Activity

  • Profile picture of Perelandra

    Perelandra posted an update 4 years, 11 months ago

    HOW TO DEAL WITH BANKERS GONE WILD (from The Anglo Saxon Chronicles)
    “1125 A.D. In this year before Christmas King Henry sent from Normandy to England and gave instructions that all moneyers… be deprived of their members … Bishop Roger of Salisbury commanded them all to assemble at Winchester by Christmas. When they came hither they were then taken one by one, and each deprived of the right hand and the testicles below. All this was done in twelve days between Christmas and Epiphany, and was entirely justified because they had ruined the whole country by the magnitude of their fraud which they paid for in full.” – The Laud Chronicle (E)

    • Profile picture of Foglamp
      Foglamp replied 4 years, 11 months ago

      And every yuletide after that, King Henry was heard singing, “On the twelfth day of Christmas, Bishop Roger sent to me…..”!