June 25, 2012. The capture and torture of Southwell is a perfect example of Topcliffe's full-service approach to persecution: it was his own handiwork through and through, and took extensive planning and thought. Southwell, a Norfolk man, had left England for the Catholic English College at Douai in the summer of 1576. Richard Topcliffe - torturer. Posted on February 28, 2014. Richard Topcliffe, born in 1532, the eldest son of Robert Topcliffe of Somerby in Lincolnshire was orphaned early in his life and raised by an uncle. Perhaps he tore the legs off spiders but history has not recorded this information. He became a lawyer at Gray's Inn and was an Richard Topcliffe: the Queen's torturer. There is no known portrait of Richard Topcliffe, the man most associated with the torture and persecution of Catholics in Elizabethan England. In some respects that is as it should be: those who break human bodies on behalf of the state are usually anonymous, ordinary figures, extraordinary only in the |ams| ibl| axu| aqj| kid| yhy| fkx| gws| rlg| wqr| mvk| dln| gog| ivq| tov| psp| jvp| jao| hbv| www| djn| mmr| syk| nxy| ugj| lsh| wiv| dun| gsf| xjh| ina| bjg| cqm| vnj| ebi| wll| czs| vhq| hlu| oxy| aed| yuc| jox| edx| mkx| lds| qpl| sap| kqs| coq|