Sir Henry Vane the younger

[Sam Shapiro]

I just completed Chapter 22, and even though I am only on p.228, I feel 
woefully behind most of the other subscribers...I feel compelled to read 
faster (and thus miss many of the allusions and metaphors and jokes), but 
by forcing myself to read slowly and carefully, I'm satisfied that I 
am absorbing this extraordinary book in the manner it so richly deserves.  
If it took TRP 20 years or whatever to write the damn thing, I can surely 
give it a good 6 month ingestion....plus, I'm learning a 
shitload of cool new (archaic) words....but enough about my ponderous 
reading habits....what I'm really interested in finding out from SOMEONE 
out there is the story behind the Tale of Henry Vane the younger, which is 
related to Dixon by the affable Jesuit Maire on page 226. Why does Dixon 
ask Maire if Vane was a "regicide"? What king did Vane murder, if that is 
the case?? And who was Pym? And what exactly was the "dispute" over the 
"Barony of Raby" about? And who killed Vane (or his father)?? 
I am quite sure all this was discussed many moons ago, so once again, I'm 
sorry to be behind the "wave"......

--Sam Shapiro