l, where it
was received and buried.

Sir Walter Tyrrel, who escaped to Normandy, and claimed the protection of
the King of France, swore in France that the Red King was suddenly shot
dead by an arrow from an unseen hand, while they were hunting together;
that he was fearful of being suspected as the King's murderer; and that
he instantly set spurs to his horse, and fled to the sea-shore. Others
declared that the King and Sir Walter Tyrrel were hunting in company, a
little before sunset, standing in bushes opposite one another, when a
stag came between them. That the King drew his bow and took aim, but the
string broke. That the King then cried, 'Shoot, Walter, in the Devil's
name!' That Sir Walter shot. That the arrow glanced against a tree, was
turned aside from the stag, and struck the King from his horse, dead.

By whose hand the Red King really fell, and whether that hand despatched
the arrow to his breast by accident or by design, is only known to GOD.
Some think his brother may have caused him to be killed; but the Red King
had made so many enemies, both among priests and people, that suspicion
may reasonably rest upon a less unnatural murderer. Men know no more
than that he was found dead in the New Forest, which the suffering people
had regarded as a doomed ground for his race.

CHAPTER X--ENGLAND UNDER HENRY THE FIRST, CALLED FINE-SCHOLAR

Fine-scholar, on hearing of the Red King's death, hurried to Winchester
with as much speed as Rufus himself had made, to seize the Royal
treasure. But the keeper of the treasure who had been one of the hunting-
party in the Forest, made haste to Winchester too, and, arriving there at
about the same time, refused to yield it up. Upon this, Fine-Scholar
drew his sword, and threatened to kill the treasurer; who might have paid
for his fidelity with his life, but that he knew longer resistance to be
useless when he found the Prince supported by a company of powerful
barons, who declared they were determined to make him King. The
treasurer, therefore, gave up the money and jewels of the Crown: and on
the third day after the death of the Red King, being a Sunday,
Fine-Scholar stood before the high altar in Westminster Abbey, and made a
solemn declaration that he would resign the Church property which his
brother had seized; that he would do no wrong to the nobles; and that he
would restore to the people the laws of Edward the Confessor, with all
the improvement