Nicholas Faunt, the Mayor who Lost his Head

Sheila’s fascinating talk will explore Faunt’s career in later 15th-century Canterbury. She will explain how and why this ardent supporter of the Earl of Warwick ('the Kingmaker'), Edward IV's right-hand man in the 1460s, came to a grisly end only a few years later – presumably watched by his fellow members of the city's corporation and King Edward IV himself!