BROTHER CADFAEL'S PENANCE
Ellis Peters
The Twentieth Chronicle of Brother Cadfael
Digital Edition v2 HTML – February 13, 2003
Copyright © 1994 by Ellis Peters
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All characters in this publication are fictitious and anyresemblance to real persons, living or dead is purelycoincidental.
CONTENTS
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Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Fourteen
Chapter Fifteen
Chapter Sixteen
Chapter One
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The Earl of Leicester’s courier came riding over the bridgethat spanned the Severn, and into the town of Shrewsbury, somewhatpast noon on a day at the beginning of November, with threemonths’ news in his saddle-roll.
Much of it would already be known, at least in general outline,but Robert Beaumont’s dispatch service from London was betterprovided than anything the sheriff of Shropshire could command, andin a single meeting with that young officer the earl had marked him