Famous Impostors

Bram Stoker spent his last years collecting history's great frauds: pretenders to thrones, alchemists and witch-finders, the Tichborne Claimant — and the strange Cotswold legend that Queen Elizabeth was really a boy.

Bisley

4 cases in this part of Famous Impostors.

Bisley

The place known to the great public as Bisley is quite other than that under present consideration. Bisley, the ground for rifle…

Bisley: Elizabeth

The most interesting spot in the whole district is the house "Overcourt," which was once the manor-house of Bisley. It stands close to…

Bisley: Thomas

Whether at the time of the birth of Elizabeth the mansion of Overcourt was itself in the King's possession is a little difficult to fathom…

Bisley: Henry

On the death of Henry VIII he had, when Lord Sudeley, married the king's widow within a few months of her widowhood, and received a grant…

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