RAPHAEL HOLINSHED, CHRONICLER1 After Cromwell’s execution, an extraordinary propaganda war of pamphlets and broadsides broke out in London. A ‘Ballad on Thomas Cromwell’ was swiftly published containing sixteen doggerel verses, each with a repetition of the last line. It begins: Both man and chil...
. . there have been some very memorable people’ Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel and Surrey, looking back on his own family in the 1600s1 For more than a century the vengeful hand of the English crown had frequently lain heavy on the Howards. Their colossal pride, egotism, ambition, or loyalty to...