Friday, July 4, 2014

Knight Templar's Part XVI

The Cambronchaux a very large Cistercian farm outside of Wodecq had an extremely large barn. This was an ideal site for the destination of the Treasure.  No one would question monks going about normal farming activities.  Warrior monks escorting carts of hay, wool, livestock, and other agricultural items also would not have attracted attention.  This also would be a common sight because of frequent thefts and pillaging from soldiers in the area from the frequent battles with France over the last several years.

The Flemish Knight and brother Yves had their work cut out for them.  In the back of a distillery on the grounds of the Paris preceptoy they had acquired 21 large barrels and had transferred the gold, silver, jewels, precious stones, and documents to the barrels and covered them with a thick coat of grease.

 One at a time they were loaded onto a cargo vessel in the Seine River and they made their way to the Atlantic.  At a property close to the mouth of the Seine river they were transferred with other cargo to ships from the seaport at le Rochelle which in turn delivered their cargo without a lot of pomp and splendor to Luys Flanders where they were again met by brother warrior monks who assumed they were just transferring agricultural products to the barn at Cambronchaux.

They were escorted in company of knight Templar's in full battle dress, to protect them from the highway robbers, unemployed soldiers, laying around waiting for another war, pillaging the local fields and farmers to survive.

  With a large frame in the barn other young monks were waiting to unload the barrels and set them along the side of the interior of the barn one at a time, under the supervision of brother Yves.  The young monks thought it strange that such a man of intellect was doing mundane chores around the barn, but the old monk just smiled and said he had writers block from time to time.




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