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in May 1555, whipped and released. Subsequently he claimed that Edward VI was still alive and he had spoken to him. Featherstone was convicted of high treason, and
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Tobias B. Hug, 'Outwitting Power: Bogus KIngs and Officials in Early Modern England', Beat Kümin,
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mention an imposter, William Featherstone, the 18 year old son of a miller and a servant of
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The Heart and Stomach of a King: Elizabeth I and the Politics of Sex and Power
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People executed by Tudor England by hanging, drawing and quartering
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Index

Edward VI of England
Mary I of England
Henry Machyn
Peter Meutas
Hampton Court
Privy Council
Marshalsea
Westminster Hall
hanged and quartered
London Bridge
Richard Grafton
The Diary of Henry Machyn (London: Camden Society, 1848), p. 101
Categories
1557 deaths
16th-century English people
Inmates of the Marshalsea
People executed by Tudor England by hanging, drawing and quartering
Impostor pretenders
Pretenders to the English throne

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