<p>Determined to rule as absolute monarchs and impose their kind of religion upon their subjects, the Tudors, starting with Henry VIII and culminating in the long reign of his daughter Elizabeth I, shredded England’s constitutional law and its protections so completely that Elizabeth holds the record, by a wide margin, for the number of her subjects interrogated under torture or the threat of it. This book tells, for the first time, the complete story of Elizabeth’s lifelong friend, policeman and torturer-in-chief, a wealthy, well-born Lincolnshire gentleman called Richard Topcliffe, personally responsible for nearly fifty torturings, and present at over sixty executions.</p>

The Queen and the Torturer

Biographies & Memoirs

Brownlow, F. W.

Historical

Cedar Hill Press

<p>When Robert Southwell returned to England from Rome in 1586 as an underground missionary priest he brought with him from Italy a new baroque style in prose and poetry that was to prove as influential as it was popular, affecting the styles of Shakespeare, Donne, and Herbert among others.  The aim of this edition is to provide an easily readable, modernized text of St. Robert's poems, supported by a thorough account of their textual history and a more complete commentary on their texts than has hitherto been available.</p>

The English Poems of St. Robert Southwell

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

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