Tea & Treachery

Send your fan mail, thoughts, and mysteries our way — we promise to brew a fresh pot of tea while we read every word. In 1589, five young girls in an English village began suffering terrifying fits, strange visions, and mysterious illnesses. Their accusations of witchcraft would ultimately send three people to the gallows. But was something supernatural at work—or was fear, manipulation, and a dan...

Send your fan mail, thoughts, and mysteries our way — we promise to brew a fresh pot of tea while we read every word. No regular episode this week, but don’t worry. J’Lynn and Adam have something sinister planned. This Halloween, we’re stepping into a world where superstition became evidence, accusations turned deadly, and fear could send innocent people to the gallows. Was it witchcraft? Mass hys...

Send your fan mail, thoughts, and mysteries our way — we promise to brew a fresh pot of tea while we read every word. Episode 7: Henry Percy — The Love That Could Have Changed England Before Anne Boleyn became Henry VIII’s queen, there was another Henry. Henry Percy, heir to the powerful Northumberland earldom, was reportedly involved in a forbidden romance with Anne Boleyn. But what began as a co...

Send your fan mail, thoughts, and mysteries our way — we promise to brew a fresh pot of tea while we read every word. December 1514. London merchant Richard Hunne is found hanging inside the Lollards’ Tower at St. Paul’s Cathedral, where he had been imprisoned on charges of heresy. The Church says suicide. The coroner’s jury says murder . And the evidence? Blood where it shouldn’t be. Injuries tha...

Send your fan mail, thoughts, and mysteries our way — we promise to brew a fresh pot of tea while we read every word. While we prepare the next full case, Adam the Llama has been left unsupervised with the evidence from our first five episodes. This should go well. In this bonus episode, Adam revisits the murders, suspicious deaths, questionable accusations, political scandals, and spectacularly b...

Send your fan mail, thoughts, and mysteries our way — we promise to brew a fresh pot of tea while we read every word. A dead man in a locked cell. A church already under suspicion. And an investigation that somehow manages to make things more suspicious. ☕️🩸 In 1514, London merchant Richard Hunne was found hanging inside the Lollards’ Tower at St. Paul’s Cathedral. The Church said suicide. The c...

Send your fan mail, thoughts, and mysteries our way — we promise to brew a fresh pot of tea while we read every word. You asked and Adam answered… Adam the Llama has some explaining to do. 🦙 Why is there a llama co-hosting a podcast about Tudor-era murder, scandal, and suspiciously convenient evidence? There is an explanation. Sort of. Meet Adam: historically inaccurate, aggressively skeptical, a...

Send your fan mail, thoughts, and mysteries our way — we promise to brew a fresh pot of tea while we read every word. Episode 5: The Casket Letters — Did Mary, Queen of Scots Write Them? A king is murdered. A queen is accused. And the evidence that could destroy her reputation arrives in a silver casket. In 1567, Mary, Queen of Scots found herself at the center of one of the most explosive scandal...

Send your fan mail, thoughts, and mysteries our way — we promise to brew a fresh pot of tea while we read every word. A murdered king. 👑  An accused queen.  And a silver casket containing the letters that could destroy Mary, Queen of Scots. There’s just one tiny problem. The letters were copied. Translated. Passed through the hands of men who wanted Mary off the throne… …and then the originals di...

Send your fan mail, thoughts, and mysteries our way — we promise to brew a fresh pot of tea while we read every word. What if the letters used to condemn a queen were never meant to be trusted? 👑📜 This Sunday on Tea & Treachery , we’re investigating the infamous Casket Letters —the documents used to portray Mary, Queen of Scots as an adulteress, a conspirator, and potentially complicit in th...

Send your fan mail, thoughts, and mysteries our way — we promise to brew a fresh pot of tea while we read every word. September 8, 1560 Amy Robsart sends her servants away for the day.  Hours later, she is found dead at the bottom of a staircase. Her neck is broken. Her husband, Robert Dudley- the favorite of Queen Elizabeth I and the man many believed the Queen wanted to marry.  Accident? Suicide...

Send your fan mail, thoughts, and mysteries our way — we promise to brew a fresh pot of tea while we read every word. 🦙 Adam has questions. And unfortunately for history… so do we. ☕🩸 A young woman is found dead at the bottom of a staircase.  Her husband is nowhere near the scene.  The rumors start almost immediately.  And somehow, Queen Elizabeth I ends up tangled in the scandal. Adam has revi...

Send your fan mail, thoughts, and mysteries our way — we promise to brew a fresh pot of tea while we read every word. 🫖 ONE WEEK UNTIL A NEW CUP OF TREACHERY… A noblewoman. A lonely staircase. A broken neck. And a death that changed the course of Tudor history. Officially, it was an accident. Many believed it was murder. For more than 450 years, historians have argued over what really happened to...

Send your fan mail, thoughts, and mysteries our way — we promise to brew a fresh pot of tea while we read every word. In this week’s episode, J’Lynn teams up with her new partner in crime‑solving — Adam the Llama , historian, hoofed intellectual, and occasional chewer of important documents — to unravel one of Tudor England’s most politically charged mysteries: the alleged poisoning plot against B...

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Send your fan mail, thoughts, and mysteries our way — we promise to brew a fresh pot of tea while we read every word. Footprints in the snow... multiple assassins...numerous attempts... and the worst murder cover up in Tudor history.  Support the show

Send your fan mail, thoughts, and mysteries our way — we promise to brew a fresh pot of tea while we read every word. Step into 1537 Bildeston, where rumor spreads faster than truth and justice is whatever the loudest villager insists it is. In this darkly humorous and chilling episode, J’Lynn unravels the wrongful execution of Philip Witherick — a man condemned for murdering his lodger, Ambrose L...

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Send your fan mail, thoughts, and mysteries our way — we promise to brew a fresh pot of tea while we read every word. A little dark humor never hurt anyone...  Support the show

Send your fan mail, thoughts, and mysteries our way — we promise to brew a fresh pot of tea while we read every word. Your first glimpse into the new historical murder mystery podcast- Tea & Treachery Support the show