
334 Murder!
The History of England
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Westorn Was Clearly Innocent, Was He?
Jervis elways said he'd prevented him from poisoning overbury anyway. The inconvenient fact that overbury didn't die until william became involved with overbury's nicker area seems to suggest weston was at best guilty of some lesser crime. But look, consider this from edward cook's view, with his eyes on the prize of fame. You do not win international fame by putting apothecary boys behind bars. And under english law, i am told at the time anyway, you can't convict folks of accessory to murder if the principal has not been convicted of murder. So our cook was very keen to get his big fish - morhumangus and samr
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