The lack of a sponge count was an omission by the surgical team.

If you would know what a man is, whether he be a godly man or not, you must inquire what his God is. If the true God be he whom he respects as his God, … he is doubtless a godly man … if the man have some other god, something else to which he pays a greater respect than to Jehovah, he is not a godly man ...

With counterweight trebuchets at its disposal, a besieging force at last had the advantage in sieges, and it was probably the appearance of the trebuchet which prompted the changes in castle design from the mid-twelfth century onwards which were described in the previous chapter: the move from rectangular to round or multiform towers […]

The furniture was finished in teak veneer.