Queens’ Play – Part 2 – Chapter 1 – Rouen to St. Germain: The Inexpugnable Drone

Thursday, 2 October – Everyone reviews Thady Boy’s success of the night before. (Vintage, pp97–102)
Friday, 3 October – Tom Erskine to leave for Flanders “on Friday” (Vintage, p45).
2 – 11? October – The royal court spends “ten days … in Rouen” (Vintage, pp102–104).
12? October – The Court leaves Rouen for Mantes (Vintage, p104).
24 October – Louis, son of King Henri, died at Mantes (Vintage, p104).
late October – The Irish and part of the royal court travel from Mantes to Saint-Germain-en-Laye.
late October – The prank with the quintain, at the St. Germain tilting ground. “A mild grey afternoon in October” (Vintage, pp105–106).
early November? – Thady Boy visits the royal menagerie, entertains the young Queen Mary, “on the last day at St. Germain” (Vintage, pp106–112).
early November? – Travel to Fontainebleau (Vintage, p112). “They all stayed five days at St. Germain.” (Vintage, p106).
November – Travel to Corbeil, Melun, Gien, Châteauneuf, Orléans, Amboise, Blois (Vintage, pp104,112)

Quarreling with the Prince of Barrow was like fighting a curtain. Robin Stewart gave up. (Vintage, p97)
Henri of France could prevaricate without even thinking. (Vintage, p103)
They all stayed five days at St. Germain, and St. Germain would as soon have suffered a plague. On Royal visits. (Vintage, p106)

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