DANIEL GOT USED TO SEEING the Duke of York out riding and hunting with his princely friends – as much as the son of Drake could get used to such a sight. Once the hunters rode past within a bowshot of him, near enough that he could hear the Duke talking to his companion – in French. Which gave Daniel an impulse to rush up to this French Catholic man in his French clothes, who claimed to be England's next king, and put an end to him. He mastered it by recalling to mind the way that the Duke's father's head had plopped into the basket on the scaffold at the Banqueting House. Then he thought to himself: What an odd family!