Forty Testoons

By Alan Fisk

Forty Testoons is his third novel. This is a novel of political intrigue, spies and treason in medieval Newfoundland. The year is 1504 and father Ralph Fletcher, a young priest, is paid forty silver coins called testoons to stay and minister to the winter crew while the summer fleet retu s to England. He becomes swept up in intrigue as the winter crew attempts to depose King Henry VII of England in favor of a Yorkist pretender, Father Ralph's role in the plot becomes clear - he is to sanctify the actions while striving to convert the native Beothuk to Christianity.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1550811452
• ISBN13: 9781550811452
• Release Date: March 1999
• Publisher: Breakwater Books
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.0" x 8.0"