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The Temptation & Downfall of the Vicar of Stanton

Over 300 years ago, the charismatic Reverand Robert Foulkes arrived as the new incumbent at the wealthy parish of Stanton Lacy, Shropshire. There he set off a chain of events which led to his hanging at Tyburn in 1679.

What irrational impulse could have brought a man of the Church to such a squalid end? Historian Peter Klein has pieced together remarkable documentary evidence which shows a village seething with jealousies, covetousness and sexual intrigue. Their eloquent new vicar was the catalyst for the moving and powerful tragedy that followed.