Queens’ Play – Part 3 – Chapter 4 – London: Wolves All Around Him

Plot Summary

Dates

1551
February or March? ‒ In London, the Earl and Countess of Lennox invite O’LiamRoe to stay with them. (Vintage, pp240-41)
March ‒ Robin Stewart approaches the Earl of Warwick on a boat in the Thames (Vintage, pp245). Must be shortly before he reports this to Brice Harisson.
March ‒ O’LiamRoe calls on Brice Harisson, discovers that Robin Stewart is there, sends Piedar Dooly to France. (Vintage, pp241-47)
March/April? ‒ Brice Harisson approaches Ambassador de Chémault, offering to sell information (Vintage, p249).
Early-mid April? ‒ Tom Erskine arrives in London, soon after Harisson’s first meeting with de Chémault. “Within a matter of days,” Lymond arrives as well (Vintage, p252).
April ‒ Brice Harisson meets with Warwick’s representative, at the Red Lion bookseller’s, observed by O’LiamRoe. “The previous day” to O’LiamRoe’s meeting with de Chémault (Vintage, p248).
April ‒ O’LiamRoe reports Robin Stewart’s plot to Ambassador de Chémault. “Three weeks” after discovering Robin Stewart at Harisson’s (Vintage, p247). Piedar Dooly returns from France “that afternoon” (Vintage, p249).
18 April (Saturday) ‒ Harisson meets with de Chémault and Vervassal, agrees to deliver his information “at midnight the next day” (Vintage, p251).
19 April (Sunday) ‒ Harisson gets arrested at half past eleven at night by the English. (Vintage, p253)
20 April (Monday) ‒ De Chémault and Vervassal wait in vain for Harisson. “At twelve o'clock on the following night, Monday the 19th of April” should be Monday the 20th.<ref>According to the Julian calendar 19 April 1551 is a Sunday. Dunnett noted the weekdays and dates of April and May 1551 in her research notes (Folder Acc 12135/0074, Dunnett Archive Contents), but in fact mixed up March and April. Hence, the date she mentions as Monday the 19th of April is Monday the 19th of March 1551. All the weekdays mentioned in the Dates section refer to the correct dates of the Julian calendar of 1551. NB, according to De Chemault's records the historically correct date for Harisson's arrest is April 18 (A. Teulet, Relations politiques de la France et de l'Espagne avec l'Ecosse au XVIe siècle, p. 261).[1]</ref> (Vintage, p253).