I guess this is a time when the catholic/protestant divide is beginning to yawn nastily wide...and all those (like Elizabeth I, and maybe AF's Antony Merrick) who prefer to take a position somewhere in the middle, are finding it more and more difficult...

What I find interesting is that AF seems to come down on the side of the pragmatic Will - position of ironic detachment, contrast Patrick's very unnuanced historical views (evil Tudors, evil reformation etc)in End of Term.

By the way, were the Essex rebels really equivalent to terrorists? Weren't they more a standard power-grab coup attempt?