William Le Scrope, Earl of Wiltshire(1350–1399)after Unknown artist lithograph, mid 19th century strange heat it was, the summer of 1399. The kind of heat that presses down on the land and makes the air thick with waiting. You could feel it in the quiet of the fields and the low murmur of men in taverns….
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