Put not your trust in the jack-priest ; he intendeth not amiss , but doth the will of others ; it is a hand-gun for Sir Daniel ! Get your good lordship where ye go ; make you strong friends ; look to it . And think ever a pater-noster-while on Bennet Hatch . There are worse rogues afoot than Bennet . So , God-speed ! '' `` And Heaven be with you , Bennet ! '' returned Dick . `` Ye were a good friend to me-ward , and so I shall say ever . '' `` And , look ye , master , '' added Hatch , with a certain embarrassment , `` if this Amend-All should get a shaft into me , ye might , mayhap , lay out a gold mark or mayhap a pound for my poor soul ; for it is like to go stiff with me in purgatory . '' `` Ye shall have your will of it , Bennet , '' answered Dick . `` But , what cheer , man ! we shall meet again , where ye shall have more need of ale than masses . '' `` The saints so grant it , Master Dick ! '' returned the other . `` But here comes Sir Oliver . An he were as quick with the long-bow as with the pen , he would be a brave man-at-arms . '' Sir Oliver gave Dick a sealed packet , with this superscription : `` To my ryght worchypful master , Sir Daniel Brackley , knyght , be thys delyvered in haste . '' And Dick , putting it in the bosom of his jacket , gave the word and set forth westward up the village . BOOK I -- THE TWO LADS CHAPTER I -- AT THE SIGN OF THE SUN IN KETTLEY Sir Daniel and his men lay in and about Kettley that night , warmly quartered and well patrolled . But the Knight of Tunstall was one who never rested from money-getting ; and even now , when he was on the brink of an adventure which should make or mar him , he was up an hour after midnight to squeeze poor neighbours .
He was one who trafficked greatly in disputed inheritances ; it was his way to buy out the most unlikely claimant , and then , by the favour he curried with great lords about the king , procure unjust decisions in his favour ; or , if that was too roundabout , to seize the disputed manor by force of arms , and rely on his influence and Sir XXXXX 's cunning in the law to hold what he had snatched .
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