Funeral spectators were expected to be mournful and well behaved – Jenkin Evans had other ideas.

The undertaker and coffin maker Barnard Feay lived and worked nearby. His premises are long gone but what remains of his business?

Not all people at funerals were there to mourn. In this account we discover what happened when a member of the funeral crowd was found to be stealing from the pockets of those around him.

The court performances of the early seventeenth century presented an image of perfect political harmony; but backstage the reality was very different.