Sherwood by Godwin Parke

Author:Godwin, Parke
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Robin Hood (Legendary character), Robin Hood (Legendary character)
Publisher: New York : Avon
Published: 1992-03-15T00:00:00+00:00

If yuletide was not festive, the men were stunned by sudden riches. The greater part was given out through the shire, but each of Robin's men received three pounds for his share in the venture. Father Beom deemed it more reclamation than robbery—and, marry, that was well said. An honest man could not call it theft. When called before God and English saints, Osmund and Huger would have a raw time of it explaining how they came by such pelf.

Three pounds each, a staggering sum for country fellows, much more than Little John could cup in his broad hands together. Such amounts had no real meaning to them, save perhaps Will Scatloch, who was almost captured before the money and a remembered promise fused together in his mind. For the rest, they dreamed impractical ends.

Tuck salivated with his prospects. "I will buy ten barrels of ale from Ceolred and a tun of that red Norman wine. Then I'll be to Grantham for the finest relics to set into our altar when I'm home. And what will you do, John?"

Littlerede ruminated on the question. Such dreams weren't as simple for him as they might be for Tuck or young Much, who was feverishly building opulence from this promising start. When their troubles were done and the king pardoned them (as surely he must. Much reasoned), he would go up Nottingham dight in the best apparel a man could order, knock on the door of some wealthy merchant, and speak of investment. And if the merchant chanced to have a comely daughter, Much would dicker for a wife and so have rich in-laws. By God, he'd get on in this world. John pointed out that Much was only half free, bound to the land under Robin as ever he'd be under Normans, but Much accounted that no obstacle to a man of means.

John Littlerede allowed that was well and good for a strip-

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