A to Z of The Tudors

Breviary-of-Renaud-de-Bar-headless-peopleApothecary: a box of leeches

 

Beheading: not talking roses here!

 

Castration: detachment of a useful appendage

 

Diplomacy: war postponement

 

Execution: dying in public

 

Foreigners: the enemy

 

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Government: jobs for the boys

 

Hunting: killing anything that moves

 

Indictment: a fantasy story

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Jousting: a horse ride with poles

 

Kent: where rich people live

 

Lancaster: where poor people live

 

Mary Rose: ship disguised as lump of wet wood

 

Nosegay: stops you smelling like a skunk

 

Odour: failure to use a nosegay

 

Privy: an unhygienic hole

 

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Quill: bird assisted writing

 

Rack: stretchy implement

 

Spanish: spoilsports

 

Tennis: a game with walls

 

Unilateral: King right, you wrong

 

Venereal Disease: a common ailment

 

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War: failure in diplomacy

 

Xenophobic: everyone outside England

 

Yeoman: servant in strange hat

 

Zips: something to look forward to

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Edward “Eddie” Boverington is a freelance moustachioculturalist and professional cobbler, a student of history, and in his spare time composes medieval inspired poems and lute ballads in the 16th century style. He grew up in Clapham in the 1950s, where he still lives above his family’s shoe repair shop. Some of his moustache designs have won awards in prestigious international competitions, such as Le Concourse de Bacchantes et Moustaches de Francais. He can also polish, recondition and resole even the finest boots overnite for only £25.