Hey, friend, welcome back to the Renaissance English History Podcast, a part of the Agora Podcast Network and the original Tudor History Podcast.

I am your host, Heather. I'm a storyteller who makes history accessible because I believe it's a pathway to understanding who we are,

our place in the universe, and being much more deeply connected to our own humanity.

This is an episode on the men who surrounded Thomas Cromwell. I've been doing a lot on

Thomas Cromwell on my YouTube channel. I've been doing reaction videos every week to the new

season of The Mirror and the Light that's on in the UK. So if you aren't subscribed to my

YouTube channel, there's a plug for that. And members and patrons this month got a mini

audio course on Thomas Cromwell. So I've had a lot of Cromwell on my mind. And I realized I've

never done an episode. I've done episodes on Cromwell here. David Crowther from the

history of England did a fantastic talk at one of the

Tudor summits, gosh, I want to say maybe 2018 on Cromwell. And so we've done a lot around

Cromwell, but what I've never done is an episode on the men who surrounded Cromwell, the

household of Cromwell. And so that's what we're going

to talk about today. After Cromwell's wife and two daughters died of probably the sweating

sickness, he kept his home at Austin Friars. It was a home that was filled with the people he had

working for him, the servants, but also people who were partitioning. It was a home that was filled with the people he had working for him, the servants, but also people who were petitioning.

It was a very, very busy place.

And he had a team of a handful of men that he trusted who worked with him and who were very close with him.

And so we're going to talk about a couple of those men.

We're going to talk about Rafe of those men. We're going to talk

about Rave Sabler, Thomas Risley, aka Call Me, Call Me Risley, and Richard Rich are the three people

we're going to talk about in this episode. So let's get into it. Tudor England in the 1530s

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