Hubert Ellis a Story of King Richards Days the Second
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Light boats and liques which had pulled on ahead had given notice of our coming, and there on the stairs to meet us were Master Philpot and Alice, Walworth, Barnes (Oswald's father), and most of the chief merchants and magistrates of the city. The lord mayor was not present, but small pain did his absence cause us, for we knew how to interpret the sign it gave, THE CITIZENS WELCOME THE VICTORIOUS RETURN OF MASTER PHILPOT'S FLEET. OUE EETUEN TO LONDON. 169 whereas we should have heen at a loss t...o understand any attempt of his to receive us cordially. As I landed and stepped forward to shake the extended hand of my dear master, who expressed in his one sentence of welcome more than many could have conveyed in an hour's speech, I noticed amid the general throng of pleasure-lighted faces one scowling face with unfriendly look, which I had no difficulty in recognising as Sir John Arundel's. He had no cause to love me, and I less to love him. I had heen the occasion, though not the cause, of his ludicrous mishap a few days before, and he had been baffled in an attempt to seize upon me — an attempt which, if successful, would have consigned me to indefinite imprisonment as the punish- ment for my contempt in assaulting two persons so considerable as the Lord Mayor of London and a privy councillor of the king.
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