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  • July 5 – A shoemaker is executed

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    On this day in Tudor history, 5th July 1583, shoemaker and religious radical John Copping was executed for ‘dispersing’ books by Robert Browne and Richard Harrison, which were viewed as “sundry seditious, schismatical and erroneous printed books”.

    Copping had been arrested with his friend Elias Thacker, a tailor, and Thacker was executed the day before. Books were burned at each of their executions.

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  • 5 July – A radical shoemaker

    On this day in Tudor history, 5th July 1583, in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, shoemaker John Copping was executed.

    He’d been in trouble before due to his radical views, but what had he done this time?

    Find out more about John Copping in this latest edition of #TudorHistoryShorts…

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