I am not going to worry about mouse. It's not my biggest problem. Being owed over half a million is And with a mad judge the barrier, nothing can be done As this is probably being tracked - and not by the other side, nor the judge - but my own side, then little hope remains I go to The Kitchen Garden at Berkeley Castle for my brunch on Saturdays. I expect that the castle has a good few mice!
Death of Edward II of England in 1327 I don't know but the rumour that it was a hot poker up the arse is supposed to be false. Just natural causes. And keeping out the Welsh is another rumour that although funny, is probably not true!
seemingly the hot poker thing is actually a thing. apparently it made it near impossible to prove it was murder back in the day.
yip you would think so. but i guess forensic science was still in it's infancy during the 14th century. i think their only options back then were poisoning, act of god or witchcraft. it's a slow death apparently. Dr Suzannah Lipscomb told me last week. she could tell me anything. nomnom.
Edward II was left in a right pickle by his overbearing big bully of a father Edward Long Shanks. He left him a number of unresolved issues with the campaign against the Scottish and debt/favour owed to the Barons both of which he made a pig's ear of resolving. The latter he compounding by having favourites rather than consulting the Barons in matters of power, not to mention giving land to his favourite favourite, & the former by disastrously losing in 1314 to Robert The Bruce at the Battle of Bannockburn. And it only got worse when he sent his wife to France on a diplomatic mission who promptly became the mistress of an exiled baron who returned to dispose and imprison the king. He was most probably murdered to prevent him becoming a rallying point for opponents of the new regime and historians cast doubt on the often quoted manner of it, wikipedia quote "With Mortimer's execution in 1330, rumours began to circulate that Edward had been murdered at Berkeley Castle. Accounts that he had been killed by the insertion of a red-hot iron or poker into his anus slowly began to spread, possibly as a result of deliberate propaganda; chroniclers in the mid-1330s and 1340s disseminated this account further, supported in later years by Geoffrey le Baker's colourful account of the killing. It became incorporated into most later histories of Edward, typically being linked to his possible homosexuality. Most historians now dismiss this account of Edward's death, querying the logic in his captors murdering him in such an easily detectable fashion."
Yep. Nothing induces concupiscence quite like a posh girl talking about mediaeval monarchs being buggered with ornamental ironware.
I don't mind admitting I had to look up concupiscence and it has now gone straight to number one in my list of favourite words. And not just any old posh girl either but one with killer eyes. Although having said that Lucy Worsley and her come hither hair grips...
Definition and pronunciation for me! Middle English: via Old French from late Latin concupiscentia, from Latin concupiscent- ‘beginning to desire’, from the verb concupiscere, from con- (expressing intensive force) + cupere ‘to desire’.
