The Temptation and Downfall of the Vicar of Stanton Lacy home made John Hayward

John Hayward

Generous with his knowledge and full of fresh ideas

this lively natural history conveys Laurie’s passion for these vulnerable

It fed us all

Northern Ireland and everywhere in-between on his various short holiday expeditions

The Temptation and Downfall of the Vicar of Stanton Lacy home made John HaywardA married vicar with a passion for a young single woman, a bitter publican, a Peeping Tom, a resentful church warden: our human frailties are still much as they always have been. Over three hundred years ago, the Reverend Robert Foulkes arrived as the new incumbent at the wealthy parish of Stanton Lacy, Shropshire. Charismatic, 'exceedingly followed and admired', he set off a chain of events which led to his hanging at Tyburn in 1679. What irrational