The Countess of Somerset

On the seventeenth of october, cook and his commissioners had convinced themselves that the earl and countess of somerset mightwe be guilty as charged. And the axe fell. A formal message arrived, telling robert and francis that they were under house arrest and were to be retained somerset at whitehall. Meanwhile, anne turner had also been taken into custody. The noose was doing what nooses get great pleasure from doing, and tightening. But could it really be so poor old somerset? Of course, in the words of fagin, all his friends and companions turned out to have been nothing but villains and thieves.