Simon would be well-served by accepting further assistance from this astute, though haunted and secretive stranger. But it is the newly arrived knight, Sir Baldwin Furnshill, who discerns the deceased was no victim of a tragic mishap he was, in fact, murdered prior to the blaze. Simon Puttock has not been bailiff of Lydford Castle long in this year of 1316, when he is called to a nearby village to examine a burned-out cottage and the dead body within. There was one knight, however, who escaped the stake, vowing justiceas he watched his innocent brothers die. They had all joined taking three vows: poverty, chastity, and obedience…for they were monks: warrior monks, dedicated to theprotection of pilgrims in the Holy Land - until stories spread by anavaricious king who wanted their wealth for his own destroyed the order.
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