The Archer's Castle: Exciting medieval novel and historical fiction about an English archer, knights templar, and the crusades during the middle ages in England in feudal times before Thomas Cromwell by Archer Martin

Author:Archer, Martin [Archer, Martin]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: Martin Archer via [email protected]
Published: 2014-12-28T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Five

Moving to the Fowey takes longer than we’d hoped. We get the galleys loaded and down the river to Falmouth Harbor quick enough. But when we get there the weather in the channel isn’t helpful and the winds wrong. We’ll have to wait and make a run for it when the weather finally changes. Galleys don’t do all that well in heavy weather don’t you know?

About the only good thing about waiting in Falmouth is that I get to visit with Sir Percy and we have a fine old time at his favorite alehouse. And maybe it’s good we waited - while we are waiting one of our cogs came in with more recruits and the winter clothes its sergeant captain had been ordered to buy.

The cog’s captain sergeant is one of the slaves we freed along with Harold, and he’s also named William by the way. He’d been the master of a London cog taken off Malta by the Tunisians and they kept him to row. It seems the winds that are keeping us here brought the cog to us from London quite nicely despite the foul weather. And William Sailor has good news - if we want to sell, he has found a buyer for the flower paste.

“I passed the word and a funny looking apothecary fellow is waiting when I docks again at Southampton on me way back here. I gives him a look in the box and he knows exactly what it is, doesn’t he? Says he and his guild will pay eight hundred silver coins for each box.” My God. The stuff’s worth its weight in gold.

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Five days later the weather clears and we make a run up the coast to the Fowey. The boys and I and a lot of the men are seasick all the way. But we get there and leave the cog in the little harbor at the mouth of the river - and take the galleys as far upstream as they can go. Probably nine or ten miles.

There’s an area that looks like it might be somewhat sheltered on the Restormel side of the river about a mile short of where the river shallows.

Harold thinks it will do for a sailors’ camp and there is a footpath along the river all the way up to Restormel with several brooks and little trickles that will have to be waded. They’ll pull the galleys ashore and sleep in them.

If Restormel is to be our principal base then our first thing to do is bring our supplies and coins up the path along the river and build some kind of log and tent barracks for the archers and men at arms inside the second wall.

Hmm. And perhaps we should build a third wall to make it even more difficult for anyone trying to get in. I’ll have to talk to Thomas about that. As it turns out, it is Trematon that needs another wall more than Restormel.

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Before we start unloading the ships

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