Walter Lord Hungerford of Heytesbury, executed 28 Jul 1549, for "unnatural crimes", having been found guilty of employing as his house chaplain, knowing him to be a traitor; with ordering another chaplain, and one other to practise conjuring to determine the king's length of life, and his chances of victory over the northern rebels; and finally with committing offences forbidden by the Buggery Act 1533."
Hungerford's treatment of his third wife, Elizabeth Hussey, was remarkable for its brutality. In an appeal for protection which she addressed to Thomas Cromwell in about 1536, she asserted that he kept her incarcerated at Farleigh for three or four years, made some fruitless attempts to divorce her, and endeavoured on several occasions to poison her.
Hungerford's treatment of his third wife, Elizabeth Hussey, was remarkable for its brutality. In an appeal for protection which she addressed to Thomas Cromwell in about 1536, she asserted that he kept her incarcerated at Farleigh for three or four years, made some fruitless attempts to divorce her, and endeavoured on several occasions to poison her.
Walter Lord Hungerford of Heytesbury, executed 28 Jul 1549, for "unnatural crimes", having been found guilty of employing as his house chaplain, knowing him to be a traitor; with ordering another chaplain, and one other to practise conjuring to determine the king's length of life, and his chances of victory over the northern rebels; and finally with committing offences forbidden by the Buggery Act 1533."
Hungerford's treatment of his third wife, Elizabeth Hussey, was remarkable for its brutality. In an appeal for protection which she addressed to Thomas Cromwell in about 1536, she asserted that he kept her incarcerated at Farleigh for three or four years, made some fruitless attempts to divorce her, and endeavoured on several occasions to poison her.
Hungerford's treatment of his third wife, Elizabeth Hussey, was remarkable for its brutality. In an appeal for protection which she addressed to Thomas Cromwell in about 1536, she asserted that he kept her incarcerated at Farleigh for three or four years, made some fruitless attempts to divorce her, and endeavoured on several occasions to poison her.
Inscription
Hie jacet tumulata dna Elizabetha Hungerford una filiaru dni Hussey que primum nupta fuit dno Gualtero Hungerford et nuper vxor Roberti Throkmarton Militis que obiit xxiii die Januarii Anno dni Mccccclxxi
Transcription:
Here lies buried Mrs. Elizabeth Hungerford, one of the children of Mr. Hussey, who was first married to Mr. Walter Hungerford, and late the wife of Robert Throckmarton, a soldier, who died the 23rd day of January, in the year of Mcccclxx
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