1554: Thomas Wyatt the Younger, with the Queen’s life in his hands

ExecutedToday.com ^ | April 11, 2011 | Headsman

[CheshireTheCat]

On this date in 1554, rebel leader Thomas Wyatt the Younger tied on his own blindfold and laid his head on the block, having declared that not “any other now in your durance [i.e., the Tower] was privy to my rising” That remark exculpated the Princess Elizabeth, who just days before had been ominously rowed to the Tower on suspicion of having known of or involved herself in Wyatt‘s abortive revolt.

And Wyatt had had to do more than talk the talk to keep the future Queen Elizabeth I out of the executioner’s way.

Sore afraid that Wyatt’s rebellion had been engineered with the connivance of her Protestant half-sister, the Catholic Queen Mary Tudor had had Wyatt tortured to implicate her.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Always wanted.them.to.do.an episode where all.seemed normal except coffee was a banned substance.

I think they did one where they went to hell. So, same thing.

[Wallace T.]

One parallel or alternative history would be a situation where England remained Catholic while France became Protestant. England would have aligned with Spain and the Holy Roman Empire while France aligned with the Netherlands and the Lutheran principalities of northern and central Germany. Given a Catholic England, would the Irish have gone Protestant out of their hatred of the English? Would Scotland, aligned historically with France, and being fellow Protestants, attempted to overthrow the monarchy? Would English Protestants have fled to France and the Netherlands, as the Huguenots fled to England and other Protestant countries?

[frank ballenger]

.... on the tv they saw President hillary clinton...! Bloody Hillary!

Yipes. I'd have to be in the right mood for a horror story like that. The old mummy and Frankenstein ones were good, though.