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Templar establishments, but that we are still upon the 
Heath, near the High-dyke. It is the 4th of August, 1359, 
a period of the year when sportsmen are now preparing 
for campaigns against the grouse on our northern moors ; 
but England had three years before the above-named date 
captured other game, and now I see the most precious of 
those spoils upon the Heath. First advance two local hired 
guides on horseback, then twenty-two archers, followed 
by four knights in conical helmets, chain gorgets, and plate 
armour covered with gaily emblazoned surcoats. But then 
appear three remarkable personages ; the one on the right, 
in full armour, I perceive from his heraldic bearings to be 
William Baron d'Eyncourt ; but who are the other two ? 
The one, on that noble white horse regally trapped, clothed 
in violet velvet trimmed with ermine and relieved by a wide 
hip-band of gold set with costly gems, is John the Grood, the 
captive King of France, and that fine spirited lad who rides 
upon his left, clad in light blue velvet powdered with golden 
fleurs de lys, is his son Philip, who, like the steed he bestrides, 
is impatient at being compelled to trot gently along in his 
place, when both feel the firm but elastic turf of the Heath 
beneath them. Let him have patience, however, for presently 
he shall be free once more, and shall, as Philip the Bold, 
become the founder of the second Ducal House of Burgundy, 
without those English men-at-arms behind him, with which 
the present procession closes. In vain was the personal 
bravery of the King and his son exhibited on the battle- 
field of Poictiers, when he with 60,000 men was defeated 
by 8,000 English ! Fighting to the last, he and that young 
Prince now beside him were nearly smothered by the crowd of 
their enemies eager for their capture, but at length yielding 
to Denis de Morbec they lived to grace the triumphant 
entry into London of their great victor the Black Prince ; 
and now they must abide awhile at Somerton Castle, and 
the King must beguile his captivity with books, music, chess, 
