
335 This Sin of Blood
The History of England
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News Letters and the Overbury Affair
News letters are personal letters with the latest news, literally. But we stand on the cusp of this activity becoming commercialized from the 16 twenties. Some people take a look at what these secretaries are doing and think: Ah, i see a gap in the market. And they start producing regular news letters for groups of people for a fee. The overbury scandal was connected to the regions through a network of overlapping groups that made the affair a national scandal.
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