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Letter of the Week

  • I would like to report on a series of events & archaeological discoveries which on my part commenced in September in the year 2022. In Scotland, it is said that there was a cardinal of ill repute who was assassinated in his bedchamber on the morning of Saturday the 24th May 1546 at St.Andrews Castle…

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