20 December -Edward Arden was hanged and Agnes Tilney begged King Henry VIII for forgiveness
Joel | December 20, 2021
On this day in Tudor history, 20th December 1583, the day after his son-in-law, John Somerville, had been found dead in his cell, Warwickshire gentleman Edward Arden was hanged, drawn and quartered at Smithfield. Arden, who was related to William Shakespeare’s mother, Mary Arden, and married to a member of the Throckmorton family, had been […]