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e revealed - somethingthat would change English magic for ever, something that Strange and Norrell had noteven guessed at yet. *Mr Norrell appears to have adapted it from a description of a Lancashire spell in PeterWatershippe's Death's Library (1448). On a bleak February day Vinculus was in his magician's booth beside thechurch of St Christopher Le Stocks. Why? he asked.

He turned back to his silver dish and made afew postures over it. tying a muslin neckcloth, why! he cannot be made to understandit at all! Well, sir, it is exactly the sort of task I like, said Stephen. But all of these fears were entirely unfounded. Henry is a very good fellow.