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Ned Coates
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| Name | Ned Coates |
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| Race | Human |
| Occupation | Night Watchman |
| Looks | dark-haired, round-faced |
| Residence | Watch barracks in Cheapside |
| Death | killed in the Glorious Revolution |
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| Books | Night Watch |
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Lance-Corporal Ned Coates was a Watchman at Treacle Mine Road during the events leading up to the Glorious Revolution. He was also one of the real revolutionaries, having been involved at least in the Morphic Street Conspiracy.
He had come from Pseudopolis, presumably for the better pay offered watchmen in Ankh-Morpork in those days, and had trained under John Keel, which accounts for the hostility he showed toward Vimes in the timeline in which Keel had been killed and Vimes had to stand in for him- Coates knew him to be an impostor. Disillusioned about Snapcase after being sent, under Carcer, to kill a number of survivors of the Republic in spite of the general amnesty, he seems to have made a kind of peace with Vimes-as-Keel shortly before he died. (Or not... someone is buried in a place of honor in Small Gods cemetery marked "Ned Coates", but no one seems to have seen him die. It may be that somewhere in Genua or Fourecks there's a policeman or soldier with graying dark hair and a lined round face framing very cynical eyes who's still working out who the real villains are and doing the job that's in front of him.)
