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I have fallen in love with the prisoner of war Gilbert, and urged my parents to come to terms with him. Luckily My father, William Marshall, has enjoyed his time with Gilbert as well and developed a mutual respect. After Gilbert's father payed his Ransom, he returned home to gather up your dowry and returned to take my hand in matrimony. My parents have recieved a rather large dowry in exchange for my hand in marriage, but luckily Gilbert thinks I'm worth it. At the age of 17 I have married the love of my life, who is 37.

Life is wonderful for awhile. Gilbert treats me with respect and love, we have had a couple of kids so far. However things have started to become ugly. King John has decided he wants to go to war with france. Unfortunately for him, my husband and the other Barons, including Gilbert's father, are tired of war and refuse.

King John has decided to go around the Baron's and hire mercenaries (hired soldiers) to fight his war for him. Again, unfortunately for him, he doesn't have the money in the treasury. King John is not to be stopped however and has decided that since the Barons won't answer his call to war then they are responsible for paying the cost of the mercenaries to replace them. As such, he has raised taxes on the Baron's to extreme levels. The Barons are Irate. My husband asks me if I think they should pay the taxes, he will pay them if I ask, because if we don't King John will exact some sort of penance or civil war will ignite.

What do you urge your husband to do?
 * [[image:Unambiguous_Wealth.jpg width="321" height="544" align="left" caption="pay the taxes" link="GNDCPay the taxes"]] || [[image:MPW-16531.jpg width="399" height="561" align="right" caption="Refuse to pay" link="GNDCrefuse to pay the taxes"]] ||
 * ~ Pay the taxes ||~ Refuse to pay the taxes ||
 * King John was a heartless and evil man who would go to any means to get what he wanted. The Barons knew what kind of man he was, and if they didn't comply people would suffer, but at least they would be alive and keep their lands. || Refusing would cause King John to take his anger out on the Barons. People would be arrested as traitors and tortured and killed. Civil war would almost certainly erupt. ||

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