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The Wife of Cobham

Susan Curran

出版	Lasse Press, 2016
主題	Biography & Autobiography / GeneralBiography & Autobiography / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / GeneralHistory / GeneralHistory / Europe / Great Britain / GeneralSocial Science / Social Classes & Economic Disparity
ISBN	09933069189780993306914
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=5lZbjwEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

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In 1417 Sir John Oldcastle (also known as Lord Cobham after his marriage to the great heiress Joan, Lady Cobham) was captured in a field in Wales. One of the most famous rebels in English history, he had been an outlaw on the run for more than four years. He was carried, badly injured, to the Tower of London, and from there to a trial before parliament, where he was found guilty of heresy and treason. Lady Cobham - his wife of nine years - was arrested at the same time, and also imprisoned in the Tower. After her husband had been hanged and then burned, she was quietly freed, and lived on for another sixteen years. Was Joan an innocent, whose marriage to Oldcastle had been arranged by others? Was she no more than a bystander to his plans for a revolution? Or was this husband - her fourth - one she had chosen for herself, not least because she shared his views and also wanted to change the world she lived in? In exploring Lady Cobham, Susan Curran brings out from the shadows an extraordinary true story.