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Article: The Antichrist's Lewd Hat: Protestants, Papists and Players in Post-Reformation England .(Book Review)
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- December 1, 2002
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Peter Lake with Michael Questier
Yale University Press 731pp 30 [pounds sterling] ISBN 0-300-08884-1
ON JULY 5TH, 1633, Enoch ap Evan from Clune in Shropshire took up an axe and decapitated his mother and brother. Popping the pair of severed heads into a sack he made off, only to be quickly apprehended by the authorities and whisked away to Shrewsbury gaol. On August 20th he was publicly hung by the neck for his `inhumane' and `unnatural' double murder. Justice was seen to be done. We know about Enoch and his `barbarous and most cruel' act because two pamphlet accounts of it were published in London shortly afterwards. By the reign of Charles I a ...
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