‘Cardinal Pole's Special Agent: Michael Throckmorton, c.1503–1558’
(2009)
Journal Article
Overell, M. A. (2009). ‘Cardinal Pole's Special Agent: Michael Throckmorton, c.1503–1558’. History, 94, 265-278. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-229x.2009.00454.x
Michael Throckmorton is best known for his peripatetic career as Cardinal Pole's agent. This article underlines the anxieties and dangers of that role, undertaken amidst fears that English agents would assassinate the cardinal. It also investigates T... Read More about ‘Cardinal Pole's Special Agent: Michael Throckmorton, c.1503–1558’.