Noon
`` I should have been on my way to Fletching hours since . Come , my gentlemen , we will ride south by way of Leicester and have the good Fathers there look to the decent burial of this holy man . '' The party mounted and rode rapidly away . Noon found them at Leicester , and three days later , they rode into the baronial camp at Fletching . At almost the same hour , the monks of the Abbey of Leicester performed the last rites of Holy Church for the peace of the soul of Father Claude and consigned his clay to the churchyard . And thus another innocent victim of an insatiable hate and vengeance which had been born in the King 's armory twenty years before passed from the eyes of men . While Norman of Torn and his thousand fighting men marched slowly south on the road toward Dover , the army of Simon de Montfort was preparing for its advance upon Lewes , where King Henry , with his son Prince Edward , and his brother , Prince Richard , King of the Romans , together with the latter 's son , were entrenched with their forces , sixty thousand strong .