Set in Elizabethan times, Prince Edmund plots to kill McAngus after the King gives him all of Edmund's Scottish lands.

Henry Tulip is coming. The Normans are invading (again), and the King, Richard the Third, prepares to lead his armies into battle at Bosworth.

When Edmund's Scottish lands are given to the King's Supreme Commander, Douglas McAngus, he plots revenge.

The KIng needs to find a replacement for the late Archbishop of Canterbury; someone who will lead the church properly, someone easily bullied, possibly someone related to him.

To dominate Northern Europe, King Richard arranges a marriage between his son Edmund and the Spanish Infanta.

With the Black Death ravaging Europe, Witchsmellers scour England for the witches who caused the plague. Following the burning of a local witch (and her pussycat) Edmund runs afoul of a fanatical Witchsmeller.

When Edmund loses his title of Duke of Edinburgh, he snaps, fires Baldrick and Percy and hires some of the most cruel men in England; Sir Wilfred Death, Three-Fingered Pete, Guy de Glastonbury, Sean the Irish Bastard, Friar Bellows and Jack Large to help him take over the kingdom.