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thedudleywomen
4 days ago16 min read
The Madness of Jane Parker, Lady Rochford (November 1541 - February 1542)
On 13 February 1542, Jane Parker, Viscountess Rochford, was led to a scaffold that had been erected on Tower Green...
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thedudleywomen
Dec 12 min read
ON THIS DAY - 01 December 1541
On This Day (01 Dec) in 1541, Thomas Culpeper and Francis Dereham were tried for high treason, for their alleged adultery...
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thedudleywomen
Nov 132 min read
ON THIS DAY - 13 November 1553
On This Day (13 Nov) in 1553, a trial was held at in the Great Hall, in the City of London Guildhall; the trial of Lady Jane Grey...
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thedudleywomen
Sep 11 min read
ON THIS DAY - 02 September 1666
On This Day (02 Sep) 1666, a fire started in a bakery on Pudding Lane, city of London - The Great Fire of London.
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thedudleywomen
Jul 1614 min read
Anne Askew: Poet. Preacher. Rebel. Heretic. Martyr.
Anne Askew's name has long been associated with martyrdom in Henry VIII's Protestant England.
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thedudleywomen
Jun 172 min read
ON THIS DAY - 18 June 1546
Anne Askew was a 25yo writer, poet and preacher, originally from Lincolnshire, whose resolute Reformist religious views...
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