The Traitor’s Mark
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In The Traitor’s Mark I have interwoven these two momentous mysterious events to create a tapestry of plausibilities. The adventures in which Thomas Treviot and his friends became entangled did not happen – but they could have. Many real life men and women were caught up in intrigues, crimes and brutalities similar to those I have invented.
The following participants in the imaginary drama were real-life characters:
Hans Holbein, Jnr, the King’s Painter
Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury
Ralph Morice, his Secretary
Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk
Stephen Gardiner, Bishop of Winchester
Edward Seymour, Earl of Hertford
Anthony Denny, Groom of the Stool
Dr William Butts, Royal Physician
Sir Thomas Moyle, MP and Chancellor of the Court of Augmentations
Dr Thomas Legh, jurist and diplomat
John Marbeck, composer and Member of the Chapel Royal
Richard Turner, a Reformist Preacher
Jan van de Goes, a Flemish Goldsmith
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