" Hughes wondered if Norton had deliberately withheld the information from him. “And being a man of the cloth is how you’d know your griffins from your dragons?” “No, my doctorate is in history. And I’m just a deacon. A lay preacher. I suppose I’m just over-educated.” He gave Hughes a thin smile. “I happen to know my griffins from my dragons, that’s all. "

― Mark Speed , Doctor How and the Dragons: Book 4