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Authors: Jasper Ridley
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. Blackness, Newhaven and The Old Man were names given by the English to forts near Boulogne.
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. Henry VIII’s only known illegitimate child, Henry Fitzroy, Duke of Richmond, also died childless, at the age of seventeen, in 1536.
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. Although the geographical areas of the dioceses were approximately those of the various counties, several of them included small pockets in the
middle of other dioceses.
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. The nineteenth-century historians bowdlerized this expression, and changed it to ‘whipped at the cart-tail’.
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. There were small differences in the various Acts as to the length of time during which the repairs had to be carried out, which probably explains
why a few of the towns were included in more than one statute.
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. Exeter, Bristol, Monmouth, Hereford, Ross, Bridgnorth, Bewdley, Gloucester, Worcester, Chester, Nantwich, Newcastle, Alcester, Stafford, Lichfield,
Coventry, York, Beverley, Richmond, Derby, Leicester, Nottingham, Shrewsbury, Wellington, Southampton and Canterbury.
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. It was almost unknown in the sixteenth century for any Englishman or woman to have more than one Christian name.
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. The Act, after enacting that no landowner shall own more than 2,000 sheep, stated that whereas in some parts of England ‘a hundred’
means a greater hundred of six score, i.e. 120, and in other parts a lesser hundred of five score, this figure of 2,000 was to be interpreted as twenty of the greater hundred, with six score in
each hundred.
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. A light meal eaten during the afternoon.
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. After the conquest of Calais in 1347, most of the French population left, and by the sixteenth century nearly all the inhabitants of Calais were
the descendants of English settlers.
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. Elyot was writing in 1541, when the Julian calendar was in force throughout Western and Central Europe. It was ten days behind our modern
Gregorian calendar, which was adopted in the Catholic countries in 1582 but not in England till 1752. The dates which Elyot gives for the duration of the seasons are, in terms of our calendar, 18
November, 18 February, 18 May and 18 August.
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. See the statutes, respectively, of 1536, 1543, 1539, 1542, 1543 and 1585.
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. An Act of 1495 made all usury illegal, and enacted that if anyone lent money at interest he was to forfeit the sum that he had lent. An Act of
1545 made it lawful to charge interest provided that the rate did not exceed ten per cent; if the moneylender asked for a higher rate of interest, he was to forfeit three times the sum lent and be
imprisoned during the King’s pleasure. The Act of 1545 was repealed in 1552 by a statute which again made all usury illegal; but the Act of 1545 was re-enacted in 1571.
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. This is a slightly inaccurate account of the death of the Eastern Roman Emperor, Basil the Macedonian, who was pulled off his horse by a stag
that he was hunting, and died of the fall, in 886.
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. The thirtieth year of Henry VIII’s reign, which began on 21 April 1538.
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. The date 1550 given in the official records and contemporary diaries, and on the commemorative plaque on Arden’s house at Faversham, is
the date by the Old Style calendar, by which the year began on 25 March.
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