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The Tudor Murder Files

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    Henry to Lady Catherine Grey
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    Henry married Anne’s sister, Catherine Parr in 1543
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    the city of Bristol, or Bristowe as it was then known.
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    beheaded at York after leading the failed Rising of the North in the reign of Elizabeth. The eighth Earl ended up in the Tower of London for his role in trying to help Mary Queen of Scots escape her imprisonment in England. In June 1585 he was found dead in his cell, apparently having shot himself with a pistol that had been delivered to him in a cold pie.
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    The fifth Earl never regained the offices or power his father had enjoyed. The brother of the sixth Earl was hanged for treason at Tyburn and the seventh Earl was be
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    There would be an uneasy relationship between the Percy family and the Tudors during the course of the next century.
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    was used for executing felons but primarily to despatch thieves. It inspired another device which first started being used in Scotland during the reign of Mary Queen of Scots. Known as the Maiden,
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    In Yorkshire, the Halifax Gibbet, a kind of guillotine,
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    the punishment of peine forte et dure was still in use in the eighteenth century and not formally abolished until 1772
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    Women found guilty of petty treason could be burned at the stake in England right up until 1790.
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