Well, what’s your name?
Robert Goodman, but you can call me Bob.
Aye. And from whence do you hail?
A humble farming village; in the heartland.
Alright, alright, that’s a fine place this time of season. How many years have you lived?
My mother never kept track, but I'd place it at at least twenty years.
Got it. Your ethnicity, good man? I can’t make it out.
My mother was a merchant from a far off land. My father was a fair-skinned heartlander.
Mmm. I never would have expected it. Are you literate?
Somewhat, yes.
Good, that won’t hurt you. Do you have a wife at home, or children?
My mother, yes. I've only been intimate with one woman, and that was when I once struck her.
They call Sixtus the Third ‘the Lewd’ for having two bastards. Don’t be like him. Have you got anything against taking oaths?
I live to serve God.
You’re all set. I’ll have this filed away to the Prelate at once. He’s all the way off in Pembroke, at least a day’s trip. Give him a while.