It's that time, again! It's Tudor Trivia Tuesday! |
1) The second child of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon
was a boy. His name was Henry. He was born on January 1, 1511 and died on February 22 of the same year.
2) “Watermen notched the height to which the water reached
on mile-posts and mooring-piles in high tides, and to know the time of
high-water at London Bridge was the first duty of a Thames waterman.” [W. H. Harper]
3) There were 19 kitchens in Richmond Palace during the
reign of Queen Mary.
4) Upon the death of Henry VII, Ferdinand the King of Spain authorized
bills of payment on merchants in England to the amount of 100,000 scudos to be
paid if Henry VIII would immediately marry Princess Catherine of Aragon. He also waived any future rights of repayment
of the dower of the Princess. Henry
married Catherine before his coronation and they were both crowned together soon after as
man and wife, king and queen.
5) According to Dyer, ‘It appears that apples and caraways
were formerly always eaten together; and it is said that they are still served
up on particular days at Trinity College, Cambridge. This practice is probably
alluded to by Justice Shallow, in the much disputed passage in "2 Henry
IV."…, when he speaks of eating "a last year's pippin, . . . with a
dish of carraways." The phrase, too, seems further explained by the
following quotations from Cogan's "Haven of Health" (1599). After stating
the virtues of the seed, and some of its uses, he says: " For the same
purpose care-way seeds are used to be made in comfits, and to be eaten with
apples,…”’
Last year’s pippins likely refers to "apple johns" which were
said to be delicious in their second year.
6) On May 20, 1524, the Holy Roman Emperor instructed his
envoy to England, Sieur De Courrieres, “to go to England and to
tell the King… God has given him [the Emperor] a great victory in Italy over
his enemies and the enemies of England. The victory is the more complete as it
has been obtained without loss of life on the part of his army, whilst the
losses of the enemy are so great that they could not be greater if a battle had
been fought. The army of the enemy has suffered so much in different
engagements, assaults of towns and castles, from want of provisions during eight
months, pestilence and other causes, that it is no longer in a state to take
the field. Out of 1,500 men-at-arms only 350 at the outside have returned to
France. Almost all the captains, lieutenants, ensigns, and other persons of
rank in the hostile army have either perished on the field or been made prisoners.
Those who remain either suffer from maladies or are wounded.”
7) In February of 1566, Mary, Queen of Scots, discovered that
Thomas Randolph, the English agent accredited to her court, had assisted her
rebellious subjects with a gift of 3,000 crowns. She at once ordered him to quit the kingdom
and sent a letter of complaint to Queen Elizabeth.
8) As of February 20, 1566, England owed Antwerp moneylenders
192,500l. Queen Elizabeth I instructed her agent,
Thomas Gresham, to extend the amount for another 6 months.
9) ‘Voyagers by the “tilt-boats” to Gravesend had perhaps much
more to endure than any other class of riverine travellers: for “below-bridge”
men were often more uncouth than those “above bridge.” The mixed character of the
passengers, the risk of bad weather, the horse-play of the boatmen, the
occasional loss of the tide, and the miserable accommodation, made the “long
ferry” a means of conveyance hardly to be commended. The establishment of the
Watermen's Company, in 1556, was an attempt to bring a rough and churlish class
of men into subjection to law and order. But, rightly or wrongly, the watermen
always had a bad name.’ [Harper]
10) We learn from Shakespeare’s Venus and Adonis that the idea was then current of:
A red morn, that ever yet betokened
Wreck to the seamen, tempest to the
field,
Sorrow to shepherds, woe unto the
birds,
Gust and foul flaws to herdsmen and
to herds.
Even in the 16th century, a “red sky in the
morning” meant “sailor take warning,” it would seem.
Also at Virtual Grub Street:
- The Secret Correspondence of Robert Cecil and James I. August 25, 2019. “As he was planning an armed attempt to “secure the person of the Queen,” after having returned from the country, in disgrace, and to force her to dismiss ministers who did not satisfy him, he was waiting for a return letter from King James VI of Scotland.”
- What Color Were Shakespeare’s Potatoes? July 27, 2019. “By the year 1599-1600, when Shakespeare’s play would seem to have been written, the potato was available in London. It was considered a delectable treat and an aphrodisiac.”
- A Most Curious Account of the Funeral of Queen Elizabeth I: April 28, 1603. April 28, 2019. “Once it was clear that James I would face no serious challenges, Cecil and the others could begin to give attention to the matter of the Queen’s funeral.”
- The Battle Over Shakespeare's Early and Late Plays. September 24, 2018. “The answers to the post-Oxford dilemma, of course, are three.”
- Shakespeare’s King Richard II as Prequel. August 06, 2018. “It is for the same reason, more or less, that we must accept that Richard II was written before Henry V. 'When the players replied to the Essex conspirators “that of King Richard as being so old and so long out of use” would not attract an audience, they were indeed referring to Shakespeare’s Richard II. And they knew what they were talking about.”
- Check out the English Renaissance Article Index for many more articles and reviews about this fascinating time and about the Shakespeare Authorship Question.
- The Secret Correspondence of Robert Cecil and James I. August 25, 2019. “As he was planning an armed attempt to “secure the person of the Queen,” after having returned from the country, in disgrace, and to force her to dismiss ministers who did not satisfy him, he was waiting for a return letter from King James VI of Scotland.”
- What Color Were Shakespeare’s Potatoes? July 27, 2019. “By the year 1599-1600, when Shakespeare’s play would seem to have been written, the potato was available in London. It was considered a delectable treat and an aphrodisiac.”
- A Most Curious Account of the Funeral of Queen Elizabeth I: April 28, 1603. April 28, 2019. “Once it was clear that James I would face no serious challenges, Cecil and the others could begin to give attention to the matter of the Queen’s funeral.”
- The Battle Over Shakespeare's Early and Late Plays. September 24, 2018. “The answers to the post-Oxford dilemma, of course, are three.”
- Shakespeare’s King Richard II as Prequel. August 06, 2018. “It is for the same reason, more or less, that we must accept that Richard II was written before Henry V. 'When the players replied to the Essex conspirators “that of King Richard as being so old and so long out of use” would not attract an audience, they were indeed referring to Shakespeare’s Richard II. And they knew what they were talking about.”
- Check out the English Renaissance Article Index for many more articles and reviews about this fascinating time and about the Shakespeare Authorship Question.
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