Image of the Archbishop of Canterbury’s letters to the Bishop of Winchester on the subject of Ela Fitzpayne. Register of John de Stratford. Reproduced with permission of Hampshire Archives and ...

A Cambridge criminologist has uncovered new evidence in the killing of a priest, John Forde, who had his throat cut on a busy London street almost seven centuries ago. The case is among hundreds ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Archbishop of Canterbury's 1332 letter accused Ela Fitzpayne, a wealthy aristocrat, of committing serial adultery "with ...

The murder of John Forde was the culmination to years of political, social, and criminal intrigue. On Friday, May 3, 1337, Anglican priest John Forde began a walk along downtown London’s Cheapside ...

The Archbishop of Canterbury's 1332 letter accused Ela Fitzpayne, a wealthy aristocrat, of committing serial adultery "with knights and others, single and married, and even with clerics in holy orders ...

The London Archives. Inquest number 15 on 1336-7 City of London Coroner’s Rolls (in CLA/041/IQ/01/006) A Cambridge criminologist has uncovered new evidence in the killing of a priest, John Forde, who ...

In 1337, a priest named John Forde walked down a busy street in London where he was ambushed and killed in broad daylight as crowds milled about. Now, researchers at the University of Cambridge have ...

(CNN) — The sun was setting on a busy London street on a May evening in 1337 when a group of men approached a priest named John Forde. They surrounded him in front of a church near Old St. Paul’s ...