Bridewell: The Palace that became a Prison
Not Just the Tudors
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The Black Ink on the Yellowing Page
The case of margaret aprise, by sound of it, a welshwoman, is given in 15 74. And the questions that are asked of her are also recorded. It's the first dragt and so we get almost the entire process of the magistrate speaking to her. We're kind of interested in how these people lived and what their intimate lives were. But it's only the distance 400 or so years, that allows us to do that.
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