Alastair Bellany.

Alastair Bellany. The Politics of Court Scandal in Early late England: News Culture and the Overbury Affair, 1603-1660 (Cambridge Studies in Early recent British History.) New York: Cambridge University Pres 2002 Pp xvii, 312 $7000 ISBN 0-521-78289-9

Sir Thomas Overbury was manslaughtered in 1613, poisoned to death while a prisoner in the Tower, on the other hand the crime did not approach to light until two years later. When it did, it created a sensation, chiefly obviously because it involved pair of the most notorious members of the Jacobean Court, the earl of somersault and his wife Frances

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