People:
Pentecost Silversleeves:evil, killed simon’s apprentice, didn’t get killed
Simon the armourer: got the young bloods tried
Sampson bull: descendant of leofric, was going to buy bocton
Brother Michael: brother of Sampson, monk
Barnikel the fishmonger: brother of sister mable, bulls boat got caught on his nets
Sister Mable: descendant of Barnikel, worked in the hospital with michael
Plot:
Every year of Easter the sheriffs come to the exchequer to render their accounts:
The exchequer was a table: most important piece of furniture in the kingdom
Pentecost Silversleeves went to many different schools but he never excelled
because he was actually too smart. They said it comes too easy to him so he
doesn’t really try
Silversleeves was a deacon so he could marry and do whatever he wanted
The chancellor of England and the archbishop of Canterbury were the same man
at this time: Thomas becket…
King can make whoever he wants into a bishop
Pentecost was with a group of teens called the young bloods of London. They got
a drunk and decided to go to the bakers house to play a prank but instead went to
the wrong house. They went to the armourer and decided to steal his shirt as a
trophy and accidentally killed his apprentice.
While they were all in the room simon the armourer came in and started yelling
murderer
King henry II was king at the time and he had 4 sons to ensure the throne
Thomas becket was not presentat the ceremony, he had fled the country for some
reason
The Silversleeves/Becket feud had gotten even worst over the generations. Not
grown out
Gilbert Becket can to London and prospered even when the Silversleeves told
everyone that he was an interloper and then when Pentecost’s grandpa was
supposed to be picked for a n important city position, Gilbert Becket had been
chosen over him which made the Silversleeves hate them even more
When the becket’s house caught on fire the night that their child was born a rumor
spread that the Silversleeves started it which caused the entire city to be
suspicious of them
The king appointed him both chancellor and archbishop because he wanted the
church “under his thumb”
Becket turned against the king and started living like the simplest monk
Once it went back to normal time simon burst in and accused him of murder
Sampson bull became known as bull because his family had always used the bull
as the sign of his family
Sampson was a rich mercer and an alderman
At one point in time his family had owned a piece of land called bocton but
leofric had lost it and alderman Sampson bull was going to get it back
A jewish man bought the property but jews couldn’t own land so as soon as the
jewish man heard that it had been in bulls family he wanted to sell it back
He had not told his mother that he was buying bocton back but he couldn’t pay for
the land until his ship came in so he had to trust the jew to keep it till then
When bull’s ship was coming in it got caught on barnikels nets that were in the
water and so bull was quite mad but Barnikel said that he had paid a fortune to
fish there
Bull then said he was going to stop it
Bulls brother Michael was a monk and Sampson thought is pointless
Some people thought that Michael had broken some vow and the entire monastery
was against him
Brother Michael left the monastery
There were four young bloods who were guilty for killing the apprentice but only
3 were being killed for their crimes. Pentecost got off because he was tried by the
church who is much more lenient
People were supposed to be tried by the king’s court but becket and the church
tried some. Most of which got off with no punishment
Gilbert foliot was a bishop of London and he said that Pentecost should be handed
over to the kings court but the trial was already over and he can not do anything
now
The kings court of deciding innocent or guilty was flinging then into water with
their hands bound and it they floated they were guilty and if they sunk they were
innocent
At the trials simon saw Pentecost and called him slime because he wasn’t hung
for his crime
Silversleeves entered Westminster hall and when the king walked in he hid behind
a pillar. Then he was called out because the king did not like people hiding from
him. The king asked his name and he replied, the king was furious that he hadn’t
been tried and killed. He swore that he would get Silversleeves killed. Pentecost
then ran away to st. mary le bow where he sat for over an hour
Brother Michael now belonged to the hospital of st. Bartholomew and was good
friends with sister Mable who was the sister of the fishmonger
it was harder for a woman to be accepted to heaven because they were naturally
“evil”
sister mable felt sure that brother Michael was a saint of some kind
Sampson bull was buying Bocton while the other possible owner was away on a
crusade
Michael asked to talk to bull and how many thought that he would be damned for
all eternity if he did it and they were trying to stop him
Sampson does not believe in a god or anything religious so he doesn’t care. The
only reason he came is because his mother had made him
When Sampson said he did not believe in a god sister mable burst out and said
that he will go to hell with the jews and in reponse Sampson started yelling that if
he ever needed a religion he would become a jew. Sister mable crossed herself 7
times before “jew”
Sampson told Michael that if Michael doesn’t break his vows he will give bocton
to st. bartholomew’s
Becket made peace with the king but not with the bishops who crowned the prince
in his absence
Becket was killed and Foliot had won. That was bad for Pentecost cuz foliot
wanted him retried
After they killed Becket the stripped him down and found the proud prelate had
been wearing the rough hair shirt of the penitent. He was a true penitent after all.
He was the son of the church
London then proclaims the merchants son a martyr
King Henry was a catastrophe so to escape the guilt and madness he went on a
campaign in Ireland
Instead of having to flee the city Pentecost could now stay and go back to the
exchequer since the king was occupied and didn’t care about Pentecost anymore
For the first time the Silversleeves thanked the beckets
Sister mable was having a vision and in the vision there were people riding horses
and others just walking but they were making no sound. Beside them they were
being followed by demons.they were all living human souls. The ones in front
were going to heaven and the others were on their way to hell. Some having not
even commited their crimes yet.
She then saw Sampson bull on a horse riding backwards to hell and she was not
surprised but then she saw brother Michael right behind him and was so confused.
She had to save him. The demon said that some would be saved
She then thought that if he was bound for hell then she was too but before she
could finish looking for herself the vision vanished.