Turncoats and Opportunists
Alexandra Walsham: Francis Walsingham, 5 July 2012
The Queen’s Agent: Francis Walsingham at the Court of Elizabeth I
by John Cooper.
Faber, 400 pp., £9.99, July 2012,978 0 571 21827 1 Show More
by John Cooper.
Faber, 400 pp., £9.99, July 2012,
“... may have been implicated (with other members of his family) in support for Lady Jane Grey and in Thomas Wyatt’s rebellion against Mary of 1553-54: perhaps this was one of the reasons he fled England shortly afterwards. No less formative was the St Bartholomew’s Day massacre in 1572, when thousands of Protestants were slaughtered by their Catholic ... ”