London, 1607, and as dawn breaks, Daniel Pursglove rides north, away from the watchful eye of the King and his spies. He returns, disguised, to his childhood home in Yorkshire — with his own score to settle. The locals have little reason to trust a prying stranger, and those who remember Daniel do so with […]
Parting fools from their money in the brothels and gaming houses of the 1600s
Innocent new arrivals in London were preyed on by brothel owners and gaming houses, says KJ Maitland, author of Rivers of Treason. Here she looks at the kinds of establishments that reeled so-called pigeons and plump virgins into trugging houses and nunneries (low- and high-class brothels) and rigged gaming tables where fools and their money […]