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Knowing the land, I sent pedlars north and west to collect such stuff, and what I bought for pence I sold for much gold in the Germanies and throughout the French cities.

Thus Willebald amassed wealth, till it was no longer worth his while to travel the seas.

We lived snug in Flanders, and our servants throughout the broad earth were busy getting us gear." The Cluniac was all interest.

The making of money lay very near the heart of his Order.