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to the throne of England were going about their business, free and unfettered, during the reign of Richard III, the Monster.'
'They were more. They were part of the general scheme of things. I mean, part of the family and the general economy of the realm. I've been reading a collection of York records by a man Davies. Records of the town of York, I mean; not the family. Both young Warwick-George's son-and his cousin, young Lincoln, -were members of the Council The town addressed a letter to them. In 1485, that was. What's more, Richard knighted young Warwick at the same time as he knighted his own son, at a splendid "do" at York.' He paused a long moment, and then blurted out 'Mr Grant, do you want to write a book about this?'
'A book!' Grant said, astonished. 'God forbid. Why?'
'Because I should like to write one It would make a much better book than the Peasants.' -
'Write away'
'You see, I'd like to have something to show my father. Pop thinks I'm no good because I can't take an interest in furniture, and marketing, and graphs of sales. If he could actually handle a book that I had written he might believe that I wasn't so hopeless a bet after all. In fact, I wouldn't put it past him to begin to boast about me for a change.'
Grant looked at him with benevolence.
'I forgot to ask you wh
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