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murder
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Saturday, June 11, 2016
'To heaven on a gibbet': the repentance of Nathaniel Butler, murderer, 1657
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Because of Frank Thorney in The Witch of Edmonton , I have been thinking about exemplary penitence in early modern culture, and the way th...
Friday, April 08, 2011
The Murder at the White Horse Inn, Chelmsford, 1654.
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My blog here has been a stranded whale since before Christmas. Last term precluded any extras: teaching, marking and being admissions tuto...
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Friday, June 05, 2009
Mistress Beast has her husband murdered, 1582
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Mistress Beast did exist, and we will come to her in a moment. This post might have been titled ‘The Wo...
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Thursday, March 12, 2009
The awful plot against Curate Trat, Somerset, 1623
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I have been reading Thomas Gataker’s horrified complaint that the astrologer William L...
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Monday, January 26, 2009
Peeter and the wolf
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The pamphlet A true discourse. Declaring the damnable life and death of one Stubbe Peeter, a most wic...
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Wednesday, December 31, 2008
A bad start to 1609 at the Sign of the Firebrand
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A bloudy new- yeares gift, or A true declaration of the most cruell and bloudy mu...
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