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Lords, spies and traitors in Elizabeth’s England

A review of God's Traitors: Terror and Faith in Elizabethan England, by Jessie Childs. To see the power of 16th-century aristocrats, look at the ones being tracked as enemies of the state

William Vaux, 3rd Baron Vaux of Harrowden, was tried in the Star Chamber in 1581 with his brother-in-law Sir Thomas Tresham for harbouring Edmund Campion and sentenced to imprisonment in the Fleet with a fine of £1,000 [Getty Images/Shutterstock/iStock/Alamy]
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  • God’s Traitors: Terror and Faith in Elizabethan England

    Jessie Childs

    Bodley Head, pp. 442

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