Chronicles of Brother Cadfael #1
A Morbid Taste for Bones
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Brother Cadfael
Cadfael is a Benedictine monk and herbalist at Shrewsbury Abbey in Shrewsbury, the county town of the English county of Shropshire. Cadfael himself is a Welshman; his full name is Cadfael ap (son of) Meilyr ap Dafydd and he was born in May 1080 to a ville...
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Brother Jerome
Clerk to Prior Robert. He is one to curry favour with the Prior, doing tasks for him as requested or anticipated....
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Prior Robert Pennant
Priest and monk at the Abbey. He is ambitious, patrician, and devoted to the rules. He often “looks down his long patrician nose” at others. He is 51 years old, with little change in his appearance in ten years – tall, silvery haired. He expects to be nam...
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Abbot Heribert
Head of the Abbey of Saint Peter and Saint Paul for eleven years. Met Cadfael whilst still Prior Heribert. He is a gentle and peaceful man. When King Stephen reclaimed Shrewsbury Castle and Shropshire for his own in the summer of 1138 , Heribert did not a...
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Brother John
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Father Huw
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Rhisiart
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Sioned
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Engelard
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Peredur
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Bened
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Annest
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