You Are Not Dead, Yet.

Richard Roose was a cook in the household of John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester.

In 1531, he cast a poison into a pot of porridge intended for the Bishop's table. Two guests died. Fisher survived.

The Bishop was a known critic of King Henry VIII, and the poisoning cast a long shadow over the court.

Henry, eager to distance himself from any suggestion of conspiracy, made an example of Roose — enacting a special law condemning him to be boiled alive in his own pot.

Richard is dead.