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.

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2 cases in this part of Famous Impostors.

Matthew Hopkins

THERE is one thing more evil than oppression in the shape of wrong-doing, and that T is oppression in the guise of good. Tennyson, in one…

Matthew Hopkins: Caule

The old man's death was not in vain, for it was made the occasion of much necessary plain speaking. Presently the public conscience was…

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