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Unapologetically taking liberties with the person and character of Sir Robert de Shurland, he narrated how the noble lord ungratefully killed his faithful horse, Grey Dolphin, who had swum far out into the Nore with his master to intercept the royal boat ,in order for him to plead for mercy after having kicked a monk to death...

In 1782 was published a small book, drafted some fifty years before, whose author never intended it to be more than the passing entertainment of his local tap-room...

, leading up to the accession of Alfred to the Kentish throne...