Across
7 Where Richard III was left without transport (8,5)
8 Somebody paid to pray for another –  a hippy with a rosary? (8)
9 Religion of those 5dn in priest holes (2)
10 Was the troubadour who discovered where Richard the Lionheart was imprisoned a fair-haired lefty? (7)
12 Christopher Marlowe is believed to have been a secret one (5)
14 Important such meeting was held at Whitby in 664 AD (5)
16 Edward I built a number in Wales (7)
18 William was of the Normans and Harold of the Anglo -Saxons (1,2,1)
19 Were these administrative areas very numerous? (8)
22 Priest Henry II accused of being troublesome (6,1,6)

Down
1 Henry VIII’s marital problems led to a split from it (4)
2 One home of the Vikings (6)
3 It is no fairy tale that life was then (7)
4 One article embraces another for the title of a Scottish royal official (5)
5 Priest holes were used for this (6)
6 Duke reportedly drowned in a butt of Malmsey for treason (8)
11 Anne Boleyn did with Norris and Smeaton or so it was alleged (3,4)
13 Lambert Simnel and Perkin Warbeck were both ………….  kings (7)
15 William used this razor for shaving but not his beard (6)
17 Open country sport medieval  kings loved (5)
20 Instrument of torture – but not for sheep (4)
21 Thousands, not just 19ac, did of the Great Mortality (4)

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