So the poor yeoman turned his feet away from the door of the nunnery, and left his master in the hands of the women.
Thrice he sounded it, but weakly and faintly, for his breath was fluttering through sickness and loss of strength; nevertheless, Little John heard it where he lay in the glade, and, with a heart all sick with dread, he came running and leaping toward the nunnery. Loudly he knocked at the door, and in a loud voice shouted for them to let him in, but the door was of massive oak, strongly barred, and studded with spikes, so they felt safe, and bade Little John begone.
The early gray of the coming morn was just beginning to lighten the black sky toward the eastward when Little John and six more of the band came rapidly across the open toward the nunnery. They saw no one, for the sisters were all hidden away from sight, having been frightened by Little John's words.
Thus died Robin Hood, at Kirklees Nunnery, in fair Yorkshire, with mercy in his heart toward those that had been his undoing; for thus he showed mercy for the erring and pity for the weak through all the time of his living
She was fond of giving alms to the poor, and was always dreaming of a
nunnery, and once she burst into tears when she began talking to me about it.
This is an easy walk through part of Gracedieu's ancient wood, under the Charnwood Forest Railway, along part of the Forest Line Canal and into the romantic ruins of Gracedieu Priory, a 13th Century
nunnery, later a Tudor Mansion.
Zachary Ryan
Nunnery Zachary Ryan
Nunnery, 22, of Chicago, Illinois, unexpectedly passed away in his sleep on December 20, 2018.
