ANST - Three Kings

[Paul Mitchell]

Talen von Marienburg wrote:
> 
> On 10/22/97, at 11:33 AM, "no one of consequence" wrote:
> <snip>
> >Shameful!  Just shameful!  I've even heard that that awful Warwick
> >fellow, the one they call WARWICK THE KINGMAKER, is even _paying_
> >his elite band of 20 a generous ration of chicken and beer, and
> >offering a fine dagger to be given by a vote of his troops to the
> >one of his fellows they decide is most worthy.  Even if the Earl
> >is killed, he's arranged for his vile henchman, Sir Galen of Bristol,
> >to distribute the booty when the fighting is done.
> >
> >Ha!  But he hasn't recruited anything like 20 yet!  No doubt the
> >people's loyalty to the Lancastrian cause will empower them to
> >pass by such temptation, and spurn his offers of largesse and
> >glory.
> >
> >- no one of consequence
> >pmitchel at flash.net
> 
> 'Tis true that the traitors may have erred in trying to recruit an army in
> Towton, lands traditionally loyal to Lancaster and King Henry.  We loyal
> and brave souls can only hope this is their undoing.  Alas, the forces of
> York are well financed from abroad, and mercenaries (though necessary) are
> loyal only to the larger purse.  I fear that many mercenaries will be drawn
> to the Earl of Warwick by his generous offers of largesse and presumptuous
> glory.  

Mercenaries from abroad?!  How scandalous!  I had not dared to fear that
those Yorkist scum would stoop so low!

By the way Herr Talon, I'll be visiting in Kent soon, and I'd like
to visit you.  Is Marienburg anywhere near there?  Was not Queen
Marguerite born near there as well?  Or am I mistaken?

> Perhaps his cousin and ally Duke Edward (I cannot call him "king")
> will find need of mercenaries that drain his purse as well.  A mighty
> battle is brewing, and Lancaster's Red Rose is threatened by the thorns of
> York's White Rose.

Quite!  Fortunately, the Lancastrians have no need to drain their already-
depleted purse to offer filthy lucre to their loyal defenders, marching
shoulder to shoulder to their fates, amply rewarded by their faith in
the rightness of their cause...

> To Arms, good people!  March to the fields of Towton and let these traitors
> feel the full fury of Lancaster's might!

However much that may turn out to be...

> Herr Talen, scribe to the Duke of Buckingham

- Publius
pmitchel at flash.net
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