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Terms apply. Welcome to Noble Blood, a production of IHeart Radio and grim and mild from Aaron Manky.

Listener discretion advised.

For the guards at the Tower of London, February 23rd, 1716, was a day like any other. A despondent

wife came to visit her husband who was scheduled for execution. The wife had brought a few family

friends with her, and they each took turns visiting with the prisoner. The guards listened at the

door as the woman said goodbye to her husband for the last time, giving her a bit of privacy and the

couple their alone time.

The next morning, the guards came to collect the prisoner to bring him to the scaffold,

but when they opened his cell, they gasped. It was empty. The prisoner was gone. How could that

be? He had been in his cell talking with his wife just hours before.

What the guards didn't know was that this prisoner's wife was no ordinary woman.

She was a woman of indomitable spirit who wasn't going to take a death sentence lying down. When she had been

visiting her husband's cell earlier, she had been talking to herself. Her husband was already

making his way out of the tower, thanks to one of the most creative and audacious prison breaks in history.

I'm Dana Schwartz, and this is Noble Blood.

Winifred Maxwell was born in 1672, the youngest of six children.

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