The Crystal Skull [antikvár]

PROLOGUE To Dr Barnabas Tythe, visiting professor, Balliol College, Oxford, v^^ritten this thirteenth day of July, in the year of our Lord fifteen hundred and fifty-six, greetings. My dear friend -1 w^rite in haste and w^ith regret that I must depart w^ithout a proper leave-taking. Cambridge is alive w^ith accusations of heresy. Poor Thorn Gillespie is already arraigned and faces death by burning for nothing more than questioning the use of a prayer book to mend a fractured v^^rist. All those of us who practise medicine in accordance with the highest science, abjuring the superstitions of the Church, are in like peril. With a secret such as mine, I am doubly in jeopardy. Already there is a pamphlet circulating which states that I am in possession of 'a blue stone skull in the shape of an unfleshed 13 ! (