Murder
Murder
This chapter focuses on the murder of George Saunders, a London merchant, on 25 March 1573. George Brown was hanged for the crime at Smithfield on 20 April. Mistress Saunders (the wife of George Saunders), Mistress Anne Drury, and Roger Simms (alias Roger Clement, alias Trusty Roger) were hanged as accessories on 13 May. Convicted of independent felonies, Brown's brother Anthony was later hanged at York. The murder of George Saunders recalls the more notorious murder of Arden of Feversham in 1551, reported in Holinshed's Chronicle (1577), then dramatized and published as a play in 1592. This fresh murder was reported by Oxford's servant Anthony Munday in A View of Sundry Examples. B1v–2v, and subsequently dramatized and published as A Warning for Fair Women (1599), as performed by the Lord Chamberlain's Men — Shakespeare's company.
Keywords: George Saunders, George Brown, murder, Mistress Saunders, Anne Drury, Roger Simms
Liverpool Scholarship Online requires a subscription or purchase to access the full text of books within the service. Public users can however freely search the site and view the abstracts and keywords for each book and chapter.
Please, subscribe or login to access full text content.
If you think you should have access to this title, please contact your librarian.
To troubleshoot, please check our FAQs, and if you can't find the answer there, please contact us.
