Edward Arden of Mary Arden, mother of William Shakespeare. He was the head of a Warwickshire family; his father William died in 1545, and Edward succeeded his grandfather Thomas Arden in 1563. He kept to the old faith and maintained in his home, Park Hall at Castle Bromwich, a priest named Hall, in the disguise of a gardener. This priest influenced John Somerville, Edward Arden's son-in-law, who had had indirect contact with Mary Queen of Scots (she had visited Coventry in 1569). Somerville talked of shooting the Queen of England, and set out for London. He was arrested, put to the rack,
Mary, mother of Jesus Mary's name in the original manuscripts of the New Testament was based on her original Aramaic name , translit. "Maryam" or "Mariam". The English name "Mary" comes from the Greek "Μαρία", which is a shortened form of "Μαριάμ". Both "Μαρία" and "Μαριάμ" appear in the New Testament. In Christianity, Mary is commonly referred to as the Virgin Mary, in accordance with the belief that she conceived Jesus miraculously through the Holy Spirit without her husband's involvement. Among her many other names and titles are the Blessed Virgin Mary (often abbreviated to "BVM"), Saint Mary (occasionally), the Mother of God (primarily