[The Chronicles of Hugh de Singleton, Surgeon 03] • A Trail of Ink

I had never seen Master John Wyclif so afflicted. He was rarely found at such a loss when in disputation with other masters.

He told me later, when I had returned them to him, that it was as onerous to plunder a bachelor scholar's books as it would be to steal another man's wife.

I had, at the time, no way to assess the accuracy of that opinion, for I had no wife and few books ...'

So begins another delightful and intriguing tale from the life of Hugh de Singleton, surgeon in the medieval village of Bampton, near Oxford, and bailiff of Bampton Castle at the behest of Lord Gilbert Talbot.