It is over and the crowds are dispersing. The yard outside the palace of Westminster is emptying. The prioress, her baggage-train and her many followers are on the move. Hildegard says farewell to Guy and Sir John then joins the train with her children and her hounds. On a fine day at the end of July she sets out on the journey north that will change her life forever.
As for the achievements of the Commons, it is predicted by the Westminster soothsayers that when everyone has gone home to the shires, John of Gaunt will make sure that most of their gains are lost. And so begins the long and bitter battle for the Crown of England.
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TEN WEEKS THAT CHANGED ENGLAND FOREVER: Prequel - why Hildegard of Meaux became a nun (HIldegard of Meaux medieval mystery sereies Book 10) Page 5
