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Harbinger of Summer
Saint Martha’s Feast Day, the tenth year in the reign of Richard II The days are pleasant and the sky is as azure as a velvet-lined box. Jack and I take our leisure just outside the Boar’s Tusk with...
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The Lost
St. Brannok’s Feast Day, Eleventh Year in the Reign of King Richard II I often gauge the faces of those who come to me. Some are crumpled and their bodies bent with worry, working their hands one over...
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A Spring in Jack’s Step
St. Basil of Ancyra’s Feastday, Eleventh Year in the Reign of King Richard Frost still has its clutches over city streets as the sun rises, but by midmorning, it is but a memory. Even so, cracking...
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Summer Days
Feast Day of St. Thomas, Eleventh Year in the Reign of King Richard II The summer days are warm but full of heavy humidity, as if the Thames were reaching out to touch us. Jack succumbs as most boys of...
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Thief’s Weather
Feastday of Saint Leonard of Reresby, the eleventh year in the reign of King Richard Tucker sits in the window, watching the raindrops fall from the eaves above. I’ve only told him for the hundredth...
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Easter
11th Year in the Reign of King Richard II (in 1387, Easter fell on April 7) The fast has ended. Jack and I have sopped up our faith at St Paul’s. We’ve been starved, shriven, and finally partaken of...
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Winter Sky
Feast day of Saint Ethelgiva of Shraftsbury, the 11th year in the reign of King Richard II Jack sat with his chin on his hands and his arms lying on the sill, gazing out the window. “Isn’t it a bit...
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Jack’s Beard
18 March Feastday of St. Edward the Martyr, the 12th year in the Reign of King Richard II It has come to my attention that my apprentice, now a lad of sixteen, has taken it upon himself to grow...
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Kings of the Shambles
27 October 1390 Feastday of Saint Frumentius, 13th year in the reign of King Richard II Even after a year Jack and I are still in the habit of referring to our lodgings as “the new place.” I suppose it...
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Christmas Gift
Christmas Eve, 13th year in the reign of King Richard II (1390) It was damnably cold. Sleet pelted the closed shutters. Our few candles did little to light the main room and I almost thought it wiser...
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