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Margaret Clitherow: Pressed to Death at York, 1586
On the morning they killed her, Margaret Clitherow sent her shoes and stockings to her daughter Anne. She walked the last stretch of her life on bare stone.
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Margaret Beaufort: Devoted Mother and the Most Dangerous Political Mind of the Fifteenth Century
History remembers Margaret Beaufort as a devoted mother, a pious noblewoman, a woman who prayed for her son from a distance and wept when he finally came home. That is the story she wanted told. She was also the most dangerous political mind of the fifteenth century, and the two things are not separate.
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Elizabeth Tailboys: The Daughter Bessie Blount May Have Given Henry VIII
Bessie Blount gave Henry VIII a son. He gave the boy a dukedom and a name that meant son of the king. A year later she may have given him a daughter. He gave her nothing.