Note 668 — Chapter I · THE AGRARIAN PROBLEM AND THE STATE (continued 2)

Somerset’s execution took place on January 22, 1552, more than two years after he had been deposed from the Protectorate, for supposed complicity in a plot to overthrow the Government. The evidence for the existence of a conspiracy appears to be feeble. See Pollard, The Political History of England, 1547–1603, pp. 61–65.