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Hello, I'm Professor Susanna Lipscomb and welcome welcome to Not Just the Tudors from History Hit,

the podcasts in which we explore everything from Anne Boleyn to the Aztecs,

from Holbein to the Huguenots, from Shakespeare to Samarise,

relieved by regular doses of murder, espionage and witchcraft.

Not in other words, just the Tudors, but most definitely also the Tudors.

A woodcutor from a pamphlet of 1628 shows a street in London, with a tavern whose name the windmill is indicated by a hanging sign.

In the foreground, a richly dressed older man is being set upon by a large crowd of men, young men and boys. He attempts to defend himself

with a sword, but they hurl stones and wield cudgels. The picture shows a real-life street

murder that had happened that year on the 13th of June. This was three years into the reign of

Charles I, during the period of the ascendancy of

the king's favourite George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham. And the man being murdered was Dr. John Lamb.

John Lamb was in his 80s, and he was widely associated with both the occult and the horrific

sexual assault of a young girl. He was a man

to be hated. So what looks like random and irrational mob violence at first glance may have been

something far from random and far from irrationally motivated.

In actual fact, Lamb's murder has inestricable links with the growing crisis,

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