"He instructs my sons after an excellent fashion, keeps the hours of the Church with a scrupulous precision I have never seen equalled, and instructs all who come to him for advice or assistance in a manner that makes him beloved of all.

Whenever I have talked with him or gone to him for spiritual counsel, I have been greatly struck by his spiritual insight, his purity of thought, his earnestness of mind, and his knowledge of the Holy Scriptures." The prior shifted a little in his seat, and coughed behind his hand somewhat dubiously.
"He was ever prone to observe the hours well.

He lived blamelessly here in all outward observances; but as for his knowledge of the Holy Scriptures, it may be that it goes something too far.

It is whispered abroad that some of his words savour strongly of those very Lollard heresies which are about to be put down with fire and sword.

Hast thou heard and seen naught of that ?" A thrill of indignation ran through Sir Oliver's frame.