And just like with his contemporary, Mr. Gilbert, very few were ever given a break......in that everyone from common thieves to Jesuits to Jesuit sympathizers to revolutionaries like Guy Fawkes to upper-crust nobles like Sir Walter Raleigh to nobility like Mary Stuart met their maker courtesy of this guy.....................................................................................................Of course this isn't to imply that Sir John wasn't averse to taking a bribe or two in exchange for sparing someone. IN FACT, there was this one incident in which he let some psychopath off who had thrown a new-born infant into a raging fire, with the upshot being Popham, sleeping like a baby himself THAT VERY EVENING!! Yikes, huh?
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