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This writer, politician, and philosopher is best known for 'Novum Organum', and his 'Essays', published in 1597 and 1625
He was the main prosecutor at the trial of the 2nd Earl of Essex, his former patron
He served as Lord Chancellor until he was impeached for corruption in 1621
24 April, 1506
Edmund de la Pole sent to Tower of London
De la Pole, Earl of Suffolk, was the last serious Yorkint claimant to the English throne
This queen reluctantly put Mary, Queen of Scots to death
She never married
She presided over the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588