GOK 3.4.1

Game of Kings – Part 3 Chapter 4 Section 1 – The Four Knights' Game

Plot Summary

Lord Grey is told the identity of the Spaniard at Hume. He is sent to Scotland to use Haddington as a base from which to subjugate the Scots and to work with Sir George Douglas. Sybilla and Janet visit Mariotta, who is now in a convent near Midculter, surprising Will there and discovering that it is Lymond who is luring Sir Walter and Richard to a rendezvous. Lymond will not be given Samuel Harvey in exchange, however, and is being used as bait by Douglas and Lord Grey. Lymond escapes Richard's attack at Heriot, avoids Lord Grey's men, and persuades Gideon Somerville to help him meet Harvey.

Dates

Late April – May 1548. Lord Grey marches into Scotland on 21 April. He has fortified Haddington by the last week in May.

Characters

Fictional Characters

(including significant references to characters not present)

• Gideon Somerville
• Francis Crawford of Lymond
• Mariotta Crawford, Lady Culter
• Sybilla Crawford, the Dowager Lady Culter
• Richard Crawford, 3rd Baron Culter
• Johnnie Bullo
• Turkey Matthew
• Sir Andrew Hunter of Ballaggan (referenced)
• Samuel Harvey (referenced)
• Jonathan Crouch (referenced)

Non-Fictional Characters

(including significant references to characters not present)

• William Grey
• Thomas Palmer
• Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox
• Sir George Douglas
• Sir Walter Scott of Buccleuch
• Will Scott of Kincurd
• the Lord Protector
• Janet Beaton, Lady Buccleuch
• Sir Robert Bowes
• the child Queen (referenced)
• the Scots Governor (referenced)
• the Princess Mary (referenced)
• a boy Lord Grey had wanted (referenced)

Locations

(including significant references to other locations)

• London
• The Tower of London
• A nunnery near Midculter
• Uncomfortable country outside Heriot
• Shortcleugh
• Warkworth (referenced)
• Durisdeer (referenced)
• Cockburnspath (referenced)
• Haddington (referenced)
• Branxholm (referenced)
• Flaw Valleys (referenced)
• Edinburgh (referenced)

Literature

• He and the King of Naverne
• Let Parrot have lyberte to prate
• Art thou Heywood, with the mad, merry wit?
• Behold my countenance and my colour
• Manerly Margery, mylk, and Ale
• Por vos suis en prison mis
• My joy, cry peip! Where ever thou be!
• Nay, not so. I am too brittle; I may not endure
• Now in dry, now in wete

Other References

• with a glitter of oxbone
• what happened at Hume
• Orpheus wriggling rump first
• ten-thread twill
• like Glaucus we have a but
• tilly-seeds of torture
• even a gib-cat has claws
• Momus
• Melting as the tears of the Heliades
• marybones
• Sweet Cicely awaiting the bees
• Flamens
• Higher than Haman
• no broken Colossus
• Sisyphus's stone
• dominus quod-libertarius
• Eragrius
• Epaminondas and his javelin
• George Faustus
• a wind egg

Scots Words and Phrases

• streeling

Quotes from Dunnett

• Blond, blue-eyed, rapacious and polyglot

Controversies

• none

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