That makes perfect sense. He seemed to always be around anything magical, like John Dee ,or going off to Algiers to learn a black magicians rituals.He had to have been a terrible person to survive amongst the other terrible people of that era.The Tudor's slaughter rate was phenomenal. I wish I could remember the population figure of Britain in the time of the Tudors that our history teacher told us, around 5 million I think, and they killed thousands , entire families of anyone that upset them. Totally different government system.There were record books in the archives that showed the local people of the area in Essex I used to live in were always taking their complaints up to Court, and getting their way. The deeds of my house read Cnut, as in King Canute, who had owned all the land, then passed to Hereward the Wake, an honorary title, then us.