The Traitor’s Mark

  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

  THE TRAITOR’S MARK

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  First Pegasus Books hardcover edition December 2015

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