After a fairly mixed bag of a life, he was sort of recognised in the end by being given the title "Gentleman Of The Court" and the formal outfit that went with it, along with a few bob and some grain and 2,000 litres of tax-free wine. Better than nothing I guess. But now has no known grave.
His Wiki page is well worth a look if you're into history and interesting lives.
All of which is my way of pointing you in the direction of some extremely free books - if you haven't fallen over The Gutenberg Project before this.
The first tag below is the original USA version, and the second is the Australian one, which I have on good authority contains a lot of stuff that the Americans can't list because of some complicated copyright laws that went right over my head. Not that any of that matters, both sites have a huge - I mean HUGE - range of fascinating material that will take you a couple of browsing lifetimes to fully explore.
Okay, they don't actually dish out free paperbacks, and you're not going to find "Fifty Shades Of Grey" - I don't think so anyway, not that you need to waste time on crap when there's just so much great reading there - but only material that is out of copyright or in the public domain for some other reason. The formats are as e-books, in several versions, but one way or the other, if you have a PC, a Mac, a Kindle, an Android, a Smartphone - any gadget that's digital.
Anyway, take a few hours and have a browse, never know what you'll fall over.
Cheers....
T.R.E.
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