The plagues had come to Thornwick before Roland did.
Brother William and five others had not answered to theabbey's bell for more than a month when the count's messenger arrived at Roland's manor with the commission. The count had lost two brothers to the pestilence already. He would not lose a third to neglect. Thornwick Isle lay three miles across the Thames from Rochester, small and treeless and ringed by shallows that had swallowed more boats...
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