The Heart of a King: The infamous reign of Elizabeth I (The Tudor Saga Series Book 6) by David Field

Author:David Field [Field, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sapere Books
Published: 2019-12-05T22:00:00+00:00

Back in the living chamber that he shared with Tom he hurled his bonnet into a corner of the room before realising that Tom was seated in that corner, where he was narrowly missed by the flying headgear.

Tom grinned. ‘How went your audience with the former Queen of Scotland? Did she instruct you to piss in your bonnet before hurling it into a corner?’

‘She might as well have done,’ Cecil grumbled. ‘She is quite the most arrogant, high and mighty, unpleasant and overbearing old sow that I ever had the misfortune to encounter and she makes our own Elizabeth seem like a sainted martyr by comparison.’

‘So no love lost between you?’ Tom smirked. ‘Can we therefore plan our departure for tomorrow?’

‘Would that we could. But may I take it from that remark that you have not yet identified any pathetic wench in Mary’s service that you can tup for information?’

‘I have encountered but one,’ Tom said, ‘and a most comely one at that. Her name is Janet Spittell, but she seems a little high-born for my normal strategy and will require much careful handling, in the manner of a finely bred stallion or mare.’

‘But what can she tell us, even should she succumb to your charms?’

‘She is the gentlewoman who attends on one of Mary’s own Ladies and may therefore have been privy to what obtained in Edinburgh at the date of the death of Lord Darnley and thereafter. She has been in that service for the past two years or so. But I must caution you that she will be a hard quarry to bring down.’

‘Do they not say that all the excitement is in the chase?’ Cecil reminded him. ‘So what strategy do you propose to employ?’

‘I must first gain her friendship and confidence,’ Tom told him. ‘She once fled all her home comforts, rather than marry her father’s choice of husband for her, so she is clearly of an independent spirit. She also gives the impression of having once received an expensive education and she is gifted with the skills of an apothecary. No simple country wench, clearly, but I have no doubt that under her skirts she functions much the same as any other woman. But in short answer to your question, I have arranged to walk with her this evening along the battlements of this ancient heap and shall continue to do so until I have either the information you seek, or the pleasure of opening her legs to new experiences. I shall obviously keep you well informed regarding the former, but not the latter.’

‘Neither will be possible,’ Cecil frowned, ‘since I must lose no time in returning to the Queen and advising her of the threat that Mary poses, both to herself and anyone unwise enough to champion her cause.’

‘But I have barely begun my assault on Janet Spittell’s virtue!’ Tom protested.

‘I do not recall advising you that you would be riding alongside me when I return to London. And before you protest at

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