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The Cardinal’s Angels

A Red Ned Mystery

Gregory House

By Gregory House

Published by Gregory House at Amazon

Copyright 2011 Gregory House

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All artwork copyright Alexander House 2011

Archaeology, Peter Wilkes and other diverse matters blogged at

http://prognosticationsandpouting.blogspot.com

Red Ned, the Reluctant Tudor Detective blog at

http://rednedtudormysteries.blogspot.com/

Stories in the Red Ned Tudor Mysteries Series

Amazon UK

The Liberties of London

The Queen’s Oranges

The Cardinal’s Angels

Amazon US/Australia

The Liberties of London

The Queen’s Oranges

The Cardinal’s Angels

Soon to be release in the Red Ned Series on Amazon

The Fetter Lane Fleece

The Smithfield Shambles

The Trade of the Thames

The King’s Counsel

The first book in the Dark Devices Series a Tudor Historical Fantasy on Amazon

Darkness Divined

Peter Wilks Archaeological Mysteries Series on Amazon

Terra Australis Templar

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Contents

A Gold Angel of the reign of Henry VIII minted 1526

Map of London

Dramatis Personae

Fictional Characters

Historical Characters

Tudor Coinage and values

Tudor Names and Language.

Tudor Terms

Prologue: The Cardinal’s Dilemma, September 1529

Chapter One–The Bear Garden Southwark, September

Chapter Two–The Clink Southwark

Chapter Three–An Uncle’s Kind Regard? St Lawrence Poor Jewry

Chapter Four–Puir Ghostie o’ St Paul’s

Chapter Five–The Cardinal’s Cap-London Bridge to Southwark

Chapter Six–Discovery at Greyfriars

Chapter Seven–The Apothecary’s Apprentice Greyfriars

Chapter Eight–The Apothecary’s Secrets, Greyfriars

Chapter Nine–Mont Jovis Inn

Chapter Ten–The Byways of London

Chapter Eleven–The Steelyard Hanse? Riverside

Chapter Twelve–The Fallen Angels, The Steelyards

Chapter Thirteen–Under London Bridge! The Thames

Chapter Fourteen–The Tower

Chapter Fifteen–Good Company in Bermondsey

Chapter Sixteen–The Southwark Watch

Chapter Seventeen–The Gryne Dragone, Southwark

Chapter Eighteen–Sanctum Arcane Agryppa, Southwark

Chapter Nineteen–A Devil’s Bargain, Southwark

Chapter Twenty–The Fields of London

Chapter Twenty One–The White Lamb, Moorgate

Chapter Twenty Two–The Grafton Ride, Cosgrove Village

Chapter Twenty Three–A Clear Road! Watling Street

Chapter Twenty Four–A Ministering Angel? Grafton Regis

Chapter Twenty Five–The Cardinal’s Good Servant, Grafton Regis Manor

Chapter Twenty Six–A New Master, A Loyal Servant

Historical Note

Tudor Religion and thought

Timeline

Map of London
Dramatis Personae
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.

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