus
formally
approved
by
his
father
,
were
celebrated
in
the
most
august
of
temples
,
the
noble
Minster
of
York
.
The
King
himself
attended
,
and
from
the
countenance
which
he
afforded
on
this
and
other
occasions
to
the
distressed
and
hitherto
degraded
Saxons
,
gave
them
a
safer
and
more
certain
prospect
of
attaining
their
just
rights
,
than
they
could
reasonably
hope
from
the
precarious
chance
of
a
civil
war
.
The
Church
gave
her
full
solemnities
,
graced
with
all
the
splendour
which
she
of
Rome
knows
how
to
apply
with
such
brilliant
effect
.
