28 July - Magic and a ”detestable vice and sin”

On this day Tudor history, 28th July 1540, in the reign of King Henry VIII, a client of Thomas Cromwell, who was also executed that day, ended his life on the scaffold.

What was the magic and "detestable vice and sin" of which he was accused?

Find out more about him in this edition of #TudorHistoryShorts from historian Claire Ridgway.