Thomas Hawley

Yeoman Warder, Edmond Halley, (Although the Yeoman Warder records show his name as Edmond Hawley, might be spelling) the father of the astronomer Halley.  The warder was murdered in 1684.  In a statement in 1689 it implies that some people thought that his death was in some way related to the death of the Earl of Essex in […]

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