Chapter 21Privv’s Sheet landed with unusual force on more than Vredech’s bed that morning. Serjeant Skynner pored over a copy in his office at the Keeperage. Like Vredech he had attended Cassraw’s service anonymously to ensure that he had a true report, and, like Vredech, he had been deeply disturbed by what he had heard.
Cassraw’s actual sermon however, was an almost trifling affair compared with the version that appeared in Privv’s Sheet. Here was written a call for Canol Madreth to make a stand against the moral and spiritual decay that was to be found throughout Gyronlandt; to begin the battle that would lead to a united Gyronlandt. The report was riddled with martial imagery — the word ‘crusade’ kept recurring, and there was Canol Madreth ‘besieged’, the Church ‘taking arms against’,
