The Dragon of Handale by Cassandra Clark

Author:Cassandra Clark [Clark, Cassandra]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, azw3, epub
Tags: Mystery & Detective, Women Sleuths, Historical, Fiction
ISBN: 9781250058867
Google: Mrd7oAEACAAJ
Amazon: 1250058864
Barnesnoble: 1250058864
Publisher: Minotaur Books
Published: 2015-03-16T02:00:00+00:00

The prioress, belatedly fulfilling her duty, had tipped off the earl’s officials. And the dragon had dissolved into air. Now, ever conscious of her priory’s needs, Basilda was softening up her widowed guest in the hope of a bequest to swell the priory’s coffers.

That’s how it goes, Hildegard decided, philosophically enough. The Benedictines depended on rents and tithes and had to pay the king’s exchequer a goodly whack in taxes on their agricultural land.

The Cistercians, on the other hand, paid no land tax and had rents, too, as well as their massively lucrative Continental wool trade to support them. She would have felt some sympathy for the prioress if only she had not witnessed the cruelty inflicted on her dormitory of penitents.

No doubt, in her defence, Basilda would claim she was only obeying orders from the Pope.

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