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a poor woman whose husband has been obliged to fight overseas is visited by a heartless priest

Ruth is a novitiate in a religious community, and she is lost on her way to pay homage to her god in York

The young lass Ruth on her way to York shelters from a dreadful storm.

An ordinary men conscripted to fight with his Lord in the crusades, returns home in pain.

Bringing together my own two characters and merging them with the Merry Men.

After raiding the tax-man the outlaws are strangely waylaid on their way home.

Ruth needs to be fully accepted by the outlaws.

I suppose there have been quack medicines all through history, even in the middle ages....

Even a desperate criminal deserves understanding and a fair hearing

A parallel in medieval times to the behaviour of governments today, insisting that the dying are fit for work!