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for a breach of manners, saying that "had I done so because I knew it not to be my duty, then am I worse than Tom Dyrry", suggesting that Durie did not adhere to court etiquette. He compared himself to Tom Durie in another humorous letter to Newton, writing that if a supplicant failed to gain a place
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at night. Her fool observed the ceremony and described it to James VI as a midnight feast. The king was jealous about this but was satisfied when he heard it was the Mass. The point of the story for Thomas Rant was to show King James' indifference to his wife's religion, who was frequently claimed to
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in London his portrait was displayed in an antechamber or passage between the queen's withdrawing room and the gallery and was recorded in an inventory as the picture of "Thomas Derry" in 1619.
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Tom Durie was still alive in 1620 when an account mentions a payment of 9s-6d weekly for his food and lodging. Some receipts for his and Archy
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and the accounts record the "colouring of Tom Derry's gallery". An inventory of paintings at
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written on 3 October 1604, "Thom. Ducie is in missing, and no newes of his wandring". His absence from court and return, if it was he, was not mentioned again.
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