Walsingham’s Plumber
Patrick Collinson: John Bossy, 5 July 2001
Under the Molehill: An Elizabethan Spy Story
by John Bossy.
Yale, 189 pp., £18.95, May 2001,0 300 08400 5 Show More
by John Bossy.
Yale, 189 pp., £18.95, May 2001,
“... take our places at the dinner table at Salisbury Court in November 1583, ‘as in a late novel by Henry James’: ‘who had done what, who knew who had done what, and who knew who knew who had done what.’ Suspicion hung over the scene like a November fog, already a problem in Elizabethan London. (Those making a film of this book will want to know ... ”