0 Jan Broadway 2008 Midland History 33 1 2-20 2008 This article examines two accounts of Tudor domestic murders which appear in the Antiquities of Warwickshire. It explores the sources from which Dugdale derived his accounts and the circumstances in which he wrote the narratives and incorporated them into his text. It shows how these stories had a particular appeal to their author in the aftermath of the king’s execution, since they could be shaped to suggest that crime would eventually be punished. It argues that Dugdale abandoned his usual scholarly standards in order to preserve the providential interpretation of the stories. Yet, since these narratives occur in a scholarly work, they have acquired an authority that they would not have be granted if published in a polemical or sensational context. http://www.livesandletters.ac.uk/papers/MDH33.1_01.pdf