The Brothers Who Asserted Their Right to Free Speech in Tudor England

Elizabeth Tunstall Author, The Succession Debate and Contested Authority in Elizabethan England, 1558-1603 In the autumn of 1566, the Parliament of England gathered at the Palace of Westminster in London. The session was fraught from the outset, with many members of the House of Commons urging their queen, Elizabeth I, to establish the succession to the English throne—an issue of paramount importance, as many…