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View at Leicester

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View at Leicester, Background Version

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Burghley House from the Gardens

A spectacularly beautiful Elizabethan house, Burghley was built by William Cecil, the Lord High Treasurer of Queen Elizabeth I., between 1555 and 1587; William Cecil’s [...] [more...] [$]

Woodcroft House Murder: Desktop Wallpaper Version

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Woodcroft House in Etton Parish in Northamptonshire where Dr. Michael Hudson was murthered 6 June 1648

It seems that Dr. Hudson had tried to hide in a tower, but was caught; he tried to escape, and ended up dangling over the edge of the tower by his hands. His hands (or fingers, accounts vary) were cut off, and he fell to the moat. he was fished out and killed. He had been imprisoned in the Tower of London and escaped here, where he had been writing [...]House of Lords Journal Vol. 10 (8th June 1648) reprints a letter from Col. Wayte, that he has suppressed an Insurrection in Rutland, Lincolnshire, &c., and names this Dr. Michael Hudson (of Market Bosworth in Leicestershire) as one of the insurgents. This was during the English Civil War. [more...] [$]