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The chain that kept her upright forced him to refuse names
The chain that kept her upright forced him to refuse namesAn iron chain, not rope, fastened around a woman's waist to hold her upright at the stake because her dislocated body could no longer stand on its own. Beside her burned a man named only in a court record - John Adams, a name with no birth date, no county, no confession, executed alongside three others on a summer morning in London. What was worth carrying to that fire rather than handing over?In this episode, we trace the interrogations, the rack in the White Tower, and the political calculations of 1546, following how English…
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