Great Fire

[retrocop]

Can anyone answer how many perished in the Great Fire of London? No cheating and looking it up. I am surprised at the answer.

[Hopkirk]

"The high-level open air walkways between the towers gained an unpleasant reputation as a haunt for prostitutes and pickpockets"

[retrocop]

Yep Shaney , I think got that. Brandy was her favourite tipple butnthe religious politics are lost on me.

[retrocop]

Well done Hopkirk.
Will look for some more fun tomorrow evening I hope !!! :-)

[jno]

if I'd been pregnant 18 times and they'd all died, I'd be having a glass of brandy myself.

[shaneystar2]

She had many pregnancies ,I forget how many,but quite a lot, but never produced an heir .No wonder she turned to drink poor woman .

[Jackdaw33]

No religious politics, merely that her statue faced a gin shop rather than the cathedral.

[shaneystar2]

I think one child survived but died very young .

[Jackdaw33]

The Catte, the Ratte and Lovell our dogge rulyth all Englande under a hogge.

Who was the hogge?

[shaneystar2]

That was Ratcliffe .A heraldic thingy ?

[Jackdaw33]

The hogge is heraldic, but whose emblem was it?

[retrocop]

A heraldic Boar?

[retrocop]

Henry VIII.? He enjoyed hunting boars???

[Jackdaw33]

You are right about one child surviving. Prince William, Duke of Gloucester died in 1700 at the age of 11, hence the need for the Act of Settlement.

[retrocop]

He was also wrongly portrayed as rather porcine instead of an athletic jouster.:-)

[shaneystar2]

Was it Richard 111 ?

[Jackdaw33]

Slightly before Henry VIII.

[retrocop]

Mrs retro said Richard 111 because his heraldic emblem was a hog. Sorry. I just realised I cheated by asking her and I made the rules on this thread. Shame on me. :-(

[Jackdaw33]

Spot on with Richard III. His emblem was a boar and his principal advisors were Catesby, Ratcliffe and Lovell.

[jno]

wasn't there some story that it came from "Ebor" because Richard had been Duke of York? Probably another historical myth.

[shaneystar2]

His emblem was the white boar .
I've just finished reading a 35 book saga that starts in the time when Richard was Duke of Gloucester and ends in the early thirties .It covers British ,French and American history and is the best thing I've ever read from a historical point of view.I've learnt far more from reading those books than I ever learnt at school .