Whether We Would Be Hanged or Out Cast

The book was being compiled far and wide, we heard in every shire there were some men of good standing, base enough to count ac it. And one day, their hireling train of two score pikemen came ambling down the glades with a fat abbot, a norman rascal at their head and pulled up our doorway. Hullo, there, says the monk. Whose house is this? Mine i said gruffly, with a secret fancy that there would be some heads broken before the census was completed. But alas, my hasty temper and my inability to stomach an affront in any guise undid my good resolutions. They cast their greedy eyes