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Gradually
the
galleries
became
filled
with
knights
and
nobles
,
in
their
robes
of
peace
,
whose
long
and
rich-tinted
mantles
were
contrasted
with
the
gayer
and
more
splendid
habits
of
the
ladies
,
who
,
in
a
greater
proportion
than
even
the
men
themselves
,
thronged
to
witness
a
sport
,
which
one
would
have
thought
too
bloody
and
dangerous
to
afford
their
sex
much
pleasure
.
The
lower
and
interior
space
was
soon
filled
by
substantial
yeomen
and
burghers
,
and
such
of
the
lesser
gentry
,
as
,
from
modesty
,
poverty
,
or
dubious
title
,
durst
not
assume
any
higher
place
.
It
was
of
course
amongst
these
that
the
most
frequent
disputes
for
precedence
occurred
.
"
Dog
of
an
unbeliever
,
"
said
an
old
man
,
whose
threadbare
tunic
bore
witness
to
his
poverty
,
as
his
sword
,
and
dagger
,
and
golden
chain
intimated
his
pretensions
to
rank
,
--
"
whelp
of
a
she-wolf
!
darest
thou
press
upon
a
Christian
,
and
a
Norman
gentleman
of
the
blood
of
Montdidier
?
"
This
rough
expostulation
was
addressed
to
no
other
than
our
acquaintance
Isaac
,
who
,
richly
and
even
magnificently
dressed
in
a
gaberdine
ornamented
with
lace
and
lined
with
fur
,
was
endeavouring
to
make
place
in
the
foremost
row
beneath
the
gallery
for
his
daughter
,
the
beautiful
Rebecca
,
who
had
joined
him
at
Ashby
,
and
who
was
now
hanging
on
her
father
's
arm
,
not
a
little
terrified
by
the
popular
displeasure
which
seemed
generally
excited
by
her
parent
's
presumption
.
But
Isaac
,
though
we
have
seen
him
sufficiently
timid
on
other
occasions
,
knew
well
that
at
present
he
had
nothing
to
fear
.
It
was
not
in
places
of
general
resort
,
or
where
their
equals
were
assembled
,
that
any
avaricious
or
malevolent
noble
durst
offer
him
injury
.
At
such
meetings
the
Jews
were
under
the
protection
of
the
general
law
;
and
if
that
proved
a
weak
assurance
,
it
usually
happened
that
there
were
among
the
persons
assembled
some
barons
,
who
,
for
their
own
interested
motives
,
were
ready
to
act
as
their
protectors
.
On
the
present
occasion
,
Isaac
felt
more
than
usually
confident
,
being
aware
that
Prince
John
was
even
then
in
the
very
act
of
negotiating
a
large
loan
from
the
Jews
of
York
,
to
be
secured
upon
certain
jewels
and
lands
.
Isaac
's
own
share
in
this
transaction
was
considerable
,
and
he
well
knew
that
the
Prince
's
eager
desire
to
bring
it
to
a
conclusion
would
ensure
him
his
protection
in
the
dilemma
in
which
he
stood
.
Emboldened
by
these
considerations
,
the
Jew
pursued
his
point
,
and
jostled
the
Norman
Christian
,
without
respect
either
to
his
descent
,
quality
,
or
religion
.
The
complaints
of
the
old
man
,
however
,
excited
the
indignation
of
the
bystanders
.
One
of
these
,
a
stout
well-set
yeoman
,
arrayed
in
Lincoln
green
,
having
twelve
arrows
stuck
in
his
belt
,
with
a
baldric
and
badge
of
silver
,
and
a
bow
of
six
feet
length
in
his
hand
,
turned
short
round
,
and
while
his
countenance
,
which
his
constant
exposure
to
weather
had
rendered
brown
as
a
hazel
nut
,
grew
darker
with
anger
,
he
advised
the
Jew
to
remember
that
all
the
wealth
he
had
acquired
by
sucking
the
blood
of
his
miserable
victims
had
but
swelled
him
like
a
bloated
spider
,
which
might
be
overlooked
while
he
kept
in
a
comer
,
but
would
be
crushed
if
it
ventured
into
the
light
.
This
intimation
,
delivered
in
Norman-English
with
a
firm
voice
and
a
stern
aspect
,
made
the
Jew
shrink
back
;
and
he
would
have
probably
withdrawn
himself
altogether
from
a
vicinity
so
dangerous
,
had
not
the
attention
of
every
one
been
called
to
the
sudden
entrance
of
Prince
John
,
who
at
that
moment
entered
the
lists
,
attended
by
a
numerous
and
gay
train
,
consisting
partly
of
laymen
,
partly
of
churchmen
,
as
light
in
their
dress
,
and
as
gay
in
their
demeanour
,
as
their
companions
.
Among
the
latter
was
the
Prior
of
Jorvaulx
,
in
the
most
gallant
trim
which
a
dignitary
of
the
church
could
venture
to
exhibit
.
Fur
and
gold
were
not
spared
in
his
garments
;
and
the
points
of
his
boots
,
out-heroding
the
preposterous
fashion
of
the
time
,
turned
up
so
very
far
,
as
to
be
attached
,
not
to
his
knees
merely
,
but
to
his
very
girdle
,
and
effectually
prevented
him
from
putting
his
foot
into
the
stirrup
.
This
,
however
,
was
a
slight
inconvenience
to
the
gallant
Abbot
,
who
,
perhaps
,
even
rejoicing
in
the
opportunity
to
display
his
accomplished
horsemanship
before
so
many
spectators
,
especially
of
the
fair
sex
,
dispensed
with
the
use
of
these
supports
to
a
timid
rider
.
The
rest
of
Prince
John
's
retinue
consisted
of
the
favourite
leaders
of
his
mercenary
troops
,
some
marauding
barons
and
profligate
attendants
upon
the
court
,
with
several
Knights
Templars
and
Knights
of
St
John
.
It
may
be
here
remarked
,
that
the
knights
of
these
two
orders
were
accounted
hostile
to
King
Richard
,
having
adopted
the
side
of
Philip
of
France
in
the
long
train
of
disputes
which
took
place
in
Palestine
betwixt
that
monarch
and
the
lion-hearted
King
of
England
.
It
was
the
well-known
consequence
of
this
discord
that
Richard
's
repeated
victories
had
been
rendered
fruitless
,
his
romantic
attempts
to
besiege
Jerusalem
disappointed
,
and
the
fruit
of
all
the
glory
which
he
had
acquired
had
dwindled
into
an
uncertain
truce
with
the
Sultan
Saladin
.
With
the
same
policy
which
had
dictated
the
conduct
of
their
brethren
in
the
Holy
Land
,
the
Templars
and
Hospitallers
in
England
and
Normandy
attached
themselves
to
the
faction
of
Prince
John
,
having
little
reason
to
desire
the
return
of
Richard
to
England
,
or
the
succession
of
Arthur
,
his
legitimate
heir
.
For
the
opposite
reason
,
Prince
John
hated
and
contemned
the
few
Saxon
families
of
consequence
which
subsisted
in
England
,
and
omitted
no
opportunity
of
mortifying
and
affronting
them
;
being
conscious
that
his
person
and
pretensions
were
disliked
by
them
,
as
well
as
by
the
greater
part
of
the
English
commons
,
who
feared
farther
innovation
upon
their
rights
and
liberties
,
from
a
sovereign
of
John
's
licentious
and
tyrannical
disposition
.
Attended
by
this
gallant
equipage
,
himself
well
mounted
,
and
splendidly
dressed
in
crimson
and
in
gold
,
bearing
upon
his
hand
a
falcon
,
and
having
his
head
covered
by
a
rich
fur
bonnet
,
adorned
with
a
circle
of
precious
stones
,
from
which
his
long
curled
hair
escaped
and
overspread
his
shoulders
,
Prince
John
,
upon
a
grey
and
high-mettled
palfrey
,
caracoled
within
the
lists
at
the
head
of
his
jovial
party
,
laughing
loud
with
his
train
,
and
eyeing
with
all
the
boldness
of
royal
criticism
the
beauties
who
adorned
the
lofty
galleries
.
Those
who
remarked
in
the
physiognomy
of
the
Prince
a
dissolute
audacity
,
mingled
with
extreme
haughtiness
and
indifference
to
the
feelings
of
others
could
not
yet
deny
to
his
countenance
that
sort
of
comeliness
which
belongs
to
an
open
set
of
features
,
well
formed
by
nature
,
modelled
by
art
to
the
usual
rules
of
courtesy
,
yet
so
far
frank
and
honest
,
that
they
seemed
as
if
they
disclaimed
to
conceal
the
natural
workings
of
the
soul
.
Such
an
expression
is
often
mistaken
for
manly
frankness
,
when
in
truth
it
arises
from
the
reckless
indifference
of
a
libertine
disposition
,
conscious
of
superiority
of
birth
,
of
wealth
,
or
of
some
other
adventitious
advantage
,
totally
unconnected
with
personal
merit
.
To
those
who
did
not
think
so
deeply
,
and
they
were
the
greater
number
by
a
hundred
to
one
,
the
splendour
of
Prince
John
's
"
rheno
"
,
(
i.e.
fur
tippet
,
)
the
richness
of
his
cloak
,
lined
with
the
most
costly
sables
,
his
maroquin
boots
and
golden
spurs
,
together
with
the
grace
with
which
he
managed
his
palfrey
,
were
sufficient
to
merit
clamorous
applause
.
