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Volunteer embroiderers at Salisbury Cathedral have started work on a major nationwide textile project. The 'Saintly Stitchers' have made the first stitch on their part of the Circle of Life, a ...
The most public penance was a walk of shame in bare feet the length of Salisbury Cathedral—the longest nave in England—carrying a four-pound wax candle to the altar, which Fitzpayne was told ...
The London Archives. Inquest number 15 on 1336-7 City of London Coroner’s Rolls (in CLA/041/IQ/01/006) A Cambridge criminologist has uncovered new evidence in the killing of a priest, John Forde ...
But Fitzpayne also had to carry out a walk of shame in bare feet along the length of Salisbury Cathedral - which had the longest nave in England - while carrying a four-pound wax candle to the altar.
It's easy to lose oneself down the rabbit hole of medieval murder for hours, filtering the killings by year, choice of weapon ...
Researchers cite new evidence of how a medieval British noblewoman may have plotted to exact revenge and help kill her former lover, a priest, nearly 700 years ago.
They surrounded him in front of a church near Old St. Paul’s Cathedral, stabbed him in the neck and stomach, and then fled. Witnesses identified his killers, but just one assailant went to prison.