Hello everyone and welcome to the History of England, episode 251, the end of days, the

end of memory.

Figured me folks, two quick notices if I may.

First of all, check out my friend Travis and his podcasts at podcastnick.com, the history

of alchemy, the history of Germany and the Bohemian podcast, which is all about Czech history.

Go and have a look at podcastnick.com, I'm sure you'll enjoy them.

Secondly, come and have a listen to Roy Field and me at the things that made England.

This is a new podcast I told you about a few weeks ago.

This week we're talking about the flag of St. George, past and present, whether it can

safely be held as a symbol of England or as it remain too divisive a symbol.

The nature of patriotism and nationalism and that sort of thing.

So come along and listen and if you like you can comment and vote.

There's always a good chat going on with the things that made England Facebook site

or you can find out more at the History of England website.

So last time then, I irritatingly left things on a cliff edge, really sorry about that.

And we had 25 year old Anne Askew and her estranged husband Thomas Keim standing before

a group of the King's Council.

That group included Thomas Rottersley, Stephen Gardner, William Paget, John Dudley and William

Parr.

Now this group, two of them, John Dudley, William Parr, could be accounted sympathetic

to the evangelical cause, but Parr was a political cipher, only Dudley would have any clout.

And whether he would want to exercise his own behalf, they potentially heretical woman

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