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'So. Another appropriate little pebble in the mosaic. I wonder whether the constableship just happened to be vacant, or whether it was a French appointment because Henry wanted him out of England.'
'I bet it was the other way about, and it was Tyrrel who wanted to get out of England. If I were being ruled by Henry VII, I'd sure prefer to be ruled by remote control. Especially if I had done a secret job for Henry that might make it convenient for Henry if I didn't live to too venerable an age.'
'Yes, perhaps you're right. He didn't only go abroad, he stayed abroad-as we have already observed. Interesting.'
'He wasn't the only one who stayed abroad. John Dighton did too. I couldn't find out who all the people who were supposed to be involved in the murder actually were. All the Tudor accounts are different. I suppose you know. Indeed most of them are so different that they contradict each other flat. Henry's pet historian, Polydore Virgil, says the deed was done when Richard was at York. According to the sainted More it was during an earlier trip altogether, when Richard was at Warwick. And the personnel changes with each account. So that it's difficult to sort them out. I don't know who Will Slater was-Black Will to you, and another piece of onomatopoeia-or Miles Forest. But there was a John Dighton. Grafton says he lived for long at Calais "no less disdained than pointed at" and died there in great misery. How they relished a good moral, didn't they. The Victorians had nothing on them.'
'If Dighton was destitute it doesn't look as if he had done any job for Henry. What was he by trade?