Ten Tudor Statesmen (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

Most lacked noble birth. Five died on the scaffold or the stake. This 1906 work brings ten 16th-century men to life. Profiled are Henry VII, Cardinal Wolsey, Sir Thomas More, Thomas Cromwell, Henry VIII, Protector Somerset, Archbishop Cranmer, William Cecil (Lord Burghley), Sir Francis Walsingham, and Sir Walter Raleigh.