[Hellsgate] a funny for your entertainment
Ruiz
ruizhorde at yahoo.com
Sun Jul 17 18:36:07 PDT 2011
I was reading an article on Tudor deaths and this one hit home, me being a baker
and all!!
5. Imagine an episode of Casualty. How could baking a loaf lead to a fatal
accident? There's not even a gas oven or an electric gadget to worry about,
because neither had been invented.
Elizabeth Bennet, spinster, was baking bread at the house of Matilda Nanfan,
widow, at Birtsmorton, Worcestershire, on 29 January 1558. She went to the moat
to collect cabbage leaves to put under the loaves she was baking. The fence
broke and she fell into the moat and drowned.
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