Are silenced soon by real ordnance2,
And canons are but vain opposed to cannon3.
Go, coin your crosier, melt your church plate down
Bid the starved soldier banquet in your halls,
And quaff4 your long-saved hogsheads — Turn them out
Thus primed with your good cheer, to guard your wall,
And they will venture for’t. —
Old play.
The Abbot received his counsellor with a tremulous eagerness of welcome, which announced to the Sub-Prior an extreme agitation5 of spirits, and the utmost need of good counsel. There was neither mazer-dish nor standing-cup upon the little table, at the elbow of his huge chair of state; his beads6 alone lay there, and it seemed as if he had been telling them in his extremity7 of distress8. Beside the beads was placed the mitre of the Abbot, of an antique form, and blazing with precious stones, and the rich and highly-embossed crosier rested against the same table.
The Sacristan and old Father Nicholas had followed the Sub-Prior into the Abbot’s apartment, perhaps with the hope of learning something of the important matter which seemed to be in hand. — They were not mistaken; for, after having ushered9 in the Sub-Prior, and being themselves in the act of retiring, the Abbot made them a signal to remain.
“My brethren,” he said, “it is well known to you with what painful zeal10 we have overseen11 the weighty affairs of this house committed to our unworthy hand — your bread hath been given to you, and your water hath been sure — I have not wasted the revenues of the Convent on vain pleasures, as hunting or hawking14, or in change of rich cope or alb, or in feasting idle bards15 and jesters, saving those who, according to old wont16, were received in time of Christmas and Easter. Neither have I enriched either mine own relations nor strange women, at the expense of the Patrimony17.”
“There hath not been such a Lord Abbot,” said Father Nicholas, “to my knowledge, since the days of Abbot Ingelram, who ——”
At that portentous18 word, which always preluded19 a long story, the Abbot broke in.
“May God have mercy on his soul! — we talk not of him now. — What I would know of ye, my brethren, is, whether I have, in your mind, faithfully discharged the duties of mine office?”
“There has never been subject of complaint,” answered the Sub-Prior.
The Sacristan, more diffuse21, enumerated22 the various acts of indulgence and kindness which the mild government of Abbot Boniface had conferred on the brotherhood23 of Saint Mary’s — the indulgentiae — the gratias — the biberes-the weekly mess of boiled almonds — the enlarged accommodation of the refectory — the better arrangement of the cellarage — the improvement of the revenue of the Monastery24 — the diminution25 of the privations of the brethren.
“You might have added, my brother,” said the Abbot, listening with melancholy26 acquiescence27 to the detail of his own merits, “that I caused to be built that curious screen, which secureth the cloisters29 from the north-east wind. — But all these things avail nothing — As we read in holy Maccabee, Capta est civitas per voluntatem Dei. It hath cost me no little thought, no common toil30, to keep these weighty matters in such order as you have seen them — there was both barn and binn to be kept full — Infirmary, dormitory, guest-hall, and refectory, to be looked to — processions to be made, confessions31 to be heard, strangers to be entertained, veniae to be granted or refused; and I warrant me, when every one of you was asleep in your cell, the Abbot hath lain awake for a full hour by the bell, thinking how these matters might be ordered seemly and suitably.”
“May we ask, reverend my lord,” said the Sub-Prior, “what additional care has now been thrown upon you, since your discourse32 seems to point that way?”
“Marry, this it is,” said the Abbot. “The talk is not now of biberes,69 or of caritas, or of boiled almonds, but of an English band coming against us from Hexham, commanded by Sir John Foster; nor is it of the screening us from the east wind, but how to escape Lord James Stewart, who cometh to lay waste and destroy with his heretic soldiers.”
“I thought that purpose had been broken by the feud33 between Semple and the Kennedies,” said the Sub-Prior, hastily.
“They have accorded that matter at the expense of the church as usual,” said the Abbot; “the Earl of Cassilis is to have the teind-sheaves of his lands, which were given to the house of Crossraguel, and he has stricken hands with Stewart, who is now called Murray. — Principes convenerunt unum adversus Dominum. — There are the letters.”
The Sub-Prior took the letters, which had come by an express messenger from the Primate34 of Scotland, who still laboured to uphold the tottering35 fabric36 of the system under which he was at length buried, and, stepping towards the lamp, read them with an air of deep and settled attention — the Sacristan and Father Nicholas looked as helplessly at each other, as the denizens37 of the poultry-yard when the hawk13 soars over it. The Abbot seemed bowed down with the extremity of sorrowful apprehension38, but kept his eye timorously39 fixed40 on the Sub-Prior, as if striving to catch some comfort from the expression of his countenance41. When at length he beheld42 that, after a second intent perusal43 of the letters, he remained still silent and full of thought, he asked him in an anxious tone, “What is to be done?”
“Our duty must be done,” answered the Sub-Prior, “and the rest is in the hands of God.”
“Our duty — our duty?” answered the Abbot, impatiently; “doubtless we are to do our duty; but what is that duty? or how will it serve us? — Will bell, book, and candle, drive back the English heretics? or will Murray care for psalms44 and antiphonars? or can I fight for the Halidome, like Judas Maccabeus, against those profane45 Nicanors? or send the Sacristan against this new Holofernes, to bring back his head in a basket?”
“True, my Lord Abbot,” said the Sub-Prior, “we cannot fight with carnal weapons, it is alike contrary to our habit and vow46; but we can die for our Convent and for our Order. Besides, we can arm those who will and can fight. The English are but few in number, trusting, as it would seem, that they will be joined by Murray, whose march has been interrupted. If Foster, with his Cumberland and Hexham bandits, ventures to march into Scotland, to pillage47 and despoil48 our House, we will levy49 our vassals50, and, I trust, shall be found strong enough to give him battle.”
“In the blessed name of Our Lady,” said the Abbot, “think you that I am Petrus Eremita, to go forth51 the leader of an host?”
“Nay,” said the Sub-Prior, “let some man skilled in war lead our people — there is Julian Avenel, an approved soldier.”
“But a scoffer52, a debauched person, and, in brief, a man of Belial,” quoth the Abbot.
“Still,” said the monk53, “we must use his ministry54 in that to which he has been brought up. We can guerdon him richly, and indeed I already know the price of his service. The English, it is expected, will presently set forth, hoping here to seize upon Piercie Shafton, whose refuge being taken with us, they make the pretext55 of this unheard-of inroad.”
“Is it even so?” said the Abbot; “I never judged that his body of satin and his brain of feathers boded56 us much good.”
“Yet we must have his assistance, if possible,” said the Sub-Prior; “he may interest in our behalf the great Piercie, of whose friendship he boasts, and that good and faithful Lord may break Foster’s purpose. I will despatch57 the jackman after him with all speed. — Chiefly, however, I trust to the military spirit of the land, which will not suffer peace to be easily broken on the frontier. Credit me, my lord, it will bring to our side the hands of many, whose hearts may have gone astray after strange doctrines58. The great chiefs and barons59 will be ashamed to let the vassals of peaceful monks61 fight unaided against the old enemies of Scotland.”
“It may be,” said the Abbot, “that Foster will wait for Murray, whose purpose hitherward is but delayed for a short space.”
“By the rood, he will not,” said the Sub-Prior; “we know this Sir John Foster — a pestilent heretic, he will long to destroy the church — born a Borderer, he will thirst to plunder62 her of her wealth — a Border-warden63, he will be eager to ride in Scotland. There are too many causes to urge him on. If he joins with Murray, he will have at best but an auxiliary’s share of the spoil — if he comes hither before him, he will reckon on the whole harvest of depredation64 as his own. Julian Avenel also has, as I have heard, some spite against Sir John Foster; they will fight, when they meet, with double determination. — Sacristan, send for our bailiff. — Where is the roll of fencible men liable to do suit and service to the Halidome? — Send off to the Baron60 of Meigallot; he can raise threescore horse and better — Say to him the Monastery will compound with him for the customs of his bridge, which have been in controversy65, if he will show himself a friend at such a point. — And now, my lord, let us compute66 our possible numbers, and those of the enemy, that human blood be not spilled in vain — Let us therefore calculate ——”
“My brain is dizzied with the emergency,” said the poor Abbot —“I am not, I think, more a coward than others, so far as my own person is concerned; but speak to me of marching and collecting soldiers, and calculating forces, and you may as well tell of it to the youngest novice67 of a nunnery. But my resolution is taken. — Brethren,” he said, rising up, and coming forward with that dignity which his comely68 person enabled him to assume, “hear for the last time the voice of your Abbot Boniface. I have done for you the best that I could; in quieter times I had perhaps done better, for it was for quiet that I sought the cloister28, which has been to me a place of turmoil69, as much as if I had sate70 in the receipt of custom, or ridden forth as leader of an armed host. But now matters turn worse and worse, and I, as I grow old, am less able to struggle with them. Also, it becomes me not to hold a place, whereof the duties, through my default or misfortune, may be but imperfectly filled by me. Wherefore I have resolved to demit this mine high office, so that the order of these matters may presently devolve upon Father Eustatius here present, our well-beloved Sub-Prior; and I now rejoice that he hath not been provided according to his merits elsewhere, seeing that I well hope he will succeed to the mitre and staff which it is my present purpose to lay down.”
“In the name of Our Lady, do nothing hastily, my lord!” said Father Nicholas —“I do remember that when the worthy12 Abbot Ingelram, being in his ninetieth year — for I warrant you he could remember when Benedict the Thirteenth was deposed71 — and being ill at ease and bed-rid, the brethren rounded in his ear that he were better resign his office. And what said he, being a pleasant man? marry, that while he could crook72 his little finger he would keep hold of the crosier with it.”
The Sacristan also strongly remonstrated73 against the resolution of his Superior, and set down the insufficiency he pleaded to the native modesty74 of his disposition75. The Abbot listened in downcast silence; even flattery could not win his ear.
Father Eustace took a nobler tone with his disconcerted and dejected Superior. “My Lord Abbot,” he said, “if I have been silent concerning the virtues76 with which you have governed this house, do not think that I am unaware77 of them. I know that no man ever brought to your high office a more sincere wish to do well to all mankind; and if your rule has not been marked with the bold lines which sometimes distinguished78 your spiritual predecessors79, their faults have equally been strangers to your character.”
“I did not believe,” said the Abbot, turning his looks to Father Eustace with some surprise, “that you, father, of all men, would have done me this justice.”
“In your absence,” said the Sub-Prior, “I have even done it more fully20. Do not lose the good opinion which all men entertain of you, by renouncing80 your office when your care is most needed.”
“But, my brother,” said the Abbot, “I leave a more able in my place.”
“That you do not,” said Eustace; “because it is not necessary you should resign, in order to possess the use of whatever experience or talent I may be accounted master of. I have been long enough in this profession to know that the individual qualities which any of us may have, are not his own, but the property of the Community, and only so far useful when they promote the general advantage. If you care not in person, my lord, to deal with this troublesome matter, let me implore81 you to go instantly to Edinburgh, and make what friends you can in our behalf, while I in your absence will, as Sub-Prior, do my duty in defence of the Halidome. If I succeed, may the honour and praise be yours, and if I fail, let the disgrace and shame be mine own.”
The Abbot mused82 for a space, and then replied — “No, Father Eustatius, you shall not conquer me by your generosity83. In times like these, this house must have a stronger pilotage than my weak hands afford; and he who steers85 the vessel86 must be chief of the crew. Shame were it to accept the praise of other men’s labours; and, in my poor mind, all the praise which can be bestowed87 on him who undertakes a task so perilous88 and perplexing, is a meed beneath his merits. Misfortune to him would deprive him of an iota89 of it! Assume, therefore, your authority to-night, and proceed in the preparations you judge necessary. Let the Chapter be summoned tomorrow after we have heard mass, and all shall be ordered as I have told you. Benedicite, my brethren! — peace be with you! May the new Abbot-expectant sleep as sound as he who is about to resign his mitre.”
They retired90, affected91 even to tears. The good Abbot had shown a point of his character to which they were strangers. Even Father Eustace had held his spiritual Superior hitherto as a good-humoured, indolent, self-indulgent man, whose chief merit was the absence of gross faults; so that this sacrifice of power to a sense of duty, even if a little alloyed by the meaner motives92 of fear and apprehended93 difficulties, raised him considerably94 in the Sub-Prior’s estimation. He even felt an aversion to profit by the resignation of the Abbot Boniface, and in a manner to rise on his ruins; but this sentiment did not long contend with those which led him to recollect95 higher considerations. It could not be denied that Boniface was entirely96 unfit for his situation in the present crisis; and the Sub-Prior felt that he himself, acting97 merely as a delegate, could not well take the decisive measures which the time required; the weal of the Community therefore demanded his elevation98. If, besides, there crept in a feeling of a high dignity obtained, and the native exultation99 of a haughty100 spirit called to contend with the imminent101 dangers attached to a post of such distinction, these sentiments were so cunningly blended and amalgamated102 with others of a more disinterested103 nature, that, as the Sub-Prior himself was unconscious of their agency, we, who have a regard for him, are not solicitous104 to detect it.
The Abbot elect carried himself with more dignity than formerly105, when giving such directions as the pressing circumstances of the times required; and those who approached him could perceive an unusual kindling106 of his falcon107 eye, and an unusual flush upon his pale and faded cheek. With briefness and precision he wrote and dictated108 various letters to different barons, acquainting them with the meditated109 invasion of the Halidome by the English, and conjuring110 them to lend aid and assistance as in a common cause. The temptation of advantage was held out to those whom he judged less sensible of the cause of honour, and all were urged by the motives of patriotism111 and ancient animosity to the English. The time had been when no such exhortations112 would have been necessary. But so essential was Elizabeth’s aid to the reformed party in Scotland, and so strong was that party almost every where, that there was reason to believe a great many would observe neutrality on the present occasion, even if they did not go the length of uniting with the English against the Catholics.
When Father Eustace considered the number of the immediate113 vassals of the church whose aid he might legally command, his heart sunk at the thoughts of ranking them under the banner of the fierce and profligate114 Julian Avenel.
“Were the young enthusiast115 Halbert Glendinning to be found,” thought Father Eustace in his anxiety, “I would have risked the battle under his leading, young as he is, and with better hope of God’s blessing116. But the bailiff is now too infirm, nor know I a chief of name whom I might trust in this important matter better than this Avenel.”— He touched a bell which stood on the table, and commanded Christie of the Clinthill to be brought before him. —“Thou owest me a life,” said he to that person on his entrance, “and I may do thee another good turn if thou be’st sincere with me.”
Christie had already drained two standing-cups of wine, which would, on another occasion, have added to the insolence117 of his familiarity. But at present there was something in the augmented118 dignity of manner of Father Eustace, which imposed a restraint on him. Yet his answers partook of his usual character of undaunted assurance. He professed119 himself willing to return a true answer to all inquiries120.
“Has the Baron (so styled) of Avenel any friendship with Sir John Foster, Warden of the West Marches of England?”
“Such friendship as is between the wild-cat and the terrier,” replied the rider.
“Will he do battle with him should they meet?”
“As surely,” answered Christie, “as ever cock fought on Shrovetide-even.”
“And would he fight with Foster in the Church’s quarrel?”
“On any quarrel, or upon no quarrel whatever,” replied the jackman.
“We will then write to him, letting him know, that if upon occasion of an apprehended incursion by Sir John Foster, he will join his force with ours, he shall lead our men, and be gratified for doing so to the extent of his wish. — Yet one word more — Thou didst say thou couldst find out where the English knight121 Piercie Shafton has this day fled to?”
“That I can, and bring him back too, by fair means or force, as best likes your reverence122.”
“No force must be used upon him. Within what time wilt123 thou find him out?”
“Within thirty hours, so he have not crossed the Lothian firth — If it is to do you a pleasure, I will set off directly, and wind him as a sleuth-dog tracks the moss-trooper,” answered Christie.
“Bring him hither then, and thou wilt deserve good at our hands, which I may soon have free means of bestowing124 on thee.”
“Thanks to your reverence, I put myself in your reverence’s hands. We of the spear and snaffle walk something recklessly through life; but if a man were worse than he is, your reverence knows he must live, and that’s not to be done without shifting, I trow.”
“Peace, sir, and begone on thine errand — thou shalt have a letter from us to Sir Piercie.”
Christie made two steps towards the door; then turning back and hesitating, like one who would make an impertinent pleasantry if he dared, he asked what he was to do with the wench Mysie Happer whom the Southron knight had carried off with him.
“Am I to bring her hither, please your reverence?”
“Hither, you malapert knave125?” said the churchman; “remember you to whom you speak?”
“No offence meant,” replied Christie; “but if such is not your will, I would carry her to Avenel Castle, where a well-favoured wench was never unwelcome.
“Bring the unfortunate girl to her father’s and break no scurril jests here,” said the Sub-Prior —“See that thou guide her in all safety and honour.”
“In safety, surely,” said the rider, “and in such honour as her outbreak has left her. — I bid your reverence farewell, I must be on horse before cock-crow.”
“What, in the dark! — how knowest thou which way to go?”
“I tracked the knight’s horse-tread as far as near to the ford84, as we rode along together,” said Christie, “and I observed the track turn to the north-ward. He is for Edinburgh, I will warrant you — so soon as daylight comes I will be on the road again. It is a kenspeckle hoof-mark, for the shoe was made by old Eckie of Cannobie — I would swear to the curve of the caulker126.” So saying, he departed.
“Hateful necessity,” said Father Eustace, looking after him, “that obliges us to use such implements127 as these! But assailed128 as we are on all sides, and by all conditions of men, what alternative is left us? — But now let me to my most needful task.”
The Abbot elect accordingly sate down to write letters, arrange orders, and take upon him the whole charge of an institution which tottered129 to its fall, with the same spirit of proud and devoted130 fortitude131 wherewith the commander of a fortress132, reduced nearly to the last extremity, calculates what means remain to him to protract133 the fatal hour of successful storm. In the meanwhile Abbot Boniface, having given a few natural sighs to the downfall of the pre-eminence he had so long enjoyed amongst his brethren, fell fast asleep, leaving the whole cares and toils of office to his assistant and [Chapter ending is missing in the original]
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