Note 66 — TINTERNE ABBEY.
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His deeds, assassination, and burial, are thus recorded by Robert of Gloucester:—
“As noble bodi in he smot, he nolde longe abide, He slou to ground her and ther, vaste on either side, More prowesse ne mizte of bodi be, Than me mizte of Richard the marschal there ise.”
Then describing the nature of the wound given him by an assassin—“in aboute the fondement as he vnarmed was,” adds—
“At Kildar he was aslawe that in Yrlonde is, And at the frere prechors ibured, at Kilkenni, iwis. Tho vr Kyng Henry hurde of is deth telle, And of the prowesse that he dude, ar me him mizte quelle, And he vnderstod of his wit, and of is wisdom, Him thozte it was a gret love to al is kinedom, Vor is deth he made deol inou, and for is soule he let do Almes dede mani on, and mani masse al so.”