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fuss? No hint of trouble?'
'Not that I can find. On the 5th of June he gave detailed orders for the boy's coronation on the 22nd. He even had letters of summons sent out to the forty squires who would be made knights of the Bath. It seems it was the custom for the King to knight them on the occasion of his coronation.'
'The 5th,' Grant said musingly. 'And he fixed the coronation for the 22nd. He wasn't leaving himself much time for a switch-over.'
'No. There's even a record of the order for the boy's coronation clothes.'
'And then what?'
'Well,' Carradine said, apologetic, 'that's as far as I've got. Something happened at a Council ? on the 8th of June, I think - but the contemporary account is in the M茅moires of Philippe de Comines and I haven't been able to get hold of a copy so far. But someone has promised to let me see a copy of Mandrot's 1901 printing of it tomorrow. It seems that the Bishop of Bath broke some news to the Council on June the 8th. Do you know the Bishop of Bath? His name was Stillington.'
'Never heard of him.'
'He was a Fellow of All Souls, whatever that is, and a Canon of York, whatever that may be.'
'Both learned and respectable, it appears.'
'Well, we'll see.'
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