Tilden

Captain at the Treacle Mine Road Watch House who in one trouser leg of time recruited John Keel as his new Sergeant and in another leg allowed Sam Vimes to recruit himself as Sergeant-at-Arms in one of the strangest job interviews in the multiverse.

Captain Tilden is an ex-military man (Lord Venturi's Medium Dragoons) and is around seventy years old having been given the job after he retired from the regiment. It is clear that Tilden has always done his best to be conscientious and honourable - he is uncomfortable with the orders coming from The Palace and from Cable Street but he has never disobeyed an order. When he hears news of the Dolly Sisters Massacre (which involved his old regiment) and reports that the Watch Houses may be attacked by 'revolutionary elements' he is badly shaken and gives the dangerous order 'Do what you feel necessary' to Keel/Vimes.

During the events surrounding the Glorious Revolution and the foundation of the People's Republic of Treacle Mine Road Tilden slips away, leaving Keel/Vimes to run the watch house.

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