False Brought up of Nought
Thomas Penn: Henry VII’s Men on the Make, 27 July 2017
Henry VII’s New Men and the Making of Tudor England
by Steven Gunn.
Oxford, 393 pp., £60, August 2016,978 0 19 965983 8 Show More
by Steven Gunn.
Oxford, 393 pp., £60, August 2016,
“... extrajudicial methods of government, and anxious to secure the smooth succession of his young son as well as their own place in the new regime, they needed scapegoats onto whom to ‘shift the noise’ of Henry VII’s ‘tyrannies’, as one contemporary chronicler put it, ‘for to satisfy and appease the people’. Empson and Dudley were top of ... ”