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Smithfield, settled on the fringes of Roman London, was once a place of revelry. Jesters and crowds flocked for the medieval St Bartholomews Day celebrations, tournaments were plentiful and it became the location of Londons most famous meat market. Yet in Tudor England, Smithfield had another, more sinister use: the public execution of heretics.The Burning Time is a vivid insight into an era in which what was orthodoxy one year might be dangerous heresy the next. The first martyrs were Catholics, who cleaved to Rome in defiance of Henry VIIIs break with the papacy. But with the accession of Henrys daughter Mary - soon to be nicknamed Bloody Mary - the charge of heresy was leveled against devout Protestants, who chose to burn rather than recant.At the center of Virginia Roundings vivid account of this extraordinary period are two very different characters. The first is Richard Rich, Thomas Cromwells protégé, who, almost uniquely, remained in a position of great power, influence and wealth under
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