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true that the anti-clerical revolution
in England preceded the Protestant
revolution, but had then to take
refuge in it. How different was Scotland - I am reading Knox's history again. The attitude of
the old nobility is excellently done by you.
And I found King Henry done to the
life - a fine climax for the book indeed, and rightly kept as a
bon bouche till the end.
It is true that England was
then forest and wilderness
to that extent still, and
the corresponding wildness
and closeness to nature of the
population is a likelihood
justifying much of your picture
of the folk. The plot of
the hero being Buckingham's son,
to be exploited as such, was a
fortunate inspiration. It links