Any mistakes on Richard's history are mine, and I was assuming a somewhat relaxed timeline.<br/><br/>If we need to tighten it up, well, the history I provided Bigwad had Richard not quite old enough to fight for King James when Cromwell supporters had Ricard's brother put to death at the end of the war.  (As a literate Clerk, Richard's brother became an officer.)<br/><br/>I presented that Richard took up Alchemy too find a way to blow up parliament without the dozens of barrels of powder that got Guy Fawkes caught.<br/><br/>In order to pursue this study, he had to go to Prague (in modern day Check Republic) before making his way down here.<br/><br/>So if the tight timeline is post restoration (AKA, after the over throw of Cromwell with a King James back on the throne), then Richard might be a little bit older and need to take profiteering against English nobles out of his motivation.