Word: kinwarton
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Dates: during 1953-1953
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...Christ, oh Christ . . . the King's horse!" cried a looker-on. "No one can check him!" At that instant John of Oversley, a young English squire, shouted to his friend Robert of Kinwarton: "Shoot, Robert . . . shoot to turn the King's horse!" Robert shot. The arrow sang before the startled eyes of the charger and he reared back. And so, as Author Dorothy Charques tells it, King Richard was preserved to go on the Third Crusade, and squires John and Robert, as their reward, got a chance to go along in his personal entourage. Men Like Shadows...
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