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on his typewriter, only occasionally
venturing through the green baize door to
view the chaos rampant on the other side.
From the world of papal intrigues and
excess he had just left behind it probably
did not look too bizarre, and somehow his
blinking gaze and beaming smile proved
just enough both to keep the show on the
road and to encourage his charges to
make something of the unusual freedoms
they had been given.
T H E T R U S T Y S E RVA N T
Following retirement and the death
of his first wife in 1990 he remarried and
carved out a new life in Bath and Umbria,
where he had built a house many years
earlier. A minor stroke and reduced
mobility did little to diminish his
intellectual acumen (or the roar of his
laugh). In the tradition of historians who
can never stop writing until they drop, he
completed a book manuscript on Baroque
Rome in his 80s and spent the last
months of his life writing poems,
commencing a lively autobiography and
establishing a website to host his work.
He is survived by his second wife, Joyce
Hitchcock, and three children.
I
Courtesy of The Guardian
A Memorial Service for Peter will be held in
Chapel on Saturday 27th June at 2.30pm.
All those wishing to attend are asked to email:
[email protected]
Agincourt 600 and the French Prisoner
The Bursar wrote:
In soluto pro quodam Francigeno nomine
Lodewico serviente in coquina hoc anno,
20s 4d.
The College Archivist writes:
The news of the battle of Agincourt
was brought to Win Coll by John
Coudray, son of Edward, gentleman at
arms of the Lord Bishop of Winchester. It
is uncertain whether Coudray sold Lewis
the Frenchman to the Bursar or if he was
the booty of some other passing soldier.
Lewis became a kitchen boy at a w