A Moorland Hanging - Michael Jecks

The death of a runaway could spark a revoltDevon, 1318. Peter Bruther, who works the land for his lord, Sir William Beauscyr, is fed up with his life of near-slavery, and has run away. Brutal punishments usually fall on the heads of runaways, but Bruther uses a legal loophole: on Dartmoor, tin miners enjoy special protection from prosecution. They are accountable only to the king. Brother swiftly sets himself up as a miner on the moors: safe or so he thinks.Beauscyr and his two feuding sons are furious... Zobrazit více