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Williaot a rope'

'Are you sure?'

'Yeah He's tying it on'

As they watched, a figure e a surplice and the top of his head was shaved like a priest A lot of parish priests wore surplices Usually you saw black stockings and buckled shoes This one earing green stockings and flared boots He went over to the baldheadedbehind a pillar

'Have you tied it properly?'

Williarinned

'Yeah … don't worry about that, Master Vowell It has been properly secured as you instructed I shall now sit here where I cannot be seen and await your signal'

'And ill that be, Master Draper?'

'A long and hed 'It will be music to our ears, even if so the nave to All Hallows

'I'd better get back Our betters have arrived Lady Margaret Gough, Sir Hu shire are here They're going to celebrate Easter Mass in our humble presence Then they're off to Jonnie Baret's house for a '

William found a wall at the end of the abbey nave and decided it was a good place to watch the proceedings Geoffrey called it a pulpitum William didn't care what it was called He felt safe there The as over four foot thick There wasn'toff

Mass in All Hallows ended and the country folk careen William sensed an air of tension Thethe central aisle and were exchanging glances The wo excitedly It was like being at a tournaot started

The owns stood on the platfornore the hostile stares of the congregation One carried a large book and the other had a steel-bound collecting box, fastened to his wrist by a chain The baldheadedon a loaf of bread

A tru open Men with pipes stormed out, followed by men with drums and cymbals They marched down the nave, four abreast, to the applause of the crowd Willia in the ht in France

Richard Voas arandfather and Willianer strode in front He earing his priest's surplice but looked more like a soldier than a priest He held a bible in one hand and a tru the end of the nave, he hurled the trumpet in the air like it was a marshal's baton