In addition, I’m also very keen to thank Timothy Byard-Jones for reading the manuscript and for picking me up on my many fifteenth century-based mistakes; Graham Darbyshire of the Towton Battlefield Society for walking me around and for sharing his knowledge all those years ago, and the expert and enthusiastic bowyer Les Wigg for his advice on bows and arrows and the mysterious craft of loosing them. All are founts of knowledge, and each has tried his best to teach me what I didn’t know. If any mistakes have crept in, they are mine and mine alone. I’d like to thank Toby Mundy, too, perhaps oddly, for letting me dance on his dollar for a time (and HMRC as well, who have shown inexplicable but blessed patience in the matter of my return for the tax year ’10-’11, not to mention ’11-’12), David Miller for all his help, and Laura Palmer for her early guidance in the story of Thomas and Katherine. I’d like to thank my terrific agent Charlotte Robertson who helped me finish the book and then got it onto the desk of my terrific editor, Selina Walker – thank you Selina – and I’d like to thank Richenda Todd for her almost unbelievable detail and plot juggling skills. This is a much better book for their input, for which I am very grateful indeed, eternally so.