A handsome knight and a pleasant, but one of whom I have always misdoubted me." "-- Is also enamoured of Eve Clavering, and with her father's will seeks to make her his wife, though she hates him, and by the charter of Dunwich, of which she is a citizen, has the right to wed whom she will." "It is well there are not many such charters.

The old story--brave men done to death for the sake of a woman who is rightly named Red Eve," mused the King.
"My Liege, I pray that you will read the letter herein enclosed.

Hugh de Cressi will tell you how it came to my hand, since I lack time to write all the story.

If it seems good to your Grace, I pray you scotch this snake while he is in your garden, lest he should live to sting you when you walk abroad.

If it please you to give your royal warrant to the bearer of this letter, and to address the same to such of your subjects in Dunwich as you may think good, I doubt not but that men can be found to execute the same.