![]() ![]() ![]() Though women have often complained of being ignored and undervalued, in the mid-seventeenth century a number of women were able to turn this to their advantage by becoming spies for both the Royalist and Parliamentarian sides in the Civil War. Thurloe ran a network of spies and made extensive use of women agents. Thurloe, commemorated by a plaque on Chancery Lane, was a resident of the Inn and in the early eighteenth century a cache of his papers was discovered behind a ceiling in Old Buildings. Date Wednesday TimeĮspionage under Oliver Cromwell was run by a Bencher of the Inn, his Secretary of State John Thurloe. ![]()
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