Foxes, needless to say, produce more accurate predictions. A guiding light for Mr Silver is Thomas Bayes, an 18th-century English churchman and pioneer of probability theory.
They may also have been encouraged by churchmen as more edifying entertainment than the popular Mystery plays, which became mixed with worldly and semi-pagan elements.
His proven ability to win elections and his reputation as an ethical lawyer and devout churchman created a politically invaluable impression of decency in an age of rascality and corruption.
Jackson fought to hold back his tears. When the churchman finished speaking, those near Jackson heard him say: In the presence of this dear saint, I can and do forgive all my enemies.
Cuthbert Tunstal was a rising churchman, chancellor to the Archbishop of Canterbury, who in that year (1515) was made Archdeacon of Chester, and in May of the next year (1516) Master of the Rolls.
The knowledge of those two languages, therefore, not being indispensably requisite to a churchman, the study of them did not for along time make a necessary part of the common course of university education.
But she heard of them from a churchman of the name of Fulgence, who haunted the castle, and swore he had seen those little creatures step out of their glass prisons and dance a minuet.