Summary
Of the many executions ordered by Henry VIII, surely the most horrifying was that of sixty-seven-year-old Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury, hacked to pieces on the scaffold by a blundering headsman. From the start, Margarets life had been marred by tragedy and violence: her father, George, Duke... Full description
- Daughterof violence
- A new order
- Two widows
- Countess of Salisbury
- Lady Governess
- Perseverance
- Unheard-of cruelty
- Honour and Conscience
- An opinion given
- Coming to stripes
- The lady in the Tower
- Restoration
- Puious ends
- The evidence in the Exeter conspiracy
- Margaret's goods and servants.