Yet this English experimentation abruptly ended when Edward, after a healthy and assertive childhood in which he bade fair to be as over-lifesize as his formidable father, died young in 1553.

[…] the running and control of double agents is a[n] […] infinitely complicated task. It could not be done as a parergon by any intelligence department elsewhere […]

unjustly punished

When they [bells] lie fifths thus 1 5 2 6 3 7 4 8, 'tis then most pleasant and excellent music to clam them; that is, the two notes of each concord to strike together, and if they be clam'd true the eight bells will strike like four, but with far greater musick and harmony.