Lore 276: Heads Up
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Aaron Mahnke
4.6 • 46.2K Ratings
🗓️ 24 March 2025
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
A good amount of history is nothing more than normal, everyday people doing their best to keep their heads in troubling situations. According to folklore, though, there have also been a few memorable, terrifying failures.
Narrated and produced by Aaron Mahnke, with writing by GennaRose Nethercott, research by Jamie Vargas, and music by Chad Lawson.
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| 1:12.6 | and some very, very icky experiments. Listener discretion advised. William had made more than a few enemies. |
| 1:39.3 | Having risen through the ranks of the religious clergy, |
| 1:41.9 | he'd become the ceremonial head of England's |
| 1:44.5 | Anglican Church, and, well, he wasn't exactly popular. You see, Archbishop William Laude had |
| 1:51.3 | begun to introduce innovations. Nothing crazy, mind you, just a few changes to increase the splendor |
| 1:57.5 | of the Anglican services, you know, to jazz things up a bit. But to the strict |
| 2:02.9 | Puritans, this wasn't going to fly. To them, all of the new pomp and circumstance felt a little |
| 2:09.2 | too Catholic for their taste. And so they charged the Archbishop with high treason and sent him |
| 2:15.2 | to the Tower of London. On January 10th of 1645, they lopped off William |
| 2:21.1 | Lod's head. His body was buried at St. John's College in Oxford, but according to the stories, |
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