The Cardinal's Angels
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Authors: Gregory House
The Cardinal’s Angels
A Red Ned Mystery
Gregory House
By Gregory House
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Contents
Chapter Three–An Uncle’s Kind Regard? St Lawrence Poor Jewry
Chapter Twenty Five–The Cardinal’s Good Servant, Grafton Regis Manor
Fictional Characters
Edward Bedwell
or as he prefers Red Ned—
An
apprentice lawyer and aspiring rogue at Gray’s Inn.
Margaret or Meg Black
—Apprentice apothecary and amateur surgeon.
Prefers Mistress Margaret.
Robert Black
—Apprentice artificer.
Prefers good works.
Gruesome Roger Hawkins
—Retainer to the Black family.
Prefers to loom menacingly.
John Smeaton
—Personal servant of his eminence, the Lord Chancellor of the England, Cardinal Wolsey.—
Would
prefer to be alive
Bethany
—
An
occasional punk with a large heart and even larger bodice.
Would prefer Rob Black.
Benjamin Robinson
—Clerk of the King’s Ordinance, Tower of London. Would prefer more regular pay
Blue Brocade Doublet
known as Skelton to his ‘friends’ at the Cardinals Cap—a currently unknown irritant to Ned.
Would prefer if he wasn’t in the privy
Don Juan Sebastian de Alva
—a Spanish gentleman who’d prefer not to be in England.
Dr Lewys Caerleon
—a modern physician and astrologer.
Would prefer if he had never met Dr Agryppa.
Albrecht
—a Hanse merchant.
Would prefer if he wasn’t visited at night (unless there was a profit in it of course).
Canting Michael
—a gentleman of dubious means who would prefer to have a “talk” with Red Ned.
(Red Ned would prefer for this “talk” to be indefinitely delayed.)
Groundlings
—
An
assortment of height challenged gaolers and ferry men would all prefer to be taller.