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EDITH OF SCOTLAND
THE GIRL OF THE NORMAN ABBEY.
[Afterward known as the "Good Queen Maud" of England.]
A.D. 1093.
On a broad and deep window-seat in the old Abbey guest-house at Gloucester, sat two young girls of thirteen and ten; before them, brave-looking enough in his old-time costume, stood a manly young fellow of sixteen. The three were in earnest conversation, all unmindful of the noise about them—the romp and riot of a throng of young folk, attendants, or followers of the knights and barons of King William's court.
For William Rufus, son of the Conqueror and second Norman king of England, held his Whit-suntide gemót, or summer council of his lords
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