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Richard Roose was boiled to death in 1532 for poisoning members of the household of John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester. Roose was accused of adding a white powder to porridge given to Fisher's guests and servants, and to beggars; two people died. He claimed that he had been given the powder by a stranger and stated that he thought no one would die. Fisher survived the poisoning as, for an unknown reason, he ate nothing that day. Roose was arrested and tortured for information. King Henry VIII—who already had a morbid fear of poisoning—addressed the House of Lords on the case and was probably responsible for an act of parliament which attainted Roose and retroactively made murder by poison a treasonous offence mandating execution by boiling. Henry's new Act against Poisoning did not long outlive his reign, as it was repealed almost immediately by his son Edward VI. The Roose case continued to foment popular imagination and was still being cited in law into the next century. (Full article...)
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