Buckinghamshire has one of the darkest histories on record. Its residents included the Dinton Hermit - better known as Charles I's executioner - and Sir Everard Digby, the Gayhurst nobleman who tried to blow up James I, as well as a truly apocalyptic priest at Water Stratford. With Romans running amok in the Chilterns and the Anglo-Saxons terrorising Aylesbury, this chilling catalogue of battles, deaths, diseases and disasters will make you see the county in a whole new light. BLACK DEATH at BLETCHLEY! PUSTULES and PEST HOUSESBURNT at the STAKE! Lollards TORTURED and HANGEDFRENCH KINGS and GUILLOTINES! Exiled King Louis XVIII at Hartwell HouseFARMHOUSE of THIEVES! The amazing true story of the GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY.