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Thomas Arden

Thomas Arden

16th-century Mayor of Faversham, Kent, England, and murder victim

Thomas Arden (1508–1550) was Mayor of Faversham, Kent, England.

He was murdered by his wife, Alice, and her lover, Richard Moseby.[1] This would inspire the Elizabethan play, Arden of Faversham, which in turn was the basis of the opera Arden Must Die (1967).

Between 1610 and 1638, a broadside ballad was additionally published about the murder.[2]

References

  1. [1]
    "The 1551 Murder of Thomas Arden - Faversham, Kent, UK. - Infamous Crime Scenes on Waymarking.com". www.waymarking.com. Retrieved 1 May 2020.
  2. [2]
    "[The] complaint and lamentation of Mistresse Arden of [Fev]ersham in Kent, who for the love of one Mosbie, hired certaine Ruffians [a]nd Villaines most cruelly to murder her Husband; with the fatall end of her and her Associats. To the tune of, Fortune my Foe". Retrieved 23 January 2024.

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