Robin Tremayne

Excert from the bookEmily Holt was a historian of no mean calibre. Many of her books areset in the Middle Ages or a little later. This one is set in the 1550s,and a little before and after. This was the time when the Catholic Marywas on the throne, and Catholicism was enforced as the officialreligion. It was also the time when Protestantism, which had been onthe rise, was checked, and many Protestants burnt at the stake. WhenElizabeth came to the throne this was reversed, and Protestantism wason