Persona info sheet

Here more questions answered from the persona information sheet. Please see the beginning section that I recently posted. I have put it under a cut to spare those who are not interested the excruciatingly fine details of Luke's life.

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Sunday 14. November

This day after dinner their fell a great fog and the King with great cunning did go close in to the walls in the hollow below the hills; my Lord ordered all his captains to mount and ride betwixt the King and the town for fear of a sally of the garrison and then the Marshall beyond that so that they might have fallen into the ditch; it mighty cold and raw this night but by and by comes cornet Saint John with some wine he had got by stealth near the burnt quarter and we quite merry and playing at tric trac until late.
 

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Coningsby reports the fog and King Henri's venture out by the walls and Essex and Biron's interposing themselves between. Luke has a pleasant evening getting soused on stolen wine and playing tric trac or backgammon. Tric trac playing was definitely considered a dodgy activity, in fact Clement Marot, the author of the Huguenot psalm book, was expelled from Geneva for playing tric trac in an inn with a woman.

 

Coningsby, Thomas, Jornall of Cheife Thinges Happened in Our Jorney from Deape the 13. of Auguste, Untyll, MS.- Harl. 288. f. 253279, p. 41. Camden Miscellany by Camden Society (Great Britain), Royal Historical Society (Great Britain), published by Camden Society, 1847 Item notes: v.1 (1847)