'..fewer objections than usual to any idea not his own..' 😄
Other gems, same page: "I've wed his two empty boots.".. "That you havena... They aye remember their boots. It's their empty nightshirts that get fair monotonous." 'Duly packed like broccoli into lawn, buckram and plush..' '..cautious clash of plate armour underwriting the hymns..' and 👇
It is, as you say, a corker.
Although I don't recall there being any sequelae to that? Maybe Wat Scott managed offstage to be sufficiently forceful (or generous?) towards a Cardinal / Archbishop, dispensation, for the obtaining of?
Further to the ALT-text, the delay to the passage of the Deceased Brother's Widow's Act is a major plot point in the fourth book of the Flambards 'trilogy'.
Basically, yes. There were two impediments to marriage: consanguinuity(blood relationship) and affinity (legal relationship). Nowadays, only consanguinuity causes a marriage impediment, but in the mediæval period, affinity was equally problematic. See the run-up to Tilde and Diniz's marriage (SoG).
"You could certainly draw that conclusion", said Read. I don't see any other conclusion.
Does anyone know how to clean a thin glaze of exploded balsamic vinegar off my microwave, please?
Something i want to flag is the actions of the visa clerk towards the end of this thread. I think about her a lot. A tiny act of adminstrative rebellion that she didn't have to do. But doing it cascaded into saving a life. I often wonder if she ever knew the huge consequence of that small act.
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