Marigold is good for bites and stings. Way better than the various creams and lotions I was carrying, and much more authentically tudor to be stained green.
Sod means mustard. You get sod eggs, amongst other things and they are fabulous.
Girls did not start having babies young. You didn’t get married/have babies til you could afford a house, and that often didn’t happen until early thirties. Younger wives were often second wives, perhaps after the first died in childbirth.
Similarly, there was actually a law against apprenticing children outside the family before age 15. It’s difficult to say whether this was observed, but it was there to protect children from exploitation.
Hem your linen properly by turning it over twice. Seriously, you’ll thank me. Fraying is not a good look. Boil washing it before you start is good too, tightens the weave.
Peacocks are ludicrously noisy birds.
Tudors didn’t call themselves tudors. Fairly obvious when you think about it.
16 grams to the ounce are found, 16 ounces make one pound.
8 and 20 pounds you take, so a quarter you will make.
Quarters four, a simple fact, make a hundredweight exact
20 hundreds make one ton, now my little rhyme is done.
A marvellous method of multiplication by halving and doubling.
That living in tudor times was hard, but it worked when ppl worked as a community. Something the modern world could stand to learn a little more of.
There are still three public days left to visit the great annual recreation at Kentwell hall this summer, it’s open Fri 6th to Sun 8th. You can get a discount by booking online and it is a fabulous day out.
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