Calke Manor

Set against a turbulent period in British history, the Calke Manor series tells of the apprentice spices trader who made a fortune and became a Sheriff of London,  helping the Prior of Repton to pay a ‘bribe’ to retain Repton Priory against King Henry VIIIs dissolution of the monasteries, then having to hide at Calke because he had supported the Catholics; how his youngest daughter was deprived of her Tudor Manor inheritance at the hands of her evil step-father; unrequited love; child abuse; civil disorder with drawn swords in the Consistory Court at Lichfield; then more chicanery and lawfare involving a Derby MP before Calke Manor was eventually acquired for Henry Harpur, the first baronet, in 1622/3.

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