EditorialLaurence Shirley, Earl Ferrers, Viscount Tamworth, violent alcoholic found guilty of murder and hanged at Tyburn 1760. Copperplate engraving from John Caulfield's Portraits, Memoirs and Characters of Remarkable Persons, Young, London, 1819.
EditorialThe first printed English translation of the Magna Carta was published in 1534 by Robert Redman (d. 1540). A rival of Richard Pynson, Redman eventually adopted Pynson’s premises and printer’s emblem in Fleet Street. Like Pynson, Redman’s producti...
EditorialLaurence Shirley, Earl Ferrers, Viscount Tamworth, violent alcoholic found guilty of murder and hanged at Tyburn 1760. Copperplate engraving from John Caulfield's Portraits, Memoirs and Characters of Remarkable Persons, Young, London, 1819.
EditorialJOHN OF GAUNT'S GATEWAY, TUTBURY CASTLE. A largely ruinous medieval castle at Tutbury, Staffordshire, England, in the ownership of the Duchy of Lancaster. Tutbury Castle became the headquarters of Henry de Ferrers and was the centre of the wapentake of...