The White Cross

by Richard Masefield

  For additional, helpful assistance my thanks are due to Dale Anderson, Jane Atkinson, Kate Burt, Julia Forrest, David Garst, Annie Garwood, Professor Brian Hill, Julie Hodder, Sir David and Lady Hunt, Maggie Justice, Jane and Richard D. Lewis, Robert, Georgina & Luke Masefield, Will and Stephanie Masefield, Ivan and Lara Rudd, Vivienne Schuster, The British Museum, The Science Museum, The Barbican House Museum at Lewes, the Jordanian National Museum of Archaeology and to the staff of the London, Westminster Abbey and Lewes Libraries.

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  © 2014 Richard Masefield

  The right of Richard Masefield to be identified as author of this Work has been asserted by him in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988

  ISBN 978-0-9928520-7-8

  All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, copied in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise transmitted without written permission from the author

  Literary quotations in the novel are taken from a nineteenth century translation from the Latin of The Itinerary of Richard I and Others to the Holy Land, and Clennell Wilkinson’s 1933 biography of King Richard, Coeur de Lion

  A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

  Cover design: Brown Media