“As Geoffrey lay dying, a party of holy knights came by, wearing the red crosses of their order. They were knights of London, and some say they had been set to kill the oathbreaker. They laid a surplice on Geoffrey, claiming him for their order, and took his body back in solemn procession to London. There they encased him in a shroud of lead and suspended him from a tree in the orchard of London’s ancient Temple, for they dared not bury a body whose soul the Church had refused. And there we leave him, whether buried or not buried, damned or saved, I do not know; I cannot tell.”
