The Tudor Privy Council would sometimes punish those who fell out of its favour by making them wait to be seen by the Star Chamber for days, weeks, or months in London, during which time they would run up huge lodging bills. Wolsey made De Carteret of Guernsey wait for over four years.
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"They have done for me at last, Hardy.
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~ Nelson, at the Battle of Trafalgar
On This Day
1536 Anne Boleyn was executed for adultery, incest and treason.
1649 A little over three months after the execution of Charles I, the Rump Parliament adopted the Act Declaring and Constituting the People of England to be a Commonwealth and Free-State, making 'England, and of all the Dominions and Territories thereunto belonging' a republic, 'without any King or House of Lords'.
1849 Irish labourer William Hamilton aimed some gunpowder (but no shot) at Queen Victoria. He was sentenced to 7 years transportation.
1898 William Gladstone, one of the defining politicians of the Victorian age and four-time prime minister, died aged 88.
1935 T.E. Lawrence - the famous Lawrence of Arabia - died of injuries he had sustained on his motorbike after he swerved to avoid two boys in the road.
1962 Marilyn Monroe famously sang 'Happy Birthday' to US President JFK - 10 days early.