The story of the middle ages; an elementary history for sixth and seventh grades . ARMING TITK KXinriT So, we may be sure, most of tiie knights and squireswill agree. But the ladies, and many of the squiresand knights, will still love best the sport of falconry. In this way the squire spends his days until hereaches the age of twenty or twenty-one. He has nowproved both his courage and his skill, and at last hislord says that he has earned his spurs. So the squire is to be made a knight: and tliis is the 170 TEE STORY OF THE MIDDLE AGES occasion for great festivities. lu company with othersqui
The story of the middle ages; an elementary history for sixth and seventh grades . ARMING TITK KXinriT So, we may be sure, most of tiie knights and squireswill agree. But the ladies, and many of the squiresand knights, will still love best the sport of falconry. In this way the squire spends his days until hereaches the age of twenty or twenty-one. He has nowproved both his courage and his skill, and at last hislord says that he has earned his spurs. So the squire is to be made a knight: and tliis is the 170 TEE STORY OF THE MIDDLE AGES occasion for great festivities. lu company with othersquires who are candidates for knighthood, he must go through a careful preparation. First comes2?knShood!^^^^6 ^^th, which is the mark of purification. Then he puts on garments of red, white,and black. The red means the blood he is willing toshed in defence of the Church and of the oppressed;.
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