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Murder During the Hundred Years War
Murder During the Hundred Years War
The Curious Case of Sir William Cantilupe
Melissa Julian-Jones
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AS I was walking all alane | As I was walking all alone |
I heard twa corbies making a mane: | I heard two ravens lamenting: |
The tane unto the tither did say, | The one unto the other did say , |
Whar sall we gang and dine the day? | Where shall we go and dine today? |
In behint yon auld fail dyke | 5 | In behind the old fail dyke |
I wot there lies a new-slain knight; | I know there lies a new-slain knight |
And naebody kens that he lies there | And nobody knows that he lies ther e |
But his hawk, his hound, and his lady fair. | But his hawk, his hound, and his lady fair . |
His hound is to the hunting gane, | His hound is to the hunting gone |
His hawk to fetch the wild-fowl hame, | | His hawk to fetch the wild-fowl home , |
His ladys taen anither mate, | His ladys taken another lover , |
So we may mak our dinner sweet. | So we may make our dinner sweet . |
Yell sit on his white hause-bane, | Youll sit on his white breast-bone |
And Ill pike out his bonny blue een: | And Ill peck out his bonny blue eyes |
Wi ae lock o his gowden hair | | With many a lock of his golden hair |
Well theek our nest when it grows bare. | Well feather our nest when it grows bare |
Mony a one for him maks mane, | Many people mourn for him |
But nane sall ken whar he is gane: | But none shall know where he is gone |
Oer his white banes, when they are bare, | Over his white bones, when they are bare , |
The wind sall blaw for evermair. | | The wind shall blow for evermore . |
Twa Corbies , (Scottish Version collected in the seventeenth century), Traditional. Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. 1919. The Oxford Book of English Verse: 12501900 , No. 380. |
. For more on the ballad, see: William Montgomerie, The Twa Corbies, The Review of English Studies , 6:23 (Jul., 1955), 227232.
Whos Who
Nobility: The Cantilupes |
The immediate family of Sir William VII de Cantilupe , or Sir William the younger , murdered in 1375 |
Sir Nicholas II/the elder | Sir Williams grandfather (d. 1355) |
Sir William VI/the elder | Sir Williams father (cut out of succession by apparent family agreement in favour of his sons; gained the lands and title anyway when they both died without children of their own) |
Sir Nicholas III/the younger | Williams older brother, died of natural causes (?) but of whom Sir William was accused of murdering (d. 1370/71) |
Lady Maud Neville | Sir Williams wife (d. by 1386) [Indicted for murder, conspiracy to murder and aiding/ abetting the murder: acquitted on all counts as no-one testified against her] |
Nobility: The Neighbours |
Sir Thomas de Kydale | Sheriff of Lincolnshire, second husband of Lady Maud (d. 1381) |
Sir Ralph Paynell | Previously a sheriff of Yorkshire, father-inlaw of Sir Nicholas the younger [Indicted for aiding and abetting the murder, acquitted ] |
Lady Katherine Paynell (the younger) | Daughter of Sir Ralph and Lady Katherine Paynell (the elder), annulled her marriage to Nicholas the younger |
Household Servants Indicted for Murder |
[Grouped by Outcome, Listed Alphabetical by Surname] |
Robert of Cletham | Household Steward [indicted for aiding and abetting but acquitted ] |
John Barneby of Beckingham | Chamberlain [failed to turn up to court, outlawed , pardoned by King Richard II in 1387 at the petition of Queen Anne ] |
John Taillour of Barneby | [ John Barneby of Beckinghams alias in 1387 ] |
Robert Cook of Scotton | Boteler (Butler) [convicted of petty treason, drawn to place of execution and hanged ] |
Agatha Frere/ Lovell | Lady Mauds maid [convicted of aiding and abetting, but escaped from Lincoln gaol and waived ( waived : female equivalent of outlawed )] |
Robert Gyse | Sir Williams armour-bearer [convicted of petty treason, drawn to place of execution and hanged ] |
John Astyn | Servant [failed to turn up to court, outlawed ] |
William/Walter Chamberlainman | Servant, but not the chamberlain [failed to turn up to court, outlawed ] |
Augustine Forester | Servant, possibly the forester [failed to turn up to court, outlawed ] |
John Henxteman | Servant, possibly the stable groom [failed to turn up to court, outlawed ] |
William de Hayle/Hole | Servant [failed to turn up to court, outlawed ] |
Augustine Morpath of Scotton | Servant [failed to turn up to court, outlawed ] |
Henry Tasker | Servant, possibly a piece-worker [failed to turn up to court, outlawed ] |
Augustine Warner | Servant, possibly a [rabbit] warrener as the name suggests, that is, a gamekeeper of rabbit warrens, since the keeping of rabbits required a special licence [failed to turn up to court, outlawed ] |
The Cantilupe Genealogy (Abridged)
Chapter 1