The Complete Diary of a Cotswold Parson

Mr Rens' murderer is carted off to Gloucester but Francis is still beset by problems. A fellow magistrate, Richard Ford, even manages to profit from them. Francis and Richard's long-term but mutually antagonistic friendship suffers a blow when in 1834, at a meeting of the Stow Savings Bank, Mr Baillie makes a personal attack on Francis, and Charles Pole. Canon Ford has something to do with it and the 'Baillie' affair is set to blow up out of all proportion.