Bannock-Bernt is court-chaplain, and preaches in the market-place before the king.

The sermon over, justice is administered, often of the most terrible kind; and then in like state the king and his court return home.

On the streets he is greeted with cries of: 'Hail in the name of the Lord.

God be praised!'" Meanwhile underneath all this riot of splendour and power and sensuality, the pangs of starvation were beginning to be felt.

For the army of the bishop of Muenster was outside the city and the siege was very studiously maintained.