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Hace 2 días · The murder of Sir Thomas Overbury in the Tower is one of the darkest of the many dark pages in the reign of James I. It was the last great crime committed in the blood-stained building where so many good and wise men had pined away half their lives.
Hace 4 días · The Countesse said shee should never be happie till Sir Tho: Overbury weare dead. Rochesters practise to betraye Sir Tho: Overbury to prison by settinge one [on] to denye to goe Ambassador for Russia. Sir Tho: Overbury called Rochester his preciouse Chief. Weston a base Pander. Sir Tho: Overbury hated to the death for his honestye.
Hace 3 días · It was here that Viscount Rochester met the infamous Countess of Essex; and it was Overbury's violent opposition to this shameful intrigue that led to his death from arsenic and diamond-dust, administered in the Tower by Weston, a servant of Mrs. Turner's, who received £180 for his trouble.
Hace 2 días · The manor passed to Nicholas's son Giles and in 1653 to Giles's son Sir Thomas Overbury, who sold it c. 1680 to Alexander Popham. (fn. 95) In the earlier 17th century the Dean and Chapter of Westminster disputed the claim of Sir Nicholas Overbury to a manor in Bourton.
Hace 5 días · The Mystery of "Joe Piker". In February 1823, a young man moved into Toft Hill, a small mining and agricultural village in South Durham, England. Although he boasted the impressive name of “Josiah Charles Stephenson,” the fact that he settled into a cottage adjoining a turnpike gate soon earned him the snappier nickname of “Joe Piker.”.
Hace 3 días · A heavily pregnant woman tried to wake up her 40-year-old partner before going to hospital to give birth - only to find he had died after doctors misread an abnormal heart scan, an inquest has ...
Hace 3 días · Grown man scolded over PlayStation volume nearly decapitates his mother and sets her on fire. Thomas Humphrey (Goffstown Police Dept.) and authorities at the home where he killed his mother (WDHD screenshot) A 47-year-old man in New Hampshire may spend the remainder of his days behind bars for killing his own mother, stabbing her more than 20 ...
