November 23 – A plot to poison Elizabeth I, daughter of Anne Boleyn and Henry VIII
Claire | November 23, 2022
On this day in Tudor history, 23rd November 1598, in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, a man named Edward Squire was hanged, drawn and quartered at Tyburn. The scrivener and sailor was executed for treason after being accused of plotting to poison Elizabeth I’s saddle and a chair used by her favourite, Robert Devereux, […]
