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mes Tyrrel received a general pardon. On the i6th June.'
'But that means very little, you know. It was quite a usual thing. At the end of a period of service. Or on setting out on a new one. It merely meant that you were quit of anything that anyone might think of raking up against you afterwards.'
'Yes, I know. I know that. The first pardon isn't the surprising one.'
'The first pardon? Was there a second one?'
'Yes. That's the pay-off. There was a second general pardon to Sir James exactly a month later. To be exact on the i6th July, 1486.'
'Yes,' Grant said, thinking it over. 'That really is extraordinary.'
'It's highly unusual, anyway. I asked an old boy who works next me at the B.M.-he does historical research and he's been a wonderful help to me I don't mind telling you-and he said he had never come across another instance. I showed him the two entries-in the Memorials of Henry VII-and he mooned over them like a lover.'
Grant said, considering: 'On the i 6th June, Tyrrel is given a general pardon. On the 16th July he is given a second general pardon. In November or thereabouts the boys' mother comes back to town. And in February she is immured for life.'
'Suggestive?'
'Very.'
'You think he did it? Tyrrel.'
'It could be. It's very suggestive, isn't it, that when we find t
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