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Chapter 7
The Sheriff Who Held Him Captive
Corpus Christi Guildhall, Lavenham, Suffolk
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Saturday Morning, 3 December 1994, Lavenham, Suffolk
It had been eight days since my terrifying visions were upon me. And three days after the first
in Lavenham. On this eighth day I returned once more to the place that held much of the
knowledge I sought. But in truth I also knew it would not reveal all; much was still hidden
and lay elsewhere outside of my visions; where it could be found, I did not know; and all the
agents of good or evil that do guide me now, wished it not to be this day. On other days to
come and soon, it will all be revealed, the accumulation of the many pieces of a puzzle, so
dark and macabre that only Satan could be its creator.
Like my previous visit to Lavenham, I had travelled by the same route as before, avoiding all
centres of urban population and then did arrive in front of the Corpus Christi Guildhall. In
this instance, I did not sit again on the steps of the nearby aged Market Cross, where I did see
my previous incarnation as Jack Lauraine. I instead did wish to find a much earlier person
whose soul we shared, one that was rumoured to have held the Protestant martyr, Rowland
Taylor in chains within this very building’s cellar; and whose name I then did not know, save
he was Suffolk’s Sheriff. Who was this fiend, who once was I; that did such a cruel deed in
the February of 1555; and did take on the ninth day, this innocent priest, who was guilty of
