People:
Adam Ducket: framed as a serf, son of simon
David: son of Sampson bull , killed by silversleeves
Sampson bull:married Ida, no religion, brother of michael
Ida: 1st class, forced to marry Sampson to fund the crusades
Brother Michael: monk, was saved from going to hell
Pentecost Silversleeves: same as last chapter, evil, wants to be on winning side
Sister Mable: saved Michael, works in st. bartholomew’s with michael
Barnikel the fishmonger: brother of sister mable, bull was mad about his nets in
the water
Plot:
King Henry II dies and was succeeded by his second son Richard
Richard(the lionheart) had an evil brother, john
The crusades made the king of France and of England crusade together as
brothers and got rid of the jealousy
The outcry over becket hadhad increased until finally henry had gone into
penance to be publically whipped at Canterbury
Becket was even made a saint
Henry’s wife died and his children turned against him, two of his sons including
the heir died
Richard the lionheart met David’s gaze and smiled. At that point David wanted to
go on crusades with him
Ida was being sold to make money to support the third crusade
Sampson bought Ida because she was of noble class, she brought no money or
estate with her.
Ida fainted when she first saw Bull
Sister Mable started to love brother Michael when he stopped a stallion that was
charging towards them and his shirt ripped off
Ida did not want to marry Sampson because he was of the wrong class but he had
bought her
She went to the powerful lord Fitzwalter thinking that he could stop the marriage
since he was a family connection but she couldn’t even get to talk with him
First time she actually had something to confess in confession
Sampson got married in st. mary le bow
Ida grew to love David very much and she could not believe that the good looking
Michael was sampsons brother
relations between the brothers had improved in recent years and after Michael had
stopped by almost every day after davids mother died
Michael asked david if he wanted to go to the holy land on crusades but Sampson
asked if he was trying to kill david
Ida and Michael immediately liked each other
Ida thought David should be allowed to crusade as well even though she was sold
against her will for crusades
Ida said that Sampson would not understand the principals that it concerned and
right before Sampson could throw a temper tantrum , a servant burst in saying the
jews were rioting
it was a mistake though. The jews just showed up at Westminster palace to make
a presentation to the king
unfortunately some courtiers rushed out and killed several jew which then did
start a riot
brother Michael pulled a jew out of the riot fight and brought him inside the
house, Sampson asked why he hadn’t killed him because wasn’t it right to kill
infidels like on crusades. But Michael said that the jews would all be converted in
the end and how would they be converted in the end if they were dead. he also
LIED that this jew had already converted
when simon the armourer had died sister mable partially adopted his son Adam
she brought him over the her brothers house a lot to play with his kids
in most houses of London the upper level was actually larger than the bottom and
the overhanging top level was supported by timbers
since everything was wood fire was the biggest hazard
at this time everyone was told to switch their roof and ground floors with less
flammable materials but Sampson did not want to pay it.
Sampson decided to bring everyone to bocton for a few days
Sampson was mad because king Richard had put large taxes on everybody and he
said if this is how king Richard rules then let him go to hell
The king wanted even more money for the crusades yet Sampson wasn’t even
Christian
Sampson said it wouldn’t surprise him if England went to a commune of the
barons
Commune: self governing with almost no interference from the monarch
When Sampson said he would support a commune Ida got angry and started
yelling at bull that he forges his place. But she forgets her place as his wife too
Sister mable got a little tipsy and tried to seduce brother Michael
Sampson was still mad at Barnikel for having his nets in the water
Since Pentecost was mad at simon the armourer he had a score to settle and when
he found out that simon had left a son he decided that was who he would take it
out on
A night that was going on crusade was now staying at their house, david was in
awe of him and Ida had completely transformed herself
Ida wanted to find david a noble wife and she said perhaps his son could be a
knight
After seeing the knight, david despised his father
Brother Michael had a dream that Ida and the knight were cheating and he
accused the knight of it but he had apparently been wrong. It was his jealousy that
had caused the dream not a vision
Books were not all accurate, and Michael tried to teach david some
david started not feeling well after the knight left
john and longchamp were competing to take over throne, people liked longchamp
better
Davids sickness was getting worse and Michael was constantly praying for him
and trying to help him get better
Michael was trying to get david to become a monk when he got better and could
walk fine again and david said that it would actually be nice but Ida was furious
and said she wanted him to marry into a noble family and have children
When Michael was told to leave he was talking to sister mable and she told him
that she tried to warn him about the unnatural love. Michael said that he didn’t
love Ida anymore and she said that she meant david. At first Michael was angry
but then he realized that it was true.
Longchamp was the chancellor
Sampson bull was seen in a gathering by david with prince John and they
arranged for prince john to be the heir instead of Arthur. At first ida thought that
they were dealing with him as a traitor to the king then she realized they were
helping him.
Prince john is giving England the commune
Now that john was winning and was going to lead Silversleeves realized that he
was on the wrong side so after he killed one of johns knights and david saw he
had to kill david so that Silversleeves could still be on johns side in the end.
All the barons realized that with the commune they get taxed even harder than
with the king so they all realized that they didn’t actually want the commune.
Silversleeves found out that Alfred had been written down as a serf so serfs could
not own a fishmonger business or do anything that adam ducket was now doing. It
had been a mistake in the past but nobody could prove it because nobody was
living anymore from that time. So Silversleeves showed the court that his cousins
all worked under people to keep the land that they lived on
Adam lost everything that he had worked for and now he was not a real citizen
Sister mable was now taking care of Silversleeves because he was old and blind.
One day on their walk she brought him to London bridge where the church of
Thomas becket was
She told him to pray or she would leave him there.
When he prayed he got his sight back and recognized the place
A month later Michael died with sister mable by his side
And she saw the demon that was going to take his soul to hell leave empty
handed.