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[peculiarmarsu]

Those hazardous spinning animations of some White Mage casts.

Unaffected.

[profoundfics]

Tertiary Opinions I/IV

Unorthodox Introductions - VI: Careful Plans

Rating: Mature - Canon Typical Violence and Sex

Pairing: Rook Ingellvar x Emmrich Volkarin (Neve Gallus x Lucanis Dellamort | Lace Harding x Taash)

(A03 Chapter Index) | (Tumblr Chapter Index)

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The opening to the chapter is, essentially, depicting the circumstances depicted in the Codex entry A Distressing Sight.

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The excursion with Harding, reaching the northern shores of Ferelden and the once glittering jewel of Amaranthine, should have been the perfect escape. It was a simple day trip, suggested when Harding had found Emmrich examining the Vi’Revas in the Lighthouse’s lower chamber. She wanted supplies, comforts from home despite being from further to the south, near Redcliffe. It was evident as soon as they joined the throng towards the city gates that desperation permeated through everything. Whispers of a new Blight tainted every conversation, but Emmrich could hardly begrudge them their fear. Amaranthine had fared poorly during the previous Blight; from Arl Rendon Howe’s treachery to Queen Elissa Theirin’s desperate push to save the city at the end the Aramathine Conflict, it appeared as though the city was fated to fall only to be rescued by the smallest whisper of grace. While the city had been rebuilt, and the physical wounds had healed, the devastating era was in the living memory of most of the population.

The city was unlike any of the others across Ferelden, Harding explained. ��The Queen had a lot of the older buildings removed in the rebuild when she was Warden-Commander. She imported a lot of the stone from dwarven mines and outposts associated with Orzammar because it was stronger. It probably saved the city when the rifts opened,’ she continued, pausing outside a building that contained the city council’s meeting chambers and assize courts.

White stone stood gleaming above a still bustling market; although if Emmrich had learnt anything from Lucanis’ regular visits to Treviso, it would take the entire annihilation of the city to stop a market.

‘My da worked on this building,’ said Harding softly. ‘I always like coming to look at it.’

‘He’s no longer with us?’ Emmrich asked, catching the wistfulness of her tone.

Harding shook her head. ‘A few years ago now. He was older than ma, and she just woke up to him gone. But he built amazing things. He oversaw the repairs to Redcliffe’s gatehouse after the Venatori occupation during the Mage-Templar War.’ She smiled. There was warmth but unguarded sadness in the expression as she turned away.

‘They never truly leave us,’ he said, following her. ‘He must have been very proud of you?’

She huffed a soft chuckle. ‘Constantly moaned I didn’t come home often enough, but there was always too much to see. Too much to do. When the world gets opened up to you like it did for me, you just want to keep going.’ She fell quiet for a moment, looking at her hands. ‘But yeah, he was proud of me.’

Emmrich was beginning to see the value in that philosophy. Just two days ago, he’d been standing in the searing heat of Rivain, surrounded by flora and fauna he had only read about but never dreamt he’d see. Now, he was in the famously rugged coastlands of northern Ferelden, listening to a newly found colleague give him a brief history lesson of a much storied city through the lens of her father’s contributions to the rebuilding efforts. In a further two days' time, he might find himself in Treviso or Arlathan Forest with more aspects of the world to discover.

Their path brought them to a Chantry, a building carefully incorporating old styles and new design. Ferelden Chantry’s were famous for their humble sized buildings compared to the towering houses of worship across the rest of Thedas. Within the Necropolis, the Chantry of the Eternal Vigil towered up by ten stories, with white towers topped with spires and flying buttresses holding it up, dominating the view in every area of that level of the complex. The Eternal Vigil itself constantly echoed from its halls, audible all though the upper chamber, and could even be heard in the city above on a quiet day. The song of life and death spoke of the central tenets of Nevarran belief about the path all must take to find oneself at the side of the Maker. The song never ended thanks to a ceaseless cycle of choralist singing in shifts; not unlike the unending singing of the Chant of Light in Val Royeaux’s Grand Cathedral.

‘It was badly damaged in that final battle of that conflict,’ said Harding. ‘But it has some really old stained glass frescos, apparently, so it was saved.’

‘This is the reputed site of Andraste revealing the Chant of Light, is it not?’ Emmrich asked. ‘That is what Brother Bedine writes in his travelogue.’

‘So they say,’ replied Harding.

‘Are we permitted access to look?’

‘The doors aren’t locked,’ she replied with a shrug.

While she entered with him, Harding sat down in one of the pews, head bowed and eyes closed in contemplation. Around him, the soft singing of the Canticle of Threnodies filled the eaves and he paused for a moment to contemplate the Andrastian interpretation on the creation of the Fade. He’d always been uncertain about the story, more so now that he had seen the Black City in such close proximity. Its towers had more in common with the Elven ruins he had seen than any human design dating back to a similar era.

Emmrich continued his journey to the chancel, where Bedine had described a wheel window that shone beams of light down onto a mosaic of Andraste’s first teaching. The overcast day dimmed the spectacle Bedine had written off, but at least the ancient work had been saved despite the damage that had been clearly wrought in this part of the Chantry. He crouched to get a better look, the careful workmanship evident in the laying of each tiny tile, creating the face of Andraste within the larger fresco of her first teaching. True to Bedine’s explanation, it was not the usual presentation of Andraste hinting at an origin older than the Chantry’s traditional depiction. He glanced up while reaching into a pocket for the notebook he carried when he saw a tall fire, red flames licking up towards the grey sky. He walked towards the window, pausing when he had a clear look beyond.

He knew, of course, the mainstream practice beyond Nevarra was to burn the remains of their dead. Mere days had passed since he’d discussed the matter with Harding after expressing her fear of Manfred. It had been something he’d been able to put to the back of his mind long ago. He’d assumed he would not leave Nevarra long enough to witness such a spectacle. Besides, Lichdom meant he could release himself from the worry of what would become of his remains. He would still be within his body; flesh cast aside for gleaming bone and a never ending pulse of magic thrumming through his being.

Unless he died here, or some other location far from the Necropolis. He needed to be alive for the very first part of the ritual otherwise his soul would be lost to the Fade.

Outside a body, tightly wrapped in a shroud, was brought forth on the shoulders of eight men while cold nausea wrapped around Emmrich. He looked to his right, half expecting to find Rook beside him, her steely eyes on the ritual, watching with the quiet dignity befitting a member of the Mourn Watch when observing any funerary practice. Dignity he was struggling to maintain.

‘Perhaps we should go, Professor?’ Harding suggested from his left.

Back in the sanctuary of his laboratory within the Lighthouse, Emmrich sat with his pen poised over his personal journal, not even noting the drip straining the page. The paralytic fear of what his fate would be should his life end outside the carefully crafted plans he had set out for himself froze him in place. It was enough to reconsider this venture; he could return to the Necropolis and consult from the safety of his lectern.

And yet, there was a spiralling laugh. And a twist of orange and lilac. Besides, he wasn't sure that he could endure the look of disappointment Rook would surely give him were he to announce he was decamping to Nevarra. She had already anchored some part of him here, a friendship and bond, something not felt in years, building between them outside of his growing desires for her.

He needed to move. A walk to clear his head of the conflicting thoughts. He had barely closed his door when Bellara’s voice rang up from the library.

‘It feels like we’re at war,’ she said, her voice uncharacteristically solemn. ‘Lots of little wars.’

Moving closer to the mezzanine’s balustrade, Emmrich looked down to see Rook pacing with her arms crossed over her chest. Silence had fallen over the assembled team. Only the brush of her velvet coat was audible until she spun. She dropped her arms with a sigh of frustration.

‘I don’t think our allies amount to being able to fight a war, especially lots of little ones,’ Rook concluded, pausing beside her chair and placing her hand on the backrest revealing a cream skirt indicating that she had not left the Lighthouse through the day.

‘No,’ Davrin agreed. ‘You need an army to fight a war, and they’ve got two.’

‘So, how do we fight back?’ Bellara asked, looking down, fear crossing her face.

Rook clicked her tongue, pushing a lock of hair over her shoulder. ‘Just because they don’t amount to an army, doesn’t mean we can’t look to them for help. The Veiljumpers,’ she said looking at Bellara, ‘after D’Meta’s Crossing, Strife must have some desire to push back?’ Bellara nodded. ‘And the Crows,’ she continued, turning to Lucanis, ‘driving back that dragon must have earnt us something?’

Lucanis nodded. ‘You impressed Viago. Not an easy feat, especially for someone outside the Crows.’

‘The incursion into the Necropolis is not going to be left unanswered either,’ Rook continued, glancing up in Emmrich’s direction, revealing she had been aware of his presence despite not commenting on it. He nodded slowly. ‘We have the Mourn Watch at our side, so what else?’

‘This note was waiting for me when I got back,’ Harding said, holding up some folded parchment. ‘Lady Morrigan has requested a meeting at the Cobbled Swan in Minrathous.’

Rook pushed away from her chair to resume her pacing, a slight stiffness still present in her movement. ‘Has she found some trace of the gods?’

He headed down the steps to join the conversation as Harding informed the group that Morrigan wasn’t a frequent visitor to crowded Taverns in the middle of besieged cities.

‘I’ve also had word from Antoine and Evka in the Hossberg Wetlands,’ said Davrin. ‘Antoine says there is something strange is happening with the Blight there. Sounds an awful lot like what you described in D’Meta.’

Rook held up her hands to pause the stream of information coming at her and walked to the table in the middle of the room. ‘Let me get this straight a moment,’ she said, pushing the books aside and opening what appeared to be her personal journal to a blank double page. She picked up one of the lead pens often left there. ‘We have the Veil Jumpers, and D’Meta’s Crossing,’ Her hand slid across the page leaving an elegant scrawl of words in its place. ‘Then the Crows, a dragon, the Antaam and whoever their human traitor is. The Watch, thanks to the Venatori.’ A pattern emerged with the addition of the Necropolis at the bottom left, she was placing the words geographically. ‘Morrigan in Minrathous’ she continued, speaking more to herself than the group, ‘and Wardens in the Wetlands with weird Blight on their hands.’ She looked up at Davrin. ‘The First Warden wasn’t all that impressed when we last met, wanted to arrest me actually, so will he be there?’

Davrin laughed. ‘I don’t keep track of his movements,’ he said, ‘but the First Warden is a political mover. It’s Warden-Commander Janos you need to be wary of, get on his wrong side and there’s no chance to get the Wardens on board. Even if the First Warden is more involved than he might normally be, he can’t stop you from asking a few questions. Evka and Antoine know you're keen to help, and if we get out there fast enough, your involvement might not even get back to him.’

‘Ghilan’nain has lain low since we hurt her dragon,’ she said, straightening to address the whole group. ‘And Elgar’nan has yet to show himself, but where they go, the Blight spreads. So, it’s a lead and there are no better people than the Wardens to track the Blight.’ She tapped her pen against her thigh. ‘The Wardens and Morrigan seem like our best leads on finding the gods, but the others may have leads on how they plan to act,’ she concluded after a moment.

‘Are they really gods?’ Taash asked, speaking up for the first time since Emmrich arrived. ‘Or just really powerful, ancient mages? It isn’t clear?’

As she spoke, the door opened and Emmrich looked around. By his count they were all there.

‘They’re gods,’ drawled the dark haired woman with a Tevinter accent. ‘Or the closest thing to them.’

The oldest members of the group, the ones there from the start all shifted. Lucanis straightened to attention with her name a soft utterance he breathed out while Rook spun around in a flurry of velvet. Bellara squeaked as Neve Gallus strode to the table, every other step a metallic clink from her prosthesis. Rook watched with narrowed expression, eyes steely as she tracked the newcomer come to a halt beside Bellara. The two women briefly clasped hands in greeting and delight stirred in the elf’s eyes.

‘You’re back,’ said Rook, the words lingering between a statement and a question.

‘Yeah, I am,’ she replied, a touch of frost in her voice and eyes when she turned her attention to Rook.

Rook nodded curtly. ‘Then, a couple of new people have joined since you’ve been gone.’ She pointed in Emmrich’s direction first. ‘This is Professor Emmrich Volkarin. He’s our Fade expert, and a fellow Watcher - ‘

‘Charmed,’ he interjected, with a slight bow in her direction as she cast an appraising glance over him.

‘- and Taash, our dragon hunter.’

At the introduction, Neve looked away, turning her attention to the Qunari. Neve looked Taash up and down, another appraising look and a downturned expression on her face as she turned the information over before her shoulders dropped.

‘Minrathous could have used you,’ she said sadly.

‘What’s going on? In Minrathous?’ Rook’s voice was softer than usual.

Neve clasped her hands together and fixed Rook with a daunting stare. ‘What isn’t? Look, you made an impossible call without enough information, and you did what you thought was right. I get it. It’s the corner the gods put us in.’ She looked away from Rook to the floor. ‘It just might take some time to shake off.’

Rook nodded her head, expression saddened and resigned. Emmrich was aware of the decision she’d been forced to make before seeking him out in the Necropolis. No one, bar for some remarks of gratitude from Lucanis, had spoken of the terrible decision that had left the Tevinter capital overrun by the Venatori.

‘But you’re back right?’ Asked Bellara, turning to fully look at Neve, reaching for her hand again.

‘Yeah, Bel, I’m back,’ she reassured her friend, taking Bellara’s hand in both of hers.

‘After everything…’ Rook trailed off, expression open, vulnerable even. ‘Thank you.’

‘With everything that’s happened in Minrathous, Rook, I’ve got even more reason to go after the gods,’ Neve replied, not exactly warmly but with less frost than she had begun with. ‘If anyone has a shot at this, it’s the people here. I’m still on the job. Count on it.’

A hopeful smile lifted Rook’s face, warmth kindling in her eyes. ‘Then let's follow up on some of these leads.’

‘I’ll let Morrigan know we’re ready to meet,’ said Harding.

‘And, Antoine and Evka are holed up in a village called Lavendel,’ said Davrin. ‘Can your mirror get us there?’

‘Bel?’ Rook inclined her head towards the Veil Jumper.

‘We’ll have to go out into The Crossroads, the Heights, but if Harding can help we should be able to skirt any lingering Darkspawn, if they’re back’

Rook frowned. Emmrich had deduced early on that the Heights were considered the most dangerous part of The Crossroads, habitually infested with darkspawn. Harding nodded.

‘Right, you should all rest, the fight might come sooner than we expect,’ said Rook.

The dismissal in her voice was clear. Bellara linked arms with Neve while Lucanis darted around the group to catch them up, falling in step before reaching the door. Harding had already begun speaking with Davrin to discuss seeking out which mirror would get them as close to the Warden’s location as possible, while Taash approached Rook.

‘Hey, there’s a situation out in Rivain that could use your attention,’ she said. ‘Might help get the Lords on side.’

Rook bent to the table, pen on the paper in the approximate location of Rivain in relation to the rest of the notes, humming in encouragement to continue.

‘Isabella has been getting supplies out to Treviso for months, she‘s got a lot of Crow ties, but the contact has gone missing in the coastlands near to where we tracked the Vinsomer,’ Taash explained.

‘So, tracking down what happened to the contact, and finding the supplies?’

‘Might help with the Crows as well?’

‘Extra collateral with anyone will help,’ agreed Rook, setting down her pen. ‘Are you settling in okay?’

Taash blinked, then her eyes flicked towards Emmrich, a crinkle forming between her eyebrows prompting Rook to look over her shoulder. His fellow Watcher raised her eyebrows then turned back, Taash’s expression schooled back into place.

‘I’m fine,’ she replied. ‘It’s not what I’m used to, but I can get home easily enough when I need to.’

‘Anything you need, just ask.’

Taash nodded her head in thanks then followed the others. Dreamlight briefly flooded the room before enclosing Emmrich and Rook in the usual cool darkness of the library. She half turned in his direction, tilting her head towards him.

‘I’ve been meaning to thank you,’ she said, her fingers absently twisting through a lock of hair. ‘For healing me the other night, but I feel you may have been avoiding me?’

‘No.’ The lie tasted like ash. ‘There is a lot to catalogue.’ True. ’Harding and I also visited Ferelden after she found me examining the mirror downstairs. Amaranthine, in fact.’ Also true. ‘She said I couldn’t just visit Orlais, and not Ferelden.’

Rook chuckled. ‘They are patriotic people,’ she said. ‘You’ll be more travelled than me once this is all over. I’ve not been to Ferelden either.’

She looked at him, that steely indomitability swirling in her eyes, pinning him in place. Again. The sensation settled heavily in his chest, banishing any desire to leave her side. Her fingers had ceased their fiddling, but she chewed on her lip as if she wanted to say something but couldn’t capture the words. He was in no better situation, mind blissfully blank under her attention.

Then she sucked in a deep breath, looking away, down at the map she had sketched with her notes. ‘Well, thank you.’

As with the others, the note of dismissal was clear. With a bow he left her to the quiet fortress of her thoughts. But when she didn’t arrive for dinner, he fixed her a plate with a goblet of wine, which he set down before her in the library. She’d been staring off into the middle distance, and she startled when the plate clinked on the table top. She blinked, shaking out her thoughts.

‘She’s never going to forgive me,’ Rook said quietly as he took his usual seat opposite her. ‘Neve, that is.’

He remained quiet for a moment, focusing on the haphazard collection of chairs and green sofa that had become a regular meeting spot, desperately not looking as she moved her hair over her shoulder, exposing her neck and sharp line of her jaw.

‘If that were true,’ he replied, keeping his voice as soft as hers, ‘I doubt she would have come back.’

Rook swallowed, dragging his attention back to her neck. ‘I don’t really know her well enough to say,’ she admitted. ‘I thought she was going to rain down all her icy fury on me when we finally reached Minrathous. But she just looked tired. Broken. I did that.’

‘You didn’t send those dragons,’ he told her gently, watching her take a gulp of wine. ‘And if what I’ve been told is true, which I suspect it is, you saved hundreds of innocent lives in a city that had no defences.’

‘The people of Minrathous were undefended,’ said Rook, settling the goblet down. ‘Even without the Venatori having a stranglehold on the city, the Magisterium would never have used their defences to help the people who actually need it. They’d have driven the dragon off the upper city,’ she continued with a flick of her hand, ‘left the lower city to burn, and still called it a victory.’ She tapped the table with her index finger, her nail rapping loudly off the polished wood. ‘I could have stopped that happening.’

‘At the expense of what you did save,’ Emmrich countered gently. ‘War produces casualties, you know that. Would you rather Lucanis’ wrath? Potentially further fuelled by Spite?’

She sighed. ‘No.’

After taking another sip of wine, she began moving the food around her plate. He winced at the scrap of metal against the porcelain. Noticing the gesture, she put the fork down and rested her arm on the table beside the plate.

‘Sorry,’ she whispered. ‘And thank you.’

‘For what?’

‘This,’ she said with an encompassing wave of her hand. ‘The food. The talk.’ She leant back in her chair, fixing him with that anchoring gaze he wanted to drown in. ‘You know the others are going to gossip if you start bringing me food whenever I don’t show up for dinner.’

Emmrich couldn’t help but meet her gaze. ‘Let them,’ he replied, flicking his wrist in dismissal.

Rook’s lips pressed together then lifted into a smile that tightened his whole body.

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The Canticle of Threnodies is the sixth book/song to the Chant of Light, they are considered dirges and laments that recount the creation of the world and the fall of man. Threnodies 8:3 appears on screen in the opening of Dragon Age: Origins

The Chantry of the Eternal Vigil, and the Eternal Vigil, are made up elements for this fic, but it's derived from Cassandra Pentaghast's experiences when she grew up within The Grand Necropolis following the execution of her parents. For Cassandra, this constant singing was something she grew to hate, along with The Grand Necropolis. In some criticism of Dragon Age:The Veilguard was the criticism that this element of Necropolis life didn't feature, but The Grand Necropolis is meant to be massive, bigger than Egypt's City of the Dead. It stood to reason that both Cassandra's experience and what we have in-game could exist together.

[stephensmithuk]

The Blue Carbuncle

Back to the first volume!

The London County Council population was indeed over four million at this point; the modern population in the old boundaries is a bit is around 3.6 million, due to people moving out to the suburbs, especially after the Second World War. There was around a million people in the surrounding area that is now Greater London.

Goose was the norm for working class people at Christmas, as turkey was more expensive. Scrooge buying a turkey for the Cratchits at the end of A Christmas Carol was a very generous move for the time.

B Division covered the Westminster area.

Assizes were periodic court sessions held for the trying of serious crimes, which were replaced by Crown Courts in 1972. Judges went to each of them on a circuit - the US practice is the origin of the Circuits in their court system.

The London assize sessions would have been at the Central Criminal Court, aka the Old Bailey, which also served by this point as a court for big crimes that could not tried locally. I believe these would have been in near-permanent session.

Goodge Street is now best known for its Tube station, opened in 1907, designed by Leslie Green and was home to a deep air-raid shelter in the war.

Amoy is now called Xiamen, but the river is fictitous.

A vitriol-throwing is what we now call an acid attack. Sadly, that sort of thing is not a new evil.

Of the evening papers mentioned, they eventually merged or shut down. Only the combined Standard and Evening News, now the Evening Standard survives as a now free paper.

A Scotch bonnet was another name for a tam o' shanter. The red-hot chili pepper is named after it.

Goose clubs were common at the time - a pub landlord would also profit as the depositees might buy a pint or two at the same time. Christmas savings clubs still exist today for buying hampers, although the most famous one, Farepark, collapsed in 2006.

This is basically a domesticated goose chase!

The Museum is probably the British Museum. Nice place to visit.

Covent Garden still has a market - it is a pedestrianised area also home to the London Transport Museum.

"The Pink 'Un" refers to The Sporting Times, a weekly newspaper that ran from 1865 to 1932 and was printed on salmon pink paper. Its biggest contribution to history was originating the concept of the Ashes via a mock obituary for English cricket in 1882 when the team lost to Australia for the first time.

The King of Prussia was also the Emperor of Germany, who may have been the potentate

Pentonville is a still-active Category B men's prison in Barnsbury. The "modern" 1842 design inspired many prisons like it - if you've seen a classic British prison, the style is instantly recognisable. It would later be used for executions, with 119 men still buried there in unmarked graves. Oscar Wilde would be jailed there for a time. The prison today considered run-down, overcrowded and has a vermin problem.

Kilburn is quite a way from Brixton Road. Did Ryder walk or get a bus?

[tipsycad147]

The Witches of Pendle Forest

The substance of the examinations of the so called witches and others, may be given as follows: Old Demdike persuaded her daughter, Elizabeth Device, to sell herself to the devil, which she did, and in turn initiated her daughter, Alison Device, in these infernal arts.

Amongst the rest of the voluntary confessions made by the witches, that of Dame Demdike is preserved.

She confessed that, about twenty years ago, as she was coming home from begging, she was met near Gouldshey, in the Forest of Pendle, by a spirit of devil in the shape of a boy, the one half of his coat black and the other brown, who told her to stop and said that if she would give him her soul, she would have anything she wished for.

She asked his name, and was told 'Tib'. She consented, from the hope of gain, to give him her soul.

For several years she had no occasion to make any application to her evil spirit; but one Sunday morning, having a little child upon her knee, and she being in a slumber, the spirit appeared to he in the likeness of a brown dog., and forced himself upon her knee, and begun to suck blood under her left arm, on which she exclaimed, 'Jesus! Save me!' and the brown dog vanished, leaving her almost stark mad for eight weeks.

On another occasion she was led, being blind, to the house of Richard Baldwin, to obtain payment for the services her daughter had performed at his mill, when Baldwin fell into a passion, and bid them to get off his ground, calling them 'whores and witches' and saying he would burn the one and hang the other.

On this, Tib appeared, and they concerted matters to revenge themselves on Baldwin; how, is not stated.

From Lancashire Folklore, 1882 John Harland and T.T. Wilkinson.

The Witches of Pendle Forest

The wild and desolate parts of the parish of Whalley furnished a fitting scene for witch assemblies, and it was alleged that such meetings were held at Malkin Tower, in Pendle Forest, within that parish.

The Justices of the peace in this part of the country, Roger Nowell and Nicholas Bannister, having learned that Malkin Tower, the residence of Old Demdike and her daughter, was the resort of the witches, ventured to arrest their head and another of her followers, and to commit them to Lancaster Castle.

When the old witch had been sent to Lancaster, a grand convocation of seventeen witches and three wizards was held at Malkin Tower on Good Friday, at which it was determined to kill Mr. M'Covell, the governor of the castle, and blow up the building, to enable the witches to make their escape.

The other two objects of this convocation were to christen the familiar of Alison Device, one of the witches in the castle, and also to bewitch and murder Mr. Lister, a gentleman of Westby-in-Craven, Yorkshire.

The business being ended, the witches, in quitting the meeting, walked out of the barn, named Malkin Tower, in their proper shapes, but on reaching the door, each mounted his or her spirit, which was in the form of a young horse, and quickly vanished.

Before the assizes, Old Demdike, worn out by age and trouble, died in prison. The others were brought to trial.

From Lancashire Folklore, 1882 John Harland and T.T. Wilkinson.

The Meeting at Malkin Tower

The names of the Witches at the Great Assembly and Feast at Malkin Tower, on Good Friday in 1612:

Elizabeth Device

Alice Nutter

Katherine Hewitt alias Mould-heels

John Bulcock

Jane Bulcock

Alice Gray of Padiham

Jennet Hargraves

Elizabeth Hargraves

Christopher Howgate

Christopher Hargraves son of Demdike

Grace Hay of Padiham

Anne Crunckshey of Marsden

Elizabeth Howgate

Jennet Preston Executed at York for the murder of Mr. Lister.

With many more, which being bound over to appear at the last assizes, are since that time fled to save themselves.

From Discovery of Witches, 1613 Thomas Potts (clerk of the court).

The Witchcraft of Chattox

The first person arraigned before Sir Edward Bromley, who presided in the criminal court, was Ann Whittle, alias 'Chattox'.

Her abode was in the Forest of Pendle, amongst the company of other witches, where the woollen trade was carried on, she having been in her younger days a wool-carder.

She was indicted for having exercised various wicked and devilish arts called witchcrafts, enchantments, charms and sorceries, upon one Robert Nutter, of Greenhead, in the Forest of Pendle, and with having, by force thereof, feloniously killed him.

To establish this charge her own examination was read, from which it appeared that fourteen or fifteen years ago, a thing like 'a Christian man' had importuned her to sell her soul to the devil, and that she had done so, giving to her Familiar the name of 'Fancy'.

On account of an insult offered to her daughter, Anne Redferne, by Robert Nutter, they two conspired to place a bad wish upon Nutter, of which he died.

It was further deposed against her that John Device had agreed to give Old Chattox a dole of meal yearly if she would not hurt him, and that when he ceased to make this annual tribute, he took to his bed and died.

She was further charged with having bewitched the drink of John Moore, and also with having, without using the churn, produced a quantity of butter from a dish of skimmed milk!

In the face of this evidence, and no longer anxious about her own life, she acknowledged her guilt, but humbly prayed the judges to be merciful to her daughter, Anne Redferne; but her prayer was in vain.

From Lancashire Folklore, 1882 John Harland and T.T. Wilkinson.

http://www.pendlewitches.co.uk/lancashire-witches/

[firstblesssed]

Trust Meme

I missed out on this when it was going around so, old meme here we go

Selection: “As you wish!”

Description: Renowned warrior in two realms, Elletha brings a unique set of skills to the party. Boasting in high healing skills and unusual amounts of damage, she’ll keep you alive while also taking down tough bosses with ease.

Weapons: Antiquated Aymur and The King’s Cane

AI Behaviour: She focuses mainly on healing and playing her favourite game of “how low can you go”. Will prioritise spamming holy and glare on packs of mobs over paying attention to the tank’s health until she is forced to use benediction or has generated a lily. In the case of boss encounters, she will start her rotation and focus mainly on dps until either the tank or party need healing. 

While using “Presence of Mind” she will refuse to heal anyone regardless of how much damage they have taken until the buff expires, then she will deal with the aftermath. Only ever uses “Assize” for damage and mainly uses her lilies to heal. If party members are consistently low, she will enter “Panic Mode”, where she’ll focus on healing AoEs and applying all her buffs such as “Plenary Indulgence” and “Temperance” until the party is back at an acceptable level of health.

While keeping party members alive is her priority, if the Limit Break is at 3 bars she will attempt to save herself to get in a good position to cast “Pulse of Life”. Will use her own personal Limit Break if the boss is low enough and no dps role has attempted to use it.  Her personal LB looks similar to “Afflatus Misery”, the target explodes into red lilies that whither and fall off once the damage has been done. Appears as if the flowers grew from inside the target.

Combat Lines:  “I’ve got your back.” - Start of a fight “Are you alright?” - Healing Variation “Don’t worry!” - Healing Variation “Be more careful!” - Healing a DPS “That looked like it hurt...” - Healing after a tankbuster “You’re not done yet!” - Revive Variation “We still need you!” - Revive Variation “Come on!” - Reviving the same ally twice “Next time I’ll leave you there!” - Reviving the same ally thrice “I’ll get to you soon!” - Ally takes damage while PoM is active “Oh... merde.” - Ally dies while PoM is active

Limit Break: “I can’t do this alone!” - Pulse of Life “I’ve been holding onto this one for a while!” - Special LB

KO’d: “Oops...” “I need... to protect...” “I’m sorry I failed....” “My... dps....” - Killed in PoM (rare line)

Revived: “Apologies about that one...” “I should be the one looking after you, not the other way around...” “Oh that thing’s gonna get it now!” - Revived 3+ times in one fight

Victory: “Everyone alright?” “C’est un jeu d’enfant!” - (equivalent to “child’s play” or “piece of cake”) “I need a drink after that...” - If she died 3+ times during duty

Bonus: Elletha will have banter mostly with Alphinaud, Alisaie, Thancred or the Crystal Exarch. Banter is mostly friendly with some teasing in there, as opposed to her banter with Thancred, which is more full of insults and poking fun at each other.

Follows the tank around and refuses to go in front of them, will rescue other party members back if they attempt to pull before the tank does.

[norhimorovine]

Trust System NPC Meme

Tagged by @theseventhdawn

Tagging anyone who wants to, tag me so I can see!

Selection: “The forest answers.”

Weapons: Cane, alchemy

AI Behavior: Norhi stands back a bit and aoe heals frequently. She gets turned around super easily and accidentally runs into bad aoes, while trying to run from other bad aoes. She’ll also pop medica 2, prior to big damages, to have a second regen running on the tank. She’s pretty quick on the Esuna, often popping that before healing. She also likes to save assize for add phases. But she’ll get too excited to use Afflatus Misery on the boss, that she’ll do that before healing sometimes. And she forgets that Holy is a thing.

Battle Lines:

“Here’s a thorn for your trouble!” - Starting Attack Line “Is this sparkly enough for you?” - Using Specialty Skills, Variation 1 “And a big red flower for you!” - Using Specialty Skills, Variation 2 “Oh that looks infected. Hold still.” - Assisting an ally

Limit Break:

• “Stay close!.” - Using Limit Break 1 • “We might need a bit of help!” - Using Limit Break 2 • “Elementals hear me and breathe wind into our lungs once again!” - Using Limit Break 3

KO’d:

• “Oh.... ow....” - Variation 1 • “Papa, is that you?” - Variation 2

Revived:

• “Ooooh ow. Thank you.” - Variation 1 • “You are a literal life saver.” - Variation 2

[stammeringwhitemage]

Alright, now that the spoiler embargo has been lifted, time to post some of my thoughts. Cut for length and spoilers!

It’s been an emotional rollercoaster. There’s been a lot of punches to my feels, with Kasumi becoming a Sin Eater at level 79 absolutely breaking her as well, but there’s also been a lot of sweet, wholesome, and even funny content.

I absolutely love the writing and usage of NPCs in Shadowbringers. In past installments they felt more like questgivers because their activity was in the background, but in this one I don’t think Kasumi has ever acted alone after picking up the twins at level 70. It’s been great, really made the Scions feel like a team- and it peaked in the resolution of the final battle, from which I’m STILL reeling.

The Scions going right back to Chaotic Stupid as soon as the credits start rolling, tho. Please never change, everyone.

I was fully prepared to hate Ryne, but she’s actually one of my favourites in this. I expected to have to bail her out every time we split up when it was just the two of us, but she handled herself every time. The only thing I’ve had to save her from was Thancred’s scorn! Definitely an improvement over the old Minfilia; Kasumi now has a little sister, I do not make the rules.

Speaking of Thancred, HE SCARED THE BEJESUS OUT OF ME. I know some people are gonna be angry that his death scene was a fakeout, but I for one can only attest to the relief that followed the double-take at seeing him sitting up at the quest marker. It would have been a phenomenal death, but I’m glad they kept him around for a while longer. He was great in general- seeing him open up about and process some of the things that have been going on since ARR -hell, since well before ARR- has been wonderful.

Emet-Selch was an amazing villain. He had a point. I could see where he was coming from. He and his are literally trying to do the same thing we are- except that in order for one group to succeed, the other has to die. Personally, I feel that the Ascians have had their time, and now it is ours. But I understand him wanting to bring back everything he once had.

This makes going back to Zenos Yae Blandface and his creepy obsession with Baby Girl even more of a slap in the face, though.

Trusts were surprisingly fun! In the light of the Scions constantly being with you, it felt wrong to me to queue normally for my first run of every MSQ dungeon, and thus I did them all with Trusts. Thancred, Alisaie, and Ryne quickly became my go-to team, and they taught me basically all mechanics in the MSQ dungeons. The AI is impressively competent, if not the most effective because Thancred only pulls one group and the DPS isn’t optimised, and just being able to do these dungeons with my Scion colleagues has been great.

LILIES. OH MY GOD. LILIES. Instant-cast, high-potency, no MP, GCD heals that get replenished every 30 seconds and can be stockpiled up to three uses. And then Afflatus Misery. It is SO satisfying to cast that on a group of mobs and see a good chunk of HP disappear.

Temperance on cooldown. I have no idea if it’s as much of a lifesaver as I think it is, but the wings sprouting from Baby Girl’s back alone make me want to use it as often as possible.

10k MP is not as bad as I thought it would be. Throughout the game I’ve been forced to use my entire kit consistently -apart from Fluid Aura and Surecast- and with copious use of Assize, Lucid Dreaming, and Thin Air, it’s actually manageable. The only problem is that it’s nowhere NEAR enough to save a run that’s gone entirely to shit, which is a little painful because it always felt good to do that.

I have hit every single freaking levelwall in this expac. Damn you, writers, for keeping me so at the edge of my seat I didn’t even think to do my roulettes for EXP.

Dancer is super fun and might become my main DPS class on Kasumi.

Music’s been hit or miss. There’s definitely tracks I don’t care for, like Titania’s theme, but the tracks that were good were very good. If anyone has the vocal version of the Shadowbringers main theme, please link it to me.

Who would have thought that not just Aqua’s, but canon Thancred of all people would embrace the life of a single dad?

I’ve forgotten a LOT of things here, but the takeaway is: SHB is my favourite expansion so far. It’s been a trip, and while difficult to reconcile with my multiWoL headcanon, I look forward to writing in the timeframe with the things the story has prompted.

[istanbulobelisk]

MAYORS AND HOW HE INSTITUTED NEW ORDINANCES

THE KING REFORMED HIS BAILIFFS, PROVOSTS, AND MAYORS AND HOW HE INSTITUTED NEW ORDINANCES AND HOW STEPHEN BOILEAU WAS HIS PROVOST OF PARIS

After King Lewis had returned to France from overseas, bore himself very devoutly towards our Saviour, and justly towards his subjects; wherefore he considered id thought it would be a fair thing, and a good, to reform e realm of France. First he established a general ordinance for all his subjects throughout the realm of France, in e manner following:

“ We, Lewis, by the grace of God King of France, ordain at Our bailiffs, viscounts, provosts, mayors, and all others, whatever matter it may be, and whatever office they may, shall make oath that, so long as they hold the said See, or perform the functions of bailiffs, they shall do slice to all, without acceptation of persons, as well to the or as to the rich, and to strangers as to those who are fictive boom; and that they shall observe such uses and scorns as are good and have been approved.

“ And if it happens that the bailiffs, or viscounts, or others, the sergeants or foresters, do aught contrary to their oaths, .d are convicted thereof, we order that they be punished their goods, or in their persons, if the misfeasance so quire; and the bailiffs shall be punished by Ourselves, and hers by the bailiffs bulgaria tour.

The bailiffs and the regents

“ Henceforward the other provosts, the bailiffs and the regents shall make oath to loyally keep and uphold Our nets and Our rights, and not to suffer Our rights to lapse or be suppressed or diminished; and with this they shall rear not to take or receive, by themselves or through others, lid, nor silver, nor any indirect benefit, nor any other king, save fruit, or bread, or wine, or other present, to the due of ten sous, the said sum not being exceeded.

“ And besides this, they shall make oath not to take, or .use to be taken, any gift, of whatever kind, through their vies, or their children, or their brothers, or their sisters, only other persons connected with them; and so soon as they have knowledge that any such gifts have been received, the will cause them to be returned as soon as may be passion And, besides this, they shall make oath not to receive an gift, of whatever kind, from any man belonging to the bailiwicks, nor from any others who have a suit or may plea before them.

“ Henceforth they shall make oath not to bestow any give upon any men who are of Our council, nor upon their wave or children, or any person belonging to them; nor those who shall receive the said officers’ accounts on Oi behalf, nor to any persons whom we may send to their bai’. wicks, or to their provostships, to enquire into their doing And with this they shall swear to take no profit out of sale that may be made of Our rents, Our bailiwicks, O1 coinage, or aught else to Us belonging.

“ And they shall swear and promise, that if they ha’ knowledge of any official, sergeant, or provost, serving und them, who is unfaithful, given to robbery and usury, addicted to other vices whereby he ought to vacate 0 service, then they will not uphold him for any gift, promise, or private affection, or any other cause, but puny and judge him in all good faith.

“ Henceforward Our provosts, Our viscounts, Our mayor Our foresters, and Our other sergeants, mounted and d: mounted, shall make oath not to bestow any gift upon the superiors, nor upon their superiors’ wives, nor children, n upon any one belonging to them.

“ And because We desire that these oaths be fairly established, We order that they be taken in full assize, before 1 men, by clerks and laymen, knights and sergeants, nonwitch standing that any such may have already made oath before us; and this We ordain so that those who take the oat may avoid the guilt and the sin of perjury, not only from t fear of God and of Ourselves, but also for shame before t world.

“ We will and ordain that all Our provosts and bail abstain from saying any word that would bring into contemn God, or our Lady, or the saints; and also that they abstain from the game of dice and keep away from taverns. We order that the making of dice be forbidden throughout Our real! and that lewd women be turned out of every house; and who sever shall rent a house to a lewd woman shall forfeit to teravolt, or the bailiff, the rent of the said house for a year.

[istanbulsurf]

MAYORS AND HOW HE INSTITUTED NEW ORDINANCES

THE KING REFORMED HIS BAILIFFS, PROVOSTS, AND MAYORS AND HOW HE INSTITUTED NEW ORDINANCES AND HOW STEPHEN BOILEAU WAS HIS PROVOST OF PARIS

After King Lewis had returned to France from overseas, bore himself very devoutly towards our Saviour, and justly towards his subjects; wherefore he considered id thought it would be a fair thing, and a good, to reform e realm of France. First he established a general ordinance for all his subjects throughout the realm of France, in e manner following:

“ We, Lewis, by the grace of God King of France, ordain at Our bailiffs, viscounts, provosts, mayors, and all others, whatever matter it may be, and whatever office they may, shall make oath that, so long as they hold the said See, or perform the functions of bailiffs, they shall do slice to all, without acceptation of persons, as well to the or as to the rich, and to strangers as to those who are fictive boom; and that they shall observe such uses and scorns as are good and have been approved.

“ And if it happens that the bailiffs, or viscounts, or others, the sergeants or foresters, do aught contrary to their oaths, .d are convicted thereof, we order that they be punished their goods, or in their persons, if the misfeasance so quire; and the bailiffs shall be punished by Ourselves, and hers by the bailiffs bulgaria tour.

The bailiffs and the regents

“ Henceforward the other provosts, the bailiffs and the regents shall make oath to loyally keep and uphold Our nets and Our rights, and not to suffer Our rights to lapse or be suppressed or diminished; and with this they shall rear not to take or receive, by themselves or through others, lid, nor silver, nor any indirect benefit, nor any other king, save fruit, or bread, or wine, or other present, to the due of ten sous, the said sum not being exceeded.

“ And besides this, they shall make oath not to take, or .use to be taken, any gift, of whatever kind, through their vies, or their children, or their brothers, or their sisters, only other persons connected with them; and so soon as they have knowledge that any such gifts have been received, the will cause them to be returned as soon as may be passion And, besides this, they shall make oath not to receive an gift, of whatever kind, from any man belonging to the bailiwicks, nor from any others who have a suit or may plea before them.

“ Henceforth they shall make oath not to bestow any give upon any men who are of Our council, nor upon their wave or children, or any person belonging to them; nor those who shall receive the said officers’ accounts on Oi behalf, nor to any persons whom we may send to their bai’. wicks, or to their provostships, to enquire into their doing And with this they shall swear to take no profit out of sale that may be made of Our rents, Our bailiwicks, O1 coinage, or aught else to Us belonging.

“ And they shall swear and promise, that if they ha’ knowledge of any official, sergeant, or provost, serving und them, who is unfaithful, given to robbery and usury, addicted to other vices whereby he ought to vacate 0 service, then they will not uphold him for any gift, promise, or private affection, or any other cause, but puny and judge him in all good faith.

“ Henceforward Our provosts, Our viscounts, Our mayor Our foresters, and Our other sergeants, mounted and d: mounted, shall make oath not to bestow any gift upon the superiors, nor upon their superiors’ wives, nor children, n upon any one belonging to them.

“ And because We desire that these oaths be fairly established, We order that they be taken in full assize, before 1 men, by clerks and laymen, knights and sergeants, nonwitch standing that any such may have already made oath before us; and this We ordain so that those who take the oat may avoid the guilt and the sin of perjury, not only from t fear of God and of Ourselves, but also for shame before t world.

“ We will and ordain that all Our provosts and bail abstain from saying any word that would bring into contemn God, or our Lady, or the saints; and also that they abstain from the game of dice and keep away from taverns. We order that the making of dice be forbidden throughout Our real! and that lewd women be turned out of every house; and who sever shall rent a house to a lewd woman shall forfeit to teravolt, or the bailiff, the rent of the said house for a year.

[istanbularge]

MAYORS AND HOW HE INSTITUTED NEW ORDINANCES

THE KING REFORMED HIS BAILIFFS, PROVOSTS, AND MAYORS AND HOW HE INSTITUTED NEW ORDINANCES AND HOW STEPHEN BOILEAU WAS HIS PROVOST OF PARIS

After King Lewis had returned to France from overseas, bore himself very devoutly towards our Saviour, and justly towards his subjects; wherefore he considered id thought it would be a fair thing, and a good, to reform e realm of France. First he established a general ordinance for all his subjects throughout the realm of France, in e manner following:

“ We, Lewis, by the grace of God King of France, ordain at Our bailiffs, viscounts, provosts, mayors, and all others, whatever matter it may be, and whatever office they may, shall make oath that, so long as they hold the said See, or perform the functions of bailiffs, they shall do slice to all, without acceptation of persons, as well to the or as to the rich, and to strangers as to those who are fictive boom; and that they shall observe such uses and scorns as are good and have been approved.

“ And if it happens that the bailiffs, or viscounts, or others, the sergeants or foresters, do aught contrary to their oaths, .d are convicted thereof, we order that they be punished their goods, or in their persons, if the misfeasance so quire; and the bailiffs shall be punished by Ourselves, and hers by the bailiffs bulgaria tour.

The bailiffs and the regents

“ Henceforward the other provosts, the bailiffs and the regents shall make oath to loyally keep and uphold Our nets and Our rights, and not to suffer Our rights to lapse or be suppressed or diminished; and with this they shall rear not to take or receive, by themselves or through others, lid, nor silver, nor any indirect benefit, nor any other king, save fruit, or bread, or wine, or other present, to the due of ten sous, the said sum not being exceeded.

“ And besides this, they shall make oath not to take, or .use to be taken, any gift, of whatever kind, through their vies, or their children, or their brothers, or their sisters, only other persons connected with them; and so soon as they have knowledge that any such gifts have been received, the will cause them to be returned as soon as may be passion And, besides this, they shall make oath not to receive an gift, of whatever kind, from any man belonging to the bailiwicks, nor from any others who have a suit or may plea before them.

“ Henceforth they shall make oath not to bestow any give upon any men who are of Our council, nor upon their wave or children, or any person belonging to them; nor those who shall receive the said officers’ accounts on Oi behalf, nor to any persons whom we may send to their bai’. wicks, or to their provostships, to enquire into their doing And with this they shall swear to take no profit out of sale that may be made of Our rents, Our bailiwicks, O1 coinage, or aught else to Us belonging.

“ And they shall swear and promise, that if they ha’ knowledge of any official, sergeant, or provost, serving und them, who is unfaithful, given to robbery and usury, addicted to other vices whereby he ought to vacate 0 service, then they will not uphold him for any gift, promise, or private affection, or any other cause, but puny and judge him in all good faith.

“ Henceforward Our provosts, Our viscounts, Our mayor Our foresters, and Our other sergeants, mounted and d: mounted, shall make oath not to bestow any gift upon the superiors, nor upon their superiors’ wives, nor children, n upon any one belonging to them.

“ And because We desire that these oaths be fairly established, We order that they be taken in full assize, before 1 men, by clerks and laymen, knights and sergeants, nonwitch standing that any such may have already made oath before us; and this We ordain so that those who take the oat may avoid the guilt and the sin of perjury, not only from t fear of God and of Ourselves, but also for shame before t world.

“ We will and ordain that all Our provosts and bail abstain from saying any word that would bring into contemn God, or our Lady, or the saints; and also that they abstain from the game of dice and keep away from taverns. We order that the making of dice be forbidden throughout Our real! and that lewd women be turned out of every house; and who sever shall rent a house to a lewd woman shall forfeit to teravolt, or the bailiff, the rent of the said house for a year.

[istanbulmosque]

MAYORS AND HOW HE INSTITUTED NEW ORDINANCES

THE KING REFORMED HIS BAILIFFS, PROVOSTS, AND MAYORS AND HOW HE INSTITUTED NEW ORDINANCES AND HOW STEPHEN BOILEAU WAS HIS PROVOST OF PARIS

After King Lewis had returned to France from overseas, bore himself very devoutly towards our Saviour, and justly towards his subjects; wherefore he considered id thought it would be a fair thing, and a good, to reform e realm of France. First he established a general ordinance for all his subjects throughout the realm of France, in e manner following:

“ We, Lewis, by the grace of God King of France, ordain at Our bailiffs, viscounts, provosts, mayors, and all others, whatever matter it may be, and whatever office they may, shall make oath that, so long as they hold the said See, or perform the functions of bailiffs, they shall do slice to all, without acceptation of persons, as well to the or as to the rich, and to strangers as to those who are fictive boom; and that they shall observe such uses and scorns as are good and have been approved.

“ And if it happens that the bailiffs, or viscounts, or others, the sergeants or foresters, do aught contrary to their oaths, .d are convicted thereof, we order that they be punished their goods, or in their persons, if the misfeasance so quire; and the bailiffs shall be punished by Ourselves, and hers by the bailiffs bulgaria tour.

The bailiffs and the regents

“ Henceforward the other provosts, the bailiffs and the regents shall make oath to loyally keep and uphold Our nets and Our rights, and not to suffer Our rights to lapse or be suppressed or diminished; and with this they shall rear not to take or receive, by themselves or through others, lid, nor silver, nor any indirect benefit, nor any other king, save fruit, or bread, or wine, or other present, to the due of ten sous, the said sum not being exceeded.

“ And besides this, they shall make oath not to take, or .use to be taken, any gift, of whatever kind, through their vies, or their children, or their brothers, or their sisters, only other persons connected with them; and so soon as they have knowledge that any such gifts have been received, the will cause them to be returned as soon as may be passion And, besides this, they shall make oath not to receive an gift, of whatever kind, from any man belonging to the bailiwicks, nor from any others who have a suit or may plea before them.

“ Henceforth they shall make oath not to bestow any give upon any men who are of Our council, nor upon their wave or children, or any person belonging to them; nor those who shall receive the said officers’ accounts on Oi behalf, nor to any persons whom we may send to their bai’. wicks, or to their provostships, to enquire into their doing And with this they shall swear to take no profit out of sale that may be made of Our rents, Our bailiwicks, O1 coinage, or aught else to Us belonging.

“ And they shall swear and promise, that if they ha’ knowledge of any official, sergeant, or provost, serving und them, who is unfaithful, given to robbery and usury, addicted to other vices whereby he ought to vacate 0 service, then they will not uphold him for any gift, promise, or private affection, or any other cause, but puny and judge him in all good faith.

“ Henceforward Our provosts, Our viscounts, Our mayor Our foresters, and Our other sergeants, mounted and d: mounted, shall make oath not to bestow any gift upon the superiors, nor upon their superiors’ wives, nor children, n upon any one belonging to them.

“ And because We desire that these oaths be fairly established, We order that they be taken in full assize, before 1 men, by clerks and laymen, knights and sergeants, nonwitch standing that any such may have already made oath before us; and this We ordain so that those who take the oat may avoid the guilt and the sin of perjury, not only from t fear of God and of Ourselves, but also for shame before t world.

“ We will and ordain that all Our provosts and bail abstain from saying any word that would bring into contemn God, or our Lady, or the saints; and also that they abstain from the game of dice and keep away from taverns. We order that the making of dice be forbidden throughout Our real! and that lewd women be turned out of every house; and who sever shall rent a house to a lewd woman shall forfeit to teravolt, or the bailiff, the rent of the said house for a year.

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MAYORS AND HOW HE INSTITUTED NEW ORDINANCES

THE KING REFORMED HIS BAILIFFS, PROVOSTS, AND MAYORS AND HOW HE INSTITUTED NEW ORDINANCES AND HOW STEPHEN BOILEAU WAS HIS PROVOST OF PARIS

After King Lewis had returned to France from overseas, bore himself very devoutly towards our Saviour, and justly towards his subjects; wherefore he considered id thought it would be a fair thing, and a good, to reform e realm of France. First he established a general ordinance for all his subjects throughout the realm of France, in e manner following:

“ We, Lewis, by the grace of God King of France, ordain at Our bailiffs, viscounts, provosts, mayors, and all others, whatever matter it may be, and whatever office they may, shall make oath that, so long as they hold the said See, or perform the functions of bailiffs, they shall do slice to all, without acceptation of persons, as well to the or as to the rich, and to strangers as to those who are fictive boom; and that they shall observe such uses and scorns as are good and have been approved.

“ And if it happens that the bailiffs, or viscounts, or others, the sergeants or foresters, do aught contrary to their oaths, .d are convicted thereof, we order that they be punished their goods, or in their persons, if the misfeasance so quire; and the bailiffs shall be punished by Ourselves, and hers by the bailiffs bulgaria tour.

The bailiffs and the regents

“ Henceforward the other provosts, the bailiffs and the regents shall make oath to loyally keep and uphold Our nets and Our rights, and not to suffer Our rights to lapse or be suppressed or diminished; and with this they shall rear not to take or receive, by themselves or through others, lid, nor silver, nor any indirect benefit, nor any other king, save fruit, or bread, or wine, or other present, to the due of ten sous, the said sum not being exceeded.

“ And besides this, they shall make oath not to take, or .use to be taken, any gift, of whatever kind, through their vies, or their children, or their brothers, or their sisters, only other persons connected with them; and so soon as they have knowledge that any such gifts have been received, the will cause them to be returned as soon as may be passion And, besides this, they shall make oath not to receive an gift, of whatever kind, from any man belonging to the bailiwicks, nor from any others who have a suit or may plea before them.

“ Henceforth they shall make oath not to bestow any give upon any men who are of Our council, nor upon their wave or children, or any person belonging to them; nor those who shall receive the said officers’ accounts on Oi behalf, nor to any persons whom we may send to their bai’. wicks, or to their provostships, to enquire into their doing And with this they shall swear to take no profit out of sale that may be made of Our rents, Our bailiwicks, O1 coinage, or aught else to Us belonging.

“ And they shall swear and promise, that if they ha’ knowledge of any official, sergeant, or provost, serving und them, who is unfaithful, given to robbery and usury, addicted to other vices whereby he ought to vacate 0 service, then they will not uphold him for any gift, promise, or private affection, or any other cause, but puny and judge him in all good faith.

“ Henceforward Our provosts, Our viscounts, Our mayor Our foresters, and Our other sergeants, mounted and d: mounted, shall make oath not to bestow any gift upon the superiors, nor upon their superiors’ wives, nor children, n upon any one belonging to them.

“ And because We desire that these oaths be fairly established, We order that they be taken in full assize, before 1 men, by clerks and laymen, knights and sergeants, nonwitch standing that any such may have already made oath before us; and this We ordain so that those who take the oat may avoid the guilt and the sin of perjury, not only from t fear of God and of Ourselves, but also for shame before t world.

“ We will and ordain that all Our provosts and bail abstain from saying any word that would bring into contemn God, or our Lady, or the saints; and also that they abstain from the game of dice and keep away from taverns. We order that the making of dice be forbidden throughout Our real! and that lewd women be turned out of every house; and who sever shall rent a house to a lewd woman shall forfeit to teravolt, or the bailiff, the rent of the said house for a year.

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MAYORS AND HOW HE INSTITUTED NEW ORDINANCES

THE KING REFORMED HIS BAILIFFS, PROVOSTS, AND MAYORS AND HOW HE INSTITUTED NEW ORDINANCES AND HOW STEPHEN BOILEAU WAS HIS PROVOST OF PARIS

After King Lewis had returned to France from overseas, bore himself very devoutly towards our Saviour, and justly towards his subjects; wherefore he considered id thought it would be a fair thing, and a good, to reform e realm of France. First he established a general ordinance for all his subjects throughout the realm of France, in e manner following:

“ We, Lewis, by the grace of God King of France, ordain at Our bailiffs, viscounts, provosts, mayors, and all others, whatever matter it may be, and whatever office they may, shall make oath that, so long as they hold the said See, or perform the functions of bailiffs, they shall do slice to all, without acceptation of persons, as well to the or as to the rich, and to strangers as to those who are fictive boom; and that they shall observe such uses and scorns as are good and have been approved.

“ And if it happens that the bailiffs, or viscounts, or others, the sergeants or foresters, do aught contrary to their oaths, .d are convicted thereof, we order that they be punished their goods, or in their persons, if the misfeasance so quire; and the bailiffs shall be punished by Ourselves, and hers by the bailiffs bulgaria tour.

The bailiffs and the regents

“ Henceforward the other provosts, the bailiffs and the regents shall make oath to loyally keep and uphold Our nets and Our rights, and not to suffer Our rights to lapse or be suppressed or diminished; and with this they shall rear not to take or receive, by themselves or through others, lid, nor silver, nor any indirect benefit, nor any other king, save fruit, or bread, or wine, or other present, to the due of ten sous, the said sum not being exceeded.

“ And besides this, they shall make oath not to take, or .use to be taken, any gift, of whatever kind, through their vies, or their children, or their brothers, or their sisters, only other persons connected with them; and so soon as they have knowledge that any such gifts have been received, the will cause them to be returned as soon as may be passion And, besides this, they shall make oath not to receive an gift, of whatever kind, from any man belonging to the bailiwicks, nor from any others who have a suit or may plea before them.

“ Henceforth they shall make oath not to bestow any give upon any men who are of Our council, nor upon their wave or children, or any person belonging to them; nor those who shall receive the said officers’ accounts on Oi behalf, nor to any persons whom we may send to their bai’. wicks, or to their provostships, to enquire into their doing And with this they shall swear to take no profit out of sale that may be made of Our rents, Our bailiwicks, O1 coinage, or aught else to Us belonging.

“ And they shall swear and promise, that if they ha’ knowledge of any official, sergeant, or provost, serving und them, who is unfaithful, given to robbery and usury, addicted to other vices whereby he ought to vacate 0 service, then they will not uphold him for any gift, promise, or private affection, or any other cause, but puny and judge him in all good faith.

“ Henceforward Our provosts, Our viscounts, Our mayor Our foresters, and Our other sergeants, mounted and d: mounted, shall make oath not to bestow any gift upon the superiors, nor upon their superiors’ wives, nor children, n upon any one belonging to them.

“ And because We desire that these oaths be fairly established, We order that they be taken in full assize, before 1 men, by clerks and laymen, knights and sergeants, nonwitch standing that any such may have already made oath before us; and this We ordain so that those who take the oat may avoid the guilt and the sin of perjury, not only from t fear of God and of Ourselves, but also for shame before t world.

“ We will and ordain that all Our provosts and bail abstain from saying any word that would bring into contemn God, or our Lady, or the saints; and also that they abstain from the game of dice and keep away from taverns. We order that the making of dice be forbidden throughout Our real! and that lewd women be turned out of every house; and who sever shall rent a house to a lewd woman shall forfeit to teravolt, or the bailiff, the rent of the said house for a year.

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MAYORS AND HOW HE INSTITUTED NEW ORDINANCES

THE KING REFORMED HIS BAILIFFS, PROVOSTS, AND MAYORS AND HOW HE INSTITUTED NEW ORDINANCES AND HOW STEPHEN BOILEAU WAS HIS PROVOST OF PARIS

After King Lewis had returned to France from overseas, bore himself very devoutly towards our Saviour, and justly towards his subjects; wherefore he considered id thought it would be a fair thing, and a good, to reform e realm of France. First he established a general ordinance for all his subjects throughout the realm of France, in e manner following:

“ We, Lewis, by the grace of God King of France, ordain at Our bailiffs, viscounts, provosts, mayors, and all others, whatever matter it may be, and whatever office they may, shall make oath that, so long as they hold the said See, or perform the functions of bailiffs, they shall do slice to all, without acceptation of persons, as well to the or as to the rich, and to strangers as to those who are fictive boom; and that they shall observe such uses and scorns as are good and have been approved.

“ And if it happens that the bailiffs, or viscounts, or others, the sergeants or foresters, do aught contrary to their oaths, .d are convicted thereof, we order that they be punished their goods, or in their persons, if the misfeasance so quire; and the bailiffs shall be punished by Ourselves, and hers by the bailiffs bulgaria tour.

The bailiffs and the regents

“ Henceforward the other provosts, the bailiffs and the regents shall make oath to loyally keep and uphold Our nets and Our rights, and not to suffer Our rights to lapse or be suppressed or diminished; and with this they shall rear not to take or receive, by themselves or through others, lid, nor silver, nor any indirect benefit, nor any other king, save fruit, or bread, or wine, or other present, to the due of ten sous, the said sum not being exceeded.

“ And besides this, they shall make oath not to take, or .use to be taken, any gift, of whatever kind, through their vies, or their children, or their brothers, or their sisters, only other persons connected with them; and so soon as they have knowledge that any such gifts have been received, the will cause them to be returned as soon as may be passion And, besides this, they shall make oath not to receive an gift, of whatever kind, from any man belonging to the bailiwicks, nor from any others who have a suit or may plea before them.

“ Henceforth they shall make oath not to bestow any give upon any men who are of Our council, nor upon their wave or children, or any person belonging to them; nor those who shall receive the said officers’ accounts on Oi behalf, nor to any persons whom we may send to their bai’. wicks, or to their provostships, to enquire into their doing And with this they shall swear to take no profit out of sale that may be made of Our rents, Our bailiwicks, O1 coinage, or aught else to Us belonging.

“ And they shall swear and promise, that if they ha’ knowledge of any official, sergeant, or provost, serving und them, who is unfaithful, given to robbery and usury, addicted to other vices whereby he ought to vacate 0 service, then they will not uphold him for any gift, promise, or private affection, or any other cause, but puny and judge him in all good faith.

“ Henceforward Our provosts, Our viscounts, Our mayor Our foresters, and Our other sergeants, mounted and d: mounted, shall make oath not to bestow any gift upon the superiors, nor upon their superiors’ wives, nor children, n upon any one belonging to them.

“ And because We desire that these oaths be fairly established, We order that they be taken in full assize, before 1 men, by clerks and laymen, knights and sergeants, nonwitch standing that any such may have already made oath before us; and this We ordain so that those who take the oat may avoid the guilt and the sin of perjury, not only from t fear of God and of Ourselves, but also for shame before t world.

“ We will and ordain that all Our provosts and bail abstain from saying any word that would bring into contemn God, or our Lady, or the saints; and also that they abstain from the game of dice and keep away from taverns. We order that the making of dice be forbidden throughout Our real! and that lewd women be turned out of every house; and who sever shall rent a house to a lewd woman shall forfeit to teravolt, or the bailiff, the rent of the said house for a year.

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MAYORS AND HOW HE INSTITUTED NEW ORDINANCES

THE KING REFORMED HIS BAILIFFS, PROVOSTS, AND MAYORS AND HOW HE INSTITUTED NEW ORDINANCES AND HOW STEPHEN BOILEAU WAS HIS PROVOST OF PARIS

After King Lewis had returned to France from overseas, bore himself very devoutly towards our Saviour, and justly towards his subjects; wherefore he considered id thought it would be a fair thing, and a good, to reform e realm of France. First he established a general ordinance for all his subjects throughout the realm of France, in e manner following:

“ We, Lewis, by the grace of God King of France, ordain at Our bailiffs, viscounts, provosts, mayors, and all others, whatever matter it may be, and whatever office they may, shall make oath that, so long as they hold the said See, or perform the functions of bailiffs, they shall do slice to all, without acceptation of persons, as well to the or as to the rich, and to strangers as to those who are fictive boom; and that they shall observe such uses and scorns as are good and have been approved.

“ And if it happens that the bailiffs, or viscounts, or others, the sergeants or foresters, do aught contrary to their oaths, .d are convicted thereof, we order that they be punished their goods, or in their persons, if the misfeasance so quire; and the bailiffs shall be punished by Ourselves, and hers by the bailiffs bulgaria tour.

The bailiffs and the regents

“ Henceforward the other provosts, the bailiffs and the regents shall make oath to loyally keep and uphold Our nets and Our rights, and not to suffer Our rights to lapse or be suppressed or diminished; and with this they shall rear not to take or receive, by themselves or through others, lid, nor silver, nor any indirect benefit, nor any other king, save fruit, or bread, or wine, or other present, to the due of ten sous, the said sum not being exceeded.

“ And besides this, they shall make oath not to take, or .use to be taken, any gift, of whatever kind, through their vies, or their children, or their brothers, or their sisters, only other persons connected with them; and so soon as they have knowledge that any such gifts have been received, the will cause them to be returned as soon as may be passion And, besides this, they shall make oath not to receive an gift, of whatever kind, from any man belonging to the bailiwicks, nor from any others who have a suit or may plea before them.

“ Henceforth they shall make oath not to bestow any give upon any men who are of Our council, nor upon their wave or children, or any person belonging to them; nor those who shall receive the said officers’ accounts on Oi behalf, nor to any persons whom we may send to their bai’. wicks, or to their provostships, to enquire into their doing And with this they shall swear to take no profit out of sale that may be made of Our rents, Our bailiwicks, O1 coinage, or aught else to Us belonging.

“ And they shall swear and promise, that if they ha’ knowledge of any official, sergeant, or provost, serving und them, who is unfaithful, given to robbery and usury, addicted to other vices whereby he ought to vacate 0 service, then they will not uphold him for any gift, promise, or private affection, or any other cause, but puny and judge him in all good faith.

“ Henceforward Our provosts, Our viscounts, Our mayor Our foresters, and Our other sergeants, mounted and d: mounted, shall make oath not to bestow any gift upon the superiors, nor upon their superiors’ wives, nor children, n upon any one belonging to them.

“ And because We desire that these oaths be fairly established, We order that they be taken in full assize, before 1 men, by clerks and laymen, knights and sergeants, nonwitch standing that any such may have already made oath before us; and this We ordain so that those who take the oat may avoid the guilt and the sin of perjury, not only from t fear of God and of Ourselves, but also for shame before t world.

“ We will and ordain that all Our provosts and bail abstain from saying any word that would bring into contemn God, or our Lady, or the saints; and also that they abstain from the game of dice and keep away from taverns. We order that the making of dice be forbidden throughout Our real! and that lewd women be turned out of every house; and who sever shall rent a house to a lewd woman shall forfeit to teravolt, or the bailiff, the rent of the said house for a year.

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MAYORS AND HOW HE INSTITUTED NEW ORDINANCES

THE KING REFORMED HIS BAILIFFS, PROVOSTS, AND MAYORS AND HOW HE INSTITUTED NEW ORDINANCES AND HOW STEPHEN BOILEAU WAS HIS PROVOST OF PARIS

After King Lewis had returned to France from overseas, bore himself very devoutly towards our Saviour, and justly towards his subjects; wherefore he considered id thought it would be a fair thing, and a good, to reform e realm of France. First he established a general ordinance for all his subjects throughout the realm of France, in e manner following:

“ We, Lewis, by the grace of God King of France, ordain at Our bailiffs, viscounts, provosts, mayors, and all others, whatever matter it may be, and whatever office they may, shall make oath that, so long as they hold the said See, or perform the functions of bailiffs, they shall do slice to all, without acceptation of persons, as well to the or as to the rich, and to strangers as to those who are fictive boom; and that they shall observe such uses and scorns as are good and have been approved.

“ And if it happens that the bailiffs, or viscounts, or others, the sergeants or foresters, do aught contrary to their oaths, .d are convicted thereof, we order that they be punished their goods, or in their persons, if the misfeasance so quire; and the bailiffs shall be punished by Ourselves, and hers by the bailiffs bulgaria tour.

The bailiffs and the regents

“ Henceforward the other provosts, the bailiffs and the regents shall make oath to loyally keep and uphold Our nets and Our rights, and not to suffer Our rights to lapse or be suppressed or diminished; and with this they shall rear not to take or receive, by themselves or through others, lid, nor silver, nor any indirect benefit, nor any other king, save fruit, or bread, or wine, or other present, to the due of ten sous, the said sum not being exceeded.

“ And besides this, they shall make oath not to take, or .use to be taken, any gift, of whatever kind, through their vies, or their children, or their brothers, or their sisters, only other persons connected with them; and so soon as they have knowledge that any such gifts have been received, the will cause them to be returned as soon as may be passion And, besides this, they shall make oath not to receive an gift, of whatever kind, from any man belonging to the bailiwicks, nor from any others who have a suit or may plea before them.

“ Henceforth they shall make oath not to bestow any give upon any men who are of Our council, nor upon their wave or children, or any person belonging to them; nor those who shall receive the said officers’ accounts on Oi behalf, nor to any persons whom we may send to their bai’. wicks, or to their provostships, to enquire into their doing And with this they shall swear to take no profit out of sale that may be made of Our rents, Our bailiwicks, O1 coinage, or aught else to Us belonging.

“ And they shall swear and promise, that if they ha’ knowledge of any official, sergeant, or provost, serving und them, who is unfaithful, given to robbery and usury, addicted to other vices whereby he ought to vacate 0 service, then they will not uphold him for any gift, promise, or private affection, or any other cause, but puny and judge him in all good faith.

“ Henceforward Our provosts, Our viscounts, Our mayor Our foresters, and Our other sergeants, mounted and d: mounted, shall make oath not to bestow any gift upon the superiors, nor upon their superiors’ wives, nor children, n upon any one belonging to them.

“ And because We desire that these oaths be fairly established, We order that they be taken in full assize, before 1 men, by clerks and laymen, knights and sergeants, nonwitch standing that any such may have already made oath before us; and this We ordain so that those who take the oat may avoid the guilt and the sin of perjury, not only from t fear of God and of Ourselves, but also for shame before t world.

“ We will and ordain that all Our provosts and bail abstain from saying any word that would bring into contemn God, or our Lady, or the saints; and also that they abstain from the game of dice and keep away from taverns. We order that the making of dice be forbidden throughout Our real! and that lewd women be turned out of every house; and who sever shall rent a house to a lewd woman shall forfeit to teravolt, or the bailiff, the rent of the said house for a year.