Ghostly Murders by Paul C. Doherty

Author:Paul C. Doherty [Doherty, Paul C.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: historical, medieval, mystery, religious
ISBN: 9780755370412
Google: Z_k1AgAAQBAJ
Amazon: B00GU35BC8
Publisher: Headline
Published: 2012-11-27T00:00:00+00:00

The Poor Priest's Tale

street, including his own and in the church tower above him, archers had been placed. In the fields behind the hedges other men had been hidden. Their tactics were the same as the English armies had used to such devastating effect in France. The archers simply found their aim and loosed: if the French ran forward they went into a hail of arrows. If they went back, or to their right or left, the same threat met them. Philip had heard about the skill of the long bow but now he saw why it was so fearsome. An archer, a few steps above him, was loosing arrows more quickly than the priest could finish a Pater Noster. Philip went down. Most of the fighting was taking place further back in the village but, even from where he stood, the sound of screaming and shouting was like that from some infernal nightmare. The enemy in front of the church disappeared, most of them killed or wounded, others retreating back to join the main battle. Piers, who had been left in the church as Sir Richard's officer, now ordered the doors opened.

'I am to collect all the archers and move them to the village,' he said. 'Make sure the French are sealed in. I will leave three men to guard the church.'

T'm coming with you!' Philip declared. 'Edmund, you stay, Stephen too!'

Piers was already hurrying down the path, shouting at the men in the church and the cemetery as well as those behind the hedgerows to join him. At first Philip kept stopping by every corpse.

'There's a man wounded here!' he shouted.

'Ah, so there is.' An English archer knelt down and, before Philip could intervene, the wounded man's throat was slit from ear to ear.

More corpses littered the highway. Piers now formed his archers into a line. They moved slowly down the high

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