He made enough money to buy himself some estates and even knighthood and was now known as "Sir Robert Gadlen". In the 1500s, Hob invested his profits from the printing press into Henry VIII's shipyards, and funded John Hawkins who would go on to lay the foundations of the transatlantic slave trade. Dream convinced him otherwise, and they agreed to keep meeting every one hundred years for a drink. When he next met Dream in 1489, Gadling expressed his fear that he had made some kind of deal with the Devil. He also tried his hand at business, cooperating with William Caxton to open a printing production. Gadling spent the next century as a mercenary, fighting for both sides in the Wars of the Roses. He was overheard by Dream who decided that this might be an interesting experiment, and so told Gadling that, if he truly believed the way to live forever is simply not to die, Dream would meet him in one hundred years in the same tavern for a drink. In 1389 he shared this theory with his friends while drinking in the Tavern of the White Horse. While on the battlefield, he decided that he simply wouldn't die: people only died, he figured, because it was a bad habit into which they fell, and he would have no part of it. During the Caroline War he fought in Burgundy under Earl of Buckingham. He lost half of his village to the Black Death and became a soldier. Hob was born in an English village in the 14th century.
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