As the 1857 to Manchester Piccadilly rolls in, I scan the windows and realise there are plenty of spare seats, so I hop aboard. The train is a '221'+'220' combo to allow for social distancing - a luxury on an XC train as normally you're playing sardines, so I make the most of it.

[…] and the tergiversations of the council, wholly devoted to Rome — there was not a Lutheranist or Calvinist present — so disgusted the Protestants, that they refused to recognize its authority, or to be bound by its decrees.

He is a doctor.

European adventurers found themselves within a watery world, a tapestry of streams, channels, wetlands, lakes and lush riparian meadows enriched by floodwaters from the Mississippi River.