Chapter 24 THE CASTLE OF OXFORD.

"It is the crime and not the scaffold makes

The headsman's death a shame."

Wilfred sat alone in an upper chamber of the donjon tower the Conqueror had erected at Oxford, hard by the mound thrown up by Ethelfleda, lady of the Mercians and daughter of Alfred. For thither the king had caused him to be removed, unwilling to stain the holy precinc

            
            

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